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AllAfrica / HIV & STD


AllAfrica aggregates and indexes content from over 125 African news organizations, plus more than 200 other sources, who are responsible for their own reporting and views. Articles and commentaries that identify allAfrica.com as the publisher are produced or commissioned by AllAfrica.

Nigeria: Jonathan Inaugurates Population Council
08 07 2008 Vice-President Goodluck Jonathan yesterday inaugurated the National Council on Population Management charging it to implement the National Population Policy.

Nigeria: State Govt Rejects Report on HIV/Aids Statistics
08 07 2008 The Kano State government has described as unscientific, the survey report released by the Federal Ministry of Health which shows that the state leads in HIV/AIDS infection by drug users and non brothel based sex workers in the six focal states of Cross Rivers, Lagos, Anambra, Edo and the FCT.

Africa: Daily HIV/Aids Report
07 07 2008 Global Challenges

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Kaisernetwork / HIV/AIDS


Online resource for timely and in-depth coverage of health policy news, debates and discussions.

Study Finds Antiretroviral Treatment Approach in South Africa, Switzerland Equally Successful
08 07 2008 "Public-Health and Individual Approaches to Antiretroviral Therapy: Township South Africa and Switzerland Compared," PLoS Medicine: The study, conducted by researchers at the University of Bern and the University of Cape Town, analyzed data collected since 2001 from more than 2,000 people enrolled in HIV treatment programs in two townships in Cape Town, South Africa, and from more than 1,000 HIV-positive people enrolled in the Swiss HIV Cohort Study. The study found that South Africa's "programmatic" public health approach to HIV treatment was found to be as effective as the "individualized" approach used in Switzerland (PLoS Medicine release, 7/7).

Editorials, Letter to Editor Respond to Senate Republican Block of PEPFAR Reauthorization Legislation
08 07 2008 Several newspapers recently responded to the decision by some Senate Republicans to continue to block consideration of legislation that would reauthorize the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, as well as other issues. Summaries appear below. Editorials

New York Times: The "tiny group" of Republicans that continues to block the PEPFAR reauthorization legislation "has deprived President Bush of a legislative achievement that could help him spur" other countries during this week's Group of Eight industrialized nations summit in Japan to "contribute substantially more money" to global HIV/AIDS efforts, a Times editorial says. It adds that it is "better late than never" to remove the block because it "remains important to blast through the legislative roadblock and bring this broadly supported bill to a vote on the Senate floor." The editorial concludes that if "necessary, Senate Democratic leaders should undertake the potentially time-consuming task of forcing the bill to a vote" (New York Times, 7/7).
Arizona Republic: The PEPFAR reauthorization legislation "is an important, well-crafted bill that needs to move forward," a Republic editorial says. There is a "sliver of time" for the Senate to pass the bill before the "final gavel" of the G8 summit, the editorial says, adding that its passage would make Bush's efforts to call on other countries to increase funding for global HIV/AIDS programs "a lot stronger." The cost of PEPFAR "is large, but so is the problem -- and it's one that impacts the United States both directly and indirectly," the editorial concludes (Arizona Republic, 7/3).

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Geeta Rao Gupta, Washington Post: Sam Ruteikara, co-chair of the Uganda National AIDS Prevention Committee, "correctly emphasized" the need for PEPFAR to focus on HIV prevention and behavior changes in Uganda in a recent Post opinion piece, Gupta, president of the International Center for Research on Women, writes in a Post letter to the editor. However, Ruteikara's reference to a "suspicious statistic attacking marriage" confuses HIV incidence and prevalence, "tainting his conclusions," Gupta adds. "Far worse, however, is Ruteikara's implication that marriage provides women a safe haven from HIV," Gupta writes, adding, "Power inequalities within marriage, as well as different social roles and expectations, place married women in Africa and elsewhere at risk of HIV infection" (Gupta, Washington Post, 7/5).

Los Angeles Times Examines National Efforts To Address HIV/AIDS in the Black Community
08 07 2008 The Los Angeles Times on Sunday examined efforts within the black community to address HIV/AIDS. According to the Times, a "growing number of [black] celebrities and leaders" are joining up with local activists, who "have worked for decades to draw attention to the toll of HIV in the black community."

Blacks account for almost half of the estimated 1.2 million U.S. residents living with HIV and represent 13% of the overall U.S. population, according to CDC data. Women account for more than one-third of AIDS cases among blacks, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation.

According to the Times, reasons for higher HIV prevalence among blacks include poverty, which can affect access to health care and cause depression; a widespread distrust of the health system, which "feeds conspiracy theories, such as one that holds that black people are deliberately infected with HIV when they get blood transfusions or have blood drawn"; and the black community's silence early on about HIV/AIDS. High rates of incarceration in low-income communities also contribute to the spread of HIV among blacks, the Times reports.

Wilbert Jordan, medical director of the Los Angeles-based OASIS Clinic at the Martin Luther King Jr. Multi-Service Ambulatory Care Center, said, "The black community is where the gay white community probably was in the late 1980s or early 1990s," adding, "But we're not where we need to be still."

In 2006, 16 mainstream black organizations, including 100 Black Men of America, the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation and the National Council of Negro Women, made pledges to address HIV/AIDS in the black community. That same year, leaders from the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People took public HIV tests and made the tests available at their national convention.

The national "I Stand With Magic" campaign, an effort by former National Basketball Association player Earvin "Magic" Johnson and his wife Cookie, urges blacks to be tested and seeks to reduce new HIV cases among blacks by half. The five-year, $60-million project is funded by Abbott Laboratories.

The Johnsons also appeared together in a public service announcement that aired on YouTube and cable television in June. Filmmaker Spike Lee directed the ads. According to the Times, the participation of Cookie Johnson, "usually camera-shy," "is a sign of a growing outspokenness among [blacks] about the community's disproportionately high HIV rates."

"There's still a small part of our community that thinks, 'It can't happen to me,'" Cookie Johnson said.

Phill Wilson, director of the Black AIDS Institute, said, "We need a mass, coordinated initiative that really engages black institutions all over America, from churches to civil rights organizations to media to fraternities and sororities." He added, "The good news is that we are starting down that path. The bad news is that we're just starting" (Engel, Los Angeles Times, 7/6).

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Medical News Today


The latest HIV News & AIDS News articles published daily. Includes news on human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS), antiretrovirals, awareness, preventive measures and treatment options.

Los Angeles Times Looks At National Efforts To Address HIV/AIDS In The Black Community
08 07 2008 The Los Angeles Times on Sunday examined efforts within the black community to address HIV/AIDS. According to the Times, a "growing number of [black] celebrities and leaders" are joining up with local activists, who "have worked for decades to draw attention to the toll of HIV in the black community."Blacks account for almost half of the estimated 1.

G8 Summit To Address Aid To Africa; Leaders Urged Not To Backtrack On Pledges To Continent
08 07 2008 Leaders of the Group of Eight industrialized nations at their summit in Hokkaido, Japan, this week are expected to endorse a plan that will provide detailed assessments of how well the member countries are meeting their pledges to help fight HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases in Africa, the Washington Post reports (Abramowitz, Washington Post, 7/7).

Namibia Education Officials, Teachers Gather At Conference On HIV/AIDS Policy In Workplace
08 07 2008 Former teachers, directors and officials from the Namibian Ministry of Education last week gathered in Walvis Bay, Namibia, for a conference to address issues related to the country's HIV/AIDS policy for the education work force, New Era/AllAfrica.com reports. The conference focused on a July 2007 draft of the policy.

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WHO welcomes G8 agreement to annual reviews of commitments to progress in global health
09 07 2008 8 July 2008 -- The World Health Organization (WHO) welcomes the agreement announced today in Japan by G8 leaders and their commitment to full, annual measurements of progress in meeting their pledges to improve global health.

New rapid tests for drug-resistant TB for developing countries
30 06 2008 30 June 2008 -- People in low-resource countries who are ill with multidrug-resistant TB (MDR-TB) will get a faster diagnosis thanks to two new initiatives unveiled today by WHO, the Stop TB Partnership, UNITAID and the Foundation for Innovative New Diagnostics (FIND). Test results will be available in two days, compared to the standard two to three months later.

New checklist to help make surgery safer
25 06 2008 25 June 2008 -- With major surgery now occurring at a rate of 234 million procedures per year - one for every 25 people - and studies indicating that a significant percentage result in preventable complications and deaths, WHO today launched a new safety checklist for surgical teams to use in operating theatres, as part of a major drive to make surgery safer around the world.

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World Population Day 2008
08 07 2008 Global Observances to Highlight Benefits of Family Planning

Lowey Slams Administration for Withholding UNFPA Funding
28 06 2008 Lowey: "It is inexcusable for the Administration to use bogus information to justify withholding assistance like family planning services, pre-natal health, and maternal and child mortality reduction from women around the world."

The Bush Administration Disappoints the Worlds Women and Withholds Funds from UNFPA for the ...
27 06 2008 Loophole withholds all $40 million that Congress allocated to UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund.

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New Scientist / HIV/AIDS / News

Intermittent AIDS-treatment study is halted
03 04 2008 The high cost of antiretroviral drugs spurred international research into the viability of episodic therapy – it was found to put patients at unacceptable risk

World leaders unite in fight against HIV and AIDS
03 04 2008 On World AIDS Day, governments around the globe announce their plans to fight the pandemic that continues to devastate nation after nation

First win in India's HIV battle
03 04 2008 India is already grappling with over five million HIV infections, but the numbers seem to be declining, at least in the worst affected south

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AIDSPortal / News


AIDSPortal is a joint initiative of the DFID Global AIDS Policy Team and the UK Consortium on AIDS and International Development.

UNAIDS and Kaiser Family Foundation release new report assessing funding for AIDS by G8 countries and other major donors
08 07 2008 As world leaders prepare to meet in Hokkaido, Japan for the annual meeting of the G8, the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) and the Kaiser Family Foundation have released a new report analysing the funding available for AIDS from G8, European Commission (EC) and other donor governments in 2007. The report shows that assistance for AIDS from donor governments to low- and middle...

G8 leaders retreat from Africa aid pledge
08 07 2008 WHEN the leaders of the world's richest nations gathered at Gleneagles in 2005, they solemnly pledged to double aid to Africa by 2010 and tackle climate change. Three years on, their mighty ambition and high rhetoric have been replaced by a series of broken promises. Only the UK and Japan have come close to maintaining the kind of aid budgets required to meet the Gleneagles targets. The G...

Development and Africa
08 07 2008 Editor: Points 45 and 46 (Health) of the press release are reproduced here. Click on the link below to view the full document. Health 45. As a result of its growing political and financial commitment to fight infectious diseases, the G8 has raised international awareness on global health issues and contributed to remarkable improvements on health in partner countries, notably access to HIV/AI...

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EurekAlert / Infectious and emerging diseases / News


EurekAlert! is an online, global news service operated by AAAS, the science society. EurekAlert! provides a central place through which universities, medical centers, journals, government agencies, corporations and other organizations engaged in research can bring their news to the media.

How the malaria parasite hijacks human red blood cells
08 07 2008 (Cell Press) A new study -- done on a scale an order of magnitude greater than anything previously attempted in the field of malaria -- has uncovered an arsenal of proteins produced by the malaria parasite that allows it to hijack and remodel human red blood cells, leaving the oxygen-carrying cells stiff and sticky.

From foe to friend: Researchers use salmonella as a way to administer vaccines in the body
08 07 2008 (Arizona State University) Researchers at the Biodesign Institute at Arizona State University have made a major step forward in their work to develop a biologically engineered organism that can effectively deliver an antigen in the body. The researchers report that they have been able to use live salmonella bacterium as the containment/delivery method for an antigen.

Political borders, health-care issues complicate pandemic planning
07 07 2008 (Purdue University) Panic, staffing issues and geographic boundaries are some of the challenges that public health experts need to address as they plan for a possible influenza pandemic, according to a new report from Purdue University.

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Harriet Tubman Express Teens Educate Community about HIV/AIDS (The Chattanoogan)
09 07 2008 Local teens associated with the Harriet Tubman Express (HTE), a joint venture of the Chattanooga-Hamilton County Health Department and the TN Department of Human Services participated in an effort to educate their community regarding HIV/AIDS. The Uganda Project, named in honor of the African nation of Uganda who fought a successful battle against HIV/AIDS, took place on the afternoon of July ...

Namibia Education Officials, Teachers Gather At Conference On HIV/AIDS Policy In Workplace (Medical News Today)
08 07 2008 Former teachers, directors and officials from the Namibian Ministry of Education last week gathered in Walvis Bay, Namibia, for a conference to address issues related to the country's HIV/AIDS policy for the education work force, New Era/AllAfrica.com reports. The conference focused on a July 2007 draft of the policy.

Papua New Guinea Has Highest HIV/AIDS, STI Rate In Asia-Pacific Region (Medical News Today)
08 07 2008 Papua New Guinea has the highest prevalence of HIV/AIDS and sexually transmitted infections in the Asia-Pacific region, according to medical researchers and experts speaking at the 40th anniversary and colloquium of the PNG Institute of Medical Research, PACNews/Islands Business reports.

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MedWorm / HIV/AIDS


MedWorm.com provides a medical RSS filtering service. Data from over 4000 medical RSS feeds is collected and output via different categories. This feed contains the latest items on MedWorm Query: HIV/AIDS

Angola: cunene - welfare ministry assists aids orphans
08 07 2008 At least 4,294 children who have been orphaned as a result of AIDS are receiving support from the Ministry of Assistance and Social Welfare (MINARS) in southern Cunene province, ANGOP learnt from an official source. (Source: AllAfrica News: HIV-Aids and STDs)

Angola: government to increase hiv/aids diagnosis, therapy services
08 07 2008 The co-ordinator of the National Programme of Combat to AIDS, Cândida Alcina said on Saturday in Ondjiva city, south-west Cunene province, that the government intends to increase, in this region, the services of HIV/AIDS diagnosis and therapy, thereby enabling counselling and voluntary testing units to reach villages and communes. (Source: AllAfrica News: HIV-Aids and STDs)

A forgotten disease still casts a shadow over scotland today
08 07 2008 Tuberculosis is on the increase in Britain, blamed on immigrants, HIV and travel, but Veronique Kootstra doesn't know how she contracted it (Source: Scotsman.com News - Health)

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IPS / HIV/AIDS / News


Inter Press Service is a global news agenc producing independent news and analysis of events affecting the economic, social and political development of peoples and nations especially in the south

G8: 'Investment In Health Is Effective Aid'
04 07 2008 GENEVA, Jul 3 (IPS) - Japan wants next week's summit of seven major western industrial nations and Russia (G8) to urge the international community to push towards combating HIV/AIDS. It sees this as a critical objective of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) that are meant to be achieved by 2015.

G8: 'Investment In Health Is Effective Aid'
03 07 2008 GENEVA, Jul 3 (IPS) - Japan wants next week's summit of seven major western industrial nations and Russia (G8) to urge the international community to push towards combating HIV/AIDS. It sees this as a critical objective of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) that are meant to be achieved by 2015.

HEALTH-SOUTH AFRICA: Refugees Denied Access to Health Care
01 07 2008 DURBAN, Jul 1 (IPS) - Refugees and migrants do not have adequate access to health care services in South Africa, aid organisations and NGOs say. This is particularly detrimental for those who are HIV-positive and in need of continuous antiretroviral (ARV) medication: interrupted treatment can mean illness, development of drug-resistance and ultimately death.

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