AIDS Drug News
RIGHTS: Universal HIV Testing Raises Hopes and Fears
UNITED NATIONS, Dec 10 (IPS) - While prospects remain dim for a successful HIV
vaccine in the near future, public health experts and AIDS
advocacy groups are pinning their hopes on a new strategy
released by the Geneva-based World Health Organisation (WHO) that
could end the disease's endemic phase within a decade.
Kategorien: AIDS Drug News
CARIBBEAN: Despite Successes, Too Many Dying of AIDS
PORT OF SPAIN, Dec 9 (IPS) - Every day, 55 people in the Caribbean are infected
with the HIV virus and 38 of them die of the disease. That's
20,000 new infections and 14,000 deaths annually.
Kategorien: AIDS Drug News
CFS Linked to Childhood Trauma
Title: CFS Linked to Childhood Trauma
Category: Health News
Created: 1/6/2009
Last Editorial Review: 1/6/2009
Category: Health News
Created: 1/6/2009
Last Editorial Review: 1/6/2009
Kategorien: AIDS Drug News
HEALTH-MALAYSIA: Divided Over HIV Testing
KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 5 (IPS) - A raging debate over mandatory HIV screening has
exposed fear and ignorance within government, despite years of
awareness campaigns to eradicate prejudice against people living
with the virus and the acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS)
it is said to cause.
Kategorien: AIDS Drug News
HEALTH-AFRICA: Maximising the Benefits of AIDS Funding
NAIROBI, Jan 2 (IPS) - Significant new investments in the fight against
the AIDS pandemic could have positive impacts on broader health
systems in Africa if governments handle them right.
Kategorien: AIDS Drug News
HEALTH-AFRICA: Breaking the Cycle of HIV Transmission
JOHANNESBURG, Dec 1 (IPS) - According to the United Nations Children's
Fund, early diagnosis and treatment greatly increase survival
rates for HIV-positive newborns. but fewer than one in ten
infants born to HIV-positive mothers in 2007 was tested for HIV
within two months of birth.
Kategorien: AIDS Drug News
AIDS-LATIN AMERICA: Neglect, Ageism Put Older People at Risk
BUENOS AIRES, Dec 29 (IPS) - AIDS prevention campaigns tend to target the young,
who make up a large percentage of those infected with the
disease. But experts in Latin America say that people in older
age ranges with an increasingly active sex life are being
neglected, and are at risk because of lack of information.
Kategorien: AIDS Drug News
Q&A: "Less Funding Could Lead to Millions of AIDS Deaths"
UNITED NATIONS, Nov 28 (IPS) - The global economic crisis is threatening to
undermine yet another key development goal set by the United
Nations: reversing by 2015 the AIDS epidemic still devastating
millions of people worldwide.
Kategorien: AIDS Drug News
AUSTRALIA: Do More Regionally to Stop HIV/AIDS Gov't Told
MELBOURNE, Nov 28 (IPS) - While HIV infection rates remain relatively low in
Australia, the peak non-governmental organisation representing
the country’s community-based response to HIV/AIDS wants the
government to do more to fund prevention measures here and in the
region to counter rising infection rates.
Kategorien: AIDS Drug News
Q&A: Escalating Violence Against Women in Swaziland
MBABANE, Swaziland, Nov 27 (IPS) - Still wearing a campaign t-shirt with the slogan
"FED UP: with violence against women", Dlamini-Shongwe,
the public relations officer for the Swaziland Action Group
Against Abuse (SWAGAA) is fresh from the Nov. 25 launch of the16
days activism against gender-based violence at Jubilee Park in
Manzini.
Kategorien: AIDS Drug News
GENDER-SOUTH AFRICA: 'A Real Man Does Provide Care'
MTHATHA, South Africa, Dec 25 (IPS) - Sonwabo Qathula puts on his apron and starts
peeling a pile of butternuts, while a pot of rice boils on the
stove next to him. The 50-year-old is preparing lunch for poor
and orphaned children who attend a rural school in the Eastern
Cape.
Kategorien: AIDS Drug News
Circumcision Rates Too Low
Title: Circumcision Rates Too Low
Category: Health News
Created: 12/24/2008 2:00:00 AM
Last Editorial Review: 12/24/2008
Category: Health News
Created: 12/24/2008 2:00:00 AM
Last Editorial Review: 12/24/2008
Kategorien: AIDS Drug News
POLITICS-US: Scientists Hail Return to Fact-Based Policies
NEW YORK, Dec 22 (IPS) - Key appointments announced by President-elect
Barack Obama suggest that science will soon make a major comeback
in the U.S. government.
Kategorien: AIDS Drug News
AIDS-SOUTH AFRICA: Balancing Individual Rights Against Public Health
PRETORIA, Dec 22 (IPS) - Public health and individual human rights are poor
friends. What may be good for society may be bad for the
individual, or the other way round. And nothing sharpens this
tension as starkly as AIDS.
Kategorien: AIDS Drug News
CHILE: Achievements in AIDS Fight Marred by Irregularities
SANTIAGO, Oct 23 (IPS) - Irregularities like delays in notifying 25 people
that they were HIV-positive, which led to the deaths of at least
two of them, have cast a shadow on Chile's exemplary image
in the field of AIDS prevention and treatment.
Kategorien: AIDS Drug News
Stats Offer Snapshot of Americans' Health
Title: Stats Offer Snapshot of Americans' Health
Category: Health News
Created: 12/18/2008
Last Editorial Review: 12/18/2008
Category: Health News
Created: 12/18/2008
Last Editorial Review: 12/18/2008
Kategorien: AIDS Drug News
HIV Can Penetrate a Woman's Healthy Genital Skin
Title: HIV Can Penetrate a Woman's Healthy Genital Skin
Category: Health News
Created: 12/17/2008 2:00:00 AM
Last Editorial Review: 12/17/2008
Category: Health News
Created: 12/17/2008 2:00:00 AM
Last Editorial Review: 12/17/2008
Kategorien: AIDS Drug News
HEALTH-AFRICA: Cervical Cancer Strikes Poor Women Hardest
CAPE TOWN, Nov 15 (IPS) - Of the 490,000 women worldwide who are diagnosed
with cervical cancer each year, 80 percent live in the developing
world. Every year, 55,000 women in sub-Saharan Africa alone
develop this disease, which is ten times more likely to affect
women living with HIV.
Kategorien: AIDS Drug News
POLITICS-US: Conservative Pastor's Star on the Rise
OAKLAND, California, Dec 12 (IPS) - For a president who had little to do but pardon
turkeys on Thanksgiving and throw the switch on the national
Christmas tree, little to look forward to but packing his bags
and evacuating the White House, and less positive accomplishments
to look back on than most presidents, this year's World AIDS
Day was clearly a high point. And Pastor Rick Warren was there to
share the spotlight with him.
Kategorien: AIDS Drug News
HEALTH-ZIMBABWE: Shady Dealings With Antiretrovirals
HARARE, Dec 12 (IPS) - The current political and economic crisis in
Zimbabwe is dealing a blow to the provision of free treatment and
care to people living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHAs).
Kategorien: AIDS Drug News
- Coming of Age in the Era of AIDS
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- Delusions in HIV and cancer treatment
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- Causes of death among children younger than 4
- Syphilis causes "HIV" viral load spike, and T-cell decrease
- Finding your own road
- Parasite epidemic of the 1970s renamed AIDS in 1981
- Bob Barr Recants DOMA Very Publically, A Couple of Months After Two Relevant Votes
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- Aids: An Iatrogenic Depopulation Strategy?
- US: Stevia sweetener approved - NewsGrabs 28 December 2008
- "The gay movement should always, always be about expanding freedom for everyone, even bigots"
- Open source health research - NewsGrabs 21 December 2008
- Rick Warren, Gay Heartbreaker
- Ain't That a Shame
- Could Microwave Technology End Human Race? - NewsGrabs 14 December 2008
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