Archive for the ‘HIV / AIDS’ Category
Saturday, May 17th, 2008
The HIV/AIDS epidemic in Africa is "reversing decades of slow improvement in child survival, life expectancy, educational progress and economic growth," Cesar Chelala, an international public health consultant, writes in a Seattle Post-Intelligencer opinion piece. According to Chelala, health issues in Africa "cannot be considered in isolation and are not ...
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Saturday, May 17th, 2008
The Zimbabwe Business Council plans to create provincial steering committees with members from the business community to strengthen the response of the private sector to HIV/AIDS, ZBC Executive Director David Mutambara said Monday, the Herald/AllAfrica.com reports. Mutambara said the committees will be a resource from which members can be selected ...
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Saturday, May 17th, 2008
London's Guardian on Tuesday profiled HIV/AIDS advocate and author Elizabeth Pisani. Pisani, an epidemiologist and medical demographer, spent 10 years working on HIV/AIDS issues for UNAIDS and a nongovernmental organization in Indonesia before leaving the field to write her new book, called "The Wisdom of Whores."According to Pisani, there are ...
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Friday, May 16th, 2008
The Jamaica Gleaner on Monday profiled a program in the western part of the country aimed at improving the treatment outcomes of HIV-positive children. According to the Gleaner, "the burden of care" for many children living with and affected by HIV/AIDS has fallen on older female family members -- such ...
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Friday, May 16th, 2008
It is "difficult to imagine" why seven Republican senators who say they are "pro-life" are not supporting legislation (HR 5501, S 2731) that would reauthorize the U.S. global HIV/AIDS program, Michael Gerson -- columnist for the Washington Post, senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations and President Bush's chief ...
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Friday, May 16th, 2008
Microsoft executive Jeffrey Raikes on Monday was named the new CEO of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the New York Times reports. Raikes will replace Patty Stonesifer, who in February announced that she will step down from her position (Strom, New York Times, 5/13). Raikes joined Microsoft in 1981 ...
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Friday, May 16th, 2008
A group of Republican senators at a press conference on Tuesday advocated for legislation that would set specific treatment goals for the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, CQ HealthBeat reports. The lawmakers said the Save Lives First Act (S 2749) would do more to address mortality and illness rates ...
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Friday, May 16th, 2008
An increasing amount of evidence is finding that exercise can improve the health of HIV-positive people and reduce the risk of AIDS-related illnesses by increasing muscle mass and improving heart and lung endurance, the Sacramento Bee reports. Many people living with HIV/AIDS have begun or resumed exercise regimens since the ...
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Friday, May 16th, 2008
In the largest study of its kind to evaluate commonly used HIV drugs, researchers at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine confirmed that one of the most frequently prescribed triple-drug combinations for initial HIV infection is, indeed, the most effective at suppressing HIV. The study team also found that ...
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Friday, May 16th, 2008
The Chicago Tribune Magazine on Sunday examined HIV/AIDS among children and adolescents in the U.S. According to the Tribune, there are about 6,000 children and young adults living with HIV/AIDS in the country.The development of antiretroviral drugs in the 1990s has improved the lives of children living with HIV/AIDS and ...
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Friday, May 16th, 2008
HIV/AIDS is hindering Mozambique's efforts to alleviate poverty, Glauco Calzuola, head of the European Union delegation in Mozambique, said Sunday, Reuters reports. Calzuola added that corruption and bureaucracy also are obstacles in the country's efforts to eradicate poverty.Calzuola called on the Mozambican government to "redouble" its efforts to fight HIV/AIDS ...
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Thursday, May 15th, 2008
Officials from Yemen and the United Nations Development Programme on Monday signed a $10.6 million, three-year agreement to strengthen efforts to fight HIV/AIDS in the country, SABA News reports. The agreement was signed by Abdul-Karim al-Arhabi, Yemen's minister of Planning and International Cooperation, and UNDP Acting Resident Representative Selva Ramachandran. ...
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Thursday, May 15th, 2008
Health officials in Cuba this year will focus HIV prevention messages at men who have sex with men, Rosaida Ochoa, director of the National Center for the Prevention of Sexually Transmitted Diseases and HIV, said recently, EFE News Service reports. Ochoa, who was speaking ahead of the International Day ...
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Thursday, May 15th, 2008
CDC needs a $600 million increase in funding for effective HIV/AIDS prevention and surveillance programs, advocates said Monday at a briefing hosted by the AIDS Institute to assess the agency's efforts to fight HIV/AIDS in the U.S., CQ HealthBeat reports. The $600 million increase would nearly double CDC's current ...
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Thursday, May 15th, 2008
Scientists have broken inside a cell long suspected of harboring HIV during drug treatment and determined it is indeed a reservoir of the virus in humans, where it remains highly infectious.Researchers at Brigham Young University and Johns Hopkins School of Medicine have discovered the genetic nature of HIV trapped by ...
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