Archive for the ‘HIV / AIDS’ Category
Monday, March 3rd, 2008
There is "still time to prevent" drug-resistant tuberculosis from causing the "hideous outcome" that has been seen with the HIV/AIDS pandemic, "but perhaps not much," a Los Angeles Times editorial says in response to a recent World Health Organization report.
Drug-resistant TB is "no longer a disease that threatens mainly" people ...
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Monday, March 3rd, 2008
Japanese Foreign Minister Masahiko Komura on Friday announced that the country has pledged $184 million to the Global Fund To Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, the Kyodo News/Japan Today reports. The new donation will bring the country's total contribution to the Global Fund to $850 million, according to the ministry ...
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Monday, March 3rd, 2008
The National Association of State Boards of Education (NASBE) has made grants to three state boards of education to promote more effective instruction to K-12 students about HIV prevention. The $13,000 grants are being made to the North Carolina, Oregon, and Tennessee State Boards of Education.
"HIV remains a dire threat ...
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Thursday, February 28th, 2008
Researchers at The Scripps Research Institute have developed a new two-punch strategy against HIV and they have already successfully tested aspects of it in the laboratory.
Their study, which appears this week in the online Early Edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), may re-energize attempts to ...
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Thursday, February 28th, 2008
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution on Tuesday profiled the advocacy group HealthSTAT, which stands for Health Students Taking Action Together, including its work on HIV/AIDS policy in Georgia. Members of the group include students in nursing, pharmacy, physical therapy, public health and related fields from nine colleges and medical schools in Georgia.
According ...
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Thursday, February 28th, 2008
House Foreign Affairs Committee members and White House officials met on Tuesday and agreed on a compromise draft bill to reauthorize the U.S. global HIV/AIDS plan, CQ Politics reports. Under the compromise bill, $50 billion would be allocated for the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief over the next five ...
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Tuesday, February 26th, 2008
About one in four women who have tested positive for the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) expect pregnancy and motherhood to be a part of their future, recent research suggests.
A woman's age at the time she learns of her HIV status appears to influence this decision. Women in an Ohio State ...
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Tuesday, February 26th, 2008
AIDS Healthcare Foundation has filed a lawsuit in Los Angeles Superior Court against the city of Los Angeles to stop it from foreclosing a former AIDS hospice that now serves as an office for the organization's case managers, the Los Angeles Times reports.
AHF opened the hospice, called the Linn House, ...
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Tuesday, February 26th, 2008
A vaginal microbicide that incorporates an antiretroviral (ARV) drug normally used to treat people with HIV is safe for sexually active HIV-negative women to use every day over an extended period, suggest results of a clinical trial of tenofovir topical gel. Moreover, most of the women who participated in the ...
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