tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-136384982012-02-16T12:46:11.729-08:00this blog tracks events, trends, issues, breakthroughs in the global fight against HIV and AIDS/////wm.http://www.blogger.com/profile/04873230494941727860noreply@blogger.comBlogger2921100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13638498.post-6274463533241906992007-08-01T04:35:00.000-07:002007-08-01T04:50:27.701-07:00

Press Releases: Afghanistan, Afghanistan: World Bank supports efforts to curb the spread of HIV/AIDS

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Global Challenges Wars in Africa Not Contributing to Spread of HIV, Study Says - Kaisernetwork.org

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MSF: A step forward? The battle between Big Pharma and poor AIDS victims is heating up, but the outcome is far from certain

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Politics and Policy Bush To Request $30B, Five-Year Extension of PEPFAR Following Original Mandate's Expiration in 2008, Washington Post Reports - Kaisernetwork.org

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BBC NEWS Health 'Opt out' HIV testing launched

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Science & Medicine Early Treatment With Three Classes of Antiretrovirals Quickly Reduces Viral Loads, Study Says - Kaisernetwork.org

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The invisible AIDS cure Salon Books

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Drug Access Clinton Foundation Announces Deal With Drug Companies To Reduce Cost of Antiretrovirals in Developing Countries - Kaisernetwork.org

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Tobias Latest Evidence of Bush Hypocrisy RHRealityCheck.org

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Politics and Policy Advocates Discuss U.S. Law Banning HIV-Positive Foreigners From Entering Country - Kaisernetwork.org photo credit: http://www.flickr.com/photos/guuleed/146640627/

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Treatment figures reach 2 million

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BBC NEWS South Asia Pakistan battles HIV/Aids taboophoto credit: BBC, Getty image

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Global Challenges USAID Extends Pakistani HIV/AIDS Project - Kaisernetwork.org

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Global Challenges Report Shows Significant Increase in HIV/AIDS Cases in Papua New Guinea - Kaisernetwork.org

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Science & Medicine Researchers Exploring New Strategies To Fight Viruses, Including HIV, New York Times Reports - Kaisernetwork.org

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Global Challenges U.N. Refugee Agency, UNAIDS Call on Governments To Include Refugees in HIV/AIDS Policies - Kaisernetwork.orgphoto credit: www.aidsaction.org

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January 5, 2007 Friday 10:33 AM ESTBYLINE: OLGA PIERCEDATELINE: WASHINGTON, Jan. 5If Congress allows a funding shortfall in a key global AIDS relief program to continue, more than 100,000 people could die, U.S. Global AIDS Coordinator Mark Dybul said this week. The President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, or PEPFAR, is a five-year, $15 billion program designed with yearly increases in funding.

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Aarti DharNEW DELHI : The National AIDS Control Organisation (NACO) will encourage public-private partnership under the third phase of the National AIDS Control Programme (NACP), expected to be launched in April.A national steering committee comprising the Confederation of Indian Industry, the Associated Chambers of Commerce and Industry of India, the National Association of Software and Service

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The rising cost of new antiretroviral drugs could jeopardize Brazil's program that provides the drugs to HIV-positive people in the country at no cost, the Boston Globe reports. As tens of thousands of people living with HIV/AIDS become resistant to older generic antiretrovirals, the higher cost of new drugs has increased the country's spending on HIV/AIDS by 75% over the past two years. Although

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India is revamping its drug industry, hoping to duplicate success of IT sector.By Mark Sappenfield Staff writer of The Christian Science MonitorNEW DELHIDuring a lifetime spent treating AIDS patients from Asia to the deepest reaches of Africa, Chinkholal Thangsing has noticed something extraordinary. Whenever patients learn that he is from India, their response is almost universal."They say, '

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WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Bush's ambitious AIDS-fighting program in poor countries has pushed so hard for fast results that basic record keeping and accountability often went by the wayside, making it hard to judge the true success, according to government audits and officials.Investigators found the three-year-old, $15-billion program has overcounted and undercounted thousands patients it

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PEPFAR's pro-abstinence approach will face Congressional scrutiny in 2007.December 26, 2006Prepared by:Carin ZissisFour years after President Bush launched an ambitious plan to address the global HIV/AIDS crisis, the program’s policies will now face ideological scrutiny. The five-year, $15 billion President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), supports prevention, treatment, and care for

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Failure to rein in the epidemic could undermine India’s growth and affect its trading partnersPramit MitraYaleGlobal, 30 November 2006Aiding comprehension: International Labor Organization-aided project seeks to educate India's women workers about HIV/AIDSJAMSHEDPUR: Buoyed by its blazing economic growth, India is emerging as a favorite destination for foreign investors. But a threat is lurking

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The Indian government's National AIDS Control Organization provides no-cost antiretroviral drugs to fewer than 10% of people living with HIV/AIDS in the country, NACO said in testimony to India's Supreme Court on Friday, the AP/International Herald Tribune reports. According to U.N. figures, 5.7 million HIV-positive people live in India. NACO on Friday told the country's Supreme Court that

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By Pramit MitraSpecial to washingtonpost.com's Think Tank TownFriday, December 1, 2006; 12:00 AMThe newly-released 2006 UNAIDS/WHO update on the global HIV/AIDS epidemic is a bag of good and bad news. While promising steps have taken place, including increased access to treatment and prevention programs in countries like Thailand, the number of HIV-infected people continues to grow at a steady

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In 'Rush To Improve Access' to Antiretrovirals in WHO's 3 by 5 Initiative, 'Mistakes' Were Made, Article Says"WHO's Comprehensive Treatment Failure: Will We Learn the Real Lessons of 3 by 5?" American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research: Roger Bate of the American Enterprise Institute and Lorraine Mooney of Africa Fighting Malaria in an article on the World Health Organization's 3 by

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Some Democrats on the House International Relations Committee said they want to investigate funding for faith-based HIV/AIDS and abstinence-until-marriage initiatives receiving money under the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief to determine whether taxpayer money is being used appropriately, the Boston Globe reports (Kranish, Boston Globe, 12/4). PEPFAR in 2007 is scheduled to be

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Programs funded by the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief and the Global Fund To Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria are providing about 1.2 million people living with HIV/AIDS in developing countries with antiretroviral drugs, according to statistics released Friday, the Boston Globe reports (Donnelly, Boston Globe, 12/2). PEPFAR at the end of September was providing 822,000 people

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December 1 was World Aids Day. Latest figures from the UN show that numbers with HIV/Aids continues to rise, with 39.5 million people currently living with HIV/Aids around the world. Aids is often thought of as a predominantly African problem, but still around one in five people with HIV/Aids - some 7.8 million - live in South and Southeast Asia.Thailand has led the fight against HIV/Aids in the

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A report released on November 29 by the Chinese Center for DiseaseControl and Prevention says that during the 24 hours after 3 o' clockpm November 28, as many as 190 AIDS cases were confirmed acrossChina, the Beijing Daily Messenger reported on Thursday.Half of the 190 were infected through sexual intercourse andhomosexual men formed the largest group that acquired the HIV virusthrough sexual

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Governments and international donors are falling short of their goals of providing antiretroviral drugs to HIV-positive people in developing countries who need them, according to a report released on Tuesday by the International Treatment Preparedness Coalition, the International Herald Tribune reports. The United Nations and the Group of Eight industrialized nations by 2010 aim to have 9.8

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APIRADEE TREERUTKUARKULThailand is planning to produce a local version of the anti-Aids drug Effavirenz to help thousands of HIV/Aids patients who are resistant to the Government Pharmaceutical Organisation (GPO)'s drug GPO-vir. GPO managing director Mongkol Jivasantikarn yesterday said the agency planned to apply for the compulsory licensing of Effavirenz in January, to enable Thailand to

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Without immediate action, pledge to provide "Universal Access" to AIDS drugs will fall five million people short by 2010 "The international community must now finally keep its word"-- Stephen Lewis, UN Envoy onHIV/AIDS in AfricaCape Town and New York, 28 November 2006. The International Treatment Preparedness Coalition (ITPC), a group of 800 treatment activists from more than 125 countries,

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The number of people living with HIV/AIDS over the past two years has increased and the worldwide total now stands at nearly 40 million, according to a report released on Tuesday by UNAIDS and the World Health Organization, Reuters UK reports. The report, titled "AIDS Epidemic Update: December 2006," estimates that 4.3 million new HIV infections occurred worldwide this year and that about 2.9

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HIV/AIDS cases grow 30% in ChinaBy Zhang Feng, China Daily, 22 November 2006The reported number of HIV/AIDS cases in China has grown by nearly 30 per cent this year compared with last year, according to figures released yesterday by the Ministry of Health. Health officials attributed many of the new cases to better reporting of existing cases, though they also warned that the virus seemed to be

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HIV/AIDS cases grow 30% in ChinaBy Zhang Feng, China Daily, 22 November 2006The reported number of HIV/AIDS cases in China has grown by nearly 30 per cent this year compared with last year, according to figures released yesterday by the Ministry of Health. Health officials attributed many of the new cases to better reporting of existing cases, though they also warned that the virus seemed to be

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UNAIDS and the World Health Organization last week issued a report that says that the number of people living with HIV/AIDS over the past two years has increased and that the worldwide total now stands at nearly 40 million. The report, titled "AIDS Epidemic Update: December 2006," estimates that 4.3 million new HIV infections occurred worldwide this year and that about 2.9 million people died of

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Derek Thaczuk, Friday, November 17, 2006A Californian study of recently HIV-infected men who have sex with men (MSM) has found that these men were more likely to have unprotected anal sex when they used recreational drugs – especially methamphetamine (crystal meth) – and erectile dysfunction drugs like sildenafil (Viagra). Enough studies have looked at this issue that there is now a clear

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By LAWRENCE K. ALTMANThe AIDS pandemic is growing in all areas of the world, with worrisome signs of resurgence in some countries that were trumpeted as successes in combating the disease, the United Nations said yesterday.At the same time, the prevalence of H.I.V., the virus that causes AIDS, among young people has declined in eight countries in Africa, showing that prevention efforts can work,

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PNG struggles with worsening AIDS crisis Reporter: Emily BourkeMARK COLVIN: For several years experts have been warning about the looming HIV/AIDS crisis in Papua New Guinea.Now new figures suggest that our closest international neighbour is at risk of an epidemic to rival that in sub-Saharan Africa. HIV/AIDS is already the country's leading cause of death.An estimated 60,000 people in PNG are

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By Stephen Smith, Globe Staff | November 6, 2006The iconic founder of the Partners in Health initiative yesterday exhorted public health authorities to embrace a more pragmatic approach to their global mission, recognizing "the right to sutures, the right to generators" as fundamental human rights.Dr. Paul Farmer of Harvard University, whose quest to save the impoverished and ailing is

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The stigma and discrimination associated with HIV/AIDS in India is delaying treatment and care for HIV-positive people, according to a study conducted by the Population Council's Horizons program; Sharan, an Indian nongovernmental organization; and the New Delhi-based Institute of Economic Growth, IRIN/Kenya London News reports. The study, titled "Reducing AIDS-Related Stigma and Discrimination

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Xinhua News Agency (10.21.06)Speaking recently at an anti-HIV forum in Yichang, a Qingdao University Medical School professor said ignorance of HIV/AIDS is fueling an alarming increase in infections among gay men in China. "The health authorities have to do something to curb the rising infection rate among gay men, who account for 2-4 percent of the sexually active adult male population," said

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By Michael Kranish, Globe Staff October 9, 2006For six decades, CARE has been a vital ally to the US government. It supplied the famed CARE packages to Europe's starving masses after World War II, and its work with the poor has been celebrated by US presidents. So the group was thrilled when it received a major contract from the Bush administration to fight AIDS in Africa and Asia.But this time

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: Laura Capps/Melissa WagonerOctober 13, 2006 (Kennedy) 202.224.2633 Karen Lightfoot (Waxman) 202.225.5051SEN. KENNEDY AND REP. WAXMAN CALL FOR INVESTIGATION OF U.S. TRADEAGREEMENTS AND INTERNATIONAL HEALTHWashington, DC- Senator Edward Kennedy and Representative HenryWaxman have requested that the

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New Delhi:A breakthrough combination of three HIV/AIDS drugs, Viraday has been launched by Cipla which would help the HIV infected persons in effectively treating the dreaded disease by taking just one tablet a day.Viraday is a combination of three anti-HIV drugs including efavirenz 600 mg, tenofovir 300 mg and emtricitabine 200mg.A single tablet of Viraday could provide all the medicine required

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China-UK program prevents AIDS in southwest ChinaA Sino-British AIDS prevention program has treated at least 4,500 AIDS patients and people with HIV and it has helped prevent nearly 130,000 people from contracting the disease in southwest China.The six-year program, which ended Tuesday, offered training and protective devices to people susceptible to AIDS, including drug addicts and sex workers,

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On Tuesday, the chief of India's National AIDS Control Organization (NACO) said India's law against homosexuality is "not acceptable" and abolishing it is "fundamental" to the nation's AIDS fight. The British colonial-era law, Section 377 of the Penal Code, punishes men with up to 10 years in jail for having sex with men."This is not acceptable. Section 377 is quite an anachronism," Sujatha Rao

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Notables Urge India to End 145-Year Ban on Gay SexBy SOMINI SENGUPTANEW DELHI, Sept. 15 — A British-era relic is facing a new challenge in India, as a growing citizens’ movement rallies against a 145-year-old law still embedded in the Indian penal code that bans gay sex.On Saturday an open letter to the government will be officially unveiled, calling for the repeal of what is known by its

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Agence France Presse (09.11.06):: Cindy SuiThe head of UNAIDS said today that while he is impressed with China's HIV/AIDS policies, officials' security concerns are silencing patient and nongovernmental groups that could play key roles."There should be better space for civil society groups to work," said Peter Piot, who began his six-day visit to China Thursday. "No country has been totally

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India Primarily To Promote Condom Use in its HIV Prevention Programs, Health Minister Says[Sep 05, 2006]India primarily will promote condoms to prevent HIV transmission as part of the government's five-year, $2.5 billion HIV/AIDS initiative, Health Minister Anbumani Ramadoss said recently, Bloomberg News reports. The initiative -- which is funded by the government, companies, aid agencies and

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Toronto Star25 August 2006The means are available to fight the pandemic but the international AIDS bureaucracy refuses to recognize that AIDS is essentially a crisis of governance, writes Laurie GarrettLAURIE GARRETTThe International AIDS Conference is over. The red ribbon pins, condom packs and HIV pamphlets that were littered about Toronto's convention centre have been cleaned up, some 18,000

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By CELIA W. DUGGERRWINKWAVU, Rwanda — Bill Clinton worked the crowd of AIDS survivors, clasping the outstretched hands of children alive because of the AIDS medicines his foundation donated.Inside the rural hospital here that he recently helped renovate, where Rwandans were hunted down and killed during the genocide he regrets he didn’t try to stop as president, Mr. Clinton heard people once

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by Cindra FeuerAugust 18, 2006—At the International AIDS Conference (IAC) closing ceremonies this morning in Toronto, UN Africa envoy Stephen Lewis brought up a most unexpected topic: his, er, private parts. Recalling a meeting in Zambia where a local leader revealed he belonged to an ethnic group that favored circumcision, Lewis (who is Jewish) responded that he did, too. “And there followed a

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Many gays feel left out with AIDS Conference's shift to women, Africa Canadian Press: SHERYL UBELACKERTORONTO (CP) - When AIDS first crept into the public consciousness in the early 1980s, the victims of the terrifying new disease were mostly gay men in North America and Europe. One after another they died, as partners and friends despaired of becoming infected themselves and wondered if the

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Former President Clinton on Tuesday at the XVI International AIDS Conference in Toronto said he will continue to combat HIV/AIDS for the rest of his life or until the pandemic is controlled, the San Francisco Chronicle reports (Russell, San Francisco Chronicle, 8/16). "I can't conceive of anything that would divert me from this commitment, short of a life-threatening illness or success (in

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Gregg GonsalvesAIDS and Rights Alliance for Southern AfricaCape Town, South Africa* * *Peter Piot told the New York Times earlier this year that “"2005 was theleast bad year in the history of the AIDS epidemic.” But I am telling you today that we are losing the struggle against thisdisease.5 million new infections last year, and 3 million dead, among them half amillion children gone. It was the

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Toronto-In a press conference at the XVI International AIDS Conference, Stephen Lewis, UN Special Envoy for HIV/AIDS in Africa and U.S. Congresswoman Barbara Lee called for changes in U.S. global AIDS prevention policies that are undermining HIV prevention among women and girls. The two leaders joined human rights and public health advocates to call for effective, evidence-based HIV prevention

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The stigma surrounding HIV/AIDS, lack of government action and ignorance about transmission of the infection have contributed to high HIV prevalence in Asia-Pacific countries among men who have sex with men, according to a report released Friday ahead of the XVI Annual International AIDS Conference in Toronto, the AFP/Yahoo! News reports (AFP/Yahoo! News, 8/11). The 85-page report, titled "MSM

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Rural India in big HIV-Aids push India has launched a major offensive against HIV-Aids involving hundreds of village leaders.The focus on the rural areas comes as nearly 60% of HIV positive people live in the country's villages.India now has some 5.7 million people infected with the HIV virus. Only South Africa has a comparable problem.Officials say poverty, migration and limited access to

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The New York Times Magazine on Sunday in an article titled, "When a Pill is Not Enough," examined an HIV/AIDS epidemic that had reached "biblical proportion" in South Africa, and looks at current prevention efforts in the country, particularly those aimed at young people. Times Magazine editorial writer Tina Rosenberg reports that HIV/AIDS "exploded" in South Africa in the 1990s and that 18.8% of

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The journal Lancet Infectious Diseases in its August issue published a number of studies and articles on HIV/AIDS. Summaries appear below."AIDS Treatment Enters Its 25th Year," Lancet Infectious Diseases: Research into AIDS treatment was "stymied by both scientific misinformation and the sociopolitical climate" after it was first identified in medical literature in 1981, Roxanne Nelson writes in

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Friday, August 04, 2006 ~ Kaiser Daily HIV/AIDS Update Some health experts have urged China and India to consider modeling their national HIV/AIDS programs on Thailand's successes to curb the spread of the disease among women in both countries, the Bangkok Post reports (Kumar et al., Bangkok Post, 8/4). According to a recent study conducted by India's National AIDS Control Organization,

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(07-30) 04:00 PDT Changsha, China -- They line up here every day, at the new Tianxin district storefront clinic, and wait patiently for their methadone. Among them, a man who identifies himself as Wang swirls a clear plastic cup of lime-green liquid, brings it to his lips and swallows. At the site of this pilot project in HIV prevention, Wang could blend in with any of the shop owners and

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New Delhi, July 30. (PTI): The number of women living with HIV/AIDS is on the rise in the country and a recent UN survey found that in majority of the cases the disease was passed on by polygamous husbands."The surveillance data indicates that a significant proportion of new infections is occuring in women who are in monogamous relationships and have been infected by husbands or partners who have

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CHENNAI: A support and recovery group, on the lines of Alcoholics Anonymous, will be started for persons infected with HIV in Chennai.Mooted by Freedom Foundation, an NGO working with positive people, HIVA (short for HIV Anonymous) will adopt the 12-step recovery programme that AA uses, tailored to suit the concerns of those with HIV/AIDS.Freedom Foundation will merely facilitate its creation;

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New Delhi, July 21. (UNI): Though education is acknowledged to be the first line of defence against the spread of HIV and AIDS, the epidemic has a large negative impact on education of children by affecting the access, demand, supply and quality of education, says a new study.The study --"Socio Economic Impact of HIV and AIDS in India"-- found that children from HIV households not only have a

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Increase in health spending by households and government will lead to a fall in their savings. Labour supply is likely to fall by 0.31 percentage points over 14 years Impoverishment inevitable, with real wage rate falling by 0.10 percentage points---------------------------------------------------------NEW DELHI: The Indian economy could be adversely affected in the coming years due to the

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Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-Tenn.) and Sen. Russ Feingold (D-Wis.), co-chairs of the Center for Strategic and International Studies' Task Force on HIV/AIDS, on Thursday at a CSIS forum discussed proposals to sustain progress made by the five-year, $15 billion President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, which will enter its fourth year this fall, CQ HealthBeat reports. A second five-year

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The Group of Eight industrialized nations on Sunday at their summit in St. Petersburg, Russia, adopted a document pledging to increase the fight against infectious diseases -- including HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria -- worldwide, RIA Novosti reports. The 10-page document calls for increased cooperation in infectious disease surveillance and monitoring, intensified research and public

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By Krittivas MukherjeeReutersFriday, July 7, 2006; 6:53 AMMUMBAI (Reuters) - An Indian prince has been disowned by his family after he publicly announced he was gay in a country where homosexuality is outlawed by a 145-year-old law.Prince Manvendra Singh Gohil, who belongs to one of the country's richest royal families that ruled the former Rajpipla principality in the western state of Gujarat,

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New Medicine for AIDS Is One Pill, Once a DayBy ANDREW POLLACKThe first complete treatment for AIDS that is taken once a day as a single pill is expected to be available soon.The pill, which combines three drugs made by two companies, would be a milestone in improving the simplicity of treatment for the disease, experts say. It should make it easier for people to take their medicine regularly,

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Filed under:English Public Health Patent Policy Newsposted by Tove Iren S. Gerhardsen @ 3:39 pm Add your own comment on this articleA monopoly by a single pharmaceutical company on a new medicine for HIV/AIDS has limited access to the medicine to a select group of patients in developing countries, a non-profit group said today.The product is lopinavir/ritonavir (Kaletra) and is only produced by

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The American Foundation for AIDS Research (amfAR) have announced that they are funding a dozen different studies that explore the eradication of HIV from the body. The studies include further investigation into the potential of valproic acid in flushing out HIV from viral reservoirs, as well as several novel explorations of viral and host factors affecting HIV latency and control. One of the

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July 6, 2006New AIDS Pill to Treat People in Poor CountriesBy DONALD G. McNEIL Jr.The Food and Drug Administration has approved the first 3-in-1 antiretroviral pill for use by the American-sponsored plan for AIDS treatment, something that the White House's acting global AIDS coordinator said yesterday should greatly improve treatment for AIDS patients in poor countries.Although it is not yet

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Bi-Partisan bill requires PEPFAR to address vulnerability of women and girls; strikes the abstinence-until-marriage earmark. Widespread Support from Local, State and National Organizations.(Washington, D.C.) Congresswoman Barbara Lee (D-CA) and 56 other members of Congress—including Representatives Jim Leach (R-IA), Carolyn Maloney (D-NY), James Moran (D-VA) and Christopher Shays (R-CT) —

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One fact went unnoticed in the UNAIDS Report on the Global AIDS Epidemic released last month: the figure of estimated AIDS deaths in India was over 4 lakh in 2005.This is the highest in the world—South Africa had an estimated figure of about 3.2 lakh for the same period.The report had also highlighted that India led the HIV/ AIDS table with 5.7 million people living with the disease.The

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A few days ago, the richest man in the world, Bill Gates, announced that he'd be stepping down from daily Microsoft activities in order to devote himself to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Through this foundation, Mr. Gates has said that he intends to give away 95 percent of his wealth. The foundation's primary interests are education, poverty and global health--saving the lives of the

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By Jehangir S. Pocha, Globe Correspondent June 5, 2006KUNMING, China -- This scenic capital of China's southern Yunnan Province has earned itself a more unsavory sobriquet -- China's AIDS capital.Historically, this multi-ethnic region of stunning valleys and gorges, including a site locals say is the fabled region of Shangri-La, stood out in mostly Han China for its uniquely diverse culture and

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By ABIGAIL ZUGER, M.D.Published: NY Times - June 6, 2006Instinctively, the first thing we want to know about a disease is whether it is going to kill us. As the Talmud says, pretty much all the rest is commentary. Twenty-five years ago, this was the only question about AIDS we could answer with any certainty; how disorienting it is that now, vast quantities of commentary later, it is the only

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FOSTER CITY, Calif., Jun. 4, 2006(AP) The 25-year fight against AIDS has been good to Gilead Sciences Inc., a Bay Area biotechnology company that makes the world's hottest-selling HIV treatment.The popularity of the treatment, Truvada, is soaring because it has almost no side effects and requires patients to take only a single pill once a day.With close to two dozen AIDS drugs on the market, the

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[Jun 05, 2006]U.N. member nations attending the U.N. General Assembly Special Session on HIV/AIDS in New York City on Friday after "difficult" negotiations reached a compromise on a final declaration to address the HIV/AIDS pandemic, the Washington Post reports (Brown, Washington Post, 6/3). The three-day meeting aimed to update a 2001 declaration that provided the framework for a worldwide

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June 4, 2006Op-Ed ContributorAIDS at 25: An Epidemic of CaringBy ABRAHAM VERGHESESan AntonioA quarter-century ago this week, when the Centers for Disease Control first reported the affliction we now know as AIDS, I was a 25-year-old medical resident. While I didn't even notice the report at the time, the milestones of my life and medical career — and of thousands of other doctors like me — have

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WINDHOEK, NamibiaAt this rate, by 2020, the total death toll from AIDS will reach 70 million — more than double that of the Black Death in Europe in the 14th century."We're still losing the war on AIDS," says Richard Holbrooke, chairman of the Global Business Coalition on H.I.V./AIDS. "We're just losing it at a slower rate than we used to."President Bush, to his credit, has taken AIDS more

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UN Secretary General Kofi Annan has accused some countries of putting their "heads in the sand" in failing to spell out the truth about Aids. He told the BBC he was disappointed a declaration at a UN Aids conference did not specify homosexuals, prostitutes and drug addicts were at risk.But Mr Annan still said the declaration was better than he had expected.The declaration commits countries to

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Lewis decries funding shortfalls for global HIV-AIDS programsSHAWN MCCARTHYNEW YORK -- Global HIV-AIDS programs are facing massive financing shortfalls in the coming years -- leaving millions to live and die untreated -- as countries balk at setting new funding targets at a United Nations conference here this week, Stephen Lewis said yesterday.Mr. Lewis, the UN special representative on HIV-AIDS,

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AIDS' Next 25 Years May Be Worse for AfricaBy TERRY LEONARDThe Associated PressFriday, June 2, 2006; 3:35 PMJOHANNESBURG, South Africa -- It began innocuously, when a statistical anomaly pointed to a mysterious syndrome that attacked the immune systems of gay men in California. No one imagined 25 years ago that AIDS would become the deadliest epidemic in history.Since June 5, 1981, HIV, the virus

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June 3, 2006By LAWRENCE K. ALTMAN and ELISABETH ROSENTHALUNITED NATIONS, June 2 — The General Assembly adopted a strongly worded declaration on Friday aimed at pressing the nations of the world to strengthen their battle against AIDS, a global pandemic that Secretary General Kofi Annan called "the greatest challenge of our generation."The language of the document surprised even anti-AIDS groups,

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June 1, 2006The AIDS epidemic turns 25 this week, and while new infections are declining in a few countries, the number of infected is still growing, especially among young women. Globally, the epidemic seems to have more energy than efforts to fight it.This week, United Nations members are meeting in a follow-up to the successful U.N. special session in 2001, which pushed the world to take AIDS

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MHLATUZE, SwazilandWe're now marking the 25th anniversary of the detection of AIDS, and it has been a sad chapter in the history of humanity. It's been a quarter-century of self-delusion, dithering and failure at every level.In America, we may think of AIDS as something that is behind us, but this year it will kill almost three million people worldwide. And a new victim is still being infected

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[May 25, 2006] The "greatest tribute" to World Health Organization Director-General Lee Jong-wook -- who died in Geneva on Monday after undergoing emergency surgery for a blood clot in his brain -- "would be a new commitment to implementing policies that work," Carol Adelman, director of the Center for Science in Public Policy at the Hudson Institute in Washington, D.C., writes in an

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By EDITH M. LEDERER, Associated Press Writer2:33 AM PDT, May 25, 2006UNITED NATIONS -- Denial, food shortages and squandered resources were among the problems preventing thousands of AIDS patients from getting treatment in countries hardest hit by the disease, according to a report by treatment activists.The findings were in an update released Wednesday by the International Treatment Preparedness

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Despite the alarming speed with which HIV/AIDS continues to spread around the world, several countries have achieved significant successes in curbing its transmission, including interventions that promote condom use, target populations that transmit the virus in both high– and low–risk groups, and focus on surveillance and control of sexually transmitted infections. However, the lack of sound

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An aid package worth nearly US$200m over the next five years has been launched, with the aim of solving the problems of some of China's poorest and most vulnerable people.Unveiled yesterday by the UK Department for International Development (DFID) in Beijing, the Country Assistance Plan (CAP) for China will see China receive around 105 million pounds in aid from the British Government between now

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HIV/AIDS advocates and health experts from 50 Eastern European and Central Asian countries gathered on Monday in Moscow for the first joint conference aimed at dealing with HIV/AIDS in the region, Russian Centre TV reports. At the three day conference, delegates plan to discuss ways to promote effective HIV prevention methods and increase access to treatment. Delegates also plan to discuss how to

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By John-Manuel AndrioteSunday, May 14, 2006; B04I'm a reporter.For two decades I've written newspaper and magazine stories -- and a book -- about HIV-AIDS as it has robbed the health and lives of millions of people worldwide. Many were my friends. I decided this would be my beat back in 1986, when I was still in journalism school. By then I had already lost two friends, men in their twenties. It

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Aids and a lost generation: Children raising children Ruth Nakabonge crouches on the ground clutching a handful of earth to fling over her father's coffin. Like millions of children across Africa she has lost a parent to Aids - and been deprived of a childhood.Bono: I am a witness. What can I do? Nelson Mandela: We are grateful for the work of Product (RED)

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Today at the first European and Central Asian AIDS conference in Moscow, hundreds of activists, officials, and health workers hope to address what is one of the fastest growing HIV epidemics in the world.According to the UN, the number of people living with HIV in Eastern Europe and Central Asia reached approximately 1.6 million at the end of last year, a tenfold increase in less than a decade.

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"Fighting HIV - Lessons from Brazil," New England Journal of Medicine: Susan Okie, a contributing editor of NEJM, examines the factors that have contributed to Brazil's success in slowing the spread of HIV/AIDS in the country. Okie found Brazil's "persistent and aggressive" HIV prevention efforts have played an important role in "containing the country's epidemic," as has the 1996 decision by

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By AMELIA GENTLEMAN and HARI KUMARNEW DELHI, May 11 — AIDS groups this week brought an important test of India's new patent law, which restricts the ability of Indian companies to produce low-cost generic drugs. Two patients-rights groups asked Indian authorities to stop Gilead Sciences, a California biopharmaceutical company, from patenting the antiretroviral drug Viread — its brand-name

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