Anader Initiates Hiv/aids “ground-breaker”
A second financial support ending in September 2015 was renewed for the Pepfar-Anader HIV/AIDS program. The program is meant for the expansion of access to HIV/Aids prevention and treatment services to populations living in rural areas. aSpecifically speaking Pepfar contributes to reducing the risks in rural areas, curbing women and girls vulnerability to HIV and increasing the awareness of the population to cut transmission risksa, Marcel Mel Djipro, a community counselor in Dabou, 50km southwest of Abidjan. Djipro was speaking on the occasion of celebrations marking the 20th anniversary of ANADER. You will find the origi...
Source: aids-write.org - December 12, 2013 Category: HIV AIDS Authors: aidswrite Tags: current news aids Source Type: blogs
Hiv No Longer Considered Death Sentence
have your career, your family, or whatever it is that you’d like to do with your life, and that is the truth of where we are.” Today’s science, he said, supports that. Interactive: World AIDS Day 2013 “We are at a place that we actually have the tools we need to stop the epidemic and then just get to a point where we’re just taking care of the people who have HIV throughout their life,” he says. “But because of how horrible the first 10, 20 years of this (epidemic) was, we have collectively this culture of what it means to be infected and affected by HIV that still is this huge blo...
Source: aids-write.org - December 11, 2013 Category: HIV AIDS Authors: aidswrite Tags: current news Source Type: blogs
Remembering Nelson Mandela’s Championing Of Hiv/aids Treatment
He also made public visits to AIDS lobby groups and to the international medical charity Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) which was offering antiretrovirals at a public health clinic in South Africa. On meeting AIDS campaigners, Mr Mandela famously wore a t-shirt emblazoned with the words HIV Positive. ‘Truly dark times’ Speaking at the conference (her comments reported in a recent IRIN article), the singer and UNAIDS Goodwill Ambassador, Annie Lennox, described this period in South Africas fight against HIV/AIDS as truly dark times. However, Mr Mandelas public support challenged the political status quo and help...
Source: aids-write.org - December 11, 2013 Category: HIV AIDS Authors: aidswrite Tags: current news aids Source Type: blogs
Free Hiv Screening For All Pregnant Women Soon
Fifteen new cases of HIV/Aids were detected in Qatar last year, taking the total cases in the country to 276, an expert at the Supreme Council of Health (SCH) disclosed at the seminar that marked World Aids Day. Speakers stressed the importance of HIV screening for pregnant women to prevent transmission of the disease to newborns. The event for doctors was organised by Hamad Medical Corporations (HMC) Infectious Disease Department in collaboration with SCH. HIV transmission appears to be very limited in Qatar with a low HIV prevalence rate of 0.02 percent, said Dr Al Mubasher Abu Baker from SCH. A total of 276 HIV cases ha...
Source: aids-write.org - December 10, 2013 Category: HIV AIDS Authors: aidswrite Tags: current news aids news Source Type: blogs
Medford Rep. Carl Sciortino Co-sponsors Third Annual Mass State House World Aids Day Event
The annual HIV/AIDS awareness event was sponsored by the offices of state Reps. Gloria Fox, of Boston, Sarah Peake, of Provincetown and Carl Sciortino, of Medford, along with the Massachusetts Executive Office of Health and Human Services, the Massachusetts Department of Public Health, the Massachusetts Legislatures LGBT Caucus, Black & Latino Legislative Caucus and Caucus of Women Legislators, in addition to local AIDS prevention and treatment service providers. Sciortino, DMedford, spoke on behalf of the House of Representatives and the LGBT Caucus. At the State House World AIDS Day event, we recognize that there ha...
Source: aids-write.org - December 10, 2013 Category: HIV AIDS Authors: aidswrite Tags: current news Source Type: blogs
Hiv ‘cure’ Fails In First 2 Patients
CNBC Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. agreed to buy shares in Haier Electronics Group Co. and its logistics business, as Chinas biggest e-commerce company builds its distribution in the worlds most populous country. … Bloomberg Chinese consumer prices were up 3% in November… You will find the original content at this website http://finance.yahoo.com/news/hiv-cure-fails-first-two-213433142.html (Source: aids-write.org)
Source: aids-write.org - December 9, 2013 Category: HIV AIDS Authors: aidswrite Tags: current news hiv news Source Type: blogs
Hiv Returns In Two Us Men After Bone Marrow Transplants
In July, doctors announced early, encouraging results: one patient appeared HIV-free after being off the drugs for seven weeks and the other for 15 weeks. But signs of HIV soon returned. They were found in the first patient 12 weeks after stopping therapy, and in the second patient 32 weeks after stopping therapy. “Both patients have resumed therapy and are currently doing well,” Heinrich said, adding that the patients do not wish to be identified in the media. He said it was important to share the results with fellow researchers, because they signal “that there may be an important long-lived HIV reservoi...
Source: aids-write.org - December 8, 2013 Category: HIV AIDS Authors: aidswrite Tags: current news Source Type: blogs
Porn Industry Shuts Down Again After Another Star Tests Positive For Hiv
‘We take the health of our performers very seriously and felt that it was better to err on the side of caution while we determine whether anyone else may have been exposed. ‘From Chanel to Burberry, fashion is becoming a branch of the porn industry,’ says CARYN FRANKLIN, ex-host of BBC’s The Clothes Show ‘We want to make sure all performers are protected. The performers’ health and safety is the most important thing,’ Duke said. The L.A.-based AIDS Healthcare Foundation has been advocating for required condom use in filming porn scenes in the city, which is not yet the case. You wi...
Source: aids-write.org - December 8, 2013 Category: HIV AIDS Authors: aidswrite Tags: current news hiv news Source Type: blogs
Hiv Infections Among Young Chinese Rising
Key sources of infection were blood products and intravenous drug use. Now it has entered cities, and the universities where the so-called elite groups are. Even though this special group has the information to prevent AIDS, when they indulge in high-risk behavior they dont use their knowledge to protect themselves, he said. The number of infected youth appears still to be low, but is rising: Of 74,517 new cases of HIV identified in 2011, 1,074 were aged between 15 to 24, Dr. You will find the original content at this website http://cn.nytimes.com/china/20131205/c05aids/en-us/ (Source: aids-write.org)
Source: aids-write.org - December 6, 2013 Category: HIV AIDS Authors: aidswrite Tags: current news Source Type: blogs
Hiv Cases On The Rise In Ventura County
We put the drop of blood in the test kit. We open a new test, get it going,” said Malek Guerbaoui. The results are available in 20 minutes. Santa Barbara County’s HIV numbers are also up slightly for the 2011-2012 time period, from 16 people to 20. The number of cases in San Luis Obispo County decreased from 11 to 9. You will find the original content at this website http://www.keyt.com/news/hiv-cases-on-the-rise-in-ventura-county/-/17671600/23294422/-/osp8dc/-/index.html (Source: aids-write.org)
Source: aids-write.org - December 6, 2013 Category: HIV AIDS Authors: aidswrite Tags: current news hiv news Source Type: blogs
Group Blames High Hiv/aids Prevalence On Lack Of Technology
Pepple called on the state government to provide other HIV and AIDS machines and kit to ensure proper treatment of HIV patients in the state. In his response, the HIV and AIDS Programme Manager of the Ministry of Health, Dr Golden Owhonda, said that government had reduced theprevalence of the diseasefrom 7.3 per cent to 6.0. He saidthe state government planned to build a molecular lab at the Braithwaite Memorial Hospital which would be equipped with a viral load assessment and DNA ECR machines, among others. Owhonda said the statehad also procured and distributed thousands of anti retroviral drugs to about 200 medical cent...
Source: aids-write.org - December 5, 2013 Category: HIV AIDS Authors: aidswrite Tags: current news hiv news Source Type: blogs
Alabama Hiv/aids Rate Down Slightly
In Jefferson County, the state’s most populous county, the 2012 HIV/AIDS incidence rate, or rate of new diagnoses, was 25.63 per 100,000 people. That figure gives Jefferson County the third highest HIV/AIDS incidence rate for 2012. The data sheet also shows that Alabama’s teen pregnancy rate during the past two years dropped from 32.5 to 29.6 per 1,000 females ages 10-19. On a related note, nonprofit news group ProPublica released a map showing which states have criminal laws punishing HIV-positive people who expose others to the virus, even if they take precautions such as using a condom. Alabama, which is one...
Source: aids-write.org - December 5, 2013 Category: HIV AIDS Authors: aidswrite Tags: current news hiv news Source Type: blogs
Breaking News: Promise For Possible Hiv Cure
Results of the study were presented today at the annual meeting of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA). Highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) has transformed the outlook for patients infected with HIV by suppressing the replication of the virus in the body. However, despite the success of HAART in effectively reducing the burden of HIV, scientists believe reservoirs of latently infected cells persist in the body, preventing the possibility of a permanent cure. “In an HIV patient on HAART, drugs suppress viral replication, which means they keep the number of viral particles in a patient’s blo...
Source: aids-write.org - December 4, 2013 Category: HIV AIDS Authors: aidswrite Tags: current news hiv news Source Type: blogs
New Hiv Strain May Move To Aids More Quickly: Study
The new strain is a fusion of the two most common strains in Guinea-Bissau, a small country in West Africa. It has been identified only in that region. When two strains join, they form what’s called a “recombinant.” “Recombinants seem to be more vigorous and more aggressive than the strains from which they developed,” doctoral student Angelica Palm said in a Lund University news release. Previous research has shown that the global spread of different recombinants is increasing. You will find the original content at this website http://www.webmd.com/hiv-aids/news/20131203/new-hiv-strain-may-mov...
Source: aids-write.org - December 4, 2013 Category: HIV AIDS Authors: aidswrite Tags: current news aids news Source Type: blogs
Don’t Consider Hiv-aids As A Taboo
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Source: aids-write.org - December 3, 2013 Category: HIV AIDS Authors: aidswrite Tags: current news hiv Source Type: blogs
