Alicia Keys: Get Loud About Fighting Hiv
Ten years later, these young people are living healthy, happy, hopeful lives. We’ve seen amazing progress in the past 10 years — and though we still have a long way to go, more people are getting HIV treatment and fewer babies are being born with HIV. We’re seeing the results of so many people’s work to “keep a child alive,” and now, the first generation of children who received HIV treatment are entering adolescence and young adulthood. But for all of our progress, we are still failing this generation. You will find the original content at this website http://www.cnn.com/2013/09/27/opin...
Source: aids-write.org - November 19, 2013 Category: HIV AIDS Authors: aidswrite Tags: current news hiv news Source Type: blogs
International Aids Society Warns Of Epidemic Among Young Men Across Asia Pacific
Beyrer said rates of new HIV infection in the region remain stable among the general population, but continue to grow among MSM – particularly those aged 18 to 21. It is estimated that, within the next three years, up to 50 percent of new HIV infections in the region will occur within MSM communities. In spite of this, two thirds of MSM in the region have little to no knowledge about HIV, and funding to educate MSM remains low. Across the region, spending on prevention work with MSM ranges from nothing, to a maximum of just 15 percent of total prevention spending around HIV. APCOM executive director Midnight Poonkase...
Source: aids-write.org - November 18, 2013 Category: HIV AIDS Authors: aidswrite Tags: current news hiv Source Type: blogs
Hiv-positive Georgia Man Arrested For Having Unprotected Sex
15 (UPI) — A Georgia man was arrested earlier this week for allegedly having unprotected sex with a woman without telling her he was infected with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS. Ricky Billings, 52, was charged with felony reckless conduct after Athens-Clarke County police concluded an investigation that began back in September when a 32-year-old woman filed a complaint. The police incident report contains medical information protected by Georgia privacy laws, but the arrest warrant indicates that Billings knowingly endangered the woman. According to the warrant, Billings did … intentionally have unprotected s...
Source: aids-write.org - November 18, 2013 Category: HIV AIDS Authors: aidswrite Tags: current news hiv news Source Type: blogs
Reason By Neurocognitive Impairment In Aids Patients Identified
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Source: aids-write.org - November 17, 2013 Category: HIV AIDS Authors: aidswrite Tags: current news Source Type: blogs
Hiv/aids Treatment Success Story Opens Up Many Possibilities
The research done in the laboratory is translated in real time to patients thanks to a sophisticated centralized database and strong network of physicians in B.C. The simultaneous analysis of both patient and disease genomes, coupled with major technological leaps in the last decade, cracked the HIV/AIDS conundrum wide open, saving countless lives, and tens of millions of health care dollars. Personalized HIV treatments have reduced HIV deaths and disease in B.C. by more than 90 per cent. Furthermore, since the treatments work by reducing the amount of virus in people, they become less infectious. It is estimated that prev...
Source: aids-write.org - November 17, 2013 Category: HIV AIDS Authors: aidswrite Tags: current news aids news Source Type: blogs
Aids Prevention: Africa’s Circumcision Challenge
There is certainly room for confusion. Although Kabanda’s presentation is thorough, one page of the flip chart, titled ‘MC does not offer 100% protection’ shows a picture of a man chasing two women down the street while throwing his condoms away. Other benefits are overstated: You are preventing your partner from cervical cancer, Kabanda says, when, in fact, the reduction in risk is far from complete. Outside the clinic in Lusaka, it is clear Marvin has also received mixed messages from his counselling session. We were told there was a sixty-something per cent of being I don’t know if it’s fr...
Source: aids-write.org - November 16, 2013 Category: HIV AIDS Authors: aidswrite Tags: current news Source Type: blogs
Hiv Awareness: Scot Tells How Love, Luck And Medical Breakthroughs Have Helped Him Survive 30 Years With Killer Virus
My CD4 count was now less than one, and the doctor said I had full-blown AIDS. My mum was hysterical, and a few days later they basically told her there was nothing else they could do for me and I was sent to a hospital in Edinburgh. He added: It was a very hard time, and I started on a course of medication which amounted to 60 pills a day. He survived, although his health suffered for the next few years. Michael in New York in 1987, three years after he was diagnosed with HIV Alasdair MacLeod/Daily Record In 1999, he became desperately ill. He was unable to eat and his weight dropped to eight stone. You will find the ori...
Source: aids-write.org - November 16, 2013 Category: HIV AIDS Authors: aidswrite Tags: current news aids news Source Type: blogs
Experts Focus On Hiv Prevention In Uae And Region
Let General Dahi said that Dubai police signed an earlier protocol of cooperation with Unicef to launch a campaign entitled Together for Children Against Aids, to improve knowledge of youth and juveniles in this regard and to improve the services provided to people infected and living with the disease. Al Arabi said that young people represent the highest ratio of the population in the Arab societies and they are vital in the development of those societies. We should all work to create a climate that will help to invest in the young generation, he said. He added that in the Arab region there are economic and social challen...
Source: aids-write.org - November 15, 2013 Category: HIV AIDS Authors: aidswrite Tags: current news aids Source Type: blogs
Nih Announces New Co-chairs Of Panel On Antiretroviral Guidelines
Bartlett, M.D. The following panel leadership changes were announced at a recent OARAC meeting: John G. Bartlett, M.D., will retire from his position as panel co-chair at the end of 2013, a position he has held since the panels creation in 1996. Dr. Bartlett was instrumental in the development of the Panel on Antiretroviral Guidelines for Adults and Adolescents and in that capacity, helped to establish the nations first HIV treatment guidelines, said Anthony S. Fauci, M.D., director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of NIH. You will find the original content at this website http://w...
Source: aids-write.org - November 14, 2013 Category: HIV AIDS Authors: aidswrite Tags: current news Source Type: blogs
Aung San Suu Kyi To Launch Aids 2014 In Melbourne
Respect for the human rights of people living with HIV must be promoted, Aung San Suu Kyi said earlier this year. We also need to protect the people who live on the fringes of society who struggle every day to maintain their dignity and basic human rights. I believe that with true compassionthe invisible cord that binds us to other human beings regardless of race, personal status, religion and national borderswe can get results for all people. Michel Sidibe, executive Director of UNAIDS, told the Star Observer he was honoured to to be joining the famed political activist, who is also an UNAIDS Goodwill Ambassador, on her v...
Source: aids-write.org - November 14, 2013 Category: HIV AIDS Authors: aidswrite Tags: current news hiv Source Type: blogs
Man Cured Of Aids Virus: First U.s. News Conference
“I had leukemia and this was the only way for me to survive,” Brown sad. “I’d do it again, but I would not wish this on my worst enemy. There were times I felt like I could die. And times I kind of wished I would. But I survived. You will find the original content at this website http://www.webmd.com/hiv-aids/news/20120724/man-cured-of-aids-virus-news-conference (Source: aids-write.org)
Source: aids-write.org - November 10, 2013 Category: HIV AIDS Authors: aidswrite Tags: current news aids news Source Type: blogs
Uganda Leader Publicly Tests For Aids
Public leaders in Uganda rarely test for HIV in public, despite the urging of AIDS workers in this East African country. Amid signs the HIV infection rate is increasing in a country that once was a global leader in efforts to fight AIDS, Ugandan officials want to test 15 million people by the end of 2014. They acknowledge it will be hard to reach that target, the reason they believe the country needs the president to be a “role model.” The HIV rate in Uganda stands at 7.3 percent, up from 6.4 percent in 2005, according to a 2011 survey. Click to see what’s on KNOE 8 NEWS tonight. What’s on TV tonigh...
Source: aids-write.org - November 9, 2013 Category: HIV AIDS Authors: aidswrite Tags: current news aids Source Type: blogs
New Who Guidelines To End Aids In Bangladesh
The prevalence of HIV in people who inject drugs (PWID) in Dhaka was 7% in 2007 and 5.3% in 2011, so it seems to be contained; and HIV prevalence has remained low (within 0 to 2%) in other key populations such as female sex workers, men who have sex with men, and transgender persons. However, the demographics of Bangladesh present considerable challenges to the HIV prevention programme. Bangladesh is a densely populated country, with enduring poverty, low levels of education, gender inequality and high level of cross-border travel. As the AIDS epidemic changes shape, so must the HIV prevention programme. You will find the ...
Source: aids-write.org - November 8, 2013 Category: HIV AIDS Authors: aidswrite Tags: current news aids Source Type: blogs
Hiv/aids: Post-soviet Countries, Including Armenia, Show Rise In Cases
As for labor migrants, the spread of epidemics is conditioned by the fact that in Russia (where the overwhelming majority of Armenian migrants go) HIV prevention state programs are ineffective, and besides, there is no cooperation with the other countries in the region, said Khmel, adding that the number of HIV/AIDS patients dropped by two percent in the Ukraine in 2012, in particular the cases of virus transmission through infected syringe among drug addicts have been reduced. Ashot Gevorgyan, national program officer of the HIV/AIDS international alliance in Armenia, says in the country in 58 percent of cases HIV is tra...
Source: aids-write.org - November 8, 2013 Category: HIV AIDS Authors: aidswrite Tags: current news aids news Source Type: blogs
Could Concentrated Hiv Epidemics Make Aids Unbeatable?
“I’m really concerned about the future of the AIDS epidemic, especially at a time when we are perhaps a little too optimistic because of the huge progress we are making from a technological and scientific perspective,” he said. “As we celebrate the extraordinary progress, we should also be conscious that we will not stop HIV and AIDS by just having more sophisticated drugs and only focusing on the generalized epidemic and not focusing enough on the complexities of the concentrated epidemics.” The worrisome groups are fairly clearly defined: Injecting drug users, who can pass the AIDS virus to ...
Source: aids-write.org - November 7, 2013 Category: HIV AIDS Authors: aidswrite Tags: current news Source Type: blogs
