President Bush on Wednesday signed into law legislation (HR 5501) that reauthorizes the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief through 2013, the Washington Post reports (Eggen, Washington Post, 7/31).The House last week approved the measure 303-115. The legislation allocates a total of $50 billion — $48 billion of which goes to PEPFAR and $2 billion [...]
Archive for Juli, 2008
President Bush Signs Pepfar Reauthorization Bill
Published at Juli 31st, 2008Organizations, Ilo Launch Campaign That Aims To Raise Hiv Awareness Among Migrant Workers In China
Published at Juli 31st, 2008Chinese groups and the International Labour Organization on Monday launched a three-year campaign that aims to increase HIV/AIDS awareness and prevention among the country’s migrant worker population in the provinces of Anhui, Guangdong and Yunnan, as well as the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region, China Daily reports (Guan, China Daily, 7/29).The program, called “China Workplace Education [...]
New Hiv Infections, Deaths From Aids-related Causes Down; Epidemic Not Over, Unaids Report Says
Published at Juli 30th, 2008The number of deaths worldwide from AIDS-related causes decreased by 10% in 2007 to two million, compared with 2.2 million in 2006, according to UNAIDS‘ 2008 Report on the Global AIDS Epidemic, which was released Tuesday ahead of the XVII International AIDS Conference, the Los Angeles Times reports (Maugh, Los Angeles Times, 7/30).There were about [...]
Keeping Kenyan Girls In School, Providing Hiv/aids, Sex Education Could Reduce Future Hiv Cases, Experts Say
Published at Juli 29th, 2008Reducing the school dropout rate for girls in Kenya and providing adequate HIV/AIDS and sex education could reduce HIV incidence in the country, experts said recently, IRIN News reports. Rosemarie Muganda-Onyando — executive director of the Centre for the Study of Adolescence in Nairobi, Kenya — said, “Young people do not have the information they [...]
Latin American, Caribbean Health, Education Ministers To Attend Meeting Ahead Of Aids Conference In Mexico
Published at Juli 29th, 2008Ahead of the XVII International AIDS Conference, health and education ministers from 16 Latin American and Caribbean countries will attend a meeting in Mexico on Aug. 1 to develop a common strategy to fight the spread of HIV/AIDS in the region, Mexican Undersecretary for Prevention and Health Promotion Mauricio Hernandez said recently, Prensa Latina reports. [...]
Hiv Vaccine Research Requires Innovative Ideas, New Scientists, More Funding, Researchers Say
Published at Juli 28th, 2008New researchers and innovative ideas are needed to further research on developing an HIV/AIDS vaccine, U.S. scientists wrote in Friday’s edition of Science magazine, the AP/Google.com reports. The researchers, including an NIH official, wrote that research should focus on developing a vaccine rather than on clinical trials for medicines that may not be effective. “Design [...]
President Bush Says He Will Sign Pepfar Reauthorization Bill
Published at Juli 28th, 2008President Bush on Saturday during his weekly radio address said he is eager to sign legislation (HR 5501) that would reauthorize the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief through 2013, the AP/Google.com reports (Reichmann, AP/Google.com, 7/26). The House on Thursday approved the measure 303-115. The legislation allocates a total of $50 billion — $48 [...]
Rutgers Biologist To Study Worms In Amazon, Glaciers
Published at Juli 28th, 2008Look out, Indiana Jones. Dan Shain is redefining the term “summer action hero” with voyages to frozen glaciers and the steamy Amazon planned, all in the name of scientific research. Like the cinematic icon, Shain, an associate professor of biology at Rutgers-Camden, travels to exotic locales, overcomes unexpected challenges, and returns home [...]
Diet Influences The Taste Of Breast Milk
Published at Juli 27th, 2008Researchers from the University of Copenhagen, Denmark, have found that what a mother eats has a fairly instant effect on the taste of her breast milk, as well as influencing what her child preferred to eat. An infant’s first flavour experiences may be through the transfer of dietary flavour compounds into breast milk, [...]
Cbs’ ‘evening News’ Examines Hiv/aids Among Blacks In U.s.
Published at Juli 26th, 2008CBS’ “Evening News“on Thursday examined HIV/AIDS among blacks living in the U.S. According to CDC, blacks accounted for 49% of new HIV/AIDS diagnoses in 2006, despite making up only 13% of the population. In addition, 69% of AIDS cases among those ages 13 to 19 and 56% among those ages 20 to 24 are black, [...]