United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon earlier this week called on world leaders to remember their pledges to help meet the U.N. Millennium Development Goals by 2015, even in the face of the current economic crisis, the Inquirer.net reports. Ban was speaking at a press conference in Manila, the Philippines, after his opening address at [...]
Archive for Oktober, 2008
U.n. Secretary-general Calls On World Leaders To Fulfill Mdg Pledges In Face Of Economic Crisis
Published at Oktober 31st, 2008Stigma In China Prevents Hiv-positive People From Accessing Services, South African Justice Cameron Says
Published at Oktober 31st, 2008Many HIV-positive people in China do not seek treatment because of HIV-associated stigma, and stigma also prevents many people from being tested for the virus, Edwin Cameron, a South African Supreme Court justice and HIV/AIDS advocate, said Thursday, Reuters reports. Cameron said discrimination against people living with HIV/AIDS is a “tragedy” because the Chinese government [...]
Who Says Hiv/aids-related Deaths Will Peak In Next Five Years, Then Decline
Published at Oktober 30th, 2008The World Health Organization on Monday in its updated Global Burden of Disease report reduced an earlier forecast of HIV/AIDS mortality rates, AFP/Yahoo! News reports. According to WHO, the number of HIV/AIDS-related deaths worldwide is expected to peak in the next five years — from 2.2 million in 2008 to a maximum of 2.4 million [...]
Global Financial Crisis Could Harm Hiv/aids Funding, Piot Says
Published at Oktober 30th, 2008The current global financial crisis could harm HIV/AIDS funding and increase the factors that make people vulnerable to the disease, UNAIDS Executive Director Peter Piot said on Tuesday during an event at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, CQ HealthBeat reports. According to Piot, as rising food and energy costs drive more people [...]
Merck’s Antiretroviral Isentress More Efficient In Suppressing Hiv Among Untreated Patients
Published at Oktober 29th, 2008Merck’s antiretroviral drug Isentress suppresses levels of HIV in previously untreated patients better than the company’s antiretroviral efavirenz, according to research presented Sunday at a meeting of the American Society of Microbiology and the Infectious Diseases Society of America, Reuters reports. According to Phase III clinical trial results, Isentress — known generically as raltegravir — [...]
philadelphia Inquirer Examines Hiv/aids In Philadelphia
Published at Oktober 28th, 2008The Philadelphia Inquirer on Tuesday examined how estimates indicate that new HIV infections in Philadelphia are occurring at a rate more than five times the national average. According to the Inquirer, the estimates, which are based on CDC data released in August, are part of a broader government strategy to slow the spread of the [...]
Students At Missouri High School Tested For Hiv Following Concern Of Exposure To Virus, Ap/google.com Reports
Published at Oktober 28th, 2008Students at a suburban St. Louis high school are being tested for HIV after an HIV-positive individual told health officials that as many as 50 students might have been exposed to the virus, the AP/Google.com reports. The St. Louis County Health Department has declined to comment on how the possible exposure might have occurred or [...]
Unique Research Partnership Announced By Gumc And Oak Ridge National Labs
Published at Oktober 27th, 2008Georgetown University Medical Center and Oak Ridge National Laboratory have announced an agreement between the institutions that formalizes their research relationship and will help facilitate additional biomedical research - particularly in the areas of structural biology, systems genetics, biomarkers, computational biology, and radiation biology.[click link for full article]
On Emergency Plan Communication, Nearly Half Of Us States Fail
Published at Oktober 27th, 2008Seven years after Sept. 11, and in the wake of many major natural disasters such as forest fires, hurricanes and flooding, nearly half of U.S. states either have no state-level emergency plan or do not provide it readily to the public, reveals a new study by George Mason University Communication Professor Carl Botan.[click link for [...]
Physical Strength, Fighting Ability Revealed In Human Faces
Published at Oktober 26th, 2008For our ancestors, misjudging the physical strength of a would-be opponent might have resulted in painful - and potentially deadly - defeat.[click link for full article]