Malaysia’s Deputy Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak on Saturday announced that non-Muslim couples will be urged to take voluntary HIV tests before marriage, AFP/Google.com reports. The statement follows a recent announcement by Najib that pre-marital courses for Muslim couples in the country will include mandatory HIV tests beginning in 2009. Najib said that the [...]
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Malaysian Government Will Encourage Hiv Tests For Non-muslim Couples Before Marriage, Deputy Prime Minister Says
Published at Dezember 24th, 2008los Angeles Times Examines Increasing Hiv/aids Awareness In China
Published at Dezember 22nd, 2008The Los Angeles Times on Saturday examined the recent increase in efforts by the Chinese government to promote HIV/AIDS awareness and prevention. When HIV/AIDS first emerged in the 1980s, Chinese officials “stigmatized it as a disease of capitalists and foreigners,” the Times reports. In addition, in the mid-1990s, tens of thousands of people in China’s [...]
Women Can Contract Hiv Through Healthy Tissue, Study Says
Published at Dezember 19th, 2008A new study has found that HIV appears to attack normal, healthy genital tissue in women and does not require breaks in the skin to infiltrate cells, offering new perspectives on how the virus is spread, researchers said on Tuesday, Reuters reports. Thomas Hope, a study author from Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine, said [...]
Advocates Urge Obama To Increase Global Health Spending, Others Call For Freeze On Foreign Aid
Published at Dezember 18th, 2008While more than 100 global health and development organizations have signed on to several policy papers urging President-elect Barack Obama’s administration to increase spending for HIV/AIDS, global health and development assistance, one dozen House Republicans argue that the current economic downturn necessitates a freeze on foreign aid, CQ Today reports. One letter, submitted by the [...]
Washington, D.c.-based Whitman-walker Clinic Announces Staff, Program Reductions
Published at Dezember 18th, 2008The Whitman-Walker Clinic — a not-for-profit health organization that is the largest HIV/AIDS service provider in the Washington, D.C., area — on Tuesday announced that it will be reducing some staff and programs, the Washington Post reports. The clinic announced that it plans to close its office in Northern Virginia, which provides services to [...]
Kenya’s Hiv Transmission Law Divides Government, Advocates, irin/plusnews Reports
Published at Dezember 17th, 2008A new law in Kenya — which has been approved but not yet implemented — is intended to prevent willful transmission of HIV/AIDS, but some advocates and government agencies are divided on its possible implications, IRIN/PlusNews reports. Kenyan HIV/AIDS advocate Inviolata Mbwavi warned that the legislation could in effect label HIV-positive people as dangerous, adding, [...]
U.s. Government Should Double Global Health Spending By 2012, Iom Report Says
Published at Dezember 16th, 2008President-elect Barack Obama’s administration and Congress should double annual U.S. international health aid to $15 billion by 2012, and Obama should appoint a senior official to work with a White House committee for coordinating such aid with other areas of foreign affairs, according to a National Institute of Medicine report released Monday, Bloomberg reports (Lauerman, [...]
Hiv Testing, Education Strategy Launched In Bahamas
Published at Dezember 15th, 2008A large-scale marketing campaign aimed at increasing HIV/AIDS awareness and testing was launched on Friday by the Bahamian National Center for HIV/AIDS, the Bahama Journal reports. The initiative — called the HIV Prevention and Effective Condom Social Marketing Strategy — was created under a partnership between the AIDS Secretariat and the Bahamas Loving Care Association [...]
President-elect Obama Nominates Daschle As Head Of Hhs, Director Of New White House Office Of Health Reform
Published at Dezember 13th, 2008President-elect Barack Obama on Thursday during a press conference in Chicago officially nominated former Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle (D-S.D.) as the next HHS secretary, Reuters reports. Daschle also will serve as director of a new White House Office of Health Reform (Reuters, 12/11).Jeanne Lambrew, a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress [...]
los Angeles Times Examines Recommendations For Hiv Testing As Part Of Routine Medical Care
Published at Dezember 8th, 2008The Los Angeles Times on Monday examined new practice guidelines issued recently by the American College of Physicians recommending routine HIV testing for all patients beginning at age 13, regardless of whether they engage in high-risk behaviors. CDC in 2006 also released recommendations for HIV screening as part of routine medical care.Bernard Branson of the [...]