India’s National AIDS Control Organization is expanding the availability of second-line antiretroviral treatment to HIV-positive people resistant to first-line drugs, the Times of India reports. Now available in eight states, previously, only Mumbai’s J. J. Hospital and Chennai’s Tambaram ART Center offered second-line treatment. Under the program, the drugs will be available from the School [...]
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India Introduces Second-line Antiretroviral Treatment In Eight States
Published at Januar 7th, 2009Court Orders Schwarzenegger Administration To Enforce Hiv/aids Law, Says Ahf
Published at Dezember 24th, 2008The Superior Court of California, County of Los Angeles has entered a judgment and will issue a writ ordering California’s Department of Health Care Services (DHCS) to implement a landmark 2002 law intended to extend Medi-Cal (Medicaid) coverage to HIV-positive Californians.[click link for full article]
Malaysian Government Will Encourage Hiv Tests For Non-muslim Couples Before Marriage, Deputy Prime Minister Says
Published at Dezember 24th, 2008Malaysia’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 [...]
washington Post Profiles Hiv/aids Advocate, Singer Sherri Lewis
Published at Dezember 23rd, 2008The Washington Post on Tuesday profiled HIV/AIDS advocate and singer Sherri Lewis, who was diagnosed with HIV in 1987. Soon after her diagnosis, Lewis met a researcher at Harvard University who encouraged her to take a position in Boston counseling HIV-positive drug users. Over the past few years, she has managed support groups [...]
Medical Council Of Thailand Plans To Amend Rule Requiring Teens To Provide Parental Consent Before Receiving Hiv Test
Published at Dezember 23rd, 2008Delegates at the Medical Council of Thailand hearing last week unanimously agreed to amend a regulation that requires parental permission for people younger than age 18 to be tested for HIV, the Bangkok Post reports (Apiradee, Bangkok Post, 12/18). Efforts to revise the rule were prompted by an increased number of HIV cases among young [...]
los 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 [...]
Researchers Find Evidence About Evolution Of Hiv In Lemurs
Published at Dezember 20th, 2008Researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine have discovered a virus related to HIV in the genetic makeup of the Madagascar grey mouse lemur, a finding that could provide new evidence about the origins of HIV, according to a study recently published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, IRIN/PlusNews reports. [...]
Study Looks At Male Circumcision As Hiv Prevention Among Black Men In Baltimore
Published at Dezember 19th, 2008HIV risk appears to be lower among U.S. black men who have been circumcised and are considered at high risk of contracting the virus than among black men who have not been circumcised, according to a study published on Wednesday in the Journal of Infectious Diseases, Reuters reports. Two other studies in the journal also [...]
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 [...]