Binge drinking — or the consumption of five or more alcoholic beverages on one occasion — may be contributing to an increased risk of HIV among men who have sex with men in New York City, according to a study released Monday by the city’s Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, the New York Times‘ [...]
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Binge Drinking Among Msm In New York City Linked To Increased Hiv Risk, Study Says
Published at Januar 7th, 2009los 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 [...]
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, [...]
Zimbabwe’s Cholera Outbreak Puts Hiv-positive People At Risk, Health Officials Say
Published at Dezember 13th, 2008People living with HIV/AIDS are especially vulnerable to contracting cholera in Zimbabwe, which currently is experiencing an outbreak of the waterborne illness, Stanley Takaona, Deputy President of the Zimbabwe HIV/AIDS Activist Union, said recently, IRIN/PlusNews reports. HIV-positive people with weakened immune systems have a more difficult time recovering from cholera and are at an increased [...]
Study Examines Why Merck Vaccine Candidate Might Have Increased Likelihood Of Contracting Hiv
Published at November 5th, 2008Trials of Merck’s experimental HIV vaccine were halted in September 2007 because the drug might have increased the likelihood of contracting the virus rather than preventing it, according to a study published Monday in the Journal of Experimental Medicine, AFP/Google.com reports.The vaccine was based on the idea that a modified form of a common cold [...]
Canadian Province Considering New Hiv/aids Treatment Strategy To Target Highly Vulnerable Groups
Published at November 1st, 2008The Canadian province of British Columbia is considering new strategies to encourage the “most hard-to-reach” HIV-positive people to enter treatment, Toronto’s Globe and Mail reports. The methods would target groups like drug users, the homeless and mentally ill and include payments and other incentives, such as drug recovery programs, addiction treatment, food and shelter. Julio [...]
Chinese Hiv/aids, Human-rights Advocate Hu Jia Wins E.u. Award
Published at Oktober 25th, 2008Chinese HIV/AIDS and human-rights advocate Hu Jia was awarded the European Parliament’s Sakharov Prize on Thursday for his work in the fight against the disease, as well as for his efforts to address civil rights and environmental issues, AFP/Yahoo! Asia News reports (AFP/Yahoo! Asia News, 10/23.) Hu currently is serving a prison sentence for allegedly [...]
Bush At International Development Summit Urges Continued Foreign Assistance In Face Of Global Economic Crisis
Published at Oktober 23rd, 2008President Bush on Tuesday at a White House summit on international development said that despite the current global economic crisis, the U.S. should not cut back on assistance to low-income countries, the Washington Post reports. “During times of economic crisis, some may be tempted to turn inward — focusing on our problems here at home, [...]
Researchers At Hiv/aids Vaccine Conference Discuss New Methods, Ongoing Trials
Published at Oktober 21st, 2008Researchers at the AIDS Vaccine 2008 conference in Cape Town, South Africa, last week examined how setbacks in developing a vaccine have “forced them to look for entirely new ways of creating a defense against the disease,” AFP/Google.com reports. “We are in the middle of quite a profound shift of mindset in the research [...]
U.n. Official Says Women Need To Be Empowered In Fight Against Hiv/aids
Published at Oktober 18th, 2008Women must be empowered and respected, particularly by men, in the fight against HIV/AIDS, Nafis Sadik, United Nations special envoy for HIV/AIDS in the Asia-Pacific region, said Friday at a poverty alleviation conference in Beijing, Reuters reports. According to Sadik, lack of respect for women is a primary reason for the spread of the virus.“Gender-based [...]