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Our Development Partners      Live FeedsOpinions: U.S. Commitment To Global Fund; Innovative Financing; Global Food Security; Aid For Pakistan U.S... HIV / AIDS News From Medical News Today Also In Global Health News: Mass Rape In Congo; Malaria Research At Walter Reed; Nevirapine For Infants; Aid To Pakistan Improved Trust; More U.N. Now Estimates 500 Raped In Congo "Approximately 500 women were raped in eastern Congo in July and August," U.N. officials said Tuesday, revising an earlier report of 242 victims, according to the New York Times... HIV / AIDS News From Medical News Today Energy cane and banana power in the Caribbean At the moment our team is scoping-out ideas to help boost private sector businesses and new export opportunities for the Caribbean region in low carbon technologies. Working in this strategic development area is exciting and I am discovering so much along the way, talking to various people in the field of energy and... DFID Bloggers Largest Global Fund grant for HIV prevention programming with MSM, hijra and transgender communities signed Professor Michel Kazatchkine, Executive Director of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, signed a US $25 million grant (115 crore rupees) with India HIV/AIDS Alliance, the largest Global Fund grant to date to strengthen men who have sex with men (MSM), hijra and transgender communities in their... HIV and AIDS news from AIDSPortal AIDS Programs Reach Out To African Immigrant Community The Seattle Times reports on educating people about AIDS in the African immigrant community in Seattle. "For African immigrants, who come from countries with high rates of HIV and AIDS, talking about their own diagnosis is often taboo... HIV / AIDS News From Medical News Today Team Of Scientists Issues HIV Vaccine Strategy The Council of the Global HIV Vaccine Enterprise on Tuesday released a new strategy for HIV vaccine research, which marked "the culmination of an 18-month effort that included the input of 400 scientists worldwide," VOA News reports (DeCapua, 9/7). The strategy, published as a Commentary (... HIV / AIDS News From Medical News Today UK: Committee announces inquiry into the outcomes of the UN MDG Review Summit 2010 The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) are a series of targets for human development that were adopted by world leaders in 2000, with a deadline of 2015. They consist of eight over-arching goals with 21 quantifiable targets, measured by 60 indicators. Achievement of the MDGs is one of DFID's central strategic... HIV and AIDS news from AIDSPortal H.I.V. Prevention Gel Hits Snag: Money JOHANNESBURG — When scientists celebrated the announcement in July that a vaginal microbicide had finally been found that significantly reduced H.I.V. infections in women, there was still a prosaic — though essential — piece of the puzzle missing: money. Donors have not committed enough money for even one of... HIV and AIDS news from AIDSPortal Education More Important Than Knowledge In Stopping Spread Of HIV In Africa Simply teaching people the facts about how to protect themselves from HIV may not be enough to prevent the spread of AIDS in Africa, a new study suggests. Researchers found that villagers in Ghana who had higher levels of cognitive and decision-making abilities - not just the most knowledge -- were the ones who were... HIV / AIDS News From Medical News Today Novel Sensing Mechanism Discovered In Dendritic Cells To Increase Immune Response To HIV Dendritic cells are the grand sentinels of the immune system, standing guard 24/7 to detect foreign invaders such as viruses and bacteria, and bring news of the invasion to other immune cells to marshal an attack. These sentinels, however, nearly always fail to respond adequately to HIV, the virus causing AIDS... HIV / AIDS News From Medical News Today KENYA: Kicking HIV out of Nairobi’s slums Photo: Kenneth Odiwuor/IRIN The wide appeal of football makes it a useful tool for HIV prevention NAIROBI, 8 September 2010 (PlusNews) – On a dusty football field in Mathare, one of the largest slums in the ... World News : HIV/AIDS (PlusNews) Is Russia's HIV/AIDS problem worse than Africa's? The New York office director of UNAIDS, Bertil Lindblad, is worried about the one region of the world where HIV infections are increasing, even as rates in the rest of the world level off. It's not in Africa or Asia, or even Latin America. It's Eastern Europe -- countries like Russia and Ukraine -- where a recent... HIV and AIDS news from AIDSPortal Many HIV-Infected Kids Could Use Cheaper Treatment Safely Title: Many HIV-Infected Kids Could Use Cheaper Treatment Safely MedicineNet HIV General Rights groups support case against forced sterilisation - by Staff Reporter - New Era
Google Alerts New HIV Cases High Among French MSM (CME/CE) (MedPage Today) -- HIV appears to be out of control among French men who have sex with men (MSM), researchers reported. MedPage Today HIV/AIDS  |
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