Group of Lawmakers Asking FDA to Lift Blood Donation BanA group of US Senators led by Senator John Kerry, is urging the Food and Drug Administration to lift the ban preventing gay men from donating blood. The ban was put into place at the height of the HIV scare at a time when the disease was not well understood and the technology to detect HIV in donated blood was just not reliable. The thought...
About.com AIDS / HIV
Retrieved: Sun, Mar 7, 2010
Factors Affecting Medication AdherenceSoon after the advent of HIV medications, it became obvious that taking your medicines exactly as prescribed was essential for an effective drug regimen. It also became apparent that factors affecting medication adherence are plentiful. If a person is to adhere to their medication, the medical provider must first identify factors that affect...
About.com AIDS / HIV
Retrieved: Fri, Mar 5, 2010
Researchers Suggest HIV Can Be Eliminated in 30 YearsResearchers at this week's meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science have suggested a way they say HIV can be eliminated in as little as 30 years. AIDS researchers with the South African Center for Epidemiological Modeling and Analysis (SACEMA) have submitted a plan that combines aggressive HIV treatment with HIV...
About.com AIDS / HIV
Retrieved: Sun, Feb 28, 2010
Research Suggests Herpes Drug May Help Fight HIVThere is new research that suggests that people infected with both HIV and Herpes Simplex type 2 may benefit more than expected from taking the anti-herpes drug Acyclovir. In addition to treating the herpes, studies now provide evidence that the drug also slows the progression of HIV in people living with both viruses. The study, co-authored by...
About.com AIDS / HIV
Retrieved: Tue, Feb 23, 2010
HIV and AIDS from "A" to "Z"People live with HIV; they live full and healthy lives. People have families, have careers, have dreams and ambitions all while living with HIV. People no longer have to view HIV as a death sentence; people live with HIV. One of the reasons people are living healthier lives with HIV is the fact that they are learning more and more about their...
About.com AIDS / HIV
Retrieved: Fri, Feb 19, 2010
New HIV CasesAs the epidemic continues, how many new HIV cases occur in the US each year?
About.com AIDS / HIV: Most Popular Articles
Retrieved: Mon, Mar 8, 2010
HIV FeaturesOver the last decade, we at About.com have provided you with hundreds of HIV related articles. Content ranging from medication education, adherence, testing and prevention have been resented for your use over the years. The following articles are some I consider the best.
About.com AIDS / HIV: Most Popular Articles
Retrieved: Mon, Feb 22, 2010
TB & HIVThe deadly intersection between TB and HIV is a real one that has to be addressed in each patient living with HIV. All people infected with HIV should be tested for TB, and, if infected, should complete preventive therapy to prevent active TB disease.
About.com AIDS / HIV: Most Popular Articles
Retrieved: Fri, Feb 19, 2010
JaffeIn the history of HIV one man has been on the forefront from the beginning. In this continuing series, we profile Dr. Harold Jaffe, another of the Minds of HIV in the history of HIV.
About.com AIDS / HIV: Most Popular Articles
Retrieved: Mon, Feb 15, 2010
Start HIV TreatmentWhen should I start HIV treatment? When should you start your HIV medications? Find out when you should start HIV medications.
About.com AIDS / HIV: Most Popular Articles
Retrieved: Sun, Feb 7, 2010
Fighting HIVImportant research is always being done in an effort to find new ways to fight HIV. New HIV therapies and new ways of fight HIV may take people willing to look outside the box.
About.com AIDS / HIV: What's Hot Now
Retrieved: Mon, Mar 8, 2010
Gallo ProfileIn the history of HIV one scientist stands out. Eminent HIV scientist Robert Gallo is considered by many to be the one who discovered HIV. In the history of HIV there are others but Gallo stands out.
About.com AIDS / HIV: What's Hot Now
Retrieved: Tue, Feb 9, 2010
CdiffClostridium difficile or C. diff can be a serious gastrointestinal infection that causes severe diarrhea. Here is your guide to C. diff
About.com AIDS / HIV: What's Hot Now
Retrieved: Sat, Dec 19, 2009
HIV Treatment GuidelinesHIV is a complex disease that needs proper treatment. These HIV treatment guidelines help your doctor put together a regimen that works for you. Here are the new HIV treatment guidelines.
About.com AIDS / HIV: What's Hot Now
Retrieved: Wed, Dec 16, 2009
HIV from the dentistCan I get HIV from seeing the dentist or the doctor? Don't worry...the answer is probably what you expected.
About.com AIDS / HIV: What's Hot Now
Retrieved: Thu, Dec 10, 2009
Welsh community groups urged to act on global povertyCommunity groups including scout troops, Women’s Institutes and church groups across Wales will be offered support to develop their links with communities in some of the world’s poorest countries, thanks to a programme launched today.
DFID : News Stories
Retrieved: Mon, Mar 8, 2010
UK helps rebuild Pakistan’s conflict affected areasThe UK will support an international drive to help millions of people affected by conflict in Pakistan, International Development Secretary Douglas Alexander announced today.
DFID : News Stories
Retrieved: Mon, Mar 8, 2010
The Memorandum of UnderstandingThe build up to one of the big twice yearly policy discussions between the Ministry of Health and its partners was well underway last week. The policy dialogue, known as the CCS (the coordinating committee for health), will be held tomorrow on the 11th March. However, on Monday and Tuesday last week, health partners had [...]
DFID Bloggers
Retrieved: Wed, Mar 10, 2010
Where are the numbers?Just before Xmas, as reported on my 'back to basics' post, Kano State was just starting the data entry of the annual school census that the Education Sector Support Programme in Nigeria (ESSPIN) programme had been supporting. My managers are always challenging me '.. Yes Ian that's great but what are the numbers, how many kids [...]
DFID Bloggers
Retrieved: Mon, Mar 8, 2010
Lizard labOn the road the other day and decided to swing by and see how the rain harvesting scheme at Gidan Mutan Daya primary school, Katsina was getting on now, over 3 months into the dry season. When I last visited the tanks had just received the first rains and we were curious to see how long into the dry season [...]
DFID Bloggers
Retrieved: Thu, Feb 25, 2010
The Global Health InitiativeAt the end of last week, I went with my DFID colleague Katie Bigmore to the offices of USAID, which are really close to the DFID office near the waterfront in downtown Maputo. We were there to give a brief presentation on working in Sector Wide Approaches (SWAps). The US Government funded agencies, including USAID [...]
DFID Bloggers
Retrieved: Thu, Feb 25, 2010
Hope of a new start in NepalIt’s been a while since I’ve blogged, but lots has been happening here in Nepal. If I’d written before Christmas, I think that my blog would have been pretty downbeat. Up until almost the very end of the year there was very little progress on the peace process and it was getting harder to be [...]
DFID Bloggers
Retrieved: Mon, Feb 22, 2010
AIDS Care Gap Between Wealthy And Developing Countries Risks Becoming A ChasmAIDS leaders gathering in London today face the daunting challenge of implementing new World Health Organization (WHO) recommendations for earlier treatment with better AIDS drug cocktails at a time when donors are backing away from the promise of "universal access," said Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF)...
HIV / AIDS News From Medical News Today
Retrieved: Wed, Mar 10, 2010
Fortifying The Immunity Of HIV PatientsNew findings from a Universite de Montreal and the Vaccine and Gene Therapy Institute of Florida (VGTI) study, in collaboration with scientists from the NIH and the McGill University Health Center, may soon lead to an expansion of the drug arsenal used to fight HIV. The Canada-U.S...
HIV / AIDS News From Medical News Today
Retrieved: Tue, Mar 9, 2010
Washington Post Opinion Piece Draws Attention To Breast Ironing In CameroonIn a Washington Post opinion piece on Sunday, freelance writer Jamie Rich examined the Cameroonian practice of breast ironing, in which women use heated plantain leaves or hot stones to "flatten adolescent girls' developing breasts, intending to protect the girls from the dangers of sex, consensual or otherwise...
HIV / AIDS News From Medical News Today
Retrieved: Tue, Mar 9, 2010
HEALTH-SOUTH AFRICA: More Funds Needed for HIV Prevention and TreatmentCAPE TOWN, Mar 8 (IPS) - Decreasing or levelling HIV funding will
destabilise developing countries’ health systems, a group of
non-governmental organisations (NGOs) warned. They demand that
governments worldwide own up to their promise of achieving
universal access to HIV treatment.
IPS Inter Press Service - HIV/AIDS
Retrieved: Tue, Mar 9, 2010
HEALTH-SOUTH AFRICA: Five Years to Children Born Free of HIVJOHANNESBURG, Mar 8 (IPS) - A world where all children are born free of HIV
infection is possible in only five years if donors continue to
fund global efforts to combat the virus.
IPS Inter Press Service - HIV/AIDS
Retrieved: Tue, Mar 9, 2010
HEALTH: Neoliberalism not Liberal Enough for AIDS InvestmentsWASHINGTON, Mar 2 (IPS) - Neoliberal economic ideas have grown increasingly
dominant over the last 30 years. During that same time, the
spread of HIV/AIDS has reached an epidemic crescendo.
IPS Inter Press Service - HIV/AIDS
Retrieved: Wed, Mar 3, 2010
SWAZILAND: Long-distance Learning Certificate for CaregiversMBABANE , Feb 24 (IPS) - Every Tuesday you will find 70-year-old Precious
Dlamini under a tree, weighing children and babies from her local
community as she monitors their health and nutrition.
IPS Inter Press Service - HIV/AIDS
Retrieved: Thu, Feb 25, 2010
THAILAND: Women with HIV Break Silence, Confront StigmaTRAT, Thailand, Feb 20 (IPS) - Veena Panudej makes a living in the night like so
many other women and men in
this quiet eastern corner of
Thailand. They work under the light of the stars in
rubber
estates spread beyond this city close to the Cambodian border.
IPS Inter Press Service - HIV/AIDS
Retrieved: Sat, Feb 20, 2010
HAITI: Risk and treatment amid the rubbleJOHANNESBURG, 10 March 2010 (PLUSNEWS) - In the aftermath of Haiti's 7.0 magnitude quake, one of the Caribbean's largest antiretroviral (ARV) programmes is struggling to resurrect itself from the rubble.
IRIN Plusnews Service
Retrieved: Wed, Mar 10, 2010
KENYA: Hungry and HIV-positive in Nairobi's slumsNAIROBI, 10 March 2010 (PLUSNEWS) - Violet Tinah, 40, a resident of Korogocho slum in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi, is living with HIV and was recently diagnosed with tuberculosis, but her biggest problem today is not disease - but hunger.
IRIN Plusnews Service
Retrieved: Wed, Mar 10, 2010
AFRICA: Funding shortfalls foil new treatment guidelines NAIROBI, 9 March 2010 (PLUSNEWS) - Global funding shortfalls for fighting AIDS could make it impossible for developing countries to implement new World Health Organization treatment guidelines, activists have said.
IRIN Plusnews Service
Retrieved: Tue, Mar 9, 2010
GLOBAL: Fund gets results, but will it get funding?JOHANNESBURG, 8 March 2010 (PLUSNEWS) - Achieving targets to eliminate mother-to-child transmission of HIV and halve tuberculosis rates hang in the balance as donor commitments to the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria Fund come up for review.
IRIN Plusnews Service
Retrieved: Mon, Mar 8, 2010
SOUTH AFRICA: Delayed drug registrations hard to swallow JOHANNESBURG, 4 March 2010 (PLUSNEWS) - Delays in registering antiretroviral (ARV) medication may keep cheaper, more patient-friendly drugs out of reach as South Africa prepares to launch the world's largest tender for medicines.
IRIN Plusnews Service
Retrieved: Thu, Mar 4, 2010
HIV Hides Out in Bone Marrow CellsTitle: HIV Hides Out in Bone Marrow CellsCategory: Health NewsCreated: 3/7/2010 2:10:00 PMLast Editorial Review: 3/8/2010
MedicineNet HIV General
Retrieved: Tue, Mar 9, 2010
For Some on Dialysis, Anemia Drugs Pose RisksTitle: For Some on Dialysis, Anemia Drugs Pose RisksCategory: Health NewsCreated: 3/2/2010 4:10:00 PMLast Editorial Review: 3/3/2010
MedicineNet HIV General
Retrieved: Fri, Mar 5, 2010
Liver BiopsyTitle: Liver BiopsyCategory: Procedures and TestsCreated: 12/31/1997Last Editorial Review: 3/1/2010
MedicineNet HIV General
Retrieved: Mon, Mar 1, 2010
Gene Therapy Shows Promise Against HIVTitle: Gene Therapy Shows Promise Against HIVCategory: Health NewsCreated: 2/19/2010 4:10:00 PMLast Editorial Review: 2/22/2010
MedicineNet HIV General
Retrieved: Tue, Feb 23, 2010
Combined HIV, TB Therapy Saves Lives (CME/CE)For patients with both HIV and tuberculosis, antiretroviral therapy should not be deferred until the completion of TB treatment, researchers said.
MedPage Today HIV/AIDS
Retrieved: Thu, Feb 25, 2010
CROI: Mixed Results for Prolonged TB Prophylaxis in HIV (CME/CE)SAN FRANCISCO (MedPage Today) -- Extended courses of treatment to prevent tuberculosis among HIV patients in TB-endemic countries may be highly effective -- or not -- according to similar trials with conflicting results.
MedPage Today HIV/AIDS
Retrieved: Mon, Feb 22, 2010
AFRICA: Funding shortfalls foil new treatment guidelinesPhoto: Kate Holt/IRIN
“How will we now put so many more people on ARVs?”
NAIROBI, 9 March 2010 (PlusNews) – Global funding shortfalls for fighting AIDS could make it impossible for developing countries to implement new ...
World News : HIV/AIDS (PlusNews)
Retrieved: Wed, Mar 10, 2010
SWAZILAND: Tackling one crisis at a time does not solve allPhoto: James Hall/IRIN
Food security solves many ills
MBABANE, 8 March 2010 (IRIN) – The myriad crises afflicting Swaziland can only be solved with a holistic approach, not a piecemeal one, the World Food Programme ...
World News : HIV/AIDS (PlusNews)
Retrieved: Mon, Mar 8, 2010
SOUTH AFRICA: Delayed drug registrations hard to swallowPhoto: UNAIDS
Patient-friendly but unapproved
JOHANNESBURG, 4 March 2010 (PlusNews) – Delays in registering antiretroviral (ARV) medication may keep cheaper, more patient-friendly drugs out of reach as South Africa prepares to launch the world’s largest tender ...
World News : HIV/AIDS (PlusNews)
Retrieved: Fri, Mar 5, 2010
AFRICA: Tracking the male circumcision rolloutPhoto: James Hall/IRIN
Zambia aims to circumcise about 250,000 men every year
NAIROBI, 2 March 2010 (PlusNews) – Medical male circumcision is now widely recognized as an important HIV prevention tool, and several African countries have ...
World News : HIV/AIDS (PlusNews)
Retrieved: Thu, Mar 4, 2010
UGANDA: Online protest keeps spotlight on anti-gay billPhoto: Flickr Creative Commons
There has been widespread international criticism of the bill
KAMPALA, 2 March 2010 (PlusNews) – More than 450,000 people have signed an online petition urging Uganda’s parliament to drop a bill that would ...
World News : HIV/AIDS (PlusNews)
Retrieved: Tue, Mar 2, 2010
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