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Jul 4th 2008Drug InformationHIV / AIDS
The Miami Herald on Sunday examined efforts of HIV/AIDS advocates and organizations to wage a sometimes “lonely fight” in combating epidemics in African countries where they receive little support.
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Jul 4th 2008Drug InformationHIV / AIDS
Several newspapers recently responded to the decision last week by some Senate Republicans to block consideration of legislation that would reauthorize the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief. Summaries appear below.
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Jul 4th 2008Drug InformationHIV / AIDS
The White House and Republican leadership must “take the lead” in convincing Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) and other Republican senators to “change their minds” about holding up the proposed five-year extension of the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, a Washington Post editorial says.
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Jul 4th 2008Drug InformationHIV / AIDS
New HIV/AIDS diagnoses among adults ages 50 and older in Georgia has nearly doubled in the last 10 years, according to recent data from the state Department of Human Resources’ Division of Public Health, the
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Jul 4th 2008Drug InformationHIV / AIDS
USAID on Monday announced that it is donating $7.6 million to provide quality comprehensive care to 8,616 AIDS orphans and vulnerable children in Nigeria, the country’s Vanguard reports. Yemi Osilaja — executive director of
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Jul 4th 2008Drug InformationHIV / AIDS
The U.S. embassy in Vietnam on Tuesday announced that President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief will allocate $1.4 million to three HIV/AIDS initiatives in Vietnam, the Thanh Nien News reports.
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Jul 4th 2008Drug InformationHIV / AIDS
On Monday July 7, Terrence Higgins Trust (THT) is launching ‘Fastest’, a new one hour HIV testing service aimed at men who have sex with men in East Sussex. ‘Fastest’ will run on the first Monday of every month between 17.30 and 19.30 at Hastings Voluntary Action in Priory Street, Hastings.
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Jul 4th 2008Drug InformationHIV / AIDS
In the five years after their diagnosis, people living with HIV in developed countries and receiving highly active antiretroviral therapy are no more likely to die than HIV-negative people, according to a study published Tuesday in the Journal of the American Medical Association, Reuters reports (Kahn, Reuters, 7/1).
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Jul 4th 2008Drug InformationHIV / AIDS
Bill Gates on Friday announced that the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has approved a three-year, $23 million grant to India’s National AIDS Control Organisation to fight HIV/AIDS in the country, the
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Jul 4th 2008Drug InformationHIV / AIDS
India has managed to reduce the rate of HIV transmission in some states through increased awareness, resources and legislation, according to a report released Monday by India’s Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, Reuters reports.
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