Posts Tagged ‘aids treatment’

Mar 02, 2009 Although the response to HIV/AIDS in China has evolved from "denial and inertia to pragmatic prevention and treatment programs," there still are "massive challenges" to addressing the disease in the country, a Lancet editorial says. Chinese health officials recently reported that in 2008, HIV/AIDS was the country's "leading killer among infectious diseases for the ... Full story

The Press Association on Thursday profiled two British HIV/AIDS advocates who plan to drive from London to South Africa to help build HIV clinics and raise money for the One to One Children's Fund. Jon Beswick, a London architect, and Charlie Curtis, a strategy consultant for the firm Capgemini, said they plan to build waiting rooms for the ... Full story

A four-member mission of the Global Fund To Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria last week visited Myanmar to meet with local officials and discuss the possibility of restoring funds to programs that address the three diseases in the country, Xinhuanet reports. The delegation -- led by William Paton, director of the Global Fund's country programs -- ... Full story

The Washington Post on Monday examined a project in India in which health workers "re-spin" safer-sex messages to emphasize the pleasure-related benefits of such practices. The initiative was launched by Anne Philpott, founder of the Pleasure Project. According to the Post, Philpott began the program after promoting female condoms in India, Sri Lanka, Senegal and Zimbabwe as an ... Full story

A majority of HIV-positive prison inmates in Texas do not fill their prescriptions in an appropriate amount of time after release, creating a threat to public health, according to a study published Wednesday in the Journal of the American Medical Association, the Houston Chronicle reports. According to researchers from the University of Texas Medical Branch-Galveston, Baylor ... Full story

NPR's "News and Notes" on Tuesday profiled two brothers, originally from a village in western Kenya, who returned to the village after attending medical school at Dartmouth College to build and operate a local health clinic to provide services such as HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria treatment. Milton Ochieng said that after seeing "the difficulties in people ... Full story

"A combination of two antiobiotics already in use to treat other bacterial infections could potentially treat extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis (XDR TB), scientists from New York’s Yeshiva University report today in the February 27 edition of Science. "If the results are replicated in human studies due to begin later this year in South Africa and South Korea, “this discovery could be one of the most promising developments ... Full story