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ZIMBABWE: Low breastfeeding rates threaten PMTCT efforts
Source: IRIN Health and nutrition experts in Zimbabwe are worried that one of the lowest exclusive breastfeeding rates
in the region could have a negative...
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AFRICA: Addressing the role of religion in HIV response
Source: IRIN At a church compound in Nairobi's Mathare slum, women and their children line up for food rations.
Among them is Zipporah Mueni, an...
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Jobs, professions influence cause of death -study
Source: Reuters (Refiles to change typo in spelling of Coggon)
NEW YORK, July 27 (Reuters Life!) - What a person does for a living could...
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GLOBAL: "Seek, test,
treat and retain" to stem HIV among drug users
Source: IRIN Activists and scientists at the International AIDS Conference in Vienna called on governments to stop criminalizing drug users
and instead to provide them...
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KENYA: Government takes first steps to roll out less toxic ARVs
Source: IRIN HIV-positive people on
treatment will be switched from regimens containing the antiretroviral Stavudine to less toxic combinations in line with UN World Health...
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GLOBAL: Survey reveals gaps in doctor-patient dialogue
Source: IRIN A new, global survey has revealed the conversations healthcare providers aren't having with their
HIV-positive patients with potentially negative consequences for their treatment...
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GLOBAL: Straight Talk with Eric Goosby,
head of PEPFAR
Source: IRIN The US president's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief has committed about US$32 billion to the global fight against HIV since its launch in...
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Obama pledges to up AIDS fight despite tough times
Source: Reuters * Obama to redouble AIDS fight despite fiscal troubles
* Clinton: Access to AIDS care is "shared responsibility"
By Kate Kelland
VIENNA,...
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GLOBAL: Criminalization of HIV on
trial
Source: IRIN There is a tug-of-war going on with governments trying to criminalize the transmission of HIV on one side, and activists who say such...
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AFRICA: Cash in hand keeps
HIV at bay
Source: IRIN Giving young women small, regular cash payments can reduce their dependence on sexual relationships with older men, which also lowers their HIV risk,...
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Bristol-Myers Squibb National Survey Finds A Disparity Between Health Care Providers And HIV Positive Patients
Bristol-Myers Squibb Company (NYSE: BMY) presented results from a national survey which found that emotional barriers, such as stigma, fear, denial and shame, and structural...
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IRIN Examines Global Humanitarian Assistance Report, Maps Percentage Of African Budgets Spent On Health
"[H]umanitarian watchdog Development Initiatives outlines some of the needs, responses and funding trends" in humanitarian aid over the past decade in its 2010 Global Humanitarian...
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Health Experts Express Concern About U.S. Funding For International AIDS Treatment
Health experts at last week's International AIDS Conference in Vienna expressed anger and concern about future U.S. funding for HIV treatment in developing nations and...
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AIDS 2010 Follow-Up Coverage: Global HIV/AIDS Funding; HIV/AIDS Studies, Releases
Media outlets continued to reflect on news from the International AIDS Conference-AIDS 2010, which attracted over 19,000 participants from 197 countries to Vienna last week,...
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Terrence Higgins Trust Re-Launches Support Group For Gay Men With Hepatitis C And HIV, UK
On Thursday 12 August, Terrence Higgins Trust (THT) will be running another six week course for gay men who are living with HIV and Hepatitis...
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Also In Global Health News: House Passes Bill Including Haiti Relief; Kenya Adopts Safer ARVs;...
House Passes War Supplemental Spending Bill; Includes Fund For Haiti The House on Tuesday passed a $59 billion war supplemental...
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D.C. Health Dept. Pushes Female Condoms In HIV Outreach Initiative
The Washington, D.C., health department has launched a campaign to promote use of the female condom as a way to help curb the spread of...
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Chimerix's CMX157 Shows Potential To Treat Multi-Drug-Resistant HIV And Improve The Activity And Toxicity Profile...
Chimerix, Inc...
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Results From Two Multi-Site Collaborative Studies Highlight The Value Of 454 Sequencing Systems For Genotyping...
454 Life Sciences, a Roche Company (SWX:RO)(SWX:ROG)(Pink Sheets: RHHBY), has announced promising new results from a multi-site collaborative research study which used the company's Genome...
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News From The American Journal Of Pathology
Transforming Growth Factor-βa (TGF-β1) Contributes to Kidney Disease Dr...
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Peer-Reviewed Journal Publishes Findings By Viral Genetics' Lead Scientist
Research co-authored by Viral Genetics, Inc., (Pink Sheets: VRAL) lead scientist Dr. M. Karen Newell has been published in the peer-reviewed Journal of Leukocyte Biology...
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Abbott's Enhanced ARCHITECTPLUS Systems Helps Labs Manage Surging Testing Demand Due To Aging Population
As hospital and clinical laboratories endure increasingly intense pressures to do more with less, they now face another challenge - rising demand for medical tests...
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Preventing Mother-To-Child Transmission Of HIV Is Critical To Achieving Millennium Development Goals In Africa
Investing in the health of women and children was the focus of the high-level Summit of the African Union held 25-27 July in Kampala, Uganda....
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Richard Graham, MP For Gloucester, To Visit Terrence Higgins Trust's Centre For People Living With...
Richard Graham, Conservative MP for Gloucester, will be visiting HIV and sexual health charity Terrence Higgins Trust (THT) on Friday 30 July at 11.00am. The...
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New York Times Examines Questions Left Unanswered By Microbicide Trial
The New York Times examines a set of questions raised by news out of the International AIDS Conference-AIDS 2010 last week that a microbicide gel...
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At Summit, AU Leaders Discuss Funding Challenges For Maternal, Child Health
African leaders focused on the theme of the 15th African Union (AU) Summit on Sunday: maternal and infant mortality on the continent, PANA/Afrique en ligne...
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Successful Microbicide Trial Prompts Questions About Future Research, Use
Following results of a trial in which a microbicide gel lowered a woman's risk of HIV by 39%, health experts are considering how to make...
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Blogs Comment On Global HIV Policy, N.J. Family Planning Bill, Other Topics
The following summarizes selected women's health-related blog entries...
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Major Funding Awarded To Improve Treatment Of Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis And HIV Co-infection
For the third time in four months, the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has awarded...
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Global Fund Director Calls On Emerging Countries To Invest More In Programs To Reduce HIV/AIDS,...
On the final day of the International AIDS Conference-AIDS 2010 Friday, Michel Kazatchkine, executive director of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria...
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AIDS 2010 Opinions: U.S. Funding For Global HIV/AIDS Programs; Empowering Women, Girls In Fight Against...
Global Health Leaders Respond To Recent New York Times' Opinion Pieces Two global health leaders respond to AIDS-related opinion pieces...
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11 Million African Lives Could Be Saved By Just A Small Investment
In the next five years, 11 million African women and children could be saved by creating near-universal availability of key life-saving interventions, according to The...
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Abbott To Feature Novel Tests And New Upgrades To Testing Platforms At American Association For...
A first-of-its-kind test that detects HIV infection earlier than ever before in the United States; a molecular assay for identification of two common sexually transmitted...
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NIH's Fauci Discusses Research On Microbicidal Gel, HIV Prevention
Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases at NIH, hailed the development of a microbicidal gel that has shown promise...
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Tibotec Pharmaceuticals Submits New Drug Application For Investigational Once-Daily HIV Treatment TMC278 To U.S. Food...
Tibotec Pharmaceuticals announced the submission of a New Drug Application (NDA) to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for TMC278 (rilpivirine), an investigational non-nucleoside...
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