Uganda doubles number of Aids patients on ARVs

Uganda on Thursday said it had begun a programme to more than double the number of people receiving Aids drugs to 300 000. The total number of patients currently receiving antiretroviral drugs (ARVs) stands at 125 000, including 13 000 children below the age of 12.

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Researchers Examine How Perceptions of Masculinity Influence HIV Prevention in Central America

A team of researchers is examining how different perceptions of masculinity can influence HIV prevention messages in Central America, the Columbia State reports.

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HIV/AIDS campaigns should go to rural areas

Latest statistics show that HIV/AIDS infection rate had dropped to 5.8 per cent in 2007, down from 7.0 per cent in 2003. This was revealed recently by the Prime Minister, Mr Mizengo Pinda.

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Rwanda: Former U.S. Senator to Support Country

The former Secretary for the United States Department of Health and Human services, Senator Tommy Thompson, has pledged to support Rwanda's efforts in promoting the health welfare of Rwandans.

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Global Agenda Increasingly Disease-Driven

...However, despite the massive amounts of money driving current efforts, the global health agenda is still in its infancy. Finding the best way to fight poverty and diseases abroad is still a matter of debate. Ruth White, an associate professor of sociology and anthropology at Seattle University who runs an aid organisation, says that a narrow focus on disease has drawbacks.

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An end to AIDS?

First it was a mystery, then a peril and a political football, and now it's a research marathon. Nearly three decades on, AIDS has collected all these labels. It may be a long wait for the next name change.

Will there be a breakthrough cure or vaccine? A treatment drug that will prove cheap and easy to dispense, or a prevention plan that will cut down on the 2 million infected last year with HIV, which causes AIDS?

Could stem cells make blood donation unnecessary?

Scientists have created red blood cells from human embryonic stem cells, in a step that they say could mean an infinite source of blood for transfusions.

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Many children still miss out on treatment - MSF

Experience has shown that it is possible to run successful paediatric HIV programmes in rural African settings, yet less than 10 percent of patients on life-prolonging antiretroviral (ARV) drugs are children, field officers of the international medical NGO, Médecins Sans Frontieres (MSF), have said.

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Children Without Worms Distributes Newsletter

Children without worms, a partnership for treating and preventing intestinal worms, recently began distributing a newsletter. To learn more or sign up, visit http://www.childrenwithoutworms.org.

South Africa: New Programme to Produce More Health Workers

A three-year Clinical Associate Programme aimed at producing a cadre of health professionals has been launched by the Department of Health. Speaking at the launch in Umtata on Tuesday, Health Minister Tshabalala-Msimang said community health centres and district hospitals would benefit from the programme by receiving more health workers.

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