African AIDS Researchers Need Funding

While it is encouraging to hear that medical researchers in the United States have found a new technique to kill HIV in the human body, scientists in Zimbabwe and in most other African countries need more financial and material resources to strengthen their capacity to conduct research on HIV/Aids and compete at the global level.

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Rwanda: Hospital’s Design Keeps Fresh Air in Mind

In July, builders broke ground on a new hospital in Rwanda’s Burera district, near the Uganda border. The design relies on simple features to reduce the spread of airborne disease: outdoor walkways instead of enclosed halls, waiting rooms alfresco and large windows staggered at different levels on opposing walls to keep air circulating.

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USAID Launches Short-Film Competition To Promote HIV/AIDS Awareness, Prevention in Nepal

USAID recently launched a short-film competition, called "You Are No Exception," to promote HIV/AIDS awareness and prevention in Nepal, the Kathmandu Post reports.

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Organizations, Health Insurance Company Launch Insurance Program for HIV-Positive People in India

Nongovernmental organizations and a health insurance company on Wednesday launched an insurance program for people living with HIV in the Indian state of Karnataka, The Hindu reports.

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The World Tuberculosis Cup - Score One for Global Health Innovation

The WHO-hosted Stop TB Partnership released a comic book on July 24 aimed at teaching children and teens about tuberculosis and how to prevent it. The Stop Tuberculosis Team is captained by the Portuguese soccer star, Luis Figo, who in the comic book leads his team to victory against a team of tuberculosis germs.

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Researchers Hoping That 'Elite Controller' Could Help in HIV/AIDS Vaccine Development

An HIV-positive woman who has never shown symptoms of the virus might provide insights into HIV/AIDS vaccine development, researchers from Johns Hopkins University said in a study recently published in the Journal of Virology, Reuters reports.

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Red Cross adopts HU cholera-prevention program

A cholera-prevention program developed by foreign public health students at the Hebrew University-Hadassah Medical School has proven effective in Kenyan displaced persons' camps, so effective that the Red Cross plans to implement the program outside of the camps.

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Avahan India AIDS Initiative: Interview with Aparajita Ramakrishnan

Since 2003, Avahan has started and scaled up a large number of HIV prevention programs in India, which are now reaching over 280,000 high-risk individuals in 600 towns...This month, we sat down to talk about Avahan’s model and global health delivery with their Program Officer Aparajita Ramakrishnan.

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NanoBio vaccine for hepatitis B shows promise

Chronic hepatitis B infects 400 million people worldwide, many of them children. Even with three effective vaccines available, hepatitis B remains a stubborn, unrelenting health problem, especially in Africa and other developing areas. The disease and its complications cause an estimated 1 million deaths globally each year.

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Rwanda: New Aids Drug on Trial

The global search for biomedical actions to help fight against HIV/AIDS pandemic has discovered new treatment options.

The options include novel HIV possible treatment procedure called Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP), clinical trials and Tenofovir Disoproxil Fumarate (TDF) drug use.

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