2001
- Mbeki Appeals for End to Child Rape
- Los Angeles Times (12.29.01) - Monday, December 31, 2001
- Reuters
- South African President Thabo Mbeki used his New Year s message Friday to call on South Africans to stop a wave of rapes of babies and children. Rapes occur in our homes, they occur amongst relatives, they occur among people who know one another, he said. We must make sure that indeed we break the silence with regard t
- Leap in HIV/AIDS Prompts Plea for Earlier Education
- Orange County Register (12.29.01) - Monday, December 31, 2001
- A surge in HIV/AIDS cases among young people has spurred health educators to press for more aggressive promotion of condoms and education about the disease even before children become sexually active. It s already too late for many, says a new report from the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health i
- Pulaski County with Highest AIDS Rate
- Associated Press (12.29.01) - Monday, December 31, 2001
- Pulaski County, Ark., has the highest number of HIV/AIDS cases reported in the state from 1983 to June 2001, according to a survey released by the Regional AIDS Interfaith Network. The survey - compiled by the State Health Department - shows that Pulaski County had the most cases, with 1,095 from 1983 through June 2001
- Rep. Pelosi Defends Stop AIDS Project
- Bay Area Reporter (San Francisco) (12.20.01) - Monday, December 31, 2001
- After its safe sex programs were attacked by a conservative Republican congressman, San Francisco s Stop AIDS Project gained the backing of the Democratic Party s highest-ranking woman. House Democratic Whip-elect Rep. Nancy Pelosi (San Francisco) sent a letter to Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy Thompson aski
- Drug Use and Sexual Risk Behavior Among Gay and Bisexual Men Who Attend Circuit Parties: A Venue-Based Comparison
- Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes (12.01.01) 28:373- 379 - Monday, December 31, 2001
- Grant N Colfax; Gordon Mansergh; Robert Guzman; Eric Vittinghoff; Gary Marks; Melissa Rader; Susan Buchbinder
- Some previous studies suggest that risk behavior among gay/bisexual men is increasing. There is increasing concern in the public health field that sexual and drug use behavior may be high at circuit parties (CPs), which are events where mainly gay men congregate for social activities and dancing. The term circuit refer
- Zambia's Tembo Promises Cheaper AIDS Drugs
- Reuters (12.28.01) - Monday, December 31, 2001
- Manoah Esipisu
- Zambian presidential contender Christon Tembo on the eve of Thursday s election offered a promise of cheaper AIDS drugs to help combat the epidemic. He said his Forum for Democracy and Development (FDD) would boost the fight against HIV/AIDS. An estimated 200 Zambians die from the disease every day. We want to assist a
- China Says Drug Addiction Up, Fueling Crime, Spread of AIDS
- Associated Press (12.31.01) - Monday, December 31, 2001
- The number of known drug addicts in China has topped 900,000, fueling crime and the spread of AIDS, state and media said Monday. The reports said more than 30 percent of robberies are committed by addicts to pay for drugs. In addition, two-thirds of new AIDS cases are linked to needle sharing by heroin users. The news
- With Ignorance as the Fuel, AIDS Speeds Across China
- New York Times (12.30.01) - Monday, December 31, 2001
- Elisabeth Rosenthal
- AIDS in China is spreading at a breakneck pace - reported cases are up 67 percent this year over last - in large part because its citizens are so poorly informed about the disease. Even those at very high risk of getting AIDS often do not know how to protect themselves; many have never even heard of HIV. In the largest
- Living with AIDS; Activists Fight Barriers to Organ Transplants for HIV-Positive Patients
- San Francisco Chronicle (12.30.01) - Monday, December 31, 2001
- Carol Ness
- A headline announcing the death of writer and AIDS activist Larry Kramer last week was sad news to many - but no shock, since the 66- year-old s liver had been on the brink of failure for months. So the fact that the news service was wrong, and Kramer was actually doing well after a hard-won liver transplant, was even
- Maine HIV Rate Drops, but Counselors Still Busy
- Associated Press (12.31.01) - Monday, December 31, 2001
- Maine s annual rate of HIV-positive cases as 2001 ended was well below the comparable rate of a decade ago. During the past 10 years, the reported number of cases has dropped from 122 a year to an expected 38 to 40 in 2001. There are also many fewer deaths occurring. This is largely due to effective medical treatments
- Group Gets $170,000 to Fight AIDS
- Buffalo News (12.24.01) - Friday, December 28, 2001
- Men of Color Health Awareness Project has received a $170,000 state grant to help fight HIV. New York Health Commissioner Dr. Antonia C. Novello said these funds will build on New York s aggressive and comprehensive efforts to fight HIV/AIDS where it is hitting hardest - in minority communities. The organization, with
- Bloomberg Appoints Five to Be City Commissioners
- New York Times (12.28.01) - Friday, December 28, 2001
- Michael Cooper
- New York City Mayor-elect Michael R. Bloomberg appointed five city commissioners Thursday. Among the new appointees was Dr. Thomas R. Frieden, who will become the commissioner of the Department of Health. Frieden is currently in India working on TB control for the World Health Organization . In the past he
- Front Line in the AIDS War
- Boston Globe (12.26.01) - Friday, December 28, 2001
- Thomas Gagen
- ...In Uganda , President Yoweri Museveni personally led the anti- AIDS campaign, spreading the message of prevention to every part of the country. In South Africa , Nelson Mandela, the first freely elected president, was prudish about sexual matters, and he was succeeded by [Thabo] Mbeki, who thoroughly confused the i
- Volunteer Honored for Work with AIDS Group
- Providence Journal-Bulletin (12.27.01) - Friday, December 28, 2001
- SI Rosenbaum
- After more than a decade of service, Doreen Blue of Warwick, R.I., has been named Volunteer of the Month by the Volunteer Center of Rhode Island. Once a month, Blue shares a stage with drag queen Aurora Borealis. Blue calls the numbers for AIDS Project Rhode Island s monthly Gay Bingo fund-raiser at the Riviera Bingo H
- HIV Drug Combo May Be Risky in Early Pregnancy
- Reuters Health (12.26.01) - Friday, December 28, 2001
- HIV-infected women who take certain combinations of medications in their first trimester of pregnancy may increase the risk of having a child with birth defects, a small study suggests. In particular, women who took a drug to ward off Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia (PCP) in combination with antiretroviral drugs early i
- HIV Study Attempts to Salvage Lost Lives
- Calgary Herald (12.27.01) - Friday, December 28, 2001
- Sharon Kirkey
- Ottawa researchers are developing a major study of ways to salvage the lives of HIV-positive patients who are facing decreased drug options due to the failure of their antiretroviral medications. The drugs that have saved thousands of lives are now failing a growing number of patients. Ottawa Hospital will be the lead
- Program Assists Minority Moms-to-Be
- Sun-Sentinel (Fort Lauderdale, Fla.) (12.15.01) - Friday, December 28, 2001
- Gregory Lewis
- The Targeted Outreach for Pregnant Women Act, passed by the Florida Legislature in 1999, directed the state Department of Health to establish an outreach program for high-risk pregnant women - those who may not seek prenatal care, who may struggle with substance abuse, or who are HIV-infected - to link them to services
- Drug Use Blamed for AIDS Rate; Maryland Fifth in Nation in Incidence of the Disease
- Capital (Annapolis, Md.) (12.26.01) - Friday, December 28, 2001
- Alan Brody
- Despite ranking 19th in US state population, Maryland ranks fifth in the annual number of AIDS cases. The statistic is fueled by drug use, according to local activists who are asking the state to do more to combat the virus. I have seen the community be very scared and confused because of the myths that were out there
- Activists Split over Jailed AIDS Protesters
- Los Angeles Times (12.28.01) - Friday, December 28, 2001
- Charles Ornstein
- Two AIDS activists jailed in San Francisco are receiving support from the very people who call their theories crackpot and consider their tactics indecent and abhorrent. Accused in criminal complaints of besieging city health officials with statements like we re coming to get you, David R. Pasquarelli, of ACT UP San Fr
- Lance Loud, 50; Eldest Son in Real-Life PBS Series
- Los Angeles Times (12.25.01) - Thursday, December 27, 2001
- Elaine Woo
- Lance Loud, the eldest son in a family whose conflicts were laid bare in a landmark 1973 public television documentary series, has died at age 50. Loud, a freelance journalist who lived in Echo Park, Calif., died Saturday morning at a hospice in Los Angeles of complications of hepatitis C, according to his sister, Deli
- Kenya; Circumcise All Men, Says Member of Parliament
- Africa News Service (12.18.01) - Thursday, December 27, 2001
- Kenyan Member of Parliament (MP) Jimmy Angwenyi, of Kitutu Chache, recently said that in order to stop the spread of HIV/AIDS male circumcision should be made mandatory by the government. Angwenyi said it is a medically proven fact that male circumcision can prevent the transmission of STDs, including HIV. Angwenyi has
- Tanzania Urges Employers, Workers to Set Aside HIV/AIDS Budget
- Xinhua News Agency (12.20.01) - Thursday, December 27, 2001
- Tanzanian Minister for Labor Juma Kapuya said at the recent International Labor Organization (ILO) meeting in Dar es Salaam that government ministries had set aside a budget to fight against HIV/AIDS and that both employers and employees should do the same. Reports have said more than 10 percent of the active labor for
- New Urgency on AIDS
- Boston Globe (12.23.01) - Thursday, December 27, 2001
- Slowly, AIDS is regaining its status as an untreatable disease. [According to recent study], more than half of all AIDS patients have strains of the virus that are resistant to two or more of the AIDS drugs. More than three-quarters harbor a strain resistant to at least one drug. ...All of this makes it more urgent th
- Hydeia Broadbent, 17, Has AIDS, but It Doesn't Define Her
- Star Tribune (Minn.)(12.26.01) - Thursday, December 27, 2001
- Delma J Francis
- Seventeen-year-old AIDS activist Hydeia Broadbent is one of a growing number of children and teens living longer with AIDS. Patricia and Loren Broadbent of Las Vegas adopted her at age 6 weeks. The Broadbents were puzzled by their baby s susceptibility to seemingly every minor illness. If someone came over with a cold,
- Is Drinking Water in Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire, Safe for Infant Formula?
- Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes (12.01.01) Vol 28: P 393-398 - Thursday, December 27, 2001
- Eileen F Dunne; Hortense Angoran-Bénié; Akoua Kamelan-Tano; Toussaint S Sibailly; Ben B Monga; Luc Kouadio; Thierry H Roels; Stefan Z Wiktor; Eve M Lackritz; Eric D Mintz; Steve Luby
- In developed countries, HIV transmission from mother-to- child has decreased dramatically by the use of antiretroviral therapy and replacement of breast-feeding with infant formula. In developing countries, short-course zidovudine and nevirapine regimens have recently proven effective in preventing mother-to- child tra
- AIDS Draining South Africa's Schools
- Los Angeles Times (12.23.01) - Thursday, December 27, 2001
- Ann M Simmons
- In Hlabisa, South Africa , teachers take sick leave for up to six months at a time. Student enrollment in the first grade is falling. Funerals have become a common family excursion. Among teachers nationwide, AIDS-related deaths have soared by more than 40 percent in the last year, according to statistics compiled by t
- Controversy Simmers over 'Too Healthy' AIDS Ads
- Reuters (12.21.01) - Thursday, December 27, 2001
- Christopher Michaud
- Activists like Marty Algaze of Gay Men s Health Crisis worry that upbeat ads for AIDS drugs may be convincing young people that they have nothing to fear from the disease, and that this may encourage the kind of risky behavior that might lead more infections. Similar concerns led the San Francisco Board of Supervisors
- Activist Larry Kramer Leaves ICU
- New York Times (12.26.01) - Thursday, December 27, 2001
- Associated Press
- Doctors report that AIDS activist Larry Kramer s condition was progressing as expected five days after his liver transplant at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC). Kramer, 66, was moved from the intensive care unit to a private room in the inpatient unit and was able to walk a bit. Kramer had suffered fr
- Montana and the Dakotas Get $1.3 Million to Help HIV Victims Rent Homes
- Associated Press (12.26.01) - Thursday, December 27, 2001
- Erin Everett
- A joint effort among agencies in Montana, North Dakota and South Dakota to assist low-income HIV patients in the three states will result in $1.3 million to help them pay their rent, officials say. The states jointly applied for the three- year federal Housing and Urban Development (HUD) grant. The money is part of a H
- AIDS Clinic Opens
- Newsday (N.Y.) (12.26.01) - Wednesday, December 26, 2001
- The Asian & Pacific Islander Coalition on HIV/AIDS has opened its new facilities and primary care clinic in Manhattan at 150 Lafayette St. For information, telephone 212-334-7940.
- Man Arrested After Refusing TB Care
- Denver Post (12.23.01) - Wednesday, December 26, 2001
- Joe Rivera, 51, was arrested after he flouted a TB quarantine order and refused to go to the hospital for treatment. He was issued the order Dec. 6 while a patient at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center. Under Colorado law, chief medical health officers can order people who may be infected with TB to unde
- HIV Cases Among Latvian Prisoners More than Doubles
- Agence France Presse (12.20.01) - Wednesday, December 26, 2001
- The number of HIV-positive inmates in Latvian prisons more than doubled this year, officials said, prompting calls for more spending to slow the spread of the virus. Roberts Girgensons, deputy director of the Latvian prison administration s medical department, said 453 prisoners currently have HIV, a 130 percent increa
- Mobile's Rates of Chlamydia and Gonorrhea on the Rise
- Associated Press (12.26.01) - Wednesday, December 26, 2001
- Health officials say they don t know why STDs like chlamydia and gonorrhea continue to plague Mobile, Ala., while syphilis rates are dropping. We see fluctuations periodically. I challenge anybody to say why, said Michael O Cain, director of the STD program at the state Department of Public Health. The number of report
- Error on Drug for HIV Alleged
- Boston Globe (12.26.01) - Wednesday, December 26, 2001
- Raja Mishra
- A Boston pharmacist s error in dispensing 200 mg pills of Crixivan instead of 400 mg gave Adam Barrett s HIV the opening it required to develop a resistance to the powerful drug and a host of other AIDS medicines, Barrett alleges in a recently filed lawsuit against CVS Pharmacy Inc. As a result, the suit contends, Barr
- Community-based Efforts Chalk Up Successes: Sites in North Carolina and Maryland Have a Tale to Tell; Success in HIV Prevention
- AIDS Alert (12.01.01) Vol 16; No 12: P 160 - Wednesday, December 26, 2001
- Joint state-federal HIV-prevention programs in North Carolina and Baltimore have reached at-risk populations and demonstrated very positive outcomes - so much so that the CDC points them out when asked for success stories. The nontraditional counseling program in North Carolina has a greater proportion of high-risk cli
- Libyan Court Delays Verdict in HIV Case
- New York Times (12.23.01) - Wednesday, December 26, 2001
- Associated Press
- A Libyan court postponed its verdict Saturday in the case of six Bulgarians and a Palestinian, all doctors and nurses, accused of injecting 393 children with blood contaminated with HIV. It was the second time in four months that the judges postponed their verdict. They were originally scheduled to hand down a ruling i
- Pro-choice Poster Campaign Targets Bishops
- Washington Times (12.24.01) - Wednesday, December 26, 2001
- Mary Shaffrey
- A pro-choice multi-denominational group has begun a poster campaign in Washington, D.C., that accuses bishops of letting people die because of the Catholic Church s policy against condoms. The 9,000-member Catholics for Free-Choice has spent more than $250,000 on poster ads in Metro subways and bus stops in the Distric
- Man with HIV Gets New Liver
- Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (12.25.01) - Wednesday, December 26, 2001
- Christopher Snowbeck
- In the most high-profile case to date of an HIV-positive patient receiving an organ transplant, author and activist Larry Kramer underwent liver transplant surgery on Friday at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC). On Monday, Kramer, 66, was listed in serious condition - typical for transplant patients so
- Orlando Reyes Appointed Acting Executive Director to South Beach AIDS Project
- Miami Herald (12.20.01) - Friday, December 21, 2001
- The board of directors of the South Beach AIDS Project have appointed Orlando Reyes as acting executive director while they continue the search for a new director. Reyes has worked for the project since June 2000 and supervised Project Quest, an HIV prevention program for gay and bisexual men ages 18 to 29.
- Namibia to Start Distributing Drugs to HIV Positive Pregnant Women
- Associated Press (12.20.01) - Friday, December 21, 2001
- Namibian Health Minister Libertine Amathila said the ministry would begin distributing the drug nevirapine to pregnant HIV- positive women to prevent transmission of the virus to their babies. Studies show the drug can reduce HIV transmission during labor by up to 50 percent. It will initially be made available to 500
- Congress Votes $6.8 Billion to Support CDC Efforts
- Atlanta Journal-Constitution (12.21.01) - Friday, December 21, 2001
- Melanie Eversley; MAJ McKenna
- Congress approved an appropriation bill of $6.8 billion for the CDC on Thursday, with at least $2.8 billion in funds devoted to security, upgrades and renovations in response to the Sept. 11 attacks. This represents the largest annual budget appropriation in the agency s history, totaling $4.3 billion for fiscal 2002.
- Parents Seek Change in Sex Ed
- Detroit News (12.18.01) - Friday, December 21, 2001
- Amy Lee
- Proposed changes to the Rochester, Mich., school district s sex education program have some parents arguing the material steers students away from abstinence and instead encourages them to practice safe sex. Teaching kids that having sex with condoms makes it safe is terribly misleading, said Carolyn Mack, who has thre
- HIV Clues Point to Potential Preventive Therapy
- Reuters Health (12.07.01) - Friday, December 21, 2001
- Emma Hitt, PhD
- New snapshots of HIV in the act of binding to two proteins that facilitate infection of T cells may lay the groundwork for future therapies, according to Dr. Bill Weis of Stanford University and colleagues in the December 7th issue of Science (2001;294:2163-2166). The researchers studied two molecules, called DC-SIGN a
- Seeking Vaccine to Fight Deadly Virus
- Toronto Star (12.16.01) - Friday, December 21, 2001
- Prithi Yelaja
- Dr. Kelly MacDonald is the holder of a new $3 million endowed chair created last week at the University of Toronto for AIDS Research, which is jointly funded by the university and the Ontario HIV Treatment Network. University of Toronto is only the second university in Canada (after the University of British Columbia)
- A Poor Ethnic Enclave in China Is Shadowed by Drugs and HIV
- New York Times (12.21.01) - Friday, December 21, 2001
- Elisabeth Rosenthal
- Butuo, China , is a place populated by China s large but impoverished Yi ethnic minority, an ethnic backwater made up of red mud houses and the trappings of rural farming. But Butuo, a town of 10,000 in the Liangshan Yi Autonomous Prefecture, and other towns near it have become centers of intravenous drug use and HIV.
- First Asian HIV/AIDS Care Conference Ends with Call for Wider Effort
- Agence France Presse (12.20.01) - Friday, December 21, 2001
- The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies said at the conclusion of the first meeting on HIV/AIDS patient care in Asia that the virus would spread unless organizations such as itself got involved. The national health services are not enough to contain the epidemic globally, said Dr. Alvaro Be
- Study Tallies Disease's Cost in Poor Nations
- Wall Street Journal (12.21.01) - Friday, December 21, 2001
- Mark Schoofs
- A comprehensive World Health Organization report, compiled by a blue-ribbon commission including two Nobel laureates, puts specific dollar figures on how disease drains the economies of poor countries. It also lays out the costs - and surprising benefits - of improving the health of the world s destitute. For just a pe
- Jailed Activists: Debate and Charges Grow
- Gay.com/PlanetOut.com (12.18.01) - Friday, December 21, 2001
- Tom Musbach
- San Francisco authorities last Friday filed nine more criminal threat charges against jailed AIDS activist David Pasquarelli and raised his bail from $500,000 to $600,000. Pasquarelli, a member of ACT UP/San Francisco who claims that HIV does not cause AIDS, received an additional four felony and five misdemeanor charg
- Annan Asks World Not to Forget Mideast, Poverty and AIDS
- Agence France Presse (12.19.01) - Thursday, December 20, 2001
- At a year-end news conference, UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan said for many of the world s people, 2001 was not so different from 2000 or 1999. Just another year of living with HIV/AIDS, or in a refugee camp, or under repressive rule, or with crushing poverty, or watching crops dwindle and children go hungry as the gl
- Council Cuts $766 Million from Budget
- New York Times (12.20.01) - Thursday, December 20, 2001
- Michael Cooper
- The New York City Council approved $766 million in spending reductions yesterday to help the city close an estimated $1.3 billion shortfall in the current year s budget. The reductions were approved after the council negotiated an agreement with Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani to restore some cuts to cultural institutions, l
- US HIV Study Should Be a Warning to Australia
- Australian Associated Press (12.19.01) - Thursday, December 20, 2001
- Rada Rouse
- A new study showing that three-quarters of Americans with HIV are resistant to one or more drugs should serve as a warning against complacency in Australia , an advocate said. Bill Whittaker, president of the Australian Federation for AIDS Organizations, said the findings followed a wake-up call for Australia earlier
- The War Against AIDS
- San Francisco Chronicle (12.20.01) - Thursday, December 20, 2001
- Amid all the high-volume debate about terrorism, Washington is quietly taking action on another global security problem - AIDS. ...Yesterday, House and Senate negotiators finally agreed on appropriations for AIDS spending for the 2002 fiscal year. Program support for individual countries will get $475 million, and $20
- Syphilis Scare Has County Seeking Link in Cases
- Chicago Daily Herald (12.18.01) - Thursday, December 20, 2001
- Charles Keeshan
- McHenry County, Ill., authorities are working to track the source of a rare syphilis outbreak that has affected four county residents so far. As of Monday, the department had three confirmed cases of the STD. A fourth case is awaiting laboratory results for confirmation. We have not been able to identify any clear link
- Bibb Sex Education Policy Questioned; School Board Member Urges Review of Current Sex-Ed Curriculum
- Macon Telegraph (12.18.01) - Thursday, December 20, 2001
- At least one Bibb County Board of Education member and other health officials in the Georgia county said Monday they think the school system should review its sex education curriculum. The whole business of getting information to young people about AIDS and the transmission of AIDS concerns me, said Susan Middleton, he
- Efficacy of AIDS Drugs Ebbing
- Boston Globe (12.19.01) - Thursday, December 20, 2001
- Raja Mishra
- We could be right back where we were in 1984, when the virus was unstoppable, said Larry Kessler, executive director of Boston s AIDS Action Committee, of the news that the vast majority of US HIV patients carry a form of the disease able to resist one or more HIV drugs. The study, released this week at the American S
- Incidence of Human Immunodeficiency Virus Among Male-to-Female Transgendered Persons in San Francisco
- Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes (12.01.01) Vol 28; No 4: P 381-384 - Thursday, December 20, 2001
- Timothy A Kellogg; Kristen Clements-Nolle; James Dilley; Mitchell H Katz; William McFarland
- Several recent studies have reported high levels of risk behavior and prevalence of HIV infection among male-to-female (MtF) transgendered persons. A recent community-based survey in San Francisco found that 35% of MtF transgendered persons were HIV-positive. In addition, 63% of African-American MtF transgendered perso
- Salvador Jobs Law Spawns New Fears for Those with HIV
- Miami Herald (12.18.01) - Thursday, December 20, 2001
- Frances Robles
- El Salvador has a new law intended to prevent the spread of AIDS and protect those living with the disease. It allows employers to test job candidates for HIV. Experts believe that the law is unprecedented. According to the UN s International Labor Organization (ILO) there is no other country with such a rule. Su
- Why Rapid HIV Tests, Widely Sold Overseas, Have Eluded the US
- Wall Street Journal (12.20.01) - Thursday, December 20, 2001
- Geeta Anand
- During the past decade, many companies have developed HIV tests that produce nearly instant results in a clinic or doctor s office. According to CDC estimates, each year one- third of the 2.1 million people tested for HIV at public clinics don t come back for their results. The CDC and US Army officials say an easy-to-
- $17,500 in Grants Given to Local AIDS Agencies
- Dallas Morning News (12.17.01) - Wednesday, December 19, 2001
- Macy s West and the Federated Department Stores Foundation awarded four grants totaling $17,500 to AIDS Arms Inc., the AIDS Interfaith Network, the AIDS Resource Center, and AIDS Services of North Texas last month. The four Dallas agencies were among 62 HIV/AIDS agencies selected nationwide for their efforts reaching o
- Bulgaria Presses Libya on HIV Case
- BBC News (12.19.01) - Wednesday, December 19, 2001
- Bulgarian Foreign Minister Solomon Passy is due in Libya today to discuss the trial of six Bulgarians who have been accused of deliberately infecting nearly 400 children with HIV. The six Bulgarians - five nurses and a doctor - could face the death penalty if found guilty of injecting the children with HIV- contaminate
- Child Trafficking Profitable, on Rise, Forum Told
- New York Times (12.19.01) - Wednesday, December 19, 2001
- Reuters
- Likening the trade to a modern form of slavery, the UN estimates more than 30 million women and children have fallen victim to sex trafficking over the past three decades in Asia alone. The issue is high on the agenda of a global conference being held near Tokyo this week on the commercial sexual exploitation of childr
- Court Tells City to Improve Services for AIDS Victims
- New York Times (12.19.01) - Wednesday, December 19, 2001
- Nichole M Christian
- A federal judge in Brooklyn has ordered the City of New York to issue rent subsidies and Medicaid emergency housing to thousands of people living with AIDS. The ruling by Federal District Court Judge Sterling Johnson Jr. follows his September 2000 decision that some 27,000 people dependent upon the city agency were chr
- Nutrition and HIV
- ABCNews.com/Healthology Press (12.14.01) - Wednesday, December 19, 2001
- Meredith Liss, MA, RD, CDN, New York Presbyterian Hospital, Weill Cornell
- Use of highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) to treat HIV disease has improved immune status for those people who have access to the drugs and can tolerate them. However, maintaining a good physical appearance and overall health continue to be significant concerns for most patients. People with HIV must contend
- Kenya to Ban Female Genital Excision
- Los Angeles Times (12.15.01) - Wednesday, December 19, 2001
- Davan Maharaj
- Kenyan women last week won a 20-year battle to outlaw genital excision of young girls, but doubts remain over whether the government will vigorously enforce the ban. Even after President Daniel Arap Moi promised to sign the legislation criminalizing it, many parents defied him by subjecting their daughters to the proce
- Another Chinese Province Is Hit by HIV
- Wall Street Journal (12.19.01) - Wednesday, December 19, 2001
- Leslie Chang
- World attention has focused on extraordinarily high rates of HIV in some villages of central Henan province south of Beijing, where poor farmers contracted HIV while selling blood to unlicensed operators. Yet, 250 miles from those Henan hamlets is the beginning of an AIDS outbreak in Shaanxi province. Farmers in Shaanx
- South African Government to Appeal Court Ruling Forcing It to Provide Key AIDS Drug
- Associated Press (12.19.01) - Wednesday, December 19, 2001
- Mike Cohen
- The South African government said Wednesday it would appeal a court ruling compelling it to provide a key AIDS drug to HIV- positive pregnant women that would lower chances of passing the virus on to their children. We have instructed our legal counsel to appeal the judgment to the Constitutional Court as soon as pract
- AIDS Ride Management Dispute Leads to Lawsuit, Competing Event
- Associated Press (12.19.01) - Wednesday, December 19, 2001
- Kim Curtis
- The California AIDS ride, an event in which 11,000 cyclists have raised $40 million since 1994, is being abandoned by the non-profit agencies it benefits. They say it s unacceptable that they get only 50 cents of every dollar raised. Fund- raising expenses generally should not exceed 35 cents per dollar, according to t
- Study Finds Drug-Resistant HIV in Half of Infected Patients
- Washington Post (12.19.01) - Wednesday, December 19, 2001
- David Brown
- About half the people infected with the AIDS virus in the United States harbor a strain of the microbe that is resistant to at least one drug used to treat the disease, according to a new study. The findings, presented yesterday in Chicago at the American Society for Microbiology s annual meeting on infectious diseases
- Pitt Gets $8 Million to Study Alcohol-HIV Link
- Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (12.17.01) - Tuesday, December 18, 2001
- To study how alcohol use and abuse interacts with HIV infection and treatment, the University of Pittsburgh and the Pittsburgh Veterans Affairs Medical Center have received an $8 million grant from the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism. We know that alcohol and unprotected sex are common bedfellows. Al
- Senate Votes to Emphasize Abstinence in Sex Ed Courses
- Associated Press (12.18.01) - Tuesday, December 18, 2001
- Sex education teachers would be required to emphasize abstinence under legislation approved Monday by the New Jersey Senate. The legislation, which has already been approved by the Assembly, goes to Acting Gov. Donald T. DiFrancesco, who voted Monday in favor of the bill. Supporters of the legislation say children need
- AIDS Fund Officials to Meet Soon
- Associated Press (12.17.01) - Tuesday, December 18, 2001
- Paul Geitner
- The 18-member policy-setting board of the global fund to fight AIDS, TB and malaria will hold its first meeting Jan. 28- 29. The officials will seek to develop procedures for allocating the $1.6 billion already committed to the fund. Donor countries and developing nations will have seven seats each. Non- governmental a
- Preventing AIDS
- New York Times (12.18.01) - Tuesday, December 18, 2001
- Amy Coen
- To the Editor: The recently passed House bill authorizing increased spending to combat AIDS is a step in the right direction. It is mystifying, however, that an AIDS bill emphasizing prevention fails to mention, even once, one of the most critical weapons in the battle: condoms. Condoms, combined with education, are c
- Christmas Project Gives AIDS Patients a Brighter Holiday
- Corpus Christi Caller-Times (12.15.01) - Tuesday, December 18, 2001
- Joy Victory
- Cilicia Valdez found out she had HIV at one of the worst possible times - when she was seven months pregnant. Valdez is grateful for the Coastal Bend AIDS Foundation s annual Christmas Project in which volunteers can adopt clients and help them have a better Christmas. But Joe Garcia, the foundation s special events co
- The Care of HIV-Infected Adults in Rural Areas of the United States
- Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes (12.01) Vol 28: P 385-392 - Tuesday, December 18, 2001
- Susan E Cohn; Mark L Berk; Sandra H Berry; Naihua Duan; Martin R Frankel; Jonathan D Klein; Martha M McKinney; Afshin Rastegar; Stephen Smith; Martin F Shapiro; Samuel Bozzette
- Over the past two decades, HIV infection has diffused from large metropolitan cities to smaller cities and rural areas. The rise in HIV/AIDS cases in rural areas presents new challenges for already overburdened rural health care systems: systems with physician shortages, underdeveloped social and home care support and
- AIDS Forum Calls for Greater Dignity for Victims
- Daily Yomiuri (Tokyo) (12.15.01) - Tuesday, December 18, 2001
- Hiroko Ihara
- Experts at a recent symposium in Kobe, Japan , called for renewed efforts to combat HIV/AIDS and safeguard the rights of patients. At the Nov. 29 symposium, sponsored by the Yomiuri Shimbun in Osaka and the World Health Organization Center for Health Development in Kobe, speakers discussed new ways to prevent the sprea
- Red Cross Urges Asia to Prevent AIDS Pandemic on an African Scale
- Agence France Presse (12.17.01) - Tuesday, December 18, 2001
- Asia must seize on a window of opportunity to prevent the HIV/AIDS crisis from developing into a pandemic on the scale that has devastated Africa, according to officials from the Red Cross. The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies announced Monday at the Fifth International Conference on Hom
- Back from Africa, Dean Speaks on AIDS Education, Travel Expenses
- Associated Press (12.17.01) - Tuesday, December 18, 2001
- Anne Wallace Allen
- Vermont Gov. Howard Dean on Monday said the United States needs to catch up with other countries in the way its public health officials fight to prevent AIDS. In Africa they re probably ahead of us in terms of public health education on AIDS, said Dean, who traveled to Ouagadougou, Burki
- Drug-Resistant HIV on Rise as Medicines Misused
- Newsday (N.Y.) (12.18.01) - Tuesday, December 18, 2001
- Laurie Garrett
- Widespread misuse of HIV drugs has led to drug resistance in at least half the US population under treatment, scientists are reporting today. Contrary to forecasts made in 1996 when combination drug therapy was introduced, it is not the poor and IV drug users who have the highest rates of resistance because of failure
- Samoan Healers to Share AIDS Drug Profits
- USA Today (12.17.01) - Monday, December 17, 2001
- The families of two Samoan women who passed on knowledge of a tree s healing powers will share in profits from any AIDS drug developed from the rain forest plant. The medicine women used the mamala tree to treat hepatitis. The plant s bark and wood contain prostratin, which inhibits HIV infection, according to an abstr
- Elton John Puckers Up to Model Lipstick
- Reuters (12.13.01) - Monday, December 17, 2001
- Makeup maker MAC announced last week that pop legend Elton John will help promote its new Viva Glam IV, the latest in a line of lipsticks sold to benefit the MAC AIDS fund. Joining John in the campaign will be soul singer Mary J. Blige and Shirley Manson, lead singer of the rock band Garbage. The ad campaign, photograp
- Volunteer Group is Honored for Work; Congregation Beth Torah Prepares Meals for AIDS Patients
- Kansas City Star (12.08.01) - Monday, December 17, 2001
- Melodee Hall Blobaum
- Since May 9, 1993, volunteers from the Congregation Beth Torah in Overland Park, Kan., have been responsible for the Sunday night meal at SAVE Home, a midtown Kansas City assisted living facility for men and women with AIDS. Laura Aaronson, SAVE Home s project coordinator, and Congregation Beth Torah were honored for t
- The Acceptability of a Vaginal Microbicide Among South African Men
- International Family Planning Perspectives (12.01) - Monday, December 17, 2001
- Gita Ramjee; Eleanor Gouws; Amy Andrews; Landon Myer; Amy E Weber
- As the HIV epidemic enters its third decade, women bear the burden of infection. In sub-Saharan Africa, where heterosexual HIV transmission is the dominant mode of infection, the number of infected women is startling. It is estimated that there are 12 infected women for every 10 infected men. The escalation of HIV infe
- AIDS Group in Hong Kong Makes Explicit Video on Dangers
- Reuters (12.06.01) Chee-may Chow - Monday, December 17, 2001
- A Hong Kong AIDS awareness group has launched the most candid publicity campaign yet in the territory - an explicit video about the dangers of having sex with prostitutes across the border in mainland China . The film s graphic language and scenes were a deliberate attempt to grab the attention
- South African Gold Company Forms Pact with Labor to Treat HIV/AIDS
- Agence France Presse (12.14.01) - Monday, December 17, 2001
- South Africa s second largest gold producer, Goldfields, has sealed an agreement with mining unions to test and treat workers for HIV/AIDS. The agreement has been approved by the influential National Union of Mineworkers and is the first such accord between trade unionists and employers in South Africa. Willie Jacobsz
- Meeting to Fight Child Sale to Brothels
- Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (12.17.01) - Monday, December 17, 2001
- Andrew Perrin
- Military tensions run high between Thailand and Myanmar ( Burma ), but trade in drugs and daughters continues across the Mae Sai River. The region is known as the Golden Triangle, and the explosion in the recruitment of young girls into the sex industry has placed it squarely on the agenda of the Second
- Thailand Blazes Trail in AIDS Fight
- BBC News (12.17.01) - Monday, December 17, 2001
- Simon Ingram
- Addressing the needs and rights of people with HIV/AIDS is the subject of a major conference this week in the northern Thai city of Chiang Mai. More than 2,000 activists, researchers, public health officials and AIDS patients are expected to attend the four-day international conference on Home and Community Care for Pe
- Delivering Hope By Another Route; HIV Activists Collect Drugs for the Needy Outside the US
- New York Times (12.15.01) - Monday, December 17, 2001
- Jenny Holland
- Jesus Aguais started Aid for AIDS in 1996 after a woman from Venezuela walked into his office at St. Vincent s Manhattan Hospital in need of expensive AIDS medications. Aid for AIDS today collects donated medication from various sources across the United States and Canada , inclu
- Across the USA: West Virginia
- USA Today (12.11.01) - Friday, December 14, 2001
- Some 2,500 West Virginia women with little or no health insurance will be tested next year for human papillomavirus (HPV), a risk factor associated with cervical cancer. The project will be funded by a $498,000 federal grant. West Virginia University s Mary Babb Randolph Cancer Center will help recruit and train doctor
- Coastal AIDS Network Awarded $20,000
- Bangor Daily News (12.08.01) - Friday, December 14, 2001
- Coastal AIDS Network (CAN) has been awarded a total of $20,000 in grants from the Maine Community Foundation Equity Fund, the Until There s a Cure Foundation of California and the Maine Community AIDS Partnership. The Maine Community Foundation grant will be used to support CAN s Coastal Outreach program for gay, lesbi
- Utah AIDS Foundation Gets a $10,000 Grant
- Deseret News (Salt Lake City, Utah) (12.09.01) - Friday, December 14, 2001
- The Utah AIDS Foundation has received a $10,000 grant to support its Season s Giving program that provides families living with HIV/AIDS festive holiday meal baskets. It also allows families to request items they need, including clothes, household items, toys and games. The grant was from the Children Affected by AIDS
- Merger Combines AIDS Services
- Portland Press Herald (12.07.01) - Friday, December 14, 2001
- Mark Shanahan
- Financial pressures are forcing two of Maine s largest AIDS organizations to merge. Hoping to save money without sacrificing services, the AIDS Project and Peabody House announced last week that they are coming together to create the Frannie Peabody Center. This is the beginning of a journey that will provide better, m
- Agency Pleads with Tampa to Restore Aid
- St. Petersburg Times (12.14.01) - Friday, December 14, 2001
- Christopher Goffard
- Desperate to keep their HIV-housing program afloat, leaders of the Tampa-Hillsborough Action Plan (THAP) pleaded with the city yesterday for $522,000 in federal funds that have been frozen while a scandal continues to shadow the non-profit group. Jim Hammond, who recently took over as THAP s CEO, told the city council
- Modified AIDS Virus Is Utilized for Blood-Cell Disorder in Mice
- Wall Street Journal (12.14.01) - Friday, December 14, 2001
- Laura Johannes
- Massachusetts researchers successfully used a modified form of the AIDS virus, carefully stripped of potentially harmful components, to cure sickle-cell anemia in mice. The gene therapy work, published in today s issue of Science (Vol. 294; No. 5550), used a form of the AIDS virus to deliver a therapeutic gene to the b
- WHO: African Countries Negotiate with Thailand to Produce Generic HIV Drugs Locally
- Associated Press (12.13.01) - Friday, December 14, 2001
- Brahima Ouedraogo
- Two African countries are negotiating with Thailand s government to learn how to produce cheap, generic HIV drugs on the continent hardest-hit by AIDS, the World Health Organization (WHO) said. Zimbabwe and Ghana are finalizing deals under which Thailand would provide the technical expertise needed to set up
- Court Orders Government to Provide Key AIDS Drug to Pregnant Women
- Associated Press (12.14.01) - Friday, December 14, 2001
- Dina Kraft
- AIDS activists and pediatricians won a landmark lawsuit against the South African government today, forcing it to make a key AIDS drug available to expectant mothers with HIV. AIDS activists who packed the Pretoria court gallery cheered and hugged each other as Judge Chris Botha read a brief judgment stating that the g
- Hated in San Francisco, Duo Gets Help from Afar
- San Francisco Examiner (12.13.01) - Friday, December 14, 2001
- Tanya Pampalone
- A group of prominent AIDS and gay advocates across the country are uniting on an unlikely front: They re calling for fair treatment of two activists who have harassed many in San Francisco s AIDS community for years. Most in the local AIDS community were jubilant when Michael Petrelis and David Pasquarelli were charged
- Clinton Urges Action Against AIDS
- BBC News (12.13.01) - Friday, December 14, 2001
- Delivering the Diana, Princess of Wales Memorial Lecture on AIDS in London on Thursday, former President Bill Clinton called on governments, businesses and individuals to do more to fight HIV/AIDS. Estimates of 100 million AIDS cases by 2005, he warned, could become a reality unless more is done to fight the epidemic.
- AIDS Kills 70,000 Malawians Annually
- Agence France Presse (12.10.01) - Thursday, December 13, 2001
- About 70,000 Malawians die of AIDS every year, health authorities said Monday. We estimate 70,000 productive lives go annually due to AIDS, said Owen Kalua, executive director of the National AIDS commission. Malawi last year launched a five- year, $110 million national plan aimed at breaking the silence about the dise
- Percentage of Hetero AIDS Rises
- Calgary Sun (12.05.01) - Thursday, December 13, 2001
- Nova Pierson
- New HIV/AIDS numbers show the percentage of new cases among heterosexuals has risen to its highest level yet in Canada . For the first time, heterosexual exposure topped 30 percent of positive HIV tests in the first six months of 2001 - reaching 31.9 percent. The January to June 2001 numbers from the Centre for Infecti
- $750 Million Funding for CDC Clears House
- Atlanta Journal-Constitution (12.13.01) - Thursday, December 13, 2001
- Melanie Eversley
- The House of Representatives overwhelmingly passed legislation Wednesday authorizing $750 million for the CDC for 2002 and 2003. The vote was 418-2, with 13 members not voting. Of the $750 million, $600 million would go for construction and $150 million would aid bioterrorism preparedness. The money would help the CDC
- The Global Fund Confronts AIDS
- New York Times (12.13.01) - Thursday, December 13, 2001
- This week the House passed a bill that would authorize greatly increased spending to combat AIDS overseas, including a doubling of the American contribution to the new Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria. It is critical that Congress actually appropriate the full $750 million the house has authorized f
- New Heart Helps Treat Illness, Lets Man Resume Normal Life
- San Jose Mercury News (12.11.01) - Thursday, December 13, 2001
- Cordula Tutt
- On Feb. 4, Harvard University biostatistician Robert Zackin got a heart transplant. After enduring the wait for a lifesaving organ, he became one of only three HIV-positive patients to receive such an operation since 1996. Zackin s heart problems had multiple causes, the most devastating being long-term chemotherapy fo
- The Injection Century: Massive Unsterile Injections and the Emergence of Human Pathogens
- Lancet (12.08.01) Vol 358; No 9297: P 1989-1992 - Thursday, December 13, 2001
- Ernest Drucker; Phillip G Alacabes; Preston A Marx
- The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that every year unsafe injections result in 80,000 to 160,000 new HIV-1 infections, 8 million to 16 million hepatitis B infections, and 23 million to 47 million hepatitis C infections worldwide. Together, these illnesses account for 13 million deaths. Even within WHO region
- Quest for African AIDS Vaccine Hampered by Focus, Virus Mutation
- Agence France Presse (12.13.01) - Thursday, December 13, 2001
- Richard Ingham
- Researchers in Burkina Faso at the conference on AIDS in Africa heard evidence that the search for a vaccine to fight HIV on the continent is being clouded by a focus on viral sub- types predominant in the West and by the virus ability to mutate. Two-thirds of the world s 40 million HIV-positive people live in sub-Saha
- Educating Sex Workers Is Best Weapon in Africa's AIDS Fight: Experts
- Agence France Presse (12.12.01) - Thursday, December 13, 2001
- Providing HIV awareness counseling to prostitutes in Africa is a life-saving strategy that is more than 2,000 times as cost- effective as treating AIDS patients with antiretroviral drugs, according to research presented Wednesday at the African AIDS conference in Burkina Faso . Advising sex workers on risky practices a
- AIDS Unit to Acquire Charity
- Albuquerque Journal (12.12.01) - Thursday, December 13, 2001
- Wren Propp
- A nonprofit medical center for AIDS patients in northern New Mexico will acquire the assets and fund-raising events of a charity for people with HIV/AIDS. An official of Santa Fe Cares, an 11-year-old fund-raising organization that sponsored the annual AIDS walk and the star-studded musical event Live at the Lensic, sa
- AIDS Ride Planners Sue San Francisco Charity over New Race
- San Francisco Chronicle (12.13.01) - Thursday, December 13, 2001
- The Southern California company that operated the California AIDS Ride for the past eight years is suing the San Francisco AIDS Foundation (SFAF) in an attempt to stop it from having its own cycling event in May. Los Angeles-based Pallotta Teamworks filed suit last week in Los Angeles County Superior Court against SFAF
- Internet Becomes Health Info Source
- Associated Press (12.11.01) - Wednesday, December 12, 2001
- Anick Jesdanun
- Three-quarters of teenagers and young adults online have used the Internet to find health information, including details on depression, birth control and STDs, according to a survey released this week. The Internet is empowering young people, said Vicky Rideout, vice president at the Kaiser Family Foundation, the sourc
- Thailand to Host International AIDS Treatment Meeting
- Associated Press (12.11.01) - Wednesday, December 12, 2001
- The fifth International Conference on Home and Community Care for Persons Living with HIV/AIDS will be held in the northern Thailand province of Chiang Mai Dec. 17-20. A senior official with the Thai Red Cross Society, Phan Wannamethi, said that 3,000 activists, researchers, medical personnel and HIV- infected persons
- FBI Declines Request to Investigate Activists
- Los Angeles Times (12.11.01) - Wednesday, December 12, 2001
- The FBI has declined a request by a University of California at San Francisco researcher to pursue federal criminal charges against two AIDS protesters accused of making harassing and obscene telephone calls to newspaper reporters and public health officials. The request was made under the new domestic terrorism law si
- HIV, Hairdos and Tickets to See 'Lutha'
- Los Angeles Times (12.07.01) - Wednesday, December 12, 2001
- Lynell George
- HIV, Luther and hair? It s an odd mix that s got some around Sensation s Beauty Salon in a South Los Angeles mini-mall murmuring. But for Tony Wafford, a community activist, it makes perfect sense. Right here, everybody talks about just about everything - world religion, politics, dope and sex - and sex! He reaches int
- Malaria Drug Could Block Mother-Child HIV Spread
- Reuters Health (12.11.01) - Wednesday, December 12, 2001
- New research offers hope that a cheap and widely available malaria drug may be used to reduce mother-to-child transmission of HIV. A report in the November 23rd issue of the journal AIDS (2001;15:2205-2207) suggests that women may be able to reduce the risk of transmitting HIV to their child via breast milk by taking t
- Education 'Prevents Underage Sex'
- BBC News (11.30.01) - Wednesday, December 12, 2001
- Teenagers who leave school early are less likely to practice safe sex and more likely to become pregnant, a major British study suggests. The National Survey of Sexual Attitudes and Lifestyles 2000 found a strong correlation between family background, underage sex and teenage pregnancy. The study also found that those
- UN Report Looks at Child Sex
- Associated Press (12.12.01) - Wednesday, December 12, 2001
- Edith M Lederer
- Millions of children are being bought and sold for use as sex slaves, according to a new UNICEF report. It recommends a global campaign to eradicate a multibillion-dollar industry in the sexual exploitation of youngsters. UNICEF called for laws to protect children from abuse and said the laws must be enforced with toug
- New Studies Back Use of Anti-HIV Retrovirals in Africa
- Agence France Presse (12.11.01) - Wednesday, December 12, 2001
- Two news studies have confirmed the stunning effectiveness of antiretroviral drugs in Africa, dealing a blow to critics who claim the continent is ill-equipped to administer the powerful AIDS treatments. The research, reported at the AIDS conference underway in Burkina Faso , strongly backs the usefulness of the AIDS d
- Africa's $4.5 Billion AIDS Underspend
- CNN.com (12.11.01) - Wednesday, December 12, 2001
- Reuters
- UNAIDS Executive Director Peter Piot said Monday that Africa needs $5 billion a year to fight AIDS - 10 times the amount currently being spent to combat the disease. In Africa it would require $5 billion to organize effective prevention, to care for people living with HIV and to support AIDS orphans, Piot told repor
- House OKs $1.3 Billion for AIDS Education
- Associated Press (12.11.01) - Wednesday, December 12, 2001
- Jim Abrams
- The House of Representatives voted to spend $1.3 billion to fight the global AIDS epidemic through bilateral and multinational programs aimed at education, prevention, treatment and research. The funds, approved by voice vote yesterday, are double what is budgeted for the fiscal year that began Oct. 1, but House Intern
- Pregnant Boy Pitches Abstinence
- Associated Press (12.05.01) - Tuesday, December 11, 2001
- New Mexico health officials hope their message promoting abstinence reaches teens through a new media campaign showing a pregnant teenage boy standing next to a pregnant girl. The It s Your Baby Too! slogan was unveiled during a news conference last week. New Mexico has ranked among the top five states in teen birth ra
- Health Care Groups Rip Rudy's Cuts
- Daily News (New York) (12.08.01) - Tuesday, December 11, 2001
- Frank Lombardi
- Health care advocates blasted Mayor Giuliani s proposed budget cuts on Friday, saying the city s poorest communities will suffer the most. Among Giuliani s slated health care cuts: $2.2 million for an education program to reduce infant mortality, and $2.6 million in funding to combat the spread of HIV/AIDS among Africa
- In Nobel Talk, Annan Sees Each Human Life as the Prize
- New York Times (12.11.01) - Tuesday, December 11, 2001
- Sarah Lyall
- Kofi Annan, the Secretary-General of the UN, used the occasion of the 2001 Nobel Peace Prize lecture today to make an impassioned case for the continued importance of the organization as a promoter of peace and a champion of individual rights in an unstable and unequal world. Annan won the Peace Prize jointly with the
- The Naked Truth: Students Urged to Take STD Tests at Syracuse University
- Daily Orange (Syracuse University, Syracuse, N.Y.) (12.06.01) - Tuesday, December 11, 2001
- Allyson Collins
- One-third of Americans will have an STD by age 24, according to Planned Parenthood, and two-thirds of all STDs occur in people age 25 or younger, the American Social Health Organization (ASHO) says on its Web site. ASHO, a non- governmental group that works frequently with the CDC and provides information about STDs, s
- New Findings Explain T-Cell Loss in HIV Infection
- National Institutes of Health (12.10.01) - Tuesday, December 11, 2001
- News Release
- Many scientists have believed that HIV depletes its primary target, CD4 T cells, by blocking new production. Two new studies now challenge that view, showing that HIV does not block such production but instead accelerates the division of existing T cells. Following the initiation of highly active antiretroviral therapy
- Sex and 'u' Web Site Designed to Fight STDs
- Gazette (Montreal) (12.04.01) - Tuesday, December 11, 2001
- Chris Zdeb
- The u in www.sexualityandu.ca could be a 15-year-old boy trying to decide whether he s ready to have sex for the first time; a 23-year-old sexually active woman who doesn t want to get pregnant; a mother afraid to talk to her kids about sex; or a doctor who wants to communicate better with his patients about STDs. The
- Spread of AIDS in Rural China Ignites Protests
- New York Times (12.11.01) - Tuesday, December 11, 2001
- Elisabeth Rosenthal
- As China s central government takes steps to address its growing AIDS crisis, continuing suppression of protesting villagers with HIV is becoming increasingly difficult. The government media have also begun to report more on the issue. In late November, as China marked its first World AIDS Day in Beijing, officials in
- Africa's First Trial of Generic AIDS Drugs Delayed for a Second Time This Fall
- Associated Press (12.10.01) - Tuesday, December 11, 2001
- Glenn McKenzie
- A long awaited program to distribute cheap generic drugs to people with AIDS was delayed Monday for the second time this fall. A Nigerian Ministry of Health official in the capital of Abuja said that organizational delays had slowed down the drugs distribution to 18 health centers where the trial is to begin. The offic
- HIV Patients Get Fresh Hopes for Donor Organs
- New York Times (12.11.01)
- Jeff Stryker
- Writer and activist Larry Kramer, who has AIDS and hepatitis B, has joined 18,646 patients on the national liver transplant waiting list. Like Kramer, a significant number of people with HIV are also infected with hepatitis B or C or both. A few years ago, organ transplants for people with HIV were unthinkable, since t
- Georgia Charities Navigate a New, Leaner Era After Sept. 11
- Associated Press (12.09.01) - Monday, December 10, 2001
- Justin Bachman
- In a survey conducted after the Sept. 11 attacks on the United States , the Georgia Center for Nonprofits found that about 60 percent of charities with annual budgets between $100,000 and $1 million have seen donations decline about 20 percent. One of the things I would suggest is that it s pretty obvious that the Sept
- Cuts Force 26 Layoffs in State
- Boston Globe (12.06.01) - Monday, December 10, 2001
- Sarah Schweitzer; Anand Vaishanav
- Boston city officials said on Wednesday that 26 municipal workers were laid off and a half-dozen social service programs - including AIDS testing, teen mental health counseling and emergency care for domestic violence victims - were eliminated in response to state budget cuts. AIDS counseling has been cut for high-risk
- Nobel Laureates: Military Action Alone Won't End Terrorism
- Wall Street Journal (12.10.01) - Monday, December 10, 2001
- Associated Press
- Nobel laureates who gathered in Oslo on Friday to mark the 100th anniversary of the award denounced terrorism but said it could be better fought by eliminating poverty and weapons of mass destruction than by military strikes. The rest of the world did not go away because New York was attacked, said Jody Williams of the
- Global Antiretroviralism
- New York Times (12.09.01) - Monday, December 10, 2001
- Tina Rosenberg
- With the establishment this year of the United Nations global fund for AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis, the world will nearly double its AIDS spending in 2002 - and for the first time, much of the money in less-developed countries will go to antiretrovirals. At the beginning of 2001, AIDS drugs in Kenya
- AIDS Agency Gives Help on Multiple Fronts
- Denver Post (12.02.01) - Monday, December 10, 2001
- Jon Libid
- Jeffrey is happy taking 12 pills a day. Just a few years ago, at the height of his battle with HIV, he was taking closer to 60 a day. He knew he wouldn t be able to pay for the medication, which can cost thousands of dollars. He contacted Colorado AIDS Project (CAP), which provided the food, housing and financial assis
- NY Children's Charity Short on Toys
- Associated Press (12.01.01) - Monday, December 10, 2001
- Sara Kugler
- Thousands of New York children with HIV/AIDS may not receive Christmas gifts this year because the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center displaced an organization that collects toys for them. For a month after the Sept. 11 attacks, the Children s Hope Foundation was forced out of its office three blocks from the d
- Can More Progress Be Made? Teenage Sexual and Reproductive Behavior in Developed Countries
- Alan Guttmacher Institute www.guttmacher.org (11.29.01) - Monday, December 10, 2001
- Eleanor Maticka-Tyndale (Canada); Nathalie Bajos (France); Kaye Wellings (Great Britain); Maria Danielsson (Sweden); Jacqueline E Darroch (United States); et al
- There is a strong consensus in the United States that teenage pregnancy and birth levels are too high. Despite dramatic decreases in teenage pregnancy rates and birthrates in the United States during the past decade, this country still has substantially higher levels of adolescent pregnancy, childbearing and abortion t
- Access to Better Treatment Dominates African AIDS Conference
- Agence France Presse (12.10.01) - Monday, December 10, 2001
- Stephane Orjollet
- Access to superior AIDS treatments, notably tritherapies, dominated talks Monday at the 12th International Conference on AIDS and Sexually Transmitted Diseases in Africa (CISMA). Experts stressed that such treatments were vital for Africa, the continent experiencing 70 percent of global AIDS-linked deaths. In rich coun
- Activists Oppose AIDS Reporting Rule
- Associated Press (12.09.01) - Monday, December 10, 2001
- AIDS activists in Connecticut are opposing a state policy designed to track the illness by requiring that the names of HIV- positive residents be reported to the state health department. According to Darlene Fassett, an outreach coordinator for the AIDS counseling service Stamford Positive Peers, many residents will re
- Ware Named to Lead US AIDS Panel
- Washington Times (12.10.01) - Monday, December 10, 2001
- Cheryl Wetzstein
- A longtime proponent of sexual abstinence education has been named executive director of a panel that will inform the White House on HIV/AIDS issues. Patricia Funderburk Ware s diverse experience and commitment to helping individuals revitalize their lives and communities will further the goals of the Presidential Advi
- Thirty-eight People Test Positive for TB at Gaffney School
- Associated Press (12.06.01) - Friday, December 07, 2001
- Thirty-eight of the 630 students and staff at Granard Middle School in Gaffney, S.C., have tested positive for TB, state health officials reported Thursday. All students and staff were screened for the disease by the state Department of Health and Environmental Control after a school custodian tested positive for TB la
- Opposition Parties Call for Action Against AIDS Crisis
- Associated Press (12.04.01) - Friday, December 07, 2001
- Three opposition parties in Ethiopia have called on the government of Prime Minister Meles Zenawi to declare a state of emergency to fight the HIV/AIDS epidemic in the Horn of Africa nation. An estimated 2.7 million -or more than 4 percent -of Ethiopia s 62.7 million are believed to be infected, one of the highest rate
- International Red Cross Urges World Not to Ignore 'Forgotten' Crises
- Associated Press (12.04.01) - Friday, December 07, 2001
- The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies on Tuesday launched an appeal for $163 million for next year, urging donors to do more for the world s forgotten humanitarian crises. While their attention is rightly focused on Afghanistan , we would still ask donors not to ignore the other crises,
- Service Reaches Out to HIV Youth
- Toronto Star (12.05.01) - Friday, December 07, 2001
- Prithi Yelaja
- Until Tatiana tested positive for HIV at age 23, she believed AIDS was a problem only for gay men and drug users. I didn t think HIV was a women s issue. It was devastating. I felt so ashamed and dirty. I felt like dying, said the Toronto resident, who contracted the virus through unprotected sex. When she reached out
- $11 Million AIDS Campus Planned for West Side
- Chicago Sun-Times (11.28.01) - Friday, December 07, 2001
- Fran Spielman
- With a $1.2 million Health Department grant, operating subsidies and 20 vacant, city-owned lots acquired for $1 apiece, Chicago s AIDSCare plans to build a five-building campus in North Lawndale near Roosevelt and Kedzie that will offer AIDS patients an array of social services and living situations. There s no other f
- Garlic Supplements Can Lower Potency of HIV Drug
- Reuters Health (12.06.01) - Friday, December 07, 2001
- A new study conducted by the National Institutes of Health has found that garlic supplements can cut blood concentrations of the antiretroviral drug saquinavir by more than half. The clear implication is that doctors and patients should be cautious about using garlic supplements during HIV therapy, study co-author Dr.
- Kenya: Churches Said Burning Condoms
- BBC News (12.06.01) - Friday, December 07, 2001
- Some churches in the Mt. Kenya Region of central Kenya have been accused of buying up stocks of condoms and destroying them on the grounds that they are promoting immorality among the faithful, according to the East African Standard. This development is frustrating efforts to combat the AIDS epidemic. Population Servic
- Groups to Give $50 Million to Cut Mother-to-Child AIDS Cases
- Wall Street Journal (12.07.01) - Friday, December 07, 2001
- David Bank
- Eight philanthropic foundations have committed more than $50 million for a pilot program to reduce mother-to-child transmission of HIV/AIDS in developing countries by treating mothers in addition to their newborns. The foundations, which are expected to announce the initiative today, intend eventually to raise $100 mil
- Hepatitis A 'Major Concern' for Gays in ATL
- Southern Voice - November 30, 2001
- Jennifer J. Smith
- An increase in reported cases of hepatitis A in metro Atlanta is causing a major health concern and prompting health officials and AIDS agencies to launch prevention campaigns aimed at gay men. A majority of the 600 new hepatitis cases reported across the state of Georgia in the first 10 months of 2001 came from five m
- Conference Panel Is Set to Deliver D.C. Budget
- Washington Times (12.06.01) - Friday, December 07, 2001
- Mary Shaffrey
- Congress is expected to approve the District of Columbia s $5.3 billion budget, which would allow local funds for domestic partner benefits and bar any funds for needle exchange programs. We adhered to the original House legislation on the needle exchange language, and while the negotiations took a while, we eventually
- New HIV Infection Warning
- Evening Mail (United Kingdom) (11.24.01) - Friday, November 30, 2001
- HIV infection is increasing at a faster rate in the heterosexual population of Birmingham than among gay men, according to new figures. And the number of women diagnosed with HIV/AIDS has doubled, bringing the total number of people with HIV in Birmingham to 754. Health officials urged everyone to guard against the dis
- South African Demo Against Child Rape
- BBC News (11.26.01) - Friday, November 30, 2001
- Thousands of South African men have demonstrated in Cape Town to protest a series of rapes of baby girls. The rally follows two reported child rapes, one of which involved an eight- month-old girl. The demonstration -led by government ministers and the Archbishop of Cape Town under the banner Real Men Don t Rape -marke
- Middle-age Sex 'Unsafe'
- Mirror (United Kingdom) (11.24.01) - Friday, November 30, 2001
- Heather Ramsay
- More middle-aged Scots are catching STDs, health experts said last week. Scottish National Health Service figures revealed the number of men and women over 35 who get STDs has risen by almost 30 percent in the last five years. Last year alone, a 10 percent rise brought the number to more than 4,000. The alarming rise i
- Health Board Clears Way for Needle Exchange
- Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (11.28.01) - Friday, November 30, 2001
- Deborah Mendenhall
- The Allegheny County Board of Health on Wednesday declared a state of public health emergency for HIV and blood borne diseases, paving the way for a clean needle exchange program for intravenous drug users. The pilot program will be administered by an agency that has yet to be chosen. This action will make it easier fo
- London Britches Falling Down, Sex Survey Finds
- Seattle Post-Intelligencer (11.30.01) - Friday, November 30, 2001
- Associated Press
- Britons have more sexual partners, more homosexual encounters and indulge in more two-timing than they did a decade ago, a survey of British sexual habits has found. The survey, which gives the clearest picture to date of the sex lives of Britons, is published this week in the Lancet (December 1, 2001; Vol. 358; No. 92
- Young Activist's Mother Will Speak at World AIDS Day Fund- Raiser
- Los Angeles Times (11.28.01) - Friday, November 30, 2001
- Pam Noles
- Jeanne White, whose son Ryan died of AIDS just a few months before Congress passed a federal program in his name, will be a featured guest at the Foothill AIDS Project s World AIDS Day activities Saturday. The memorial and fund-raiser includes a candlelight vigil, walk and two receptions and also features entertainer C
- No Letting Up on AIDS
- Washington Post (11.29.01) - Friday, November 30, 2001
- Kofi Annan
- Every day more than 8,000 people die of AIDS. Every hour almost 600 people become infected. Every minute a child dies of the virus. Just as life -and death -goes on after Sept. 11, so must we continue our fight against the HIV/AIDS epidemic. Before the terrorist attacks two months ago, tremendous momentum had been ach
- District Convenes Meeting On AIDS
- Washington Post (11.30.01) - Friday, November 30, 2001
- Andrew DeMillo
- Washington, D.C., launched a three-day HIV/AIDS conference on Thursday in an attempt by health officials to reach out to the community and to identify groups under-served in the fight against AIDS. Bringing together health officials, activists and educators, the conference is meant to provide the public access to exper
- Sheriff OKs Condoms for Gay Inmates
- Los Angeles Times (11.30.01) - Friday, November 30, 2001
- Beth Shuster
- The Los Angeles County Sheriff s Department has quietly begun distributing condoms to gay inmates at its downtown jail, joining just six other jails and prisons in the country in an effort to stop the spread of AIDS and other STDs. Under California law, sex in jails and prisons is considered a felony. Sheriff s officia
- Coinfection Does Not Appear To Augment TB Infectivity
- TB & Outbreaks Week (11.20.01) - Friday, November 30, 2001
- Michael Greer
- TB from patients coinfected with HIV is not usually more infective than TB from HIV-negative patients, according to researchers in Italy . Mario Cruciani and colleagues at the Center for Preventive Medicine-HIV Screening Center in Verona and the University of Genoa s Institute of Infectious Diseases conducted a retrosp
- MSF Calls for Worldwide Adoption of Anti-AIDS Drugs
- Agence France Presse (11.28.01) - Friday, November 30, 2001
- The French medical volunteers, Medecins sans Frontieres (MSF - Doctors Without Borders) on Wednesday called on governments worldwide to provide treatment with antiretroviral (ARV) drugs to fight AIDS. Since prices of ARV drugs have fallen, and will continue to fall as a result of public pressure and generic competition
- 2 AIDS Activists Accused of Stalking
- Los Angeles Times (11.29.01) - Friday, November 30, 2001
- Charles Ornstein
- On Wednesday, San Francisco Police arrested Michael Petrelis and ACT UP San Francisco spokesperson David Pasquarelli on charges of criminal conspiracy, stalking, and making terroristic threats. They are accused of calling reporters and public health officials at home repeatedly past midnight, making threats and leaving
- HIV Testing Among Racial/Ethnic Minorities -United States, 1999
- Morbidity & Mortality Weekly Report (11.30.01) (50(47);1054-8) - Friday, November 30, 2001
- The percentage of Americans who report being tested for HIV has increased significantly over the past decade, but a considerable number of at-risk individuals have never been tested. According to results from the most recent National Health Interview Survey, 31 percent of survey respondents reported HIV testing, up fro
- War on Terror Diverts Attention from War on AIDS, but Long- Term Optimism Persists
- Associated Press (11.29.01) - Friday, November 30, 2001
- David Crary
- The Sept. 11 attacks and the ensuing war on terrorism have diverted attention and resources from another global battle, the campaign against AIDS, just as its front-line combatants were savoring a rare stretch of good news. Since the attacks, donations to the UN Global Fund to Fight AIDS have slowed sharply. The US gov
- Wilkinson to Resign as Chief of AIDS Project
- Miami Herald (11.22.01) - Wednesday, November 28, 2001
- South Beach AIDS Project Executive Director Jeffrey Wilkinson has resigned, effective Nov. 30. He held the job since June 1998. Wilkinson said he will remain available to the organization during the transition period and will also continue to do volunteer work on special projects. He leaves to become editor-in-chief of
- City Hosts Rally to Fight AIDS
- Richmond Times-Dispatch (11.28.01) - Wednesday, November 28, 2001
- The Minority AIDS Program of the Richmond, Va., Department of Public Health will host a rally against AIDS on Friday at 11 a.m. at the 6th Street Marketplace Food Court. The event will feature a presentation on the impact of HIV and AIDS in the community. Richmond Mayor Rudolph C. McCollum, Jr., Del. Viola O. Baskervil
- AIDS Fight Weakens African Countries
- Associated Press (11.27.01) - Wednesday, November 28, 2001
- The World Bank said Tuesday it would consider providing an additional $500 million in no-interest loans to help developing countries combat HIV/AIDS. The 183-nation lending organization said the loans would go to African countries, which are home to an estimated 25 million of the world s 36 million HIV-positive people.
- Needle-Exchange Program Endorsed
- San Diego Union-Tribune (11.28.01) - Wednesday, November 28, 2001
- Ray Huard
- Under a one-year pilot program approved Tuesday by the San Diego City Council, intravenous drug users will be given clean needles to curb the spread of hepatitis and AIDS. The only alternative we have is to do nothing, and if we do nothing people will become infected and they will die, said Councilmember Donna Frye.
- Studies: Delaying Drugs for Some HIV Patients May Be Safe
- Associated Press (11.28.01) - Wednesday, November 28, 2001
- Lindsey Tanner
- Symptom-free HIV patients can safely hold off taking AIDS drugs longer than previously thought, according to two new studies. The studies suggest the drugs can still be effective if started when the patient s CD4 count is even lower -at least 200 -and even if there are high levels of virus circulating in the blood. The
- Pregnant Women Have No Right to Access Key AIDS Drug, Says South African Government
- Associated Press (11.28.01) - Wednesday, November 28, 2001
- Dina Kraft
- A pregnant HIV-positive woman has no inherent right to a key AIDS drug that could save her baby from the deadly disease, lawyers for the South African government argued Tuesday. AIDS activists and pediatricians have sued the state in a bid to force it to make the drug nevirapine available to HIV-positive exp
- AIDS Epidemic Sweeping Across Eastern Europe, Hitting Russia Hard, UN Report Says
- Associated Press (11.28.01) - Wednesday, November 28, 2001
- The AIDS epidemic is sweeping across Eastern Europe, with HIV infection rates rising faster within the former Soviet Union than anywhere else in the world, according to the latest UN report on AIDS, published today. The combination of economic insecurity, high unemployment and deteriorating health services in this regi
- No Time to Be Shy over AIDS Among Blacks
- Chicago Tribune (11.25.01) - Wednesday, November 28, 2001
- Bob Condor
- Gail E. Wyatt, MD, a UCLA psychiatrist and sex researcher, is calling for a new direction on how we approach HIV/AIDS prevention. Commenting in the December issue of Vibe magazine, Wyatt pointed to recent government findings that most new HIV/AIDS cases occur in blacks, who represent only 13 percent of the US populatio
- Native American Group Says Stigma Surrounding AIDS Prevents Many from Receiving Treatment
- Associated Press (11.27.01) - Wednesday, November 28, 2001
- Nicholas K Geranios
- Many Native Americans infected with HIV/AIDS are not treated for the disease because of the stigma surrounding it in their communities, members of an Indian group said at an annual meeting. Poverty, isolation and poor medical care also contribute to the spread of HIV/AIDS among Indians, said participants in a briefing
- Syphilis Cases Drop to Record Low Amid Efforts to Eradicate the Sexually Transmitted Disease
- Associated Press (11.28.01) - Wednesday, November 28, 2001
- Erin McClam
- Syphilis infection dropped to an all-time low in the United States last year, with fewer than 6,000 cases reported nationwide, the government said today. The CDC said it recorded 5,979 cases, down nearly 10 percent from 1999. Syphilis cases are down 30 percent since 1997, when health officials announced a national plan
- Cuban Scientists Plan to Test AIDS Vaccine
- NewsMexico.com (11.19.01) - Tuesday, November 20, 2001
- Cuban scientists plan to test an AIDS vaccine on HIV- infected volunteers, officials in Havana said on Sunday. The idea is to do a pilot study using the vaccine together with tri- therapy or the cocktail, a therapeutic vaccination composed of three different drugs, said Carlos Duarte, head of the AIDS Department at the
- Vatican Supports Relief on AIDS Drug Costs
- Dallas Morning News (11.17.01) - Tuesday, November 20, 2001
- Vatican officials last week welcomed new steps by the World Trade Organization (WTO) to help poor, AIDS-stricken populations gain access to life-prolonging drugs. Archbishop Javier Lozano Barragan, president of the Pontifical Council for Pastoral Assistance to Health Care Workers, said that without such steps, entire n
- Foreign Aid Bill Snags on Population Fund
- Washington Times (11.19.01) - Tuesday, November 20, 2001
- Stephen Dinan
- Senate and House negotiators compromise on the foreign aid bill is threatened by Republican representatives who say it gives too much money to the UN Population Fund, which they accuse of complicity in China s one child per family policy and forced abortions. The fund runs clinics and provides education and assistance
- World AIDS Day Stresses Education, Prevention
- Daily Cougar (University of Houston) (11.19.01) - Tuesday, November 20, 2001
- Melissa Kummer
- With World AIDS Day approaching on Dec. 1, both treatment and prevention are once again issues of great interest. This is a day to raise awareness about this epidemic, said Laura Ruppert, AIDS Foundation Houston (AFH) communications coordinator. Of the 18,585 AIDS cases diagnosed in Harris County through 2001, 89 perce
- Mandatory AIDS Testing of Pregnant Women, Jail Inmates Proposed
- Associated Press (11.19.01) - Tuesday, November 20, 2001
- Dr. Frederico Cruz-Uribe, director of the Tacoma-Pierce County Health Department in Washington, has proposed that all pregnant women, jail inmates facing sex- or drug-related charges, as well as those who visit doctors for symptoms of STDs be tested for AIDS. Cruz-Uribe said hearings on the proposal should begin in Jan
- Predictors of Use of Highly Active Antiretroviral Therapy (HAART) Among Persons with AIDS in San Francisco, 1996-1999
- Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes (12.01) Vol 28; No 4: P 345-350 - Tuesday, November 20, 2001
- Ling C Hsu; Eric Vittinghoff; Mitch H Katz; Sandra K Schwarcz
- Highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) has been shown to reduce viral load and increase CD4 lymphocytes in persons infected with HIV, delay onset of AIDS and prolong survival with AIDS. In San Francisco, as well as elsewhere, AIDS incidence and mortality have declined substantially since 1996 due to HAART. Yet, m
- 40 Percent of Pupils Aged 11 Have Not Heard of AIDS
- Observer (United Kingdom) (11.18.01) - Tuesday, November 20, 2001
- Ben Summerskill
- According to a British study, a decade after AIDS information was placed on the school curriculum, large numbers of adolescents just below the age of consent have little knowledge of how to avoid contracting HIV. More than 40,000 children were questioned for the survey last year. Sixteen percent of 15-year old boys bel
- Ghanian Police Round Up Prostitutes as HIV Spreads Alarmingly
- Agence France Presse (11.15.01) - Tuesday, November 20, 2001
- Ben Ephson
- A drive launched by regional police has led to the arrest of scores of prostitutes in Ghana s capital Accra and its outskirts. The campaign is aimed at cleaning up Accra s streets and fighting HIV/AIDS. Officials in the Ghana AIDS Commission (GAC) told AFP that the number of Ghanaians currently infected with HIV totals
- As China Faces Crisis, People with HIV Are Kept Largely Invisible
- Washington Post (11.20.01) - Tuesday, November 20, 2001
- Philip P Pan
- I want to tell my story, said Zhao, 39, who sneaked out of one of China s few AIDS clinics because doctors barred reporters from visiting him there. I want to appeal to society to save my life and my son s life... We are desperate, and I am not afraid to speak out openly. For the Chinese government, that is the proble
- A New Generation: Teenagers Living with HIV
- New York Times (11.20.01) - Tuesday, November 20, 2001
- Linda Villarosa
- On the surface, Alora Gale of Boulder, Colo., is an average teenager. But unlike most teenagers, Alora seems cautious, wary and fragile. She has good reason. In 1993, her mother, Linda, was found to have AIDS. Tests showed that Alora and her younger brother had also been infected, almost certainly while in their mother
- Brandon Abernathy, 43, AIDS activist Was 'Messenger of Hope'
- Atlanta Journal-Constitution(11.18.01) - Monday, November 19, 2001
- Derrick Henry
- Brandon Ross Abernathy, 43 of East Point, Ga., died Wednesday of complications from AIDS. Diagnosed in 1987, Abernathy began speaking out about AIDS and why the diagnosis is not a reason to stop living. With the AIDS Survival Project, he led workshops he called The Emerging Survivors, addressing what it took to be long
- Health Officials Encourage Bar's Patrons to Get TB Test
- Associated Press (11.17.01) - Monday, November 19, 2001
- Health officials from Butler County, Ohio, announced last week that anyone who has visited Dixie s Hillbilly Heaven in Middletown in the last two months should seek a TB test. The bar has been linked to one case of TB and 10 other cases of TB exposure. The bar was closed Nov. 8 and officials have tested 57 people so fa
- US-based Johns Hopkins to Open HIV/AIDS Resource Center in Addis Ababa
- BBC (11.19.01) - Monday, November 19, 2001
- A new resource center with accurate, up-to-date information on HIV/AIDS will be established by Johns Hopkins University Center for Communications Programs (JHU/CCP) in Ethiopia , a country that has one of the world s highest HIV prevalence rates. The new center is made possible through a $300,000 cooperation agreement
- TV Reporter Goes Public with HIV Status
- Associated Press (11.16.01) - Monday, November 19, 2001
- After more than a year of keeping it a secret, WSB-TV Atlanta reporter Roby Chavez revealed he is HIV-positive. He made the disclosure last week during a speech to the Atlanta Executive Network, a monthly networking event for gay and lesbian professionals. Chavez, 37, tested positive for the virus in August 2000, but k
- Importance of Mental Health Assessment in HIV-Infected Outpatients
- Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes (11.01.01) Vol 28: P 240-249 - Monday, November 19, 2001
- Christine Zinkernagel; Patrick Taffe; Martin Rickenbach; Regula Amiet; Bruno Ledergerber; Anne-Christine Volkart; Udo Rauchfleisch; Alexander Kiss; Verena Werder; Pietro Vernazza; Manuel Battegay; Swiss HIV Cohort Study
- HIV infection, even when well controlled, is often associated with important mental health problems. This study sought to investigate anxiety, depression, and health-related quality of life using screening measurements in patients with HIV infection, and their relation to biosocial parameters linked to HIV. Three hundr
- Secrecy Blamed for HIV/AIDS Spread in Tanzania
- Panafrican News Agency (11.08.01) - Monday, November 19, 2001
- Health authorities blame parents and teachers lack of openness about HIV/AIDS as one of the factors contributing to the spread of disease in Tanzania . A recent survey conducted by the National AIDS Control Program (NACP) in some parts of the country showed that youths are not being told the truth about the HIV/AIDS pa
- Conference Focuses on AIDS' Spread Along Border
- San Diego Union-Tribune (11.17.01) - Monday, November 19, 2001
- Anna Cearley
- Baja California health officials are concerned about the spread of HIV/AIDS along the border. The state has the fifth- highest number of HIV/AIDS cases in Mexico , with about 2,500 residents diagnosed since 1984. Half of those were found in Tijuana, which is adjacent to the largest border crossing along the US-Mexico b
- AIDS: The Crisis Left Behind
- Boston Globe (11.18.01) - Monday, November 19, 2001
- John Donnelly
- Donations to the new Global Fund for AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria from June to Sept. 11 amounted to $1.5 billion. But the amount donated from Sept. 11 to today is just $2,000. For many leaders in Africa, this pause in global action against AIDS, TB, and malaria is maddening. Malawi Vice President Justin Malewezi op
- Teen Pregnancy Rate Down Statewide
- State (Columbia, S.C.) (11.17.01) - Monday, November 19, 2001
- Jaymi Freiden
- According to year 2000 data released last week, fewer South Carolina teens are getting pregnant, continuing a six-year trend. The figures released by the South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control show that last year, 10,732 girls ages 10 to 19 became pregnant -173 fewer than in 1999. Of the pregnant
- Review Ordered for HIV Programs to See if Campaigns Too Sexy
- Associated Press (11.16.01) - Monday, November 19, 2001
- Margie Mason
- Faced with accusations that their HIV/AIDS workshops are too sexy, public health officials in San Francisco say they will comply with federal guidelines following a review that found some gay workshops were obscene and encouraged sexual activity. The review of workshops run by San Francisco s Stop AIDS Project prompted
- CAMC Receives Grant to Help Treat HIV Patients
- Associated Press (11.14.01) - Wednesday, November 14, 2001
- The Charleston Area Medical Center (CAMC) Health Education and Research Institute in West Virginia has been awarded $690,000 to care for HIV patients -the largest grant ever received by the institute. The Ryan White Title III grant will go toward providing comprehensive early intervention and primary care services for
- Medi-Cal Offers Coverage for New HIV Treatment
- Associated Press (11.14.01) - Wednesday, November 14, 2001
- California s Medi-Cal program will begin covering the newly approved drug HIV/AIDS Viread , officials said Tuesday. The drug is also now available to those enrolled in the AIDS Drug Assistance Program, which provides medication for individuals earning less than $50,000 annually. The state began coverage 17 days after t
- Frist to Co-chair Panel Dealing with Issues Surrounding HIV and AIDS
- Associated Press (11.14.01) - Wednesday, November 14, 2001
- Sen. Bill Frist (R-Tenn.) said on Tuesday that he would co- chair a task force about AIDS. The Center for Strategic and International Studies, a Washington-based think tank, is organizing the task force, which will spend two years focusing on public policy issues related to the disease. Expert panels plan to study fund
- Center to Study 'Spiritual Palliation' for AIDS End-of-Life Patients
- AIDS Weekly (11.12.01) - Wednesday, November 14, 2001
- The Yale-Griffin Prevention Research Center, part of the Yale School of Medicine, has been awarded a two-year, nearly $200,000 grant from the National Institutes of Health to investigate the benefits of a meditation and massage- intervention program for people with AIDS at the end of life. Working in collaboration with
- Longer Treatment Recommended for Coinfected Patients
- TB & Outbreaks Week (11.13.01) - Wednesday, November 14, 2001
- Michael Greer
- Patients coinfected with TB and HIV have a heightened risk of TB relapse, according to recent research by Cynthia R. Driver and colleagues from the New York City Department of Health Tuberculosis Control Program. Coinfected patients should receive longer treatment regimens or be checked regularly for TB recurrence, the
- Niger Stages AIDS Awareness Campaign
- Panafrican News Agency (11.07.01) - Wednesday, November 14, 2001
- Niger s National AIDS Control Program, whose mission is to increase public awareness of the dangers of HIV/AIDS and its causes, recently visited the southwest district of Tahoua, which is seriously affected by the pandemic due to emigration. The mission aimed at sensitizing people in the rural areas who are facing a ru
- Farm Subsidies Final Hurdle Before WTO Agrees to Talks
- Newsday (New York) (11.14.01) - Wednesday, November 14, 2001
- James Toedtman
- Ministers from 144 nations neared agreement on a new round of global trade talks Tuesday night, succeeding where they had failed at the calamitous Seattle meeting of the World Trade Organization two years ago. Only a last-minute snag on future farm subsidies delayed an announcement that negotiators would begin a new th
- Infected Peasants Kept in Hospital During AIDS Conference
- Agence France Presse (11.14.01) - Wednesday, November 14, 2001
- Boris Cambreleng
- Seven Chinese peasants with AIDS who traveled to Beijing for the nation s first conference on HIV/AIDS are now confined at Ditan hospital and will not be released until the conference is over, a source close to them said Wednesday. They have also been denied access to telephones at the hospital, the source told AFP. Th
- Speed, Social Mobility of China's Economic Growth Could Help Spread AIDS, UN Official Warns
- Associated Press (11.14.01) - Wednesday, November 14, 2001
- Ted Anthony
- Members of the increasingly affluent middle class that is powering China s growth can carry AIDS up the economic ladder from poorer environments where infections spread most rapidly, a UN official warned Tuesday at the nation s first-ever AIDS conference. The problem, common in such countries as Vietnam
- Risk Seen in $66 Million Cut to Health Budget; Swift Plan Is Called Ill-Timed
- Boston Globe (11.13.01) - Wednesday, November 14, 2001
- Ralph Ranalli
- The administration of Massachusetts Acting Governor Jane Swift risks reversing years of progress against disease by proposing $66 million in cuts to state Department of Public Health (DPH) programs, specialists and advocates say. Millions of dollars invested in research, screening and education on diseases from cancer
- Don Donaldson: AIDS Policy Official
- Washington Post (11.09.01) - Friday, November 09, 2001
- Don Donaldson, 52, a former resident of Arlington, Va., who was coordinator of an AIDS education program for federal employees, died of AIDS Nov. 7 at a hospice in Tulsa, Okla. Donaldson, a native of Louisiana, developed diversity programs for the Energy Department before being detailed to the White House Office of Nat
- Vatican Slams UN Refugee Sex Manual
- Associated Press (11.08.01) - Friday, November 09, 2001
- A UN manual for handling sexual issues in refugee camps promotes without reserve the morning-after pill for contraception, presents sterilization as simple birth control, and takes a nonjudgmental attitude on extramarital and homosexual relations, the Vatican charged on Thursday. The Vatican decried what it said was yo
- At CDC, Bush Lauds 'New Heroes in America'
- Atlanta Journal-Constitution (11.09.01) - Friday, November 09, 2001
- MAJ McKenna
- I truly believe you have saved hundreds of lives, and for that I am grateful, President George W. Bush told about 250 members of the anthrax task force on Thursday at the CDC in Atlanta. It gives me great confidence to know you are working overtime. While the president praised the agency s efforts, he stopped short of
- Tuberculosis Can Go If We Care
- International Herald Tribune (10.31.01) - Friday, November 09, 2001
- Gro Harlem Brundtland; James D Wolfensohn
- Four people die every minute somewhere in the world from tuberculosis. The ancient disease killed almost 2 million people last year. ...More HIV-infected people die from tuberculosis than from any other opportunistic infection because it thrives when immune systems are impaired. Tuberculosis is largely a disease of po
- HIV Researcher Says Vaccine Not Impossible
- Reuters Health (11.02.01) - Friday, November 09, 2001
- A vaccine against HIV is still realistically at least 5 years away, said Dr. Robert Gallo, HIV co-discoverer and director of the Institute of Human Virology at the University of Maryland in Baltimore, at the 1st World Congress on Men s Health in Vienna, Austria . Gallo noted that antiretroviral drugs developed in the 1
- Herpesvirus Infection May Slow HIV
- Reuters Health (11.01.01) - Friday, November 09, 2001
- Merritt McKinney
- New research raises the possibility of harnessing a common type of herpes virus to treat or even prevent HIV infection. In laboratory tests, the human herpesvirus 6 (HHV-6) slowed the reproduction of forms of HIV that are active in the early stages of HIV infection. But it did not have the same effect on more aggressiv
- Online Diary Describes Lonely Plight of People with AIDS in China
- Associated Press (11.08.01) - Friday, November 09, 2001
- Martin Fackler
- The 27-year-old man traces the beginning of his nightmare to a drunken night two years ago, when a colleague took him to one of Shanghai s dozens of illegal brothels disguised as beauty salons. Two months later, he learned he had the AIDS virus. Like many with AIDS in China , he has not told friends and family for fear
- A Push to Cut Cost of AIDS Drugs
- Newsday (New York) (11.09.01) - Friday, November 09, 2001
- Laurie Garrett
- On Friday, the leaders of 60 poor nations teamed with activists to challenge the World Trade Organization (WTO) meeting in Doha, Quatar. They are angry that the Bush administration was willing to force price reductions for Bayer s anthrax drug Cipro but was unwilling to exercise similar clout to reduce the cost of AIDS
- State Agency Helps HIV-Positive People Get Back into the Workforce
- San Francisco Examiner (11.05.01) - Friday, November 09, 2001
- Tanya Pampalone
- Thanks to improved drug therapies, HIV-positive people are re- entering the workforce in higher numbers each year. Many are eager to get back to work, but that can be tough in a job market reeling from the economic downturn. Earlier this year, the California Employment Development Department took action, implementing J
- Wyoming AIDS Numbers Don't Tell Entire Story
- Denver Post (11.09.01) - Friday, November 09, 2001
- Allison Sherry
- One new person has been diagnosed with AIDS this year in Wyoming. That s one person in 500,000 residents, tying this state with North Dakota for the lowest AIDS rate in the nation. Comparably, Colorado has 140 new AIDS cases in about 4.3 million people; California has had roughly 2,300 new cases this year in its 34.4 m
- Zambia Seeks to Criminalize Deliberate AIDS Spread
- CNN.com (11.01.01) - Tuesday, November 6, 2001
- Reuters
- The government of Zambia last week said it would introduce a law making the deliberate spread of HIV/AIDS a crime punishable by up to 20 years in jail. If enacted, the legislation would be the first such law in Africa. One Zambian adult in five has HIV/AIDS.
- No Second Term for Surgeon General
- New York Times (11.06.01) - Tuesday, November 6, 2001
- Gina Kolata
- US Surgeon General Dr. David Satcher has announced he will leave office when his term expires on Feb. 12. Satcher, who was appointed by President Clinton and took office in 1998, has issued more reports than any other surgeon general. Last summer, Satcher released a report on sexuality that supported sex education, say
- Rio Man Become First Brazilian to Test Potential AIDS Vaccine
- Associated Press (11.05.01) - Tuesday, November 6, 2001
- Michael Astor
- A 38-year-old man was injected with an experimental AIDS vaccine Monday, becoming the first Brazilian to take part in clinical trials of two potential vaccines already being tested in the United States . The US National Institutes of Health is sponsoring the Brazil study in conjunction with the Federal University of Ri
- Kenyans Seek Help in AIDS Fight
- Times-Picayune (New Orleans) (11.03.01) - Tuesday, November 6, 2001
- Rhonda Bell
- Last week, Mary Makokha and Dawo Kawa were in New Orleans to gain support for the battle against the spread of HIV/AIDS in Kenya with the help of American nonprofit groups. Makokha and Kawa were guests of the National Minority AIDS Council, which held workshops for about 200 HIV/AIDS activists. The council is one of se
- AIDS Conference Puts Focus on Minority Women's Issues
- Denver Post (11.04.01) - Tuesday, November 6, 2001
- Sheba R Wheeler
- More than 180 women attended the annual 2001 Women of Color Conference on HIV and AIDS Saturday in Colorado. The Colorado AIDS Project, which coordinated and sponsored the conference, reported that HIV/AIDS continues to be on the rise among Hispanic and black women. Primary factors include a lack of information, cultur
- Feasibility, Safety, and Efficacy of Injectable Heroin Prescription for Refractory Opioid Addicts: A Follow-up Study
- Lancet (10.27.01) Vol 358; No 9291: P 1385 - Tuesday, November 6, 2001
- Jurgen Rehm; Patrick Gschwend; Thomas Steffen; Felix Gutzwiller; Anja Bobler-Mikola; Ambros Uchtenhagen
- The 1980s saw an increase in problems related to heroin use in Switzerland . Partly due to the easy availability of drugs and negative public attitudes, the problem continued to increase into the 1990s. Public health authorities implemented various measures to cut down on the spread of disease due to increased drug use
- AIDS Activists Applaud ASEAN Drug Initiative
- Agence France Presse (11.06.01) - Tuesday, November 6, 2001
- Southeast Asian AIDS activists hailed an Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) declaration Monday to launch a four-year war on the regional HIV/AIDS epidemic. The program would include the supply of affordable drugs for people living with AIDS. People living with HIV/AIDS need care and support not only for imp
- AIDS Myth Fuels South Africa's Child-Rape Scourge
- CNN.com (11.05.01) - Tuesday, November 6, 2001
- Reuters
- South Africa is in shock over a surge in the rape of children and even babies -fueled, activists say, by the myth that sex with a virgin will protect a man against AIDS. On Monday, 3,000 demonstrators outside the courthouse in Upington demanded the reinstatement of the death penalty for six men accused of raping a 9-
- AIDS Czar Visits New York City
- New York Blade (11.02.01) - Tuesday, November 6, 2001
- Inga Sorensen
- On a visit to New York last week, White House Office of National AIDS Policy Director Scott Evertz sought to reassure advocates that HIV/AIDS won t vanish from the Bush administration s radar screen in the wake of the Sept. 11 attacks against the United States . Nothing has changed around HIV/AIDS. In fact, as you know
- HIV Practices Face Grim Financial Times
- New York Times (11.06.01) - Tuesday, November 6, 2001
- David Tuller
- As new drug combinations are helping HIV-infected people live longer, a growing number of doctors treating them are struggling to keep their practices afloat, largely due to changes in health care financing. I loved the private practice, but I could see the handwriting on the wall, said Dr. Jeff Goodgame, who left his
- Technology News in Brief from California
- Associated Press (11.02.01) - Monday, November 5, 2001
- Freeplay Foundation of South Africa is a recipient of the first Tech Museum of Innovation Awards. The company distributes wind-up/solar-powered radios to people in Africa as a way to spread AIDS prevention information. Freeplay was one of five recipients honored with $50,000 awards Thursday night in San Jose, Calif. Th
- AIDS Devastates Pool of South African Teachers
- Associated Press (11.04.01) - Monday, November 5, 2001
- The number of South African teachers who died of HIV/AIDS in the past year increased by more than 40 percent. Citing figures compiled by the country s major teachers union, the Sunday Times said that 1,011 union teachers died between June 2000 and May 2001 from HIV/AIDS-related diseases, compared to 701 the previous ye
- More than 41,000 People Infected with HIV in Vietnam
- Associated Press (11.04.01) - Monday, November 5, 2001
- Vietnam has 41,030 people who have tested positive for HIV, a health ministry official said Monday. As of the end of September, 6,138 people were known to have AIDS while another 3,372 had died from the disease since the first HIV case was detected in 1990. The official said 7,047 people were found to be HIV-positive
- Threat of a Different Disease
- Los Angeles Times (10.31.01) - Monday, November 5, 2001
- Refugee camps near Afghanistan , now being sought out by hundreds of thousands of people fleeing the war, are in danger of becoming giant petri dishes for the spread of a highly contagious and potentially deadly disease: tuberculosis. Last year in the United States , TB was at an all-time low, infecting 16,
- Feisty Priest Brings Hope to Bangkok's Neediest
- Toronto Star (11.05.01) - Monday, November 5, 2001
- Leslie Scrivener
- The images slide by -beautiful children with the hollow- eyed look of sickness. Father Joe Maier knows each by name, and his commentary is heartbreaking. They re both dead. God love them. Maier s work in Bangkok s slums is heroic. More than half a million people have benefited from the schools, hospices, legal aid clin
- Neighborhood Poverty and the Resurgence of Tuberculosis in New York City, 1984-1992
- American Journal of Public Health (09.01.01) Vol 91; No 9: P 1487-1493 - Monday, November 5, 2001
- R Graham Barr, MD, MPH; Ana V Diez-Roux, MD, PhD; Charles A Knirsch, MD, MPH; Ariel Pablos-Méndez, MD, MPH
- The resurgence of tuberculosis in New York City in the 1980s and early 1990s was due to a group of factors that included AIDS, immigration, injection drug use, multi-drug resistance, homelessness and nosocomial transmission, as well as a breakdown in public health measures. As TB incidence grew from 1,307 cases in 1978
- HIV Rise in Russia May Lead to TB Epidemic-Doctors
- Reuters (11.02.01) - Monday, November 5, 2001
- A rapid rise in the number of people infected with HIV in Russia could lead to a TB epidemic there, scientists warned on Friday. An estimated 16 million people, or one in six, in Russia are already infected with TB. A 33-fold increase in HIV infections since 1997 could propel the number even higher, Russian and America
- Southeastern Asian Leaders to Seek Cheaper AIDS Drugs to Fight Regional Epidemic
- Associated Press (11.05.01) - Monday, November 5, 2001
- Rohan Sullivan
- Noting that political and economic turmoil in Southeast Asia has accelerated the spread of infection, the heads of state of 10 members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) announced today that they would treat AIDS as a national priority. The declaration came during ASEAN s annual summit, attended also
- Patents or Poverty? New Debate over Lack of AIDS Care in Africa
- New York Times (11.05.01) - Monday, November 5, 2001
- Donald G McNeil Jr
- A new debate over the AIDS epidemic in Africa has erupted, pitting traditional foes against each other: drug companies vs. AIDS activists. Marshaled by a recent article published in the Journal of the American Medical Association , the foes face-off as the November 9th meeting in Doha, Q
- Official: War on Disease Still Key
- Associated Press (11.02.01) - Monday, November 5, 2001
- George Gedda
- Dr. Norman Neurieter, who advises Secretary of State Colin Powell on science and technology issues, said on Friday that the war on terrorism must not deflect attention from the need to combat infectious diseases, some of which could engulf entire continents if left unchecked. The United States and the international
- Tuberculosis Scare
- Associated Press (10.31.01) - Friday, November 02, 2001
- Merrimack High School in Merrimack, N.H., tested 130 people for TB after a student was confirmed to have the disease. High school staff learned of the student s illness over the weekend and officials decided to treat other people at the school on Monday.
- One Percent of Pregnant Women in Delhi HIV Positive
- Times of India (11.01.01) - Friday, November 02, 2001
- One percent of all the pregnant women in India s capital are HIV-positive, according to the Indian Academy of Pediatrics. It is feared that up to 30 percent of children born to these women will get infected with the virus. Due to the urgency of the situation, the academy organized a two-day National Conference on Pedia
- Official HIV Cases in Kazakstan Double in a Year
- Associated Press (10.31.01) - Friday, November 02, 2001
- The official number of people infected with HIV in Kazakstan has nearly doubled this year, the country s chief doctor announced Wednesday. Although the official count this year is 2,256, he estimated that the actual figure is ten times higher. Anatoly Belonog told a news conference in the capital of Astana that most pe
- An Altered AIDS Debate
- Washington Post (11.02.01) - Friday, November 02, 2001
- Rich countries have been so indifferent to the developing world s AIDS crisis that it is easy to overlook an instance in which they have done the right thing. In a speech on Tuesday Robert Zoellick, the administration s trade representative, announced two concessions to developing countries that cannot afford patented
- AIDS Walk Revenue May Drop 30 Percent
- Southern Voice (Atlanta) (10.26.01) - Friday, November 02, 2001
- Laura Douglas-Brown
- Organizers of Atlanta s 11th annual AIDS Walk say revenue from this year s event could total 20 to 30 percent less than last year, meaning a cut in funds for all 15 benefiting agencies. The Oct. 14 walk raised a little over $1 million, said Chris Parsons, financial director for AID Atlanta. AID Atlanta coordinates the
- CD-ROM Brings HIV/AIDS Information to Countries with Poor Internet Services
- Associated Press (11.01.01) - Friday, November 02, 2001
- For doctors in developing countries in Africa and Asia, finding the latest information on HIV/AIDS is nearly impossible because of sluggish and unreliable Internet connections. A new CD-ROM produced by University of California-San Francisco s (UCSF) HIV InSite may help to bridge the information gap. The CD, titled Wome
- HIV-Positive Individuals May Delay Telling Casual Sex Partners
- Reuters Health (10.31.01) - Friday, November 02, 2001
- Some people with HIV infection may not tell their sexual partners or family members until the disease has progressed. The last in line to know of a person s HIV status seem to be casual sex partners, according to a study presented at the American Public Health Association meeting in Atlanta last week. Megan E. O Brien
- Zambia Seeks HIV Test for Presidential Candidates
- Associated Press (11.01.01) - Friday, November 02, 2001
- The Zambian government was expected to present this week a bill compelling presidential candidates to undergo an HIV/AIDS test, a parliament source confirmed Thursday. It is true the bill is among those coming for reading before the adjournment on Friday. Members of parliament are expected to expediently pass it, said
- Stop TB Partnership to Focus on Afghanistan and Pakistan
- Lancet (10.27.01) Vol 358; No 9291: P 1431 - Friday, November 02, 2001
- Khabir Ahmad
- The Stop TB Partnership Forum in Washington, D.C., warned in late October that efforts to control TB in Afghanistan have been seriously disrupted. The coalition of more than 120 organizations, including the World Health Organization (WHO) and the World Bank, launched the Global Plan to Stop TB. The multi- billion dolla
- Activists Protest US Position on Patent Rights
- Washington Post (11.02.01) - Friday, November 02, 2001
- Activists wielding paper skulls gave a rousing send-off Thursday to US trade representatives heading to Qatar for next week s meetings of the World Trade Organization. Just before evening rush hour, about 300 people gathered outside the Washington, D.C., office of US Trade Representative Robert B. Zoellick. The activis
- General Assembly Tentatively Reschedules Children's Summit for May
- Associated Press (10.30.01) - Wednesday, October 31, 2001
- The UN Children s Summit, which was postponed because of the terror attacks on the United States , has been tentatively rescheduled for May, UN officials said Tuesday. All regional groups in the General Assembly have agreed to hold the summit May 8-10. More than 75 world leaders, thousands of delegates and hundreds of
- Across the USA: Michigan
- USA Today (10.29.01) - Wednesday, October 31, 2001
- Magic Johnson, a former Michigan State basketball star, is returning to play against the Spartans in an AIDS benefit. The former Los Angeles Laker will lead his own all-star squad in the exhibition game Friday at the Breslin Center in East Lansing, Mich. Johnson, who tested HIV-positive 10 years ago, has been raising f
- South Africa to Spend More Fighting Crime, AIDS
- Associated Press (10.30.01) - Wednesday, October 31, 2001
- South Africa plans to boost spending to fight crime and the AIDS pandemic over the next three years, Finance Minister Trevor Manuel told Parliament Tuesday. Provincial governments spent $430 million this year on HIV-related disease. That spending will increase over the next three years, Manuel said, though he gave no
- Haunted House Wants Safer Teen Sex
- Newsday (New York) (10.30.01) - Wednesday, October 31, 2001
- Lucas L Johnson II
- Teenagers may have outgrown their fear of ghouls and goblins, but Nashville health officials believe their haunted house has something far scarier: gonorrhea and genital warts. Hoping to combat one of the nation s highest rates of STDs, health officials have staged the STD Free! Haunted House. We want to scare their pa
- HIV Study
- City News Service (Los Angeles) (10.22.01) - Wednesday, October 31, 2001
- It s no secret that stress is bad for your health, but the consequences could be especially severe for those infected with HIV, according to a UCLA study. Stress enables HIV to spread more quickly in infected persons and prevents antiretroviral drugs from restoring immune system function, according to a UCLA statement.