Washington - On World AIDS Day, December 1, U.S. leaders called on every American to play a role in the fight against the global epidemic of HIV/AIDS. U.S. agencies leading the nation s campaign against the disease focus on the promise of partnerships on AIDS Day 2006, emphasizing the critical role that every individua
Washington -- Every day in communities throughout the developing world, U.S. Peace Corps volunteers are teaching people how to fight the spread of HIV/AIDS and helping to organize services for those already affected by the disease. The spread of HIV/AIDS is one of the most serious threats to development. By earning tru
Morris Kaburu, age 20, like many others in Kenya , has lost one or both parents to HIV/AIDS. At age 8, Kaburu lost his mother. Then, with a father who took very little care of his needs and uncles who sent him away from the only home he knew, hope seemed like a myth. Kaburu, struggling through life with a stepmother an
Diagnosing children with HIV before they are 18 months old has proven difficult in Uganda and other developing nations. Many untreated, HIV-positive infants die before their second birthday. Now, early infant diagnostic technologies supported by the U.S. President s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (Emergency Plan/PEPFAR
Philani Mono, a resident of South Africa , has experienced first-hand the benefits of President Bush s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief. Philani, center, and friends, Alex, left, and Lucky, at the Aurum Care Centre. (U.S. Embassy/South Africa) Philani Mono, a resident of South Africa, has experienced first-hand the benef
In Mozambique , Muslim women are engaged actively in partnerships in hope of turning the tide of the HIV/AIDS pandemic. With support from the U.S. President s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR/Emergency Plan), the Muslim Women s Association in the town of Quelimane receives training to improve members knowledge o
Washington -- The number of people living with HIV/AIDS climbed in 2006, the 25th year since first detection of the virus, according to an annual survey of the epidemic conducted by the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS ( UNAIDS ) and the World Health Organization (WHO), released in Geneva November 21.
Washington -- In many of the world s poor regions, where HIV/AIDS has taken the worst toll, the virus and malnutrition are locked in a vicious cycle that worsens the impact of both. Insufficient intake [of calories] can enhance the progression of the virus, said Suneetha Kadiyala, a scientist at the International Food
The sub-Saharan African nation of Botswana is at the epicenter of the worldwide HIV pandemic. About 24 percent of the population between ages 15 and 49 carry the virus-one of the world s highest prevalence rates. The 2006 Report on the Global AIDS Epidemic, issued by the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS in Ma
Washington – Steadily increasing the delivery of care and treatment to people with HIV/AIDS is a key objective of U.S. assistance to nations battling the epidemic, but building the involvement, talents and skills of grassroots organizations to sustain the long-term campaign against the disease is another goal. [A]t lea
The following op-ed, co-authored by Dr. Ibrahim Mohammed, director of Kenya s National AIDS/STI [sexually transmitted infecitions] Control Program, and Dr. Mark Dybul, U.S. Global AIDS Coordinator of the President s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, appeared in the Toronto Star August 16, 2006. There are no republication
Washington - An estimated 12 million children are at risk in Africa, orphaned or left vulnerable and impoverished by the AIDS epidemic, according to a report issued by the U.N. Children s Fund (UNICEF) August 14. This latest survey of the youngest victims of the epidemic is an update of an earlier report conducted in 2
Washington - Community efforts in developing countries focused on combating HIV/AIDS are strong and growing, says the top U.S. HIV/AIDS official. Results of those efforts, implemented in partnership with the U.S. President s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), are depicted in Voices of Hope, a new documentary film
Washington - Twenty five years after the first detection of the HIV virus, medical science has identified how effectively to treat and prevent infection, but extending those treatments and practices to almost 40 million people worldwide living with HIV/AIDS remains a challenge, according to a report released August 11
Dr. Mark R. Dybul, acting U.S. Global AIDS Coordinator (DoS) Washington -- The combined efforts of a U.S.-backed global AIDS program and other international initiatives are bringing on a tipping point in the battle to quell the HIV/AIDS epidemic, according to the top U.S. HIV/AIDS official. [It is] the point at which w
Washington - The U.S. Senate voted late August 3 to confirm Dr. Mark Dybul as ambassador for the Office of the U.S. Global AIDS Coordinator (GAC) in the U.S. Department of State. A physician and a researcher, Dybul s job as head of GAC is to oversee the U.S. international response to the global HIV/AIDS crisis, and spe
Washington - Scientists are finding that the HIV virus is able to hide deep inside human tissues, and elude the drugs that are attempting to restore the immune system. University of California Davis (UC Davis) researchers conducted the study with support from the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The findings are re
Washington - Andre is a slightly plump 9-year-old boy who can eat six pieces of pizza in a single sitting. He is gregarious and active and dreams of someday becoming either a fireman or an airplane pilot. That he seems like any other normal boy in the fourth grade is what makes him so remarkable: Andre has HIV/AIDS.
Washington - The governments of the United States and Vietnam have agreed to increase bilateral cooperation on health issues, emphasizing efforts to control emerging diseases, avian and pandemic influenza, and HIV/AIDS, according to an announcement from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).
Washington - Infectious diseases are the leading cause of death worldwide, inhibiting progress and development in many nations, and leaders of the Group of Eight (G8) nations are determined to achieve tangible progress to lessen the burden of disease. The avian influenza pandemic among birds that emerged in late 2003 a
Washington - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration ( FDA ) has approved a new one-pill, once-a-day medication that could simplify a difficult drug regimen for AIDS patients in both the United States and the developing world. The FDA July 12 approved Atripla™ tablets, manufactured in an unusual alliance between two majo
Washington - U.S. and Indian health officials signed three joint statements June 29 pledging bilateral cooperation in addressing HIV/AIDS, environmental hazards, and maternal and child health issues. U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Michael Leavitt met with his Indian counterpart, Minister of Health and Fami
Washington -- American investor Warren Buffett s $31 billion donation to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is a generous and welcome gift, said Stephane Dujarric, spokesman for U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan, in a briefing on June 27. The Secretary-General has always encouraged increased partnerships with civil
Washington - Unsafe blood transfusions play a role in the transmission of HIV/AIDS, malaria and viral hepatitis in developing countries, especially sub-Saharan Africa, and U.S. health and assistance agencies are working to establish sustainable blood safety programs in that region. Officials from the State Department,
Two little girls had lost their parents. Then they learned they have AIDS. No one wants them. An alarming 90 percent of the 5.1 million people in India infected with HIV/AIDS don t know they have contracted the HIV virus that causes AIDS until a crisis occurs. So when a parent dies unexpectedly or a newborn becomes ill
Washington - The nongovernmental organization (NGO) Africare, working in close cooperation with Africans in 26 countries, has made significant progress in combating some of the continent s most urgent problems, such as poverty, famine and disease, said Julius E. Coles, Africare president, at a talk June 20 at the Woman
Washington – Researchers from the United States , Europe and Australia are going to pool their access to patient groups in a large-scale analysis of HIV infected patients, hoping the shared knowledge will lead them to a better understanding of the body s response to the virus. Led by scientists at North Carolina s
Washington - HIV/AIDS researchers have developed a vaccine that helps prolong survival in monkeys after infection even though it does not create immunity from the virus, according to research published in the journal Science June 9. Finding a vaccine against HIV has become the most difficult scientific problem in the 2
Professional basketball star Dikembe Mutombo first became aware of HIV/AIDS when he was a high school student in his native Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Not much was known about the disease then. Mutombo, who plays with the Houston, Texas Rockets, came to the United States to study medicine, with the goal of ret
Washington - Under the President s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), 150 military medical professionals will participate in a workshop June 7-9 to improve Vietnam s capacity to battle HIV/AIDS. The Care and Treatment Workshop will examine specific aspects of treatment and care that strengthen the capacity to min
Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo - U.S. Ambassador to the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) Roger Meece June 3 helped inaugurate an HIV/AIDS care unit in the Bomoi healthcare center, a community facility operated by the Salvation Army in the capital s N Djili neighborhood. Today we celebrate a new program that p
United Nations – The President s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) is providing anti-retroviral treatment for 561,000 men, women and children in 15 of the most afflicted countries, and urges nations to intensify efforts against the disease, U.S. first lady Laura Bush announced at a meeting of world leaders on HIV
Washington - A medical oddity was reported in the June 5, 1981, edition of the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, a widely read chronicle published by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Five young, previously healthy homosexual men had turned up with Pneumocystis carinii, a form of pneumonia that
Judy Aita, Washington File United Nations Correspondent
United Nations - The focus of the U.N. General Assembly s high-level meeting on HIV/AIDS must not be on empty declarations but actions that will help save lives, prevent new infections and work toward the day when there will be an AIDS-free generation, U.S. officials say. Nations must leave U.N. headquarters with renew
Judy Aita, Washington File United Nations Correspondent
United Nations - In a precedent-setting moment May 31 a young South African woman took the podium on the opening day of the General Assembly s high-level meeting on AIDS to address representatives from more than 180 nations. The T-shirt she wore said HIV Positive. The symbolic, but important speech was the first addres
Washington - According to new data in the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS ( UNAIDS ) 2006 Report on the Global AIDS Epidemic, released May 30, the epidemic seems to be slowing down globally, but new infections continue to increase in some regions and countries. The report shows that progress has been made in
Kigali, Rwanda - The Rwandan army, respected for its efficiency, discipline and care of its troops, is expanding its HIV/AIDS prevention and treatment programs for soldiers and civilians with help from President Bush s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR). The United Nations reported in December 2005 that sub-Sahara
HIV/AIDS activists, volunteers and researchers will be among those recognizing HIV/AIDS Vaccine Awareness Day May 18, an occasion that draws attention to the need for a vaccine to prevent this disease, according to the National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), one of the National Institutes of Hea
Washington - A new report by the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS ( UNAIDS ) shows that the number of people on HIV anti-retroviral treatment (ART) in low- and middle-income countries more than tripled, to 1.3 million in December 2005 from 400,000 in December 2003.
With pieces of colorful fabric, thread, glue and with determination, Haitians with HIV/AIDS gather to create art works depicting their experiences of living with the virus and their hopes for the future. The people coming together at creative workshops in cities around the country join to learn that speaking openly abo
Ambassador Randall L. Tobias, United States Global AIDS Coordinator
Thank you very much for that kind introduction. I would like to thank Dr. DeGioia for his warm welcome to the campus and for Georgetown s commitment to health research. I also want to acknowledge the State Department s Office of International Visitors, which arranged this event and the exchange program that brought the
Washington - People living with HIV/AIDS are increasingly leaders in the fight against the disease, Dr. Mark Dybul, U.S. deputy global AIDS coordinator, told a State Department hosted online discussion February 10. The USINFO Webchat focused on the February 8 release of Action Today, a Foundation for Tomorrow, the Bush
Washington - Initiatives to expand prevention, care and treatment for people living with HIV/AIDS are expanding at a steady pace, according to a second annual progress report on the President s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), released by the Office of the Global AIDS Coordinator February 8. Prevention is the f
China s AIDS epidemic shows no signs of abating, with an estimated 70,000 new HIV infections occurring in 2005, according to a report released January 25 by the Chinese Ministry of Health, the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS ( UNAIDS ) and the World Health Organization (WHO). The latest data indicate
Washington - U.S. first lady Laura Bush January 18 announced a new U.S. commitment of $163 million to fight AIDS in Nigeria and presented an initial shipment of anti-retroviral drugs to the St. Mary s Catholic Hospital outside the Nigerian capital of Abuja. While in Nigeria she also said education is a Bush administrat
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