Washington - A groundbreaking program called Nurses Strengthening Our AIDS Response, or simply Nurses SOAR, is sending nurses specially trained in HIV/AIDS care from the United States to hospitals and clinics in Africa to act as mentors for increasingly burdened nursing staffs. In 2007, sub-Saharan Africa accounted for
(begin text) THE WHITE HOUSE | Office of the Press Secretary | November 26, 2008 | WORLD AIDS DAY, 2008 - - - - - - - BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA A PROCLAMATION As Americans, we believe in the inherent dignity and value of every man, woman, and child. On World AIDS Day, we recommit ourselves to the
According to estimates from the UNAIDS 2008 Report on the Global AIDS Epidemic, around 30.8 million adults and 2 million children were living with HIV at the end of 2007. On December 1, at 8 a.m. EST (13:00 GMT), in commemoration of World AIDS Day, Dr. Amita Gupta will discuss the impact of HIV/AIDS, the fight against
Washington - For World AIDS Day, December 1, United States leaders are calling on Americans to celebrate life and commemorate those who were once dying but are now living and thriving in the fight against the global epidemic of HIV/AIDS. The State Department encouraged its posts to mark AIDS Day 2008 by celebrating th
-- Spending cuts could undermine investment in AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria Washington - Less than a month after officials from countries around the world traveled to Washington to attend the October 21 White House Summit on International Development, another group of leaders will meet to discuss the financial turmoil t
-- Child receiving medical exam (U.S. Air Force) U.S. service members traveled to four villages in Mali as part of a multinational medical training exercise. Washington - The U.S. Defense Department s newest regional military headquarters - the Africa Command, called AFRICOM - is set to streamline a range of operations
-- Honored for discovery of fluorescent protein, advances in particle physics Washington - Four Americans are among the nine recipients of the 2008 Nobel Prizes in chemistry, physics, and medicine or physiology, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm announced during the week of
Mamelodi - In this dusty, crowded township of about 400,000 people, the South African government is driving forward a policy that is key to the country s survival of the HIV/AIDS epidemic and to its long-term economic growth: reading. The U.S. government supports this policy by financing and programming two reading pro
President Bush praised Ghanaian President John Kufuor for his strong leadership and for active support in conflict resolution across Africa. And Bush thanked Kufuor and the nation of Ghana for participation in 11 continuing U.N. peacekeeping operations, including efforts to bring about a resolution of the conflict in t
Washington - African health and environment ministers gathered for the first time August 26-29 in Libreville, Gabon , to build a strategic alliance aimed at helping their nations reduce environmental threats to human health and well-being. Diseases caused by environmental change are responsible for many deaths in Afric
-- Scientists studying HIV s effect on measles control in African children Washington -- Measles is a common childhood disease often eclipsed in international health news by deadly HIV/AIDS and highly pathogenic avian influenza, but new measles outbreaks occurred in the United States and other countries in 2008, and
Washington -- Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) is a global epidemic of the greatest urgency. Over the past 25 years, more than 25 million people have died of AIDS-related illnesses, and an estimated 33 million people now live with the precursor to AIDS, human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). The theme of the 17th
Washington -- HIV/AIDS is the focus of world attention for scientists, policymakers, activists and patients as the 17th International AIDS conference meets in Mexico City August 3-8 and the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS ( UNAIDS ) releases its 2008 Report on the Global AIDS Epidemic. The world s larges
Washington -- President Bush signed into law July 30 a five-year extension of the President s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), launched in 2003 as a five-year, $15 billion multifaceted approach to fighting the disease around the world. The new legislation increases the U.S. financial commitment, authorizing up
Life expectancy for patients with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) has increased by more than 13 years since the late 1990s thanks to advances in anti-retroviral therapy, according to researchers at the University of Alabama-Birmingham and Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, British Columbia. In a study published i
-- U.S. medical agency decides not to conduct proposed vaccine study HIV budding from cultured lymphocyte (CDC/C. Goldsmith) Scanning electron micrograph shows HIV budding from cultured lymphocyte. Washington - The 20-year effort to develop a vaccine that protects against the AIDS-causing human immunodeficiency virus (
Washington - Prevention remains a major challenge for those who develop and implement programs to fight HIV/AIDS worldwide, according to attendees of the 2008 HIV/AIDS Implementers Meeting held June 3-7 in Uganda . Implementers are those engaged in bringing information and services to people affected by the HIV/AIDS ep
Washington -- Those who deliver HIV/AIDS programs to the growing number of people who need prevention, treatment and care in 15 nations hit hardest by the disease will gather in Kampala, Uganda , June 3-7 to share what they have learned and influence future AIDS programs. The theme of this second annual HIV/AIDS Implem
Washington -- Fifteen years ago, a young specialist in pediatric infectious diseases watched, and mourned, as the number of infants born infected with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), a retrovirus that causes acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS), skyrocketed. But now, Dr. Shaffiq Essajee works with health c
Washington -- The pace of progress in the intense battle between global public health officials and Mycobacterium tuberculosis -- the cause of an airborne infectious disease epidemic that killed 1.7 million people in 2006 -- slowed during that year, according to the World Health Organization (WHO). Global Tuber
Atlanta -- In an era of pandemics like HIV/AIDS and emerging diseases like highly pathogenic avian influenza and multidrug-resistant tuberculosis, disease surveillance is critical to early detection and response. Until the early 1990s, such surveillance -- systematic data collection and analysis -- consisted largely of
Washington -- Drug-resistant forms of the airborne infectious disease tuberculosis (TB) are spreading around the world, raising concern among health leaders and prompting a global response to these emerging and often lethal contagions. The response includes a new World Health Organization (WHO) report, Anti-Tubercu
Dar es Salaam - The Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) Compact with Tanzania will provide nearly $700 million in five years to improve the country s transportation network, secure reliable supplies of energy and expand access to clean and safe water, President Bush says. The compact with Tanzania is the largest suc
Dar es Salaam - The first ladies of the United States and Tanzania are launching Tanzania s National Plan of Action for Orphans and Vulnerable Children to go into neighborhoods throughout Tanzania to identify and provide services to children who have been orphaned or are vulnerable as a result of HIV/AIDS.
Washington, DC - Deadly infectious diseases, especially HIV/AIDS, have brought humanitarian and economic disaster to sub-Saharan Africa in recent decades as developing countries there have coped with the loss of life, orphaned children and a shortage of working-age adults. One of the hallmarks of President Bush s admin
Washington -- Soon after Tatu Msangi, a registered nurse from Tanzania , discovered she was pregnant, she also learned she was infected with the HIV virus. In recent years, she would have faced the prospect of passing the virus on to her unborn child. However, her ability to participate in a U.S.-funded program to prev
Washington -- Among the distinguished guests who will be attending President Bush s State of the Union address January 28 will be a mother and daughter from Tanzania . Tatu Msangi and her 2-year-old daughter, Faith, will join first lady Laura Bush in her box at the historic speech. Msangi, from Moshi, Tanzania, is
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