News tagged with health aid
AIDS drug supplies dwindling in Swaziland
(AP) -- Cash-strapped Swaziland's state hospitals have only two months' supplies of AIDS drugs, the country's health minister has told parliament in an assessment that AIDS patients and activists took as a death sentence.
Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS
Jun 28, 2011 |
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Longevity of AIDS patients presents new risks: US
Thirty years after the AIDS epidemic first surfaced, more people than ever before in the United States -- more than 1.1 million -- are living with HIV, the Centers for Disease Control said Thursday.
Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS
Jun 02, 2011 |
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Headway being made fighting communicable diseases globally: study
Those working for healthier humans around the globe are making headway in fighting communicable diseases such as AIDS, malaria and diarrheal illness, according to research from the Frederick S. Pardee Center for International ...
Mar 14, 2011 |
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Little historical evidence to support cutting global health aid during recessions
The World Bank and World Health Organization have voiced fears that policymakers will break their commitments to support desperately needed global health services in low- and middle-income countries because of the ongoing ...
Feb 25, 2011 |
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Huge decline in HIV rates in Zimbabwe driven by fear of infection, says study
The big drop in the numbers of people infected with HIV in Zimbabwe is because of mass social change, driven by fear of infection, according to an international study reported today in the journal PLoS Medicine. The scient ...
Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS
Feb 08, 2011 |
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IMF loan policies ‘hampering aid efforts’
A study has tested whether aid to tackle disease and improve healthcare actually translates into a better health system for the countries that receive it.
Jan 18, 2011 |
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The hidden impact of aids on South African children
December 1st is World AIDS day. There are 33.4 million people worldwide living with HIV, 67per cent in the Sub-Saharan Africa region. In South Africa alone, 5.6 million people are HIV-positive, with only 22 per cent having ...
Dec 01, 2010 |
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Number of HIV/AIDS cases in sub-Saharan Africa expected to greatly outpace resources
The number of people infected with HIV/AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa is projected to far outstrip available resources for treatment by the end of the decade, forcing African nations to make difficult choices about how to allocate ...
Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS
Nov 29, 2010 |
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Cholera fears spark anti-clinic protest in Haiti
(AP) -- Protesters threw rocks at a cholera treatment center as it was preparing to open in the city of St. Marc on Tuesday, highlighting the fear surrounding a disease that was almost unknown in Haiti before it began spreading ...
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Oct 27, 2010 |
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Testing African couples for HIV is cost-effective prevention strategy
As researchers and policymakers work toward an effective HIV vaccine in a constrained global economy, cost-effective prevention strategies such as Couples Voluntary Counseling and Testing (CVCT) must take a larger role in ...
Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS
Sep 30, 2010 |
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SAfrican AIDS orphans aging
(AP) -- When the Mohau children's home opened in 1997, orphans with AIDS died every other day. But these days, not one child has been lost in seven years - and as they age with the help of drugs they face ...
Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS
Sep 30, 2010 |
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Malawi adopts UN guidelines on AIDS
(AP) -- Malawi's vice president says her AIDS-ravaged southern African country will adopt the latest U.N. health guidelines that call for putting HIV-positive people on drugs sooner.
Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS
Sep 29, 2010 |
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Education more important than knowledge in stopping spread of HIV in Africa
Simply teaching people the facts about how to protect themselves from HIV may not be enough to prevent the spread of AIDS in Africa, a new study suggests.
Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS
Sep 08, 2010 |
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On-the-job injuries hurt home health care industry
Training can alleviate some of the pain that occupational injuries bring to the long-term care industry, according to Penn State researchers. The study looked at injuries among home health aides.
Aug 09, 2010 |
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WHO: 5.2 million people on AIDS drugs in 2009
(AP) -- The number of people taking crucial AIDS drugs climbed by a record 1.2 million last year to 5.2 million overall, the World Health Organization said Monday - but Bill Clinton says that's still not ...
Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS
Jul 19, 2010 |
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