News tagged with health aid
A world first: Vaccine helps prevent HIV infection
(PhysOrg.com) -- In an encouraging development, an investigational vaccine regimen has been shown to be well-tolerated and to have a modest effect in preventing HIV infection in a clinical trial involving ...
Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS
Sep 24, 2009 |
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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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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 ...
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Feb 08, 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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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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AIDS: Vaccine shows positive results in small trial - researchers
An HIV vaccine tested in Tanzania has shown positive results in preliminary trials and may provide better protection than a promising Thai vaccine unveiled on September 24, Swedish researchers said Monday.
Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS
Oct 19, 2009 |
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African men who have sex with men are ostracised from HIV services
(PhysOrg.com) -- Men who have sex with men (MSM) in sub-Saharan Africa are a hidden, stigmatised group which suffers from a high burden of HIV infection without access to appropriate public health provision, ...
Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS
Jul 20, 2009 |
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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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Developing countries devote more funding to health, except many in sub-Saharan Africa
The commitment to health by country governments in the developing world has grown dramatically over the last two decades, according to a new study by the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) ...
Apr 09, 2010 |
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Doubling health spending in low-income countries improving health less than expected
(PhysOrg.com) -- Low-income countries have doubled their spending on health overall, reports a major new study over 12 years ending in 2006, but international health aid may not be adding as much as expected ...
Apr 26, 2010 |
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Researchers question evidence linking overlapping sexual partners and African HIV rates
Contrary to conventional wisdom, scientific evidence proving that overlapping multiple sexual partners — concurrency — drives the HIV epidemic in sub-Saharan Africa is actually quite limited, Brown University researchers ...
Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS
Oct 22, 2009 |
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WHO: Not sure if drug-resistant TB is worsening
(AP) -- The World Health Organization says it doesn't have enough information to know if it is winning the fight against drug-resistant tuberculosis.
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Mar 18, 2010 |
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New analysis details devastating toll of neglected tropical diseases in sub-Saharan Africa
An analysis published August 25 in the open-access journal PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases sheds new light on the toll that neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) take on sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), with an estimated 500 millio ...
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Aug 25, 2009 |
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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 ...
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Jul 19, 2010 |
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WHO: AIDS leading cause of death, disease in women
(AP) -- In its first study of women's health around the globe, the World Health Organization said Monday that the AIDS virus is the leading cause of death and disease among women between the ages of 15 and 44.
Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS
Nov 09, 2009 |
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