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UN Outlines 'Treatment 2.0' to Prevent AIDS Deaths
By Betwa Sharma - AOL NewsUNITED NATIONS (July 13) -- The United Nations' AIDS agency today pushed for a simplified HIV treatment plan, called Treatment 2.0, which it says could prevent 10 million AIDS-related deaths by 2025. A report released in Geneva by UNAIDS revealed that HIV prevalence among young people has declined by more than 25 percent in 15 of the 25 countries most affected by AIDS. This is largely because of less risky sexual behavior among the youth in countries like Cameroon, Ethiopia, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Malawi, Namibia, Tanzania, Zambia and Zimbabwe. "Young people are taking the lead," UNAIDS chief ...
Circumcision Gains Ground as Anti-AIDS Measure
By Bill Morris - AOL News(Dec. 14) -- In the past year, 60,000 men have been circumcised in a single province in Kenya, raising hopes that an effective and still underutilized tool for fighting AIDS could gain acceptance across sub-Saharan Africa, where 22.4 million people are HIV-positive. Michael Stalker, deputy director of the Male Circumcision Consortium, is encouraged. "Without this effort," he says, "you would have an estimated 15,000 more people with HIV in this one province in Kenya." The consortium was formed after randomized controlled trials in Kenya, Uganda and South Africa revealed that male ...
World AIDS Day Provides a Reminder: A Lot of Work Remains
By Tamara Lytle - AOL NewsAmericans found many ways to commemorate World AIDS Day on Tuesday. Prayer vigils in Las Vegas. Free rapid-result testing in Iowa. Even a carnival ring toss in New Mexico. But the atmosphere was hardly festive. The disease may have evolved from a quick death sentence to an illness that can be managed. Yet AIDS experts warn that the global epidemic is still taking 2 million lives a year. They also point out the continued need for prevention and early diagnosis and the shortage of money for treatment. UNAIDS, a United Nations program, recently reported that the number of new infections has ...
First Glimmer of Hope for an AIDS Vaccine
By Ria Misra - Politics DailyA new vaccine created by cobbling together two older, ineffective AIDS vaccines shows the first evidence of being able to prevent the virus, though only in less than one-third of cases. Still, it's a major breakthrough and one that the scientists who completed the study are justifiably thrilled with as a first step towards finding a vaccine that could be widely used. The study, completed in Thailand on a sample of more than 16,000 people, was the result of a partnership between Thailand's Ministry of Public Health and the United States. Though it's a groundbreaking medical discovery, ...
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