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UN Report: AIDS Spreading Across Eastern Europe and Central Asia
By Katie Drummond - AOL News(July 20) -- AIDS is spreading in Eastern Europe and Central Asia, especially among marginalized youth, according to warnings from United Nations advocates at this week's International HIV/AIDS Conference in Vienna. Rates of HIV in the region, which includes Russia and Georgia, have been climbing for much of the past decade. The illness afflicted about 1.5 million people in 2008, according to the U.N. That represents a 66 percent increase over seven years. "Eastern Europe and Central Asia are the only parts of the world where the HIV epidemic remains clearly on the rise," reads the ...
Obama to Unveil New Plan for Combatting HIV, AIDS
By not in system - AOL NewsWASHINGTON (July 13) -- President Barack Obama is announcing a new national strategy for combatting HIV and AIDS aimed at helping reduce the number of infections and providing those living with the virus high-quality care free from stigma or discrimination. The strategy calls for reducing the rate of new HIV infections by 25 percent over the next five years, and for getting treatment to 85 percent of patients within three months of their diagnosis. Administration officials, including Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius and domestic policy chairwoman Melody Barnes, were to ...
Government Panel Considers Lifting Ban on Gay Blood Donors
By Katie Drummond - Politics DailyA decades-old ban that prevents men who have had sex with other men from donating blood could soon be lifted, or at least relaxed, as a federal panel meets to reconsider the regulation. Established in 1985, in the midst of a surging HIV/AIDS crisis, the law prohibits blood donation by any man who, since 1977, has had intercourse with another man. Since 2000, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has reviewed the ban twice, without changing it. But under renewed pressure from advocacy groups, politicians and blood donation organizations, the government's Health and Human Services Advisory ...
Researcher: We Can Eliminate HIV/AIDS in 40 Years
By Ria Misra - Politics DailyThe Holy Grail of AIDS research has long been the development of a vaccine to halt the spread of the virus. But what if, using only the medicines we already have right now, we could eliminate AIDS within the next 40 years? According to Dr. Brian Williams, an AIDS researcher for the South African Center for Epidemiological Modeling and Analysis, it is possible -- we just need to think bigger. On the surface, the strategy is disarmingly simple: New antiretroviral HIV/AIDS drugs aim to slow the spread of the disease by keeping the concentration levels of the virus in the body low, which also ...
South Africa Gets Real on AIDS Crisis
By Theunis Bates - AOL News(Nov. 4) -- After failing for years to face up to its tragic status as the country most ravaged by HIV/AIDS, South Africa is taking a dramatic new approach to the epidemic that experts say could stop a hemorrhage of unnecessary death. AIDS causes about 350,000 deaths per year in South Africa, which has 5.7 million HIV-infected people -- more than any other nation in the world. And yet instead of declaring war on the disease, former President Thabo Mbeki spent much of the past decade denying it. Under Mbeki, the South African government delayed the launch of lifesaving drug treatment ...
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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