Category Archives: HIV/AIDS

Reports track current progress, pitfalls, funding and gaps of AIDS fight

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On the eve of Secretary Hillary Clinton’s release of the first United States global AIDS response strategy, two reports released in recent days give a look not only of the progress so far, but of the shortfalls the new plan must address. Achieving the End, One Year and Counting, from AVAC, looks at the scientific […]

UNAIDS reports promising results against global HIV ahead of World AIDS Day

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The latest World AIDS Day report from the Joint United Nations Program on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS), released on Tuesday, shows unprecedented reductions in new HIV/AIDS infections, overall prevalence, and HIV/AIDS related deaths, while more people than ever have access to antiretroviral therapy (ART) – all thanks to an acceleration in the global AIDS response. The report, […]

New report on children and TB, Global Fund considers new approaches to ending AIDS, and UK activists call for Blueprint

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Out of the Dark – Meeting the needs of children with TB: Last week, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) presented findings from their latest report on children and TB at the Union World Conference on Lung Health in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.  The study found that a whopping 93 percent of children tested for TB are misdiagnosed, […]

Study’s yield could extend reach of HPV vaccine, but probably not where need is greatest

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Administered before girls start  having sex, vaccines against the human papillomavirus — HPV — offer their greatest protection against infections that can lead to cervical cancer. Since the vaccination can only prevent infection, the benefits after the start of sex  — to individual girls and women, as well as to public health — diminish in […]