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more...More than 85 million children under five years old will be immunized against polio in 19 countries across West and Central Africa in a massive example of cross-border cooperation aimed at stopping a year-long polio epidemic. Nine countries in West and Central Africa – Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Chad, Guinea, Liberia, Mali, Mauritania, Senegal and Sierra Leone – are considered to have active outbreaks of polio (i.e. cases within the last six months)…
New research on racial disparity in stroke statistics between African-Americans and whites in the U.S.
UNAIDS welcomes the increased investments by South Africa to the AIDS response. In his 2010 budget speech, Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan has proposed an allocation of US$ 1.1 billion, a 33% increase from 2009 levels. This is the biggest domestic investment made by any developing country on AIDS to date. “South Africa can directly change the trajectory of the AIDS epidemic with such bold investments,” said Mr Michel Sidibé, UNAIDS Executive Director…
Insufficient attention to HIV prevention among couples in long-term relationships contributes to the spread of the virus in sub-Saharan Africa, according to scientists presenting research at a recent conference, the Washington Post reports. Researchers at the 17th Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections said that African health authorities have focused primarily on HIV-prevention strategies for casual sex encounters and young people…
Despite good intentions, the push to privatize government functions and insistence upon “free trade” that is too often unfair has caused declining food production, increased poverty and a hunger crisis for millions of people in many African nations, researchers conclude in a new study. Market reforms that began in the mid-1980s and were supposed to aid economic growth have actually backfired in some of the poorest nations in the world, and just in recent years led to multiple food riots, scientists report in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, a professional journal…
An article published Online First and in an upcoming edition of The Lancet reports that recent research indicates that aciclovir, used to treat HSV2, could delay HIV-1 disease progression in patients co-infected with both conditions. In most cases, people who are infected with HIV-1 are dually infected with herpes simplex virus type 2 (HSV2). The article is the work of Dr Jairam Lingappa, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA, and colleagues in Africa and internationally. It is established that daily suppression of the herpes virus reduces plasma HIV-1 concentrations…
On Sunday, February 7, the country will commemorate the tenth annual National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day. It’s a day that reminds us that HIV/AIDS is still a public health crisis in the US. And it’s a day when communities and organizations across the country come together to recognize the impact this disease has had on the African American community.
WHO spokesman, Gregory Hartl, said in a new briefing that the H1N1 flu pandemic (swine flu) continues to spread in parts of eastern and southeastern Europe, parts of Asia, and North Africa. However, he added that globally it is generally declining. The H1N1 pandemic virus continues to be the main influenza virus circulating globally. WHO (World Health Organization) said the virus is a health risk to people with underlying conditions, such as asthma, as well as pregnant women. Hartl said that activity in general is decreasing…
Tags: Africa, Asia, Asthma, Europe, Flu, Gene, Health, Pregnant, Virus
HealthPartners Medical Group today announced that it has launched an initiative aimed at saving lives by providing more timely colorectal cancer screening for African American patients. Organizations such as the American College of Gastroenterology recommend that regular colorectal cancer screening for African Americans should begin at age 45, compared to age 50 for other races…
Tags: Africa, Cancer, Gastroenterology, Health
HealthPartners Medical Group today announced that it has launched an initiative aimed at saving lives by providing more timely colorectal cancer screening for African American patients.
Low levels of vitamin D may help explain why African-Americans are more likely than whites to die of heart attacks and strokes, a study shows.
Striking inequalities exist between developing and developed countries in the survival chances of preterm babies. Approximately 13 million premature babies are born every year worldwide, according to the first global overview of preterm births published today in the international public health journal, the Bulletin of the World Health Organization…
D-Pharm Ltd (TASE: DPRM) announced enrollment of patients with acute ischemic stroke into its Phase III clinical study of DP-b99 (MACSI). The first patient has been enrolled at the Wolfson Medical Center, Israel. The MACSI trial involves numerous medical centers in the US, Canada, Europe, Israel, South Africa, South Korea and Brazil. DP-b99 is D-Pharm’s most advanced product developed for protection of brain cells suffering from restricted blood and oxygen supply (ischemia)…
US health officials have confirmed samples from a pair of African drums used in a drumming circle attended by a New Hampshire woman who is severely ill in hospital with gastrointestinal anthrax have tested positive for the deadly bacterium…
IRIN examines the increase in the number of women giving birth in hospital settings rather than delivery by a traditional birth attendant – a behavior that health officials hope will lead to a drop in the country’s maternal mortality rate. “According to UNFPA, 38 percent of women gave birth in a hospital in 2009, up from 29 percent in 2003,” the news service writes.
PlusNews examines several recent reports that highlight how unsanitary hospital procedures can create an environment conducive to the spread of HIV/AIDS.
A landmark Australian project that mitigates the extent and severity of natural savannah blazes by deploying traditional Indigenous fire management techniques is being hailed as a model with vast global potential in the fights against climate change and biodiversity loss, and for protecting Indigenous lands and culture.
The World Vision clinic, modeled after a typical African community clinic, will stand in sharp contrast to the now-common sight of parents and children receiving the care they need at Canadian H1N1 flu shot clinics.
Lancet Infectious Diseases Newsdesk examines how despite evidence that a new therapy to treat sleeping sickness, called nifurtimox—eflornithine (NECT) is a step forward in treating the disease, it has yet to be implemented by countries “13 months after data from a successful trial was presented.” The main issue at hand – “nifurtimox is not registered for use in sleeping sickness,” the journal writes. The article also examines other factors complicating the implementation of the therapy (Morris, 12/09).
Men age 40 and over have a one in eight chance of suffering sudden cardiac death, and the risk is even higher for African-American men, a study shows.
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