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Rate of new HIV infections among blacks in South Carolina six times higher than among other races, Health Department estimates find

The rate of new HIV infections among blacks in South Carolina was six times higher than among all other races combined in 2006, according to new estimates released Friday by the South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control, the Columbia State reports.

16 Sep 2008

Cambodia's condom campaign faces legal, financial issues, health official says

Cambodia's so-called 100% Condom Use campaign is being threatened by legal and financial issues, and the country could experience a resurgence of the disease, a health official said on Wednesday, AFP/Google.com reports.

15 Sep 2008

Malaria, HIV interventions help reduce mortality among young children, challenges remain, UNICEF report says

Disease interventions, such as the use of insecticide-treated nets to prevent malaria and increased access to HIV treatment and prevention, have helped reduce the number of deaths among children younger than age five worldwide to 9.2 million in 2007, down from 9.7 million in 2006 and 12.7 million in 1990, according to a UNICEF report published Friday in the journal Lancet, Reuters reports (Kahn, Reuters, 9/12).

15 Sep 2008

Asian Development Bank, Vietnamese province launch project to curb spread of HIV/AIDS among youth

The Asian Development Bank and the Vietnamese province of Hai Duong have launched an initiative aimed at reducing HIV/AIDS among young people, the VNA/VietNamNet reports.

15 Sep 2008

Effective public health response needed to fight HIV/AIDS in southeast Asia, WHO says

The World Health Organization on Thursday called for an effective public health approach to curb the spread of HIV/AIDS in Southeast Asia, India's Economic Times reports. HIV/AIDS in the region was the focus of the third day of WHO's 61st Session of the Regional Committee for Southeast Asia, which is taking place in New Delhi.

15 Sep 2008

Herpes drug Acyclovir could help control HIV

Acyclovir -- a low-cost, generic drug used to treat herpes -- also might help control HIV in people living with both viruses, according to a study published Wednesday in the journal ell Host and Microbe, Reuters reports.

15 Sep 2008

CDC releases subpopulation estimates from data on annual new HIV infections; new infections high among blacks, MSM

The majority of new HIV infections in the U.S. in 2006 occurred among men who have sex with men, according to a study released Thursday in CDC's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, the New York Times reports.

15 Sep 2008

New study on rural HIV shows significant stigma and discrimination in the rural medical referral system

An Indiana University study found that HIV care providers in rural Indiana report significant stigma and discrimination in the rural medical referral system surrounding issues of HIV and substance abuse. Providers felt that these factors impeded their ability to offer quality care to their patients.

11 Sep 2008

Expanded AIDS research consortium

A national AIDS research consortium led by the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) has two new university partners.

11 Sep 2008

Black clergy 'committed' to addressing HIV/AIDS epidemic in community, opinion piece says

The Fort Worth Star-Telegram's "recent series on HIV/AIDS accuses [black clergy] of being unaware, inert and unconcerned about the AIDS pandemic" and did not note a "very important truth: The church is changing in response to this challenge, and people of faith are making a difference," Valda Jean Combs, a local pastor who heads the FullProof HIV Ministry, writes in a Star-Telegram opinion piece.

11 Sep 2008

Nicolas Sarkozy launches international malaria campaign

French President Nicolas Sarkozy on Tuesday launched an international malaria campaign during the opening of a photo exhibit on the disease in Paris, Panapress/Afriquenligne reports.

11 Sep 2008

Depression common among youth in Rwanda orphaned by AIDS, genocide, survey finds

Depression is common among teenage and young adult orphans in Rwanda who head households and provide care for younger children, according to a survey conducted by researchers at Tulane University that was published last month in the Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, the New York Times reports.

11 Sep 2008

MSM remain most at-risk group for HIV in Beijing, official says

Beijing's community of men who have sex with men are most at risk of contracting HIV, He Xiong, deputy director of the Beijing Center for Disease Control and Prevention, said Friday, China Daily reports. According to He, 5% of MSM in the city are HIV-positive.

11 Sep 2008

Irish Times examines HIV/AIDS efforts in Moldovan region

The Irish Times on Tuesday examined the efforts of a Medecins Sans Frontieres mission in Transdniestria -- an enclave in Moldova that supports Russia and declared its independence from Moldova in 1990 -- to improve its health care system and implement an HIV/AIDS center in light of the region's high prevalence of the disease, which is four times that of the national average

11 Sep 2008

More effective HIV/AIDS prevention, education efforts needed to reach Black, Hispanic girls, women, letter says

An "otherwise excellent" editorial recently published by the New York Times did not "mention the rapid spread of HIV among women and girls of color," Tracie Gardner, director of New York state policy and coordinator of the Women's Initiative To Stop HIV-New York at the Legal Action Center, writes in a Times letter to the editor.

11 Sep 2008

Stigma deters HIV-positive people from seeking treatment, panelist says at Arkansas HIV/AIDS Minority Task Force Meeting

The stigma surrounding HIV/AIDS in the Arkansas Delta prevents people living with the disease from coming forward and makes it difficult for the state to help the population, a University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences researcher told the Arkansas HIV/AIDS Minority Task Force earlier this week, the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette reports.

11 Sep 2008

Herpes virus changes anti-herpes drug acyclovir to form that hinders AIDS virus

The drug acyclovir has long been used to suppress outbreaks of oral and genital herpes. Herpes viruses change acyclovir to a form that prevents them from reproducing.

10 Sep 2008

Boston Globe examines imprisonment of two HIV/AIDS physicians, brothers In Iran

State Department officials and former students at Harvard University's School of Public Health believe Iranian physicians -- brothers Kamiar and Arash Alaei -- have been arrested and accused of using their work on HIV/AIDS worldwide to destabilize Iran's government, the Boston Globe reports.

10 Sep 2008

Counterfeit drugs for malaria, other diseases threaten public health, WHO Director-General Chan says

The increasing availability of counterfeit drugs for malaria and other diseases poses a threat to public health, and governments must take action to supply affordable and effective treatments, World Health Organization Director-General Margaret Chan said Monday at the 26th Southeast Asia Region Health Ministers Meeting in New Delhi, Bernama/Daily Malaysian News reports.

10 Sep 2008

U.N. Secretary-General calls for increased attention to connection between literacy, health, including HIV/AIDS

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on International Literacy Day on Monday called for increased attention to the connection between literacy and health, including HIV/AIDS issues, Xinhuanet reports.

10 Sep 2008

AIDS News and Research

Rate of new HIV infections among blacks in South Carolina six times higher than among other races, Health Department estimates find

Cambodia's condom campaign faces legal, financial issues, health official says

Malaria, HIV interventions help reduce mortality among young children, challenges remain, UNICEF report says

Asian Development Bank, Vietnamese province launch project to curb spread of HIV/AIDS among youth

Effective public health response needed to fight HIV/AIDS in southeast Asia, WHO says

Herpes drug Acyclovir could help control HIV

CDC releases subpopulation estimates from data on annual new HIV infections; new infections high among blacks, MSM

New study on rural HIV shows significant stigma and discrimination in the rural medical referral system

Expanded AIDS research consortium

Black clergy 'committed' to addressing HIV/AIDS epidemic in community, opinion piece says

Nicolas Sarkozy launches international malaria campaign

Depression common among youth in Rwanda orphaned by AIDS, genocide, survey finds

MSM remain most at-risk group for HIV in Beijing, official says

Irish Times examines HIV/AIDS efforts in Moldovan region

More effective HIV/AIDS prevention, education efforts needed to reach Black, Hispanic girls, women, letter says

Stigma deters HIV-positive people from seeking treatment, panelist says at Arkansas HIV/AIDS Minority Task Force Meeting

Herpes virus changes anti-herpes drug acyclovir to form that hinders AIDS virus

Boston Globe examines imprisonment of two HIV/AIDS physicians, brothers In Iran

Counterfeit drugs for malaria, other diseases threaten public health, WHO Director-General Chan says

U.N. Secretary-General calls for increased attention to connection between literacy, health, including HIV/AIDS

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