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Women now account for half of the people living with HIV worldwide

Women now account for half of the people living with HIV worldwide and represent one of the fastest growing populations affected by the disease.

7 Jul 2004

The impact of rotavirus on the world’s children

With vaccines against the killer disease of rotavirus almost in hand, government representatives, scientists, public health professionals and vaccine industry representatives will be convened in Mexico City to review progress toward safe, effective rotavirus vaccines and address the question of how to make sure they get to the world’s poorest children

7 Jul 2004

2004 UNAIDS Report - last year 5 million people became infected with HIV

UNAIDS has warned that the number of people living with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, has risen in every region of the world and last year 5 million people became newly infected with HIV - more people than any previous year.

6 Jul 2004

Bill Clinton and WHO lend China their support for HIV/AIDS Initiative

At a time when China is stepping up its efforts to combat the spread of HIV/AIDS in the world's largest population, the World Health Organization and the Clinton HIV/AIDS Initiative have come together to lend China their support.

6 Jul 2004

As humans alter land, infectious diseases follow

As people remake the world's landscapes, cutting forests, draining wetlands, building roads and dams, and pushing the margins of cities ever outward, infectious diseases are gaining new toeholds, cropping up in new places and new hosts, and posing an ever-increasing risk to human and animal health.

5 Jul 2004

Third case of Japanese encephalitis reported this year in Hong Kong

The Hong Kong Centre for Health Protection has confirmed a 50-year-old homeless man in Sham Shui Po has contracted Japanese encephalitis, the third case reported this year.

5 Jul 2004

Statement by the Hong Kong's Director of Health in response to the recent handling of the SARS outbreak

Statement made by the Director of Health, Dr Lam Ping-yan, during a press conference today (July 5) in response to the Report by the Legislative Council's Select Committee to inquire into the handling of the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) outbreak by the Government and the Hospital Authority

5 Jul 2004

100 people in Texas will need to receive post-exposure rabies prevention treatment

The number, which TDH said is preliminary, includes 61 health care workers at four Texas hospitals and 29 family members and other close contacts of two transplant recipients from Texas.

4 Jul 2004

Inexpensive generic fixed-dose combined therapies appears the most suitable solution for treating AIDS in developing countries

The development of simple and inexpensive generic fixed-dose combined therapies appears the most suitable solution for making possible this access to treatments in developing countries with meagre resources.

3 Jul 2004

Estimates of 5.1 million HIV positive people bring India closer to the South African HIV infected population of 5.3 million people

New HIV/AIDS figures have been released by the Indian government's National Aids Control Organisation. In 2003 there were 520,000 new cases of HIV infection.

3 Jul 2004

300,000 mad French cows since the 1980's

According to new French research reported in le figaro more than 300,000 French cows would have been infected by the agent BSE (Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy ) since the 1980's.

3 Jul 2004

Recent SARS outbreak blamed on lab technician

A laboratory technician working for China's national disease control and prevention center has been blamed for the recent outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) earlier this year.

3 Jul 2004

First isolation of West Nile Virus (WNV) in Nassau County

The New York State Department of Health reported today on the first isolation of West Nile Virus (WNV) in Nassau County, New York.

2 Jul 2004

Reports of a serious polio outbreak among children in Rogo, Nigeria

Reports of a serious polio outbreak among children in Rogo, Kano State, have emerged. Kano is Nigeria's most populous northern state.

2 Jul 2004

Rabies infections in organ donor and transplant recipients

On June 30, 2004, CDC confirmed diagnoses of rabies in three recipients of transplanted organs and in their common donor, who was found subsequently to have serologic evidence of rabies infection.

2 Jul 2004

How the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria is being implemented in four African countries

The London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine will today publish interim findings relating to how the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria is being implemented in four African countries.

2 Jul 2004

Americans give Russia $34.2 million to help treat and care for people living with HIV/AIDS and tuberculosis

HHS Secretary Tommy G. Thompson announced today that the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria awarded Russia $34.2 million over two years to help treat and care for people living with HIV/AIDS and tuberculosis.

2 Jul 2004

Fall in the number of confirmed cases of Haemophilus influenzae type b (Hib) disease

A Health Protection Agency study has shown a sharp fall in the number of confirmed cases of Haemophilus influenzae type b (Hib) disease following the introduction of a Department of Health booster campaign, the Agency’s Board heard today.

2 Jul 2004

Findings into the source of the recent SARS outbreak in Beijing and Anhui Province

It has been more than two months since the Ministry of Health of China notified WHO and the world about an outbreak of SARS in Beijing and Anhui Province.

2 Jul 2004

Sweden funds HIV/AIDS prevention and care in China

On Friday, 2 July 2004, the Swedish International Development Agency (SIDA) and the WHO office in Beijing signed an agreement under which SIDA will fund a three-year WHO project on comprehensive HIV/AIDS prevention and care in China.

2 Jul 2004

Disease/Infection News

Women now account for half of the people living with HIV worldwide

The impact of rotavirus on the world’s children

2004 UNAIDS Report - last year 5 million people became infected with HIV

Bill Clinton and WHO lend China their support for HIV/AIDS Initiative

As humans alter land, infectious diseases follow

Third case of Japanese encephalitis reported this year in Hong Kong

Statement by the Hong Kong's Director of Health in response to the recent handling of the SARS outbreak

100 people in Texas will need to receive post-exposure rabies prevention treatment

Inexpensive generic fixed-dose combined therapies appears the most suitable solution for treating AIDS in developing countries

Estimates of 5.1 million HIV positive people bring India closer to the South African HIV infected population of 5.3 million people

300,000 mad French cows since the 1980's

Recent SARS outbreak blamed on lab technician

First isolation of West Nile Virus (WNV) in Nassau County

Reports of a serious polio outbreak among children in Rogo, Nigeria

Rabies infections in organ donor and transplant recipients

How the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria is being implemented in four African countries

Americans give Russia $34.2 million to help treat and care for people living with HIV/AIDS and tuberculosis

Fall in the number of confirmed cases of Haemophilus influenzae type b (Hib) disease

Findings into the source of the recent SARS outbreak in Beijing and Anhui Province

Sweden funds HIV/AIDS prevention and care in China

Small solutions for big problems in drug discovery and delivery

Professor Nancy Ip: Pioneering New Paths in Neurodegenerative Therapy

Utilizing process Raman in optimizing cultivated meat production

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