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  • AIDS panel reiterates call for prison needle exchange

    By Carol Sanders, Winnipeg Free Press
    February 3, 2010
    Source: Montreal Gazette
    WINNIPEG — The longer Parliament is on hold, the longer prison inmates are sharing dirty needles and diseases with the community at large, former prisoners and health advocates say.
    The Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network was supposed to appear Tuesday before the Commons Standing Committee on Public Safety [...]

  • Vaccine stops TB in African HIV trial

    Last Updated: Friday, January 29, 2010
    Source: CBC News
    An experimental vaccine helps prevent tuberculosis in people infected with HIV, researchers have found.
    The Mycobacterium vaccae, or MV vaccine, reduced the rate of tuberculosis by 39 per cent among 2,000 people infected with HIV in Tanzania, researchers said in Friday’s online issue of the journal AIDS.
    Tuberculosis accounts for [...]

  • Armed conflicts have an impact on the spread of tuberculosis: the case of the Somali Regional State of Ethiopia

    Author: Abdi GeleGunnar Bjune
    Credits/Source: Conflict and Health 2010, 4:1
    Source: 7th Space Interactive
    A pessimistic view of the impact of armed conflicts on the control of infectious diseases has generated great interest in the role of conflicts on the global TB epidemic. Nowhere in the world is such interest more palpable than in the Horn of Africa [...]

  • Yukon fights TB spread with control team

    Tuesday, January 26, 2010 | 5:17 PM CT
    Source: CBC News
    Health officials in the Yukon are working to stop the spread of tuberculosis in the territory, which has one of the highest infection rates in Canada.
    Chief medical officer Dr. Brendan Hanley said the Yukon currently has 26 active cases of TB in three undisclosed rural communities.
    Two [...]

  • China's TB control project avoids 770,000 deaths

    Source: Xinhua
    BEIJING, Jan. 20 (Xinhua) — A total of 770,000 deaths from tuberculosis (TB) were avoided over the past eight years in China thanks to a large-scale TB control project, it was announced Wednesday.
    The project covering 670 million Chinese, nearly half of China’s population, also prevented 20 million people from getting infected with TB bacteria.
    China’s [...]

  • Glaxo offers free access to potential malaria cures

    Exclusive: GSK boss says drug companies must balance need to satisfy shareholders with social responsibility
    Sarah Boseley, health editor
    Wednesday 20 January 2010
    Source: The Guardian
    The chief executive of the world’s second biggest pharmaceutical company will today announce that he is putting into the public domain thousands of potential drugs that might cure malaria.
    Andrew Witty, the British boss [...]

  • Circumcising babies could help Africa AIDS fight

    Tue Jan 19, 2010 6:04pm GMT
    By Kate Kelland
    Source: Reuters
    LONDON (Reuters) - Circumcising newborn boys to stop them becoming infected with the AIDS virus in later life is more cost-effective than circumcising adult men, Rwandan health experts said on Tuesday.
    A study by Agnes Binagwaho and colleagues at Rwanda’s health ministry found that the operation, which has [...]

  • For doctors in Haiti, worst is yet to come

    Source: Reuters
    Maggie Fox, Health and Science Editor
    WASHINGTON
    Mon Jan 18, 2010 12:01pm EST
    WASHINGTON (Reuters) - An earthquake killing up to 200,000 people would have been bad enough anywhere, but in Haiti, where AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria are rampant, children are malnourished and hygiene is already a challenge, it may create one of the worst medical disasters [...]

  • China strives to make medical prescriptions affordable to all

    2010-01-15 15:15:00
    by Xinhua writers Bai Xu, Yang Dingdu, Shen Chong
    Source: Xinhua News
    WUHAN, Jan. 15 (Xinhua) - Wang Zhengyan became a celebrity recently after a “best doctors” poll from local people. She has been a doctor for 26 years.
    “She is loved by patients because she always prescribes medicines [...]

  • Atlantic Examines Drug-Resistant TB Control Worldwide

    Thursday, January 14, 2010
    Source: Kaiser Global Health Policy Report
    The Atlantic examines the emergence of drug-resistant strains of tuberculosis around the world, with a look at the situation in South Africa. “[T]he resurgence of tuberculosis is not limited to South Africa. India and China have the largest numbers of tuberculosis cases, and multi-drug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) has [...]

  • New Study Raises Concerns About HIV-Drug Resistance

    By Eben Harrell
    Thursday, Jan. 14, 2010
    Source: Time
    Last January a team of scientists at the World Health Organization (WHO) published a study in the British medical journal the Lancet making the audacious claim that the tools already exist to end the AIDS epidemic. Doctors have long noted that antiretrovirals — the drugs commonly used to [...]

  • Clean-Cut: Study Finds Circumcision Helps Prevent HIV and Other Infections

    The first microbiome study of the penis offers some clues as to why removing foreskin cuts the risk of HIV infection in circumcised men
    By Carina Storrs
    Source: Scientific American
    The World Health Organization declared three years ago that circumcision should be part of any strategy to prevent HIV infection in men. The organization based its recommendation on [...]

  • Tobacco use prevalence, knowledge, and attitudes among newly diagnosed tuberculosis patients in Penang State and Wilayah Persekutuan Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

    Author: Ahmed Awaisu Mohamad, Haniki Nik Mohamed Noorizan, et al.
    Credits/Source: Tobacco Induced Diseases 2010, 8:3
    Source: 7th Space Interactive
    There is sufficient evidence to conclude that tobacco smoking is strongly linked to tuberculosis (TB) and a large proportion of TB patients may be active smokers. In addition, a previous analysis has suggested that a considerable proportion [...]

  • Circumcision health benefit virtually nil, study finds

    Little evidence that world’s most common surgical procedure can prevent sexually transmitted infections, urinary tract infections and penile cance
    André Picard
    Tuesday, Jan. 12, 2010
    Source: The Globe and Mail
    While it is the most common surgical procedure in the world, there is virtually no demonstrable health benefit derived from circumcision of either newborns or adults, a new study [...]

  • Study finds that UNICEF program in Africa fails to save more children

    By Maria Cheng (CP) – Jan 11, 2010
    Source: The Canadian Press
    LONDON — A UNICEF program that spent $27 million to decrease child deaths from disease in West Africa has failed, according to a new study that found a higher survival rate in some regions that weren’t included in the program.
    The U.N. children’s agency pursued strategies [...]

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IHSP Conference: Educational Equity: Global and National Strategies (May 1-2, 2009)

Friday, March 6th, 2009

“The Vagina Monologues”

Thursday, February 12th, 2009

VDay McGill Presents “The Vagina Monologues”
Friday, Saturday and Sunday, February 13, 14 and 15
Location: Leacock 132, Leacock Building, McGill University, 855 Sherbrooke E.
Doors Open: 7:30 pm, Show Begins: 8:00 pm
Tickets are $13 for Students and $15 for non-students. Tickets are available for reservation by emailing: tickets.vdaymcgill@gmail.com or for purchase at AUS Snax in the Leacock building.

Proceeds go to Montreal charities helping to stop gender-based violence.

“The Vagina Monologues” is a testimonial of women’s experiences on their journey through sexual discovery. These women share their most intimate desires and fears in a backdrop of humor, heartbreak and sometimes violence. Monologues like “If your vagina could talk,” “Because he liked to look at it,” and “Vagina Workshop” among others, have touched the lives of many women as they embrace their sexuality - becoming an international feminist phenomenon since 1998.

To learn more about V-Day McGill visit: http://vday.mcgill.ca or contact media.vdaymcgill@gmail.com.
Join us on Facebook: http://tinyurl.com/vdaymcgill2009
To learn more about V-Day, the V-Day College Campaign or the V-Day Worldwide Campaign, visit http://www.vday.org

Closing the Gap: Global Health Equity and the Commission on Social Determinants of Health

Monday, January 19th, 2009

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A talk by Professor Sir Michael Marmot

Thursday February 5, Noon to 1:30 pm
Auditorium Le Plateau
3700 Calixa-Lavallée (access by Sherbrooke St.)
(in the Le Plateau School behind the Direction de santé publique (DSP) de Montréal in Parc Lafontaine)
There is no charge for attendance but registration in advance is mandatory.
To register, please send your name and institutional affiliation to: itherien@santepub-mtl.qc.ca

In developing strategies for tackling health inequalities we need to confront the social gradient in health not just the difference between the worst off and everybody else. There is clear evidence when we look across countries that national policies make a difference. But policies must not be confined to the health care system, they need to address the conditions in which people grow, live and work. The evidence shows that economic circumstances are important but are not the only drivers of health inequalities. The Commission on Social Determinants of Health has brought together evidence to show that policy action to improve the conditions in which people lead their lives is the route to health equity.

RAFAEL CAMPO What the Body Told: Poetry and HIV

Saturday, January 17th, 2009

RAFAEL CAMPO
What the Body Told: Poetry and HIV

Thursday, January 22nd 2009
1455 de Maisonneuve W. H-110 6 pm

Rafael Campo is a Prizewinning Cuban-American poet and renowned physician from Boston. Dr. Campo’s poetry has won many awards such as the National Poetry Series Award, the Lambda Literary Award for poetry, the gold medal in poetry from ForeWord Magazine and has also appeared in many major anthologies. His work as a physician at Harvard Medical School, which serves mostly Latinos, gay/lesbian/bisexual/
transgendered people, and people with HIV infection, greatly influences his poetry. His lecture will highlight how his creative process as a writer brings together his medical vocation, his composite identities and the realities of the body. A recipient of an honorary doctorate from Amherst College, Dr. Campo’s poetry has appeared in magazines as diverse as The New York Times Magazine and Out.
Reponse by Dr. Stephen Snow, Chair Creative Arts Therapies Department, Faculty of Fine Arts.
Special greetings by Dr. Judith Woodsworth, President of Concordia University.

Visit http://www.rafaelcampo.com/ and aids.concordia.ca for more information.

These events are FREE and open to the general public.

About MGAC
McGill Global AIDS Coalition is an HIV/AIDS advocacy group dedicated to the eradication of HIV/AIDS and to the realization, worldwide, of the right to health. We are committed to helping to create an effective student advocacy network in Canada and to educating the McGill and Montreal community on global health issues
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