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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
MGAC will be having elections on Tuesday, January 2nd, 2010 for two positions: World AIDS Week Coordinator and Outreach Coordinator
Deadline for the MGAC Nomination Forms are on January 31st by 6 pm.
Send them to Sarina, please include your name and position you are running for in the subject line.
If you have any questions about these positions, email either Pavel, Outreach Coordinator; OR Morgon, World AIDS Week Coordinator.
We the undersigned encourage McGill University to
1. Adopt a policy that reflects global access principles,
2. Apply these principles by including equitable licensing provisions in negotiations for licensing agreements,
3. Ensure transparency in the application of equitable licensing provisions.
*Submit your name and e-mail address using the comment box to sign the petition.
**Check out this pamphlet for more information: Equitable Licensing Pamphlet
Source: The Chronicle
November 09, 2009, 01:38 PM ET
Five leading research universities pledged today to do more to ensure that poor people and developing nations can get access to new drugs based on inventions coming from academic research, according to Bloomberg News. The five signers are Harvard University (which has already used licensing terms in deals to promote this “global access”) as well as the University of Pennsylvania and Boston, Brown, and Yale Universities. The push for global access comes from the campuses and from Universities Allied for Essential Medicines, which has also been urging Congress and research universities to oppose a measure in legislation to overhaul the health-care system that would give drug companies 12 years of exclusive rights to certain new kinds of drugs.
Taken from The Chronicle
The McGill Global AIDS Coalition, in collaboration with Friends of MSF, Human Rights Working Group (HRWG) HIV/AIDS and Public Health, Dignitas McGill, Canfar and Universities Allied for Essential Medicines (UAEM), is proud to present World AIDS Week on the McGill campus from Nov. 16 – 20!
The week will be filled with fun, interactive, informational and spiritual experiences. Check out the list below for upcoming events and join the rest of campus at World AIDS Week!
Monday, November 16 - Film Screening: Triage
Location: Rm. 219 Leacock Bldg, 855 Sherbrooke O.
Time: 6:30 pm – 9:00 pm
The film will be presented by Patrick Lemieux a field coordinator of Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF). To date, he has served in 13 different countries in Asia and Africa.
Triage: Dr. James Orbinski’s Humanitarian Dilemma, is about the experiences of former director of MSF (Dr. Orbinksi) in the war-torn areas of Somalia, Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Tuesday, November 17 – Panel Discussion: HIV in the Montreal Community
Location: Rm. 151 Bronfman Bldg, 1001 Sherbrooke O.
Time: 6:30 pm – 9:00 pm
Speakers:
Dr. Bluma Brenner –Researcher at the Jewish General Hospital AIDS Centre.
Mark Hapanowicz – Executive Director of AIDS Community Care Montreal (ACCM), a volunteer-based community organization which works to enhance the quality of life of people living with HIV/AIDS, to prevent HIV transmission and to promote community awareness and action.
Jean-Francois Mary – Client Representative of CACTUS Montreal, a non-profit organization which addresses itself to individuals who illicit drugs, youth who are living on the street, transvestite and transsexual persons and sex-trade workers. The organization helps to reduce the risks associated with using illicit drugs and potentially risky sexual behaviour while improving the quality of life for these individuals.
The panel discussion will be an in-depth examination on how HIV spreads in Montreal, what the patterns are and consequences associated with it. It will break the barriers of exclusion; open a non-judgemental and informative platform to discuss HIV/AIDS in Montreal.
Wednesday, November 18 – Panel Disscussion: The Criminalization of HIV/AIDS
Location: Adams Auditorium, 3450 Rue University
Time: 6:30 pm – 9:00 pm
Speakers:
Dr. Mark Wainberg – Researcher at the Jewish General Hospital AIDS Centre
Alana Klein – Assistant professor of Law at McGill University who specializes in constitutional law, human rights law, international law and criminal law.
Dr. Norbert Gilmore – Senior Physician at the McGill University Health Centre
The criminalization of HIV/AIDS is currently a very controversial issue in Canada. The panel discussion will approach the dilemma of whether the transmission of HIV/AIDS should be criminalized or not. What are the consequences of convicting those who spread HIV/AIDS? What are the ethical questions we need to ask ourselves in doing so? These complex issues with various opinions surrounding it will be addressed at this panel discussion.
Thursday, November 19 – Music and Movement, Variety Show
Location: Ballroom 3/F, Shatner, 3480 McTavish
Time: 9:30 pm – 11:00 pm
Music and Movement will bring together the Montreal community through the arts. Featured artists include: Soulstice, Effusion, Inertia, and First you get the sugar. A fashion photography exhibit will also be displayed by fashion blogger, Fahad Asvat. Tickets are $5 and we will be serving beer at $3 a glass! Who can go wrong with drinks, dance, music and fashion?!
Friday, November 20 – Keynote Speaker - Donna Barry: Treating the Whole Person
Location: Strathcona M-1, 3460 University
Time: 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm
Donna Barry is the Policy Director at Partners in Health. She is responsible for guiding the advocacy and policy efforts of Partners in Health related to hunger, socioeconomic development in Haiti. During her keynote speech, Donna Barry will address the need to continue the enhancement of HIV/AIDS projects. In addition, she will speak about the successes and ‘not-so-successes’ of various HIV/AIDS projects around the world.
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