13 Nov 2008
By MARIA CHENG
LONDON (AP) — An increasing number of countries worldwide are making spreading HIV a crime, according to a new report from the International Planned Parenthood Federation.
Health officials fear the trend could undermine gains made in fighting the AIDS pandemic and provoke a surge in cases. Globally, about 33 million people [...]

Source: BBC News
Date: 13 Nov 2008
Chile’s public health service may have failed to tell 512 people they had tested positive for HIV, which can lead to Aids, the health minister has said.
The government is now trying to locate the patients and inform them of their condition, said Alvaro Erazo.
He disclosed the numbers to lawmakers amid [...]

Source: GNA
Last Updated: Thursday, 13 November 2008, 9:12 GMT
Ms Gladys Ashitey, Deputy Minister of Health, has noted that the nature of sales and distribution of medicines in the country contributed to high level of inefficiency and potential fraud.
She said “Issues such as bribery, theft and diversion, the supply of counterfeit and sub-standard medicines are known [...]

Source: Apollon
Date: 13 Nov 2008
SIMPLE TEST: - We need a simple test that can quickly identify who needs a thorough examination of tuberculosis. The test must be so cheap that developing countries can afford to use it, points Asma Elsony og Gunnar Bjune out.
Asma Elsony took her doctoral degree at the University of Oslo on [...]

12 November 2008
Source: The Canadian Press
OTTAWA — Native leaders and health experts from 60 countries will meet Thursday in Toronto to craft a global plan to cut alarming tuberculosis rates among the poor.
The insidious and highly contagious lung disease - once thought to be all but vanquished - is still thriving in many quarters, including [...]

Source: The Mercury
Anso Thom
November 13 2008 at 06:40AM
A staggering 854-million people were undernourished between 2001 and 2003 while at the other end of the scale 700-million people are likely to be obese by 2015, according to the Global Health Watch 2.
Launched in Cape Town on Wednesday night, the Global Health Watch [...]

Source: Africa Science News Service
Written by Henry Neondo
Wednesday, 12 November 2008
All applicants for Global Fund grants should now include robust tuberculosis interventions in their HIV/AIDS proposals and HIV/AIDS interventions in their tuberculosis proposals, the Board of the Global Fund to fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, as an outcome of its Eighteenth Board Meeting, agreed last [...]

Sarah Boseley
Source: guardian.co.uk, Tuesday November 11 2008 09.43 GMT

Effective malaria drugs are too expensive in Uganda and often unavailable, forcing families to fall back on drugs that are cheap, but no longer work well, a new report reveals.
Even within Africa, Uganda is particularly hard [...]

TAC
10 November 2008
Statement issued by the Treatment Action Campaign November 10 2008
Life-threatening antiretroviral treatment shortage in the Free State: DoH issues orders, “stop putting new clients on ARVs”
On Friday morning, TAC national offices began receiving phone calls from concerned healthcare workers and journalists requesting information about the antiretroviral (ARV) shortages at public sector health facilities [...]

Sunday, 9th November, 2008
Source: New Vision Online
BY CATHY WATSON
Last week, The New Vision ran a photo of a nine-year-old girl who was defiled. The sub-editor concealed the child’s face to protect her identity. But anyone could see what she was feeling: shock, bewilderment, fear.
As I studied the photo, I wondered: Did anyone offer her PEP?
PEP [...]

10 November 2008
3 days ago
PARIS (AFP) — A strategic tack in the quarter-century-old effort to devise an AIDS vaccine, which last year became darkly clouded by problems, could be more promising than thought, according to a study published on Sunday.
Research — among lab primates, not humans — shows that a vaccine based on priming “killer” [...]

Source: Zimbabwe Standard
Saturday, 08 November 2008 19:35
HIV/AIDS activists last week attacked the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe for diverting US$7,29 million meant for disease interventions.
The outraged activists said the central bank’s conduct was “unforgivable” and “criminal” and could put the lives of many HIV-positive Zimbabweans in danger.
The concerns were echoed by Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human [...]

Source: PC World
Thursday, November 06, 2008 9:50 PM PST
Computer science is giving scientists new ways to look at the virus that causes AIDS (acquired immune deficiency syndrome), perspectives that may help efforts to develop an effective vaccine and other medicines, according to the head of Microsoft’s research arm.
“It’s really focused on new ways of thinking [...]

Source: Bernama.com
KUALA LUMPUR, Nov 7 (Bernama) — A Malaysian AIDS Council (MAC) survey has revealed that close to 68 per cent of Malaysians would be ashamed if they were infected with HIV.
Another 48 per cent said they would be ashamed if someone in their family had HIV/AIDS.
In a statement Friday, MAC president Professor Dr Adeeba [...]

7 November 2008
HARARE (AFP) — Zimbabwe’s Reserve Bank has released 7.3 million dollars (5.7 million euros) in unspent aid money meant to fight diseases, which was taken from commercial banks last year, the Global Fund said Friday.
The Geneva-based body had demanded the immediate return of the money that the central bank had scooped up with [...]