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GLOBAL: Scientific community urged to become activists
20 July 2009 (PlusNews ), The 5th International AIDS Society (IAS) Conference on HIV Pathogenesis, Treatment and Prevention opened on Sunday in Cape Town, South Africa, amidst reports that funding gaps and poor management are threatening supplies of life-prolonging antiretroviral (ARV) drugs in at least six African countries.
https://www.plusnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=85354

GLOBAL: Changes afoot for US global AIDS policy
20 July 2009 (PlusNews ), Just three weeks into his new appointment, United States Global AIDS Coordinator Dr Eric Goosby outlined on Monday some of the changes that President Barack Obama’s administration will make to the country's global AIDS policy at the 5th International AIDS Society (IAS) Conference on HIV Pathogenesis, Treatment and Prevention in Cape Town, South Africa.
https://www.plusnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=85353

GLOBAL: Male circumcision does not reduce partner's HIV risk
17 July 2009 (PlusNews ), New research suggests that circumcising HIV-positive men does not reduce the risk of their female partners becoming HIV-infected.
https://www.plusnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=85330

SOUTHERN AFRICA: The high cost of sex work
16 July 2009 (PlusNews ), Southern Africa's sex workers, denied access to HIV prevention and treatment services, are paying a high price to make a living when even government-issued condoms are not always free, according to a new report.
https://www.plusnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=85312

GLOBAL: Critical need for more viral load testing
16 July 2009 (PlusNews ), New research has again confirmed the importance of viral load testing, which measures the amount of HI virus in the blood, to determine whether someone on antiretroviral (ARV) treatment is experiencing treatment failure and needs to be switched to a second-line drug regimen.
https://www.plusnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=85313

GLOBAL: As the money flows, so the world turns
15 July 2009 (PlusNews ), The stats are in – 2008 was a bumper year for HIV/AIDS funding, according to a new report by UNAIDS and the Kaiser Family Foundation, a non-profit organization that focuses on health. It is the kind of monitoring that may prove important as the global economic slowdown continues.
https://www.plusnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=85295

GLOBAL: Standard TB vaccine could be fatal to HIV-positive babies
1 July 2009 (PlusNews ), HIV-positive babies who receive the global standard tuberculosis (TB) vaccine are at hightened risk of contracting this infectious disease, says a new study in Bulletin, a journal published by the World Health Organisation (WHO).
https://www.plusnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=85091

ZAMBIA: PEPFAR prevention approach too narrow - report
30 June 2009 (PlusNews ), The United States President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) has taken a damagingly narrow approach to HIV prevention in Zambia, ignoring realities on the ground and neglecting the most at-risk populations, says a new report.
https://www.plusnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=85076

SOUTHERN AFRICA: Male circumcision - what's the latest?
23 June 2009 (PlusNews ), It has been two years since the World Health Organization recommended male circumcision (MC) as an HIV prevention measure, and countries in Southern Africa - the region hardest-hit by AIDS - have been slowly gearing up to provide widespread access to the procedure.
https://www.plusnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=84950

GLOBAL: Entry, treatment, rights denied
23 June 2009 (PlusNews ), Leaving home is as risky as ever for many HIV-positive migrants, according to a new Human Rights Watch (HRW) report.
https://www.plusnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=84967

GLOBAL: Promising new drug to treat TB
17 June 2009 (PlusNews ), For the first time in nearly half a century, the world may be on the verge of adding a new drug to its arsenal against tuberculosis (TB) – one that would not only drastically improve the treatment of TB and its multidrug-resistant strains, but also shorten it.
https://www.plusnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=84888

GLOBAL: Economic crisis no excuse to cut funds - UN
17 June 2009 (PlusNews ), International donors must continue meeting their commitments to HIV/AIDS, even in the face of the economic downturn, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has urged.
https://www.plusnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=84887

GLOBAL: HIV, the silent partner in emergencies
10 June 2009 (PlusNews ), Food aid and plastic sheeting are the hallmarks of every disaster, but not always condoms and antiretrovirals, even though humanitarian agencies recognize the link between emergencies and the increased risk of HIV and AIDS.
https://www.plusnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=84795

GLOBAL: Earlier ARV treatment saves lives
10 June 2009 (PlusNews ), Findings from a clinical trial in Haiti bring the first conclusive evidence that HIV-positive people in developing countries have a significantly better chance of survival if they start antiretroviral (ARV) treatment earlier.
https://www.plusnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=84791

ZAMBIA: Routine HIV testing can save children's lives
8 June 2009 (PlusNews ), The routine offer of an HIV test to children admitted to a hospital in Lusaka, Zambia's capital, resulted in more than 3,000 being diagnosed with the virus over an 18-month period.
https://www.plusnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=84755

GLOBAL: Basic healthcare crucial to beating HIV, study
27 May 2009 (PlusNews ), Providing HIV prevention, care and treatment services at well-equipped local clinics could be the key to success in fighting the pandemic in the developing world, a new report by the international anti-poverty NGO, ActionAid, has said.
https://www.plusnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=84567

ZAMBIA: Health funding frozen after corruption alleged
27 May 2009 (PlusNews ), Foreign aid for government health projects in Zambia, where most of the national health budget is donor-funded, was frozen last week after allegations of corruption.
https://www.plusnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=84578

ZAMBIA: Agnes Mulimbika: "My friends shun me because I have this cancer"
13 May 2009 (PlusNews ), Agness Mulimbika, a Zambian actress who stars in the country's most popular soap opera, Kabanana, was diagnosed with cervical cancer in February 2008. She talked to IRIN/PlusNews about how her life has changed.
https://www.plusnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=84365

GLOBAL: Obama expands health agenda, but not funding
8 May 2009 (PlusNews ), At a time when many Americans are preoccupied with the economic crisis on their doorsteps, President Barack Obama has asked Congress to approve US$63 billion for global health over the next six years.
https://www.plusnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=84297

GLOBAL: Economic downturn puts treatment of millions at risk
29 April 2009 (PlusNews ), After months of speculation about how the global economic downturn might affect HIV/AIDS programmes, a new World Bank report details the projected aftermath of the crisis and how it could place the treatment of more than 1.7 million at risk by year's end.
https://www.plusnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=84171

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