UNAIDS backgrounder on methodology: Understanding the latest estimates of the global AIDS epidemic (November 2009, pdf)
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Outlook 2010: Fresh perspectives
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It’s clear that the HIV epidemic the world faces today is not the same as when it peaked in 1996. The number of people living with HIV globally is now at 33.4 million and although 2.7 million people became newly infected with HIV in 2008, good news is that this is a decrease by 17% over the last eight years.
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HIV Infections Down by 17%
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(HealthNewsDigest.com) - Geneva / Shanghai, – According to new data in the 2009 AIDS epidemic update, new HIV infections have been reduced by 17% over the past eight years. Since 2001, when the United Nations Declaration of Commitment on HIV/AIDS was signed, the number of new infections in sub-Saharan Africa is approximately 15% lower, which ...
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Representatives of African countries are meeting in Abuja this week to discuss the procurement and distribution of the H1N1 (swine flu) vaccine, the Daily Trust/allAfrica.com reports (Rabiu, 11/23).
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Today's must-read, via Google News, is Helen Branswell's report from The Canadian Press: GSK says still no answer on whether H1N1 vaccine batch triggers more reaction. Excerpt:The investigation into whether a batch of H1N1 vaccine may have triggered a higher-than-normal...
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Nigeria: Health Agency Donates H1N1 Vaccines for 14 Million
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Abuja — As part of efforts to find a lasting solution to the alarming spread of the H1N1 influenza, popularly known as swine flu, the World Health Organisation has disclosed that it will donate H1N1 vaccines to about 10 per cent population of every country in Africa, out of which about 14 million Nigerians will benefit.
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Batch of H1N1 Vaccine Pulled Due to Severe Allergic Reactions
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Health officials across Canada are being asked to hold back a batch of swine flu vaccine that appears to be causing higher rates of severe allergic reactions. The vaccine's manufacturer, GlaxoSmithKline, is asking governments to stop using vaccine doses from one particular lot shipment issued in late October. Bloomberg reports that Glaxo ...
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A vocal minority of skeptical doctors are against the H1N1 flu vaccine
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My position on the H1N1 flu vaccine is clear: everyone should get it. But not every physician shares that sentiment. The Washington Post reports that there are a minority who are unconvinced of the vaccine’s safety and believe the H1N1 pandemic is over-hyped. Worse, they aren’t vaccinating their patients. And when you’re talking ...
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Fulton to offer H1N1 vaccinations to homeless
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Fulton County will offer the H1N1 vaccine at the Hosea Feed the Hungry and Homeless Thanksgiving Dinner at Turner Field from 10 a.m.
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Mexico: 64,585 cases, 589 deaths
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Via El Universal: Suman 589 muertes por virus A H1N1 en el año. [589 deaths from H1N1 this year] Excerpt, with my translation:El virus de la influenza A H1N1 en México ha contagiado a 64 mil 585 personas en México...
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From Cost to Possible Medicare Cuts and Tax Increases, There's Lots of Conflicting Information; We Set the Record Straight
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Getting The Bugs Out Of Health Reform
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Health professionals spend many thousands of hours training to cure disease. But they can learn how to stop the spread of deadly hospital infections in just a few minutes, by learning five steps for putting lines (that is, tubes) into patients’ bodies.
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New Poll Spotlights Public’s Priorities for Health Reform
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Among the new findings is a ranking of the public's top priorities from among a list of elements of the legislation. There were both similarities and differences in priorities across partisan groups: while assuring the availability of affordable plans ranked in the top three priorities for Democrats, Republicans and independents, deficit ...
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Video: Health Reform Disaster?
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Democrats say the reform bills will revolutionize health care and Republicans say will bankrupt it. As Nancy Cordes reports, Congress is finding out that healthcare reform is easier said than done.
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Health reform: Is tax on 'Cadillac' plans fair?
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Schoolteacher Kinzi Blair makes only $46,000 a year, but she has what many would consider a "Cadillac" health plan, now targeted for a big tax increase by health reformers....
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Sebelius Releases New State-by-State Reports: Health Insurance Reform -- The Case For Change
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HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius announced the release of Health Insurance Reform: The Case for Change, a series of state-by-state reports highlighting the benefits of health insurance reform. The reports are available now at . "Families, seniors and businesses are all suffering under the health care status quo," ...
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Senate, House Health Bills Have Much In Common
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Much of the recent discussion about a health care overhaul has focused on the differences between the House and Senate bills. The bills actually have much in common, however: big ideas that may have once seemed controversial but are now overshadowed by talk of a public option and abortion.
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CBO Chief On Health Care Bills
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With health care overhaul legislation set for action on Capitol Hill, all eyes are on the bottom line. But estimating the financial impact is incredibly complex and contentious. In search of clarity is Doug Elmendorf, the head of the Congressional Budget Office. Elmendorf discusses how his office puts a price tag on proposed bills, and his view ...
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Age equality in health and social care: a consultation on preparing the NHS and social care in England for the age requirements in the Equality Bill that affect the provision of services and exercise of public functions
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This review was set up to help health and social care meet the ban on age discrimination and the new public sector equality duty in the Equality Bill. The review published its report in October 2009 and the consultation paper now invites views on the recommendations and conclusions made that are not directly tied to the legislation. (Department ...
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For Public, Affordability A Key Issue In Health Bill
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The debate in Washington over how much the health care overhaul bills will cost has largely centered on the bottom line for the federal government. But polls repeatedly show Americans are much more concerned about how a reshaped health care system will affect their own family's financial situation.
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SHANGHAI (AP) -- The virus that causes AIDS is now spreading fastest in China through heterosexual sex, a trend demanding new strategies to stave off a rebound in the epidemic after years of progress in containing it, a United Nations report said....
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China mine too crowded: official
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The coal mine that exploded in northern China, killing 104, had too many workers underground in an effort to increase output, a government official said on Monday, exposing the risks often taken to meet the country's insatiable energy demands.
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AIDS infections stabilizing, U.N. report finds
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World health officials say there's some encouraging data on the HIV front — the number of people infected with the virus that causes AIDS seems to be mostly stable except for Africa.
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Don't choose to ignore China's forced abortions
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One of the few incontrovertible assertions one can reasonably make is that no one supports forced abortion. Yet, coerced abortions, as well as involuntary sterilizations, are commonplace in China, Beijing's protestations notwithstanding. While the Chinese Communist Party insists that abortions are voluntary under the nation's one-child policy, ...
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An independent government panel this week abandoned its long-standing recommendation that healthy women over 40 get a breast-cancer screen once every year or two years
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The health reform politics of mammograms and breast cancer screening
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Originally published in MedPage Today by Emily P. Walker, MedPage Today Washington Correspondent The emotional debate over a federal panel’s proposal to end routine mammograms for women in their 40s has reignited controversy over a contentious healthcare reform issue: comparative effectiveness research. Healthcare reform opponents say the ...
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How the mammogram and Pap smear debates ignore the uninsured
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By Jeoffry B.Gordon, MD, MPH The recent recommendation of the US Preventive Services Task Force against routine screening mammograms for healthy, low risk women under the age of fifty has demonstrated our broad consensus about the value of breast cancer screening. The discussions about new guidance from the American Academy of Obstetrics and ...
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AP - Let us give thanks — and pass the Purell.
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MONROVIA and BOPOLU, Liberia, Nov 23 (IPS) - Nineteen-year-old Beauty Phillips clutches her emaciated baby tightly to her chest. At seven months, Inga suffers from malnutrition.
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ZAMBIA: Putting Waste to Work
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NDOLA, Zambia, Nov 23 (IPS) - When Obed Mumba first came to the Zambian copper mining town of Ndola in search of work, it was still known reverently as "Ku kalale" - the land of the white man. In the decades since, he has witnessed his Kabushi township outgrow the limited dreams of its planners.
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BRUSSELS (AP) -- Helped by a therapist, Rom Houben's outstretched finger tapped with surprising speed on a computer touchscreen, spelling out how he felt "alone, lonely, frustrated" in the 23 years he was trapped inside a paralyzed body....
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Comatose for 23 years, Belgian feels reborn
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AP - Helped by a therapist, Rom Houben's outstretched finger tapped with surprising speed on a computer touchscreen, spelling out how he felt "alone, lonely, frustrated" in the 23 years he was trapped inside a paralyzed body.
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Comatose for 23 years Belgian feels reborn
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AP - With a caretaker holding his hand, a Belgian man who was diagnosed as comatose for 23 years typed out a message Tuesday that he felt reborn after decades of loneliness and frustration. A leading bioethicist, however, expressed skepticism that the man was truly communicating on his own.
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Comatose for 23 years Belgian feels reborn
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With a caretaker holding his hand, a Belgian man who was diagnosed as comatose for 23 years typed out a message Tuesday that he felt reborn after decades of loneliness and frustration. A leading bioethicist, however, expressed skepticism that the man was truly communicating on his own.
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Climate negotiators have real hope that a proposed agreement to reduce deforestation could prove to be a bright spot in a meeting that might otherwise be considered a failure
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Among the many reasons for the high preterm birth rate in the U.S.: lack of insurance, cigarette smoking and elective cesarean-section deliveries that are scheduled too early
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Twenty years after the House of Commons resolved to end child poverty in Canada one in every nine children in Ontario still lives in poverty and the recession will deepen the problem, says the 2009 Ontario Report Card on Child Poverty by Ontario Campaign 2000.
There is no scientific proof that people suffering from depression can benefit from taking reboxetine. However, clinical trials do provide proof of benefit of bupropion XL and mirtazapine: both agents can alleviate symptoms. This is the conclusion of the final report of the Institute for Quality and Efficiency in Health Care (IQWiG) published on ...
ATLANTA, Georgia, Nov 24 (IPS) - Activists from the U.S. and Colombia are targeting the World of Coca-Cola museum, located near its headquarters in Atlanta, Georgia, accusing the company of "union busting", paying its workers "poverty wages", and engaging in environmentally destructive practices.
WASHINGTON, Nov 23 (IPS) - Taxation and government spending are the targets of a new report on Guatemala that argues the government is failing in its fiscal commitments to food, health and education.
Twenty-five years after Baby Fae's death following the world's first animal-to-human infant heart transplant, TIME looks back at the history of the procedure
An odd new species of ancient crocodiles stood on two legs, lived alongside dinosaurs and sometimes even hunted them
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama sought to reassure Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Tuesday of his commitment to boosting U.S. ties with India even as his administration has set its rivals, China and Pakistan, as top priorities.
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Obama says will "finish the job" in Afghanistan
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama vowed on Tuesday to "finish the job" of an unpopular and costly eight-year war in Afghanistan, and officials said he could announce an increase of around 30,000 troops next week.
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En los �ltimos seis d�as la Ssa contabiliz� 263 nuevos casos y 16 decesos. Desplaza Nuevo Le�n a Chiapas, y ahora se ubica como el cuarto estado con mayor n�mero; el DF se mantiene en primer lugar con 7 mil 209
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For colon and other cancers, African-Americans have lower survival rates than whites. There has been a belief that racial disparity in survival following surgery for colon cancer was related to a high BMI and co-morbidity. A new study shows there must be some other explanation.
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