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• UNAIDS Director Cautions Against Funding Cuts To Global Fund

  Posted: March 10th, 2010, 5:00am CST

  During an appeal to government and private donors to pledge money to the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria on Monday, UNAIDS Executive Director Michel Sidibe warned of the repercussions tightening budgets could play in the global fight against HIV/AIDS, the Associated Press reports...

• Opinions: Don't Slow Fight Against HIV, TB, Malaria; U.S. Focus On Women, Girls

  Posted: March 10th, 2010, 5:00am CST

  2010 To Be 'Decisive Year' For Global Health, Global Fund Director Says In a BusinessDay opinion piece, Executive Director of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria Michel Kazatchkine reflects on the organization's progress and impact on global health outcomes since its creation in 2002, as detailed in the organizations' 2010 annual report...

• Also In Global Health News: Leishmaniasis Treatment; China's National Health Plan; Zimbabwe Food Security; HIV/AIDS Spending In India

  Posted: March 10th, 2010, 5:00am CST

  Heating Device Effectively Treats Cutaneous Leishmaniasis, Study Says "A heating device that uses radio frequency energy to heat parasites and kill them could provide a new way to treat ... cutaneous leishmaniasis in Iraq, Afghanistan and elsewhere, military researchers reported Monday," the Los Angeles Times' blog "Booster Shots" reports...

• AIDS Care Gap Between Wealthy And Developing Countries Risks Becoming A Chasm

  Posted: March 10th, 2010, 2:00am CST

  AIDS leaders gathering in London today face the daunting challenge of implementing new World Health Organization (WHO) recommendations for earlier treatment with better AIDS drug cocktails at a time when donors are backing away from the promise of "universal access," said Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF)...

• Washington, D.C., To Become First U.S. City To Distribute Free Female Condoms

  Posted: March 9th, 2010, 6:00am CST

  Washington, D.C., soon will become the first city in the U.S. to distribute female condoms at no charge, the Washington Post reports...

• Infectious Virus Hidden In Chromosomes During Latency Can Be Passed From Parents To Children

  Posted: March 9th, 2010, 6:00am CST

  Human herpesvirus 6 (HHV-6) infects nearly 100 percent of humans in early childhood, and the infection then lasts for the rest of a person's life...

• Fortifying The Immunity Of HIV Patients

  Posted: March 9th, 2010, 5:00am CST

  New findings from a Universite de Montreal and the Vaccine and Gene Therapy Institute of Florida (VGTI) study, in collaboration with scientists from the NIH and the McGill University Health Center, may soon lead to an expansion of the drug arsenal used to fight HIV. The Canada-U.S...

• Washington Post Opinion Piece Draws Attention To Breast Ironing In Cameroon

  Posted: March 9th, 2010, 4:00am CST

  In a Washington Post opinion piece on Sunday, freelance writer Jamie Rich examined the Cameroonian practice of breast ironing, in which women use heated plantain leaves or hot stones to "flatten adolescent girls' developing breasts, intending to protect the girls from the dangers of sex, consensual or otherwise...

• Global Fund Releases Latest Impact Data, Projections For Improving Global Health In Next Decade

  Posted: March 9th, 2010, 4:00am CST

  By 2015, mother-to-child HIV transmission will be virtually eliminated and deaths from malaria and tuberculosis will continue to decline if health investments for the diseases are maintained or scaled up, according to an annual results report published Monday by the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, Agence France-Presse/Africasia.com reports (3/8)...

• Also In Global Health News: HIV Study; Health Access, Hunger In Sudan; HIV/AIDS In Guyana; Malaria Deaths In Malawi; North-South Korea Health Program

  Posted: March 9th, 2010, 4:00am CST

  HIV Hides Outs In Bone Marrow, Study Finds HIV "can hide in the bone marrow, avoiding drugs and later awakening to cause illness, according to new research that could point the way toward better treatments for the disease," the Associated Press reports (Schmid, 3/7)...

• HIV Hides In Bone Marrow Say Researchers

  Posted: March 8th, 2010, 1:00pm CST

  Researchers in the US have discovered that a latent form of HIV hides in progenitor cells in bone marrow, avoids detection by the immune system and retains the ability to reproduce and spread when the coast is clear (eg when treated people stop taking anti-HIV drugs)...

• Scientists Discover Reservoir Where HIV-Infected Cells Can Lay-In-Wait

  Posted: March 8th, 2010, 5:00am CST

  University of Michigan scientists have identified a new reservoir for hidden HIV-infected cells that can serve as a factory for new infections. The findings, which appear online March 7 in Nature Medicine, indicate a new target for curing the disease so those infected with the virus may someday no longer rely on AIDS drugs for a lifetime...

• Senators To FDA: Lift Ban On Gays Donating Blood

  Posted: March 8th, 2010, 3:00am CST

  The Associated Press: "The time has come to change a policy that imposes a lifetime ban on donating blood for any man who has had gay sex since 1977, 18 senators said Thursday. ... The lawmakers stressed that the science has changed dramatically since the ban was established in 1983 at the advent of the HIV-AIDS crisis...

• Study, Conference Highlight Risks Associated With Migrant Workers' Limited Access To Health Services

  Posted: March 8th, 2010, 3:00am CST

  Despite being at high-risk for HIV infection, migrant workers in Southern Africa have a challenging time accessing HIV prevention and treatment services, according to a new study by the International Office of Migration (IOM), PANA/Afrique en ligne reports...

• Periodontal Pathogens Enhance HIV-1 Promoter Activation In T Cells

  Posted: March 8th, 2010, 2:00am CST

  During the 39th Annual Meeting of the American Association for Dental Research, convening at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington, DC, lead researcher O.A. Gonzalez (University of Kentucky, Lexington) presented a poster of a study titled "TLR2 and TLR9 Activation by Periodontal Pathogens induce HIV-1 Reactivation." Although oral co-infections (e.g...

• Ban, Clinton Launch Initiative Allowing Travelers To Donate To Global Health

  Posted: March 8th, 2010, 2:00am CST

  Former President Bill Clinton and U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon in New York on Thursday launched MASSIVEGOOD - an initiative that allows travelers to make a $2 donation "to fight deadly diseases whenever they buy a plane ticket, book a hotel room or rent a car," Bloomberg/BusinessWeek reports (Varner, 3/4)...

• Argos Therapeutics Publishes Positive Immune Response, Safety And Manufacturing Data For Its Arcelis™ HIV Program In Clinical Immunology

  Posted: March 7th, 2010, 2:00am CST

  Argos Therapeutics announced the publication of a manuscript in the February edition of Clinical Immunology, detailing positive immune response, safety and manufacturing data for its AGS-004 immunotherapy for HIV...

• UNITAID Statement On Launch Of MASSIVEGOOD

  Posted: March 7th, 2010, 2:00am CST

  UNITAID welcomes the announcement today of the MASSIVEGOOD initiative, established to provide additional funding for UNITAID's work in expanding access to treatment for HIV/AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis...

• Study Finds Pfizer's Pneumonia, Meningitis Vaccine Protects Against Recurrent Pneumonia In HIV Patients

  Posted: March 5th, 2010, 8:00am CST

  Pfizer's Prevnar 7 vaccine, which protects against pneumonia and meningitis, has been shown to reduce the risk of recurrent pneumococcal infection in patients living with HIV in Malawi, according to a study published Thursday in the New England Journal of Medicine, Reuters reports...

• Also In Global Health News: HIV In Philippines; Birth Control, Child Health In Afghanistan; Guatemala's Progress On MDGs

  Posted: March 5th, 2010, 8:00am CST

  Philippines' Health Secretary Seeks To Boost Condom Distribution After Increase In HIV Diagnoses The Philippines' Health Secretary Esperanza Cabral on Thursday announced she would seek additional public funds to support the distribution of condoms among high-risk groups, after the country recorded 143 new cases of HIV in January - its highest number of diagnoses i...

• Prestigious Thomas Parran Award Won By Dr. Hunter Handsfield For 'Long And Distinguished' Contributions To STD Prevention

  Posted: March 5th, 2010, 4:00am CST

  University of Washington's Dr. H. Hunter Handsfield, a long-time trailblazer in sexually transmitted diseases (STD) research, will receive the nation's highest honor in the STD field during the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's 2010 National STD Prevention Conference in Atlanta, March 8-11. Handsfield is the 2010 recipient of the Thomas Parran Award, named for Dr. Thomas Parran, Jr...

• Pneumococcal Vaccine Offers Protection To HIV-infected African Adults In Clinical Trial

  Posted: March 5th, 2010, 2:00am CST

  A clinical trial of a vaccine against a major cause of pneumonia and meningitis has shown that it can prevent three out of four cases of re-infection in HIV-infected adults in Africa. The trials, conducted in Malawi and funded by the Wellcome Trust, studied the efficacy of a vaccine against infection with the Streptococcus pneumoniae bacteria...

• UNAIDS Launches Plan To Address Gender Equality, HIV/AIDS

  Posted: March 4th, 2010, 8:00am CST

  UNAIDS on Tuesday launched a five-year initiative to help tackle gender inequalities and human rights violations that increase the vulnerability of women worldwide to HIV/AIDS, BBC reports (3/3)...

• Meeting Addresses How To Improve HIV/AIDS Surveillance In Asia

  Posted: March 4th, 2010, 8:00am CST

  A five-day workshop that opened Monday in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, will address ways to improve HIV/AIDS surveillance in the Asia region, Viet Nam News reports. The workshop has brought together "surveillance technical staff from government departments, non-governmental organisations and U.S...

• Also In Global Health News: U.S. Ambassador To U.N.; Male Circumcision; River Blindness In Ecuador; Nursing Shortage In Caribbean; Maternal Health

  Posted: March 4th, 2010, 8:00am CST

  U.S. Ambassador To U.N. In Geneva Assumes Position, Ending 13 Month Vacancy Betty King reported to her new position as U.S. ambassador to the U.N. in Geneva on Wednesday, the Associated Press reports. "Washington's Geneva mission had been without an ambassador since Warren W. Tichenor left his post on Jan...

• Mosaic Vaccines Show Promise In Reducing The Spread Of HIV

  Posted: March 4th, 2010, 8:00am CST

  Two teams of researchers - including Los Alamos National Laboratory theoretical biologists Bette Korber, Will Fischer, Sydeaka Watson, and James Szinger - have announced an HIV vaccination strategy that has been shown to expand the breadth and depth of immune responses in rhesus monkeys. Rhesus monkeys provide the best animal model currently available for testing HIV vaccines...

• 25th Anniversary Of Anti-AIDS Drugs

  Posted: March 4th, 2010, 6:00am CST

  Elsevier, the world-leading publisher of scientific, technical and medical information products and services, released a special issue of the journal Antiviral Research, marking the 25th anniversary of antiretroviral drug development. The guest editors, José Esté from Hospital Germans Trias i Pujol, Barcelona, Spain and Tomas Cihlar, from Gilead sciences Inc...

• State Roundup: Mass. Hospital Controversy, Iowa And Utah Consider Coverage Expansions

  Posted: March 3rd, 2010, 8:00am CST

  The Boston Globe: "The state appealed to the federal government yesterday to help Massachusetts hospitals that care for disproportionately high numbers of lower-income patients who receive state-sponsored health insurance...

• HIV, NCDs Impact Achievement Of MDGs, Study Says

  Posted: March 3rd, 2010, 8:00am CST

  Unequal progress in achieving U.N. Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) for tuberculosis and child mortality in low-income countries is related to the countries' burdens of HIV and non-communicable diseases (NCD), according to a study published Tuesday in the journal PLoS Medicine, Reuters reports (Kelland, 3/2)...

• Also In Global Health News: Potential Roundworm Treatment; Opposition To Uganda's Anti-Gay Bill; Low-Cost Toilets; ARV Treatment During Emergencies

  Posted: March 3rd, 2010, 8:00am CST

  Bacterial Protein Kills Intestinal Roundworms In Mice, Could Lead To Human Treatment Researchers have discovered that a "bacterial protein used in a common pesticide kills intestinal parasitic roundworms in mice," which may pave a way for treatment in humans, Nature News reports (Fang, 3/2)...