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Uganda: HIV Vaccine Trials to Start in July
New Vision
May 20, 2013

MAKERERE University Walter Reed Project (MUWRP) is to carry out trials for an HIV vaccine in July.The project executive director, Dr. Hannah Kibuuka, told journalists during a media dialogue at their offices in Kampala that the trials would involve 120 participants."These trials ...

OHIO: Cleveland LGBT Community Center Offers Free Support Groups and HIV, STD Testing: The Frugal Patient
CDC HIV/AIDS/Viral Hepatitis/STD/TB Prevention News Update
May 20, 2013

The Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Community Center of Greater Cleveland offers free and confidential support groups and both HIV and STD testing at its offices, located at 6600 Detroit Avenue. The center offers HIV testing from 5:00–7:30 p.m. on Mondays and Wednesdays, and STD testing from 4:00–7:30 ...

CALIFORNIA: Local Church Sends HIV/AIDS Care Packs to Swaziland
CDC HIV/AIDS/Viral Hepatitis/STD/TB Prevention News Update
May 20, 2013

Partnering with World Vision International, approximately 200 parishioners of South Shores Church in Dana Point, Calif., worked together to package 1,400 kits for caregivers working with HIV/AIDS patients in Swaziland. World Vision International is a Christian ministry that serves more than 30 million ...

ITALY: HIV Is No Barrier to Successful Liver Transplant for Cancer Treatment
CDC HIV/AIDS/Viral Hepatitis/STD/TB Prevention News Update
May 20, 2013

Research from Italy indicates that HIV infection does not preclude liver transplant as treatment for hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) and is not a predictor of survival rates after transplant. HCC is the most common type of liver cancer and can be caused by infection with viral hepatitis. Alcoholism also ...

UNITED STATES: Navajo Confront an Increase in New H.I.V. Infections
CDC HIV/AIDS/Viral Hepatitis/STD/TB Prevention News Update
May 20, 2013

The Indian Health Service (IHS) reported 47 new HIV cases on the Navajo reservation in 2012—a 20-percent increase from 2011. Since 1999, HIV incidence in the Navajo tribe has increased fivefold, according to Dr. Jonathan Iralu, the report’s author. Iralu partly attributed the recent rise in diagnoses ...

CANADA: Health Officials in St. John's N.L., Inform 50 People of Tuberculosis Risk
CDC HIV/AIDS/Viral Hepatitis/STD/TB Prevention News Update
May 20, 2013

Canada's Eastern Newfoundland health officials have notified approximately 50 people that they have been exposed to active TB after a high school student was diagnosed with the disease. According to Dr. David Allison, medical officer of health for Eastern Health, the health department has contacted parents ...

CONNECTICUT: At Hartford Public High School, A Day Reserved for 'Healthy Relationships'
CDC HIV/AIDS/Viral Hepatitis/STD/TB Prevention News Update
May 20, 2013

Recently, Connecticut’s Hartford Public High School’s Law and Government Academy held a Healthy Relationships Day; administrators cancelled regular classes and provided wellness sessions and frank conversations on topics from body image to sexual health. The morning began with students from the Greater ...

Uganda: Remembering Those Killed By HIV/AIDS (International AIDS Candlelight Memorial)
New Vision
May 20, 2013

In the late 1980s, the HIV prevalence rate was 18%. It reduced to 6.2%, but has risen again to 7.3%, which is worrying policy makers and healthcare givers.Lutaaya has AIDS", read New Vision front page headline a day after musician Philly Bongole Lutaaya publicly announced that he had "slim." ...

KENYA: Kenya Launches Universal HPV Vaccine Access to Youths
CDC HIV/AIDS/Viral Hepatitis/STD/TB Prevention News Update
May 20, 2013

In concert with Cervical Cancer Week, Kenya has announced universal distribution of human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine for girls, thanks to a UNICEF contract with Gardasil’s manufacturer Merck. HPV, the most common sexually transmitted infection, is the origin of approximately 75 percent of cervical cancers. ...

NEVADA: Clinics Offer Low-Cost Care for those Lacking Insurance
CDC HIV/AIDS/Viral Hepatitis/STD/TB Prevention News Update
May 20, 2013

Many unemployed persons lost the safety net of health insurance during the recent recession. Throughout Southern Nevada, organizations such as nonprofit healthcare facilities, medical practices, government agencies, and retail clinics are trying to make a difference in the lives of those without health ...

'Gap' for HIV vaccine efforts after latest setback
Agence France-Presse
May 18, 2013

WASHINGTON, May 18, 2013 (AFP) - The hunt for an HIV vaccine has gobbled up $8 billion in the past decade, and the failure of the most recent efficacy trial has delivered yet another setback to 26 years of efforts.With the next attempts expected to be years away, top researchers now say ...

UNITED STATES: Triple Therapy for Hepatitis C is Effective After Liver Transplantation, but Side-Effects Are Common
CDC HIV/AIDS/Viral Hepatitis/STD/TB Prevention News Update
May 18, 2013

Researchers, including Elizabeth Verna of Columbia University and others from the Consortium to Study Health Outcomes in Hepatitis C Virus (HCV) Liver Transplant Recipients (CRUSH-C) study evaluated triple therapy in liver transplant recipients at six US centers. The researchers reported on their study ...

CANADA: Nunavut Uses Comic Book to Do Sex Education
CDC HIV/AIDS/Viral Hepatitis/STD/TB Prevention News Update
May 18, 2013

Premier and Education Minister Eva Aariak of Nunavut, Canada, announced the launch of a new, culturally appropriate sexual health curriculum resource, the “Choices” comic book, for all Nunavut eighth grade classes. “Choices,” which was developed in Nunavut specifically for Inuit youth, aims to share information ...

NEW HAMPSHIRE: State Health Officials Urge Hepatitis Testing
CDC HIV/AIDS/Viral Hepatitis/STD/TB Prevention News Update
May 18, 2013

During Hepatitis Awareness Month, New Hampshire Department of Health and Human Services officials urge residents to know about their hepatitis risk. Millions of Americans have chronic viral hepatitis and most do not realize it; this is an opportunity to remind the public and healthcare providers about ...

AIDS science at 30: 'Cure' now part of lexicon
Agence France-Presse
May 18, 2013

PARIS, May 18, 2013 (AFP) - Big names in medicine are set to give an upbeat assessment of the war on AIDS on Tuesday, 30 years after French researchers identified the virus that causes the disease. Scientists will pay tribute to the astonishing success of AIDS drugs and highlight steps ...

ARIZONA: Routine Skin Testing Available Again at Tuberculosis Clinic Starting May 20
CDC HIV/AIDS/Viral Hepatitis/STD/TB Prevention News Update
May 18, 2013

Arizona’s Pima County Health Department has announced the resumption of routine TB skin tests beginning May 20, at the Tuberculosis Clinic, 2980 E. Ajo Way. The health department temporarily suspended routine skin testing because of a national shortage of the Tubersol solution used in the test. The clinic ...

NORTH DAKOTA: Officials: 26 Tuberculosis Cases from Grand Forks Outbreak
CDC HIV/AIDS/Viral Hepatitis/STD/TB Prevention News Update
May 18, 2013

North Dakota health officials have identified 26 active TB cases linked to a Grand Forks area outbreak. The total included two TB cases in 2010, 20 cases in 2012, and four cases already in 2013. Grand Forks County reported 23 of these cases. Health officials have connected three other cases in Stutsman ...

AUSTRALIA: HIV Rates Triple in the Northern Territory in Just 12 Months
CDC HIV/AIDS/Viral Hepatitis/STD/TB Prevention News Update
May 18, 2013

Australia’s Northern Territory (NT) recorded 36 HIV cases in 2012, compared to 11 in 2011, primarily due to 14 new diagnoses from irregular arrivals sent to the Immigration Detention Centres in Darwin. Without the irregular arrivals, NT’s 2012 statistics would still be high at 22 cases. NT AIDS and Hepatitis ...

ARIZONA: Parsons Foundation Gives $3 Million to Southwest Center for HIV/AIDS
CDC HIV/AIDS/Viral Hepatitis/STD/TB Prevention News Update
May 18, 2013

On May 11, the Bob and Renee Parsons Foundation surprised supporters of Phoenix’s Southwest Center for HIV/AIDS with the announcement of a $3 million contribution for the center’s capital campaign. The gift will ensure that construction on the new 50,000-square-foot Center for Health, Education, and Wellness ...

UNITED STATES: Hepatitis C Testing for People Born Between 1945 and 1965
CDC HIV/AIDS/Viral Hepatitis/STD/TB Prevention News Update
May 18, 2013

CDC and health departments across the nation are partnering to provide free hepatitis C virus (HCV) testing and education during May, which is Hepatitis Awareness Month. The primary testing target is baby boomers born between 1945 and 1965. Although this group represents only 27 percent of the US population, ...

India Widens Price Control Over Medicines
Wall Street Journal
May 17, 2013

MUMBAI - India has significantly widened its control over drug prices, a decision that will make medicines more affordable for people but hurt the profit margins of pharmaceutical companies.As many as 348 medicines including cancer drug fluoroucil and lamivudine-zidovudine used in the treatment ...

People with HIV pay more for life insurance – if they can get it (South Africa)
Mail and Guardian-Johannesburg
May 17, 2013

-- Their life expectancy is almost as high as those who are HIV free, yet they pay much more.Social justice organisation Section27 has been inundated with complaints about life insurance companies refusing to provide cover for people infected with HIV.S'khumbuzo Maphumulo, ...

Illinois Senate approves marijuana for medical uses
Reuters New Media
May 17, 2013

(Reuters) - The Illinois Senate on Friday voted to approve the use of marijuana for medical purposes, which if signed into law would make it the second-most-populous state in the nation after California to allow the drug's use for medical purposes.The bill, approved by the Illinois House ...

Uganda: Gov't Urged to Levy a Tax On Alcohol to Fund HIV
New Vision
May 17, 2013

As Uganda counts a 40% reduction in AIDS-related deaths in the past decade, the Uganda AIDS Commission (UAC) wants Government to levy a special tax on alcohol and cigarette to fund HIV programmes.According to UAC Executive Director Dr. Kihumuro Apuuli, AIDS account for 60,000 annual deaths ...

Health group didn't disclose HIV tests, apologizes
Associated Press
May 17, 2013

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) - Kaiser Permanente Northwest is apologizing to nearly 6,500 members in Oregon and Washington whose blood was tested for HIV without their knowledge or consent.The health organization implemented a screening policy a month ago in line with a federal recommendation that ...

No time to lose in the search for an HIV vaccine
UNAIDS
May 17, 2013

GENEVA, 18 May 2013 - The Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) joins partners and allies around the world in recognizing World AIDS Vaccine Day. Developing an HIV vaccine is one of the greatest scientific challenges the world faces - and one of the most important. While encouraging ...

VIRGINIA: Charlottesville Nonprofit Offering Free Hepatitis C Testing
CDC HIV/AIDS/Viral Hepatitis/STD/TB Prevention News Update
May 16, 2013

The AIDS Services Group (ASG) is now offering free rapid hepatitis C testing at its offices in the Charlottesville, Va., area, becoming one of only two facilities in the state to offer the rapid test. ASG recommends testing for those individuals who are baby boomers, have received donated organs or transfused ...

NEW JERSEY: Drug Company Donates Thousands to HIV/AIDS Orgs
CDC HIV/AIDS/Viral Hepatitis/STD/TB Prevention News Update
May 16, 2013

Janssen Therapeutics, a division of New Brunswick, N.J.-based pharmaceutical company Johnson & Johnson, announced they will provide up to $30,000 in grants and/or charitable donations to 16 organizations, four of which are in the New York metropolitan area. The funding will increase awareness and provide ...

NORTH KOREA: North Korea Sees Surge of Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis
CDC HIV/AIDS/Viral Hepatitis/STD/TB Prevention News Update
May 16, 2013

The South Korea-based TB aid organization Eugene Bell Foundation reported that North Korea has “at least 5,000” cases of multidrug-resistant TB (MDR TB) every year. Incidence actually could be much higher because North Korea restricts foreign doctors’ access and the country does not have the means to ...

WASHINGTON: Front Porch -- Share Your Experiences with Tuberculosis
CDC HIV/AIDS/Viral Hepatitis/STD/TB Prevention News Update
May 16, 2013

Washington’s Snohomish County TB Voices Project is searching for individuals interested in sharing their TB experiences, whether their own or those related to someone they may know. The TB Voices Project was created to provide an avenue for individuals of all ages to convey their TB stories, and in so ...

CALIFORNIA: Donation to Fund HPV Vaccines for Youth
CDC HIV/AIDS/Viral Hepatitis/STD/TB Prevention News Update
May 16, 2013

Local television news station KERO Channel 23, Azteca Bakersfield, and the Scripps Howard Foundation have donated $15,000 to California’s San Joaquin Community Hospital’s Children’s Mobile Immunization Program to pay for free human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccinations for approximately 40 underinsured youth. ...

Viet Nam: South-South learning helps prepare for sustainable provision of AIDS treatment
UNAIDS
May 16, 2013

Mr Dong, a 37-year-old man from Hanoi, has been living with HIV for a number of years. He is in good health thanks to the antiretroviral treatment that is provided free of charge in Viet Nam and is a leading member of the Viet Nam Network of People Living with HIV (VNP+).But Mr Dong, as ...

PENNSYLVANIA: Scientists Weaken HIV Infection in Immune Cells Using Synthetic Agents
CDC HIV/AIDS/Viral Hepatitis/STD/TB Prevention News Update
May 16, 2013

HIV hides within certain types of cells and reproduces slowly, eventually causing chronic inflammation regardless of drug treatment. According to Servio H. Ramirez PhD, assistant professor of pathology and laboratory medicine at Temple University School of Medicine (TUSM), although antiretroviral drugs ...

Danish researchers issue statement: "We are not on the brink of an HIV cure"
CATIE News
May 16, 2013

Over the past several weeks some media outlets have grossly misinterpreted press releases and results from a clinical trial that occurred in Denmark. These media claimed that a team of Danish scientists stated that an HIV cure was imminent. Unfortunately, these incorrect internet news stories have ...

CALIFORNIA: Giants, Nonprofit Mark 20 Years of AIDS Awareness
CDC HIV/AIDS/Viral Hepatitis/STD/TB Prevention News Update
May 16, 2013

The Until There's a Cure (UTAC) Foundation and the San Francisco Giants baseball team will mark the 20th annual “Until There’s a Cure” game on Tuesday, May 21, when the Giants play the Washington Nationals at AT&T Park. The UTAC event will feature a pregame home plate ceremony titled “Together We Can,” ...

Russia has 'no anti-AIDS strategy': official
Agence France-Presse
May 16, 2013

MOSCOW, May 16, 2013 (AFP) - There is no government strategy to fight the spread of AIDS in Russia, where the number of deaths caused by the disease continues to grow, a senior healthcare official said on Thursday."We have no national strategy to fight against AIDS," the director of the ...

As Hepatitis C Spreads, Scotland Steps In
Wall Street Journal
May 16, 2013

DUNDEE, Scotland - Sam Nicoll, an unemployed laborer with a history of heroin use in this down-and-out city, has recently been released from prison. He's just become a father. And on a recent morning, he ran out of injection needles.But a nurse here, Brian Stephens, wants the 24-year-old ...

UNITED STATES: New AIDS Group Debuts as NAPWA Successor
CDC HIV/AIDS/Viral Hepatitis/STD/TB Prevention News Update
May 16, 2013

Organizers have announced that their new coalition Pozitively Healthy will assume the advocacy role formerly filled by the National Association of People With AIDS (NAPWA), which closed its doors in February due to bankruptcy. Pozitively Healthy will be the advocacy arm of the Washington D.C.-based AIDS ...

Genesee County Health Department Seeks Help at STD Clinic
CDC HIV/AIDS/Viral Hepatitis/STD/TB Prevention News Update
May 15, 2013

With some of the highest STD rates in the state of Michigan, Genesee County Health Department Health Officer Mark Valacak is petitioning the board of commissioners to re-establish the county’s public health nurse position to assist with providing services. The county currently enlists the aid ...

SOUTH AFRICA: AIDS-Related Deaths Falling in S. Africa: Agency
CDC HIV/AIDS/Viral Hepatitis/STD/TB Prevention News Update
May 15, 2013

On May 14, Statistics South Africa, the country’s official statistics agency, declared that although one in 10 South Africans are HIV-positive, AIDS-related deaths are decreasing in the country. Bolstered treatment is beginning to have an impact. For years, South Africa has lagged behind in the ...

CALIFORNIA: NorCal AIDS Cycle Opening and Closing Ceremonies Show Support For Bicyclists
CDC HIV/AIDS/Viral Hepatitis/STD/TB Prevention News Update
May 15, 2013

The NorCal AIDS Cycle, a four-day, 330-mile bicycle ride through Sacramento and surrounding areas, is scheduled for May 16–19. More than 200 riders will begin at 6:30 a.m. at Folsom Lake’s Beals Point. The closing ceremony is scheduled for 11:30 a.m. on May 19 at the State Capitol after ...

MARYLAND: People More Likely to Keep HIV Clinic Appointments if They Believe Their Care Providers Know Them as a Person
CDC HIV/AIDS/Viral Hepatitis/STD/TB Prevention News Update
May 15, 2013

Researchers at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore investigated whether the quality of patients’ relationships with their HIV care providers helped patients keep routine care appointments. They were looking for potential targets for future interventions to improve providers’ interactions ...

KENTUCKY: Northern Kentucky Health Department Ready to Give Low-Cost Hepatitis B Vaccines to Adults
CDC HIV/AIDS/Viral Hepatitis/STD/TB Prevention News Update
May 15, 2013

Kentucky has decreased its hepatitis B rate by more than 80 percent since 1993 by using the hepatitis vaccine. Now, hepatitis B high-risk residents are eligible for low-cost vaccination at the Northern Kentucky Health Department. The vaccination consists of three doses given throughout a 6-month time ...

Sangamo BioSciences Presents Clinical Data Demonstrating HIV Reservoir Reduction in HIV-Infected Subjects Treated with ZFP Therapeutic(R), SB-728-T
PR Newswire
May 15, 2013

Unprecedented Immune Reconstitution Drives HIV Viral Reservoir DepletionEncouraging Preliminary Anti-Viral HIV Data during Treatment Interruption in Ongoing SB-728-T Phase 2 TrialsRICHMOND, Calif., May 15, 2013 /PRNewswire/ --Sangamo BioSciences, Inc. (Nasdaq: SGMO) announced ...

PAKISTAN: Risky Shots
CDC HIV/AIDS/Viral Hepatitis/STD/TB Prevention News Update
May 15, 2013

Unnecessary injections, unsafe injection practices, and non-sterile syringes and needles are major factors contributing to the spread of hepatitis C virus (HCV) in Pakistan, according to Dr. Quaid Saeed, World Health Organization (WHO) national program officer on HIV and hepatitis. Other factors that ...

CALIFORNIA: Oakland HIV/AIDS Housing the Focus of Meeting
CDC HIV/AIDS/Viral Hepatitis/STD/TB Prevention News Update
May 15, 2013

Local activists, consumers, and advocates in Oakland, Calif., met to discuss housing for persons living with HIV/AIDS a few days before Affordable Housing Week, which ends May 19. Darice Bridges, AIDS housing information and referral coordinator for Alameda County 211, discussed local resources available ...

UNITED STATES: Twin Epidemics: HIV and Hepatitis C in the Urban Northeast
CDC HIV/AIDS/Viral Hepatitis/STD/TB Prevention News Update
May 15, 2013

A Yale University research team reported identifying a geographical dimension of risk factors common to HIV and hepatitis C virus (HCV) that may influence surveillance, prevention, and healthcare delivery for people coinfected with these viruses. A growing number of people in the US Northeast have ...

WHO statistics show narrowing health gap between countries with best and worst health status
PR Newswire
May 15, 2013

GENEVA, 15 May 2013 / PRNewswire Africa / - The world has made dramatic progress in improving health in the poorest countries and narrowing the gaps between countries with the best and worst health status in the past two decades, according to the World Health Statistics 2013. The World Health ...

HIV-infected teacher's aide accused of molestation
Associated Press
May 14, 2013

ST. LOUIS (AP) - An Illinois special-needs teaching assistant accused of molesting a teenage student in school while knowingly infected with HIV remained jailed Tuesday as police investigated another claim of similar misconduct by the man involving a different student.Prosecutors in St. ...

NORTH CAROLINA: Possible Exposure to Hepatitis A
CDC HIV/AIDS/Viral Hepatitis/STD/TB Prevention News Update
May 14, 2013

Jackson County, N.C., and state health officials are working together with the High Hampton Inn restaurant in Cashiers, N.C., to investigate a reported isolated case of hepatitis A in a restaurant employee. The restaurant has been proactive in contacting patrons and taking needed measures to prevent ...

Zimbabwe's sustained progress towards "Getting to Zero"
UNAIDS
May 14, 2013

Zimbabwe is an example of political commitment and progress in the AIDS response. Although it is one of the countries most affected by the HIV epidemic in sub-Saharan Africa, with an adult HIV prevalence of 15%, the country has achieved and sustains universal coverage of treatment to prevent mother-to-child-transmission ...

Toronto Public Health urges vaccination against bacterial meningitis for MSM travelling to New York
CATIE News
May 14, 2013

Since 2010 an outbreak of bacterial meningitis has been occurring in New York City among men who have sex with men (MSM). Twenty-two cases have been reported, including four in 2013. The age of cases ranged between 21 and 59 years. Public health authorities in New York have disclosed that seven of ...

Rights group urges China to repeal penalties against sex workers
Reuters New Media
May 14, 2013

HONG KONG (Reuters) - China should remove criminal and administrative penalties against sex workers which often lead to serious police abuses, Human Rights Watch said in a report released on Tuesday.The abuses include torture, beatings, physical assaults, fines and arbitrary detentions ...

Chinese sex workers face horrifying abuse: report
Agence France-Presse
May 14, 2013

HONG KONG, May 14, 2013 (AFP) - Chinese sex workers are being subjected to widespread abuse by authorities, including beatings and torture in police custody and detention without trial, Human Rights Watch said Tuesday."Sex workers are treated as if they have no rights," the international ...

GUAM: National Asian and Pacific Islander HIV/AIDS Awareness Day
CDC HIV/AIDS/Viral Hepatitis/STD/TB Prevention News Update
May 14, 2013

The Guam Department of Public Health and Social Services (DPHSS) will focus the public’s attention on the effects of HIV/AIDS stigma on May 19, National Asian and Pacific Islander HIV/AIDS Awareness Day. The department estimates that one-third of Asians and Pacific Islanders are HIV-infected ...

One in 10 South Africans HIV positive
Agence France-Presse
May 14, 2013

CAPE TOWN, May 14, 2013 (AFP) - One in ten South Africans is HIV positive but AIDS-related deaths are falling as ramped-up treatment begins to have an impact, the country's official statistics agency said Tuesday.After years of dragging its heels on the HIV/AIDS crisis, since 2004 South ...

CANADA: Fast, Cheap Methods of Diagnosing Infectious Disease? They're Coming Sooner Than You Think
CDC HIV/AIDS/Viral Hepatitis/STD/TB Prevention News Update
May 14, 2013

Researchers at the University of Toronto have created a cheap, rapid, easy-to-use testing method for infectious diseases. The test is not yet ready for widespread use, but researchers contend that it can make quick, accurate diagnoses available even in developing countries, speed up detection and response ...

CALIFORNIA: Cedars-Sinai Cuts HIV/AIDS Services
CDC HIV/AIDS/Viral Hepatitis/STD/TB Prevention News Update
May 14, 2013

Hospital officials at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in West Hollywood, Calif., have confirmed “some cutbacks” to the Infectious Diseases Division (IDD), which were originally announced internally in December 2012. These cuts will include HIV specialists Dr. Paula Gaut and Dr. David Hardy, ...

Varsities danger zones as US cuts AIDS funds
Sunday Times-South Africa
May 14, 2013

A big cut in US funding for South Africa's HIV-Aids programmes could lead to an increase in infections at universities and colleges.Briefing the parliamentary portfolio committee on HIV-Aids in Cape Town last week, SA National Aids Council CEO Fareed Abdullah said funding from the US President's ...

Public Meeting on HIV Patient-Focused Drug Development and HIV Cure Research: June 14, 2013
FDA News
May 14, 2013

FDA is announcing a Public Meeting on HIV Patient-Focused Drug Development and HIV Cure Research Date: June 14, 2013 Time: 9:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m...

WISCONSIN: Three More Sheboygan Students Have Contracted TB, Officials Say
CDC HIV/AIDS/Viral Hepatitis/STD/TB Prevention News Update
May 14, 2013

On May 9, Sheboygan County, Wis., public health officials announced that three more Sheboygan Area School District students have active TB, in addition to a case confirmed in April. All four students are from the same family. Sheboygan County Health Officer Dale Hippensteel stated that the students’ ...

CANADA: Program Allows Teens to Text Their Sex Questions
CDC HIV/AIDS/Viral Hepatitis/STD/TB Prevention News Update
May 14, 2013

AIDS Community Care Montreal (ACCM) announced the May 14 launch of “Sext ed,” a community-based initiative that allows teenagers to use cellphones to text and receive answers to sex-related questions anonymously. ACCM developed Sext ed to fill a void created when Quebec’s Ministry ...

CANADA: Nunavut Undertakes Hepatitis Survey in Baffin, Kivalliq Regions
CDC HIV/AIDS/Viral Hepatitis/STD/TB Prevention News Update
May 13, 2013

The Nunavut Department of Health, the Public Health Agency of Canada, and the University of Manitoba will conduct a voluntary survey among the Nunavummiut in the Baffin and Kivalliq regions to determine the prevalence of hepatitis B and C and to ascertain the effectiveness of the government’s ...

NEW YORK: NY Rep.-- VA says 18 Vets Positive for Hepatitis
CDC HIV/AIDS/Viral Hepatitis/STD/TB Prevention News Update
May 13, 2013

Rep. Chris Collins (R-N.Y.) stated May 9 that 18 veterans have tested positive for hepatitis, following the disclosure that the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) hospital where they received treatment may have improperly re-used insulin pens on multiple patients. Collins said that the VA did not ...

MAINE: Bowdoin Students Play Soccer for Annual HIV/AIDS Event
CDC HIV/AIDS/Viral Hepatitis/STD/TB Prevention News Update
May 13, 2013

Recently, more than 100 students of Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine, supported Grassroot Soccer’s fourth annual charity soccer tournament. The event began at Bowdoin four years ago to raise money and awareness for the nonprofit organization Grassroot Soccer, which uses the popularity of soccer ...

NEW JERSEY: Middlesex County to Receive $1M to Support HIV/AIDS Care
CDC HIV/AIDS/Viral Hepatitis/STD/TB Prevention News Update
May 13, 2013

Middlesex County, N.J., will receive slightly more than $1 million in federal funds for its Ryan White HIV/AIDS program targeting low-income individuals and families living with HIV/AIDS. Announcing the funding on February 21, Rep. Frank Pallone Jr. (D-N.J.) stated that since New Jersey ranks high ...

THE BAHAMAS: U.S. Charge d'Affaires Presents $14,000 to Bahamian Organizations to Promote HIV/AIDS Awareness
CDC HIV/AIDS/Viral Hepatitis/STD/TB Prevention News Update
May 13, 2013

US Charge d’Affaires for the Bahamas John Dinkelman awarded grants totaling $14,000 at a ceremony on May 8 to community organizations that submitted winning proposals to the 2013 President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) program. The program funds nongovernmental organizations, ...

UNITED STATES: National Institutes of Health Names University of Rochester a Center for AIDS Research
CDC HIV/AIDS/Viral Hepatitis/STD/TB Prevention News Update
May 13, 2013

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has designated the University of Rochester a Center for AIDS Research (CFAR), which means the university will receive $7.5 million throughout the next five years for HIV/AIDS work. The newest of 18 US CFARs, Rochester will use the funding to develop and nurture ...

THE NETHERLANDS: High Prevalence of Oral HPV Infection in Dutch Gay Men
CDC HIV/AIDS/Viral Hepatitis/STD/TB Prevention News Update
May 13, 2013

According to Dutch researchers, prevalence of oral human papillomavirus (HPV) infection was high among gay men with HIV infection. Also, these men were more likely to be infected with HPV strains associated with high-risk of head and neck cancers. Between 2010 and 2011, researchers in Amsterdam ...

Circumcision plans go awry in Swaziland
Integrated Regional Information Network
May 13, 2013

MBABANE, 13 May 2013 (IRIN) - It was an ambitious plan to circumcise the majority of men in Swaziland, an effort to reduce the risk of HIV transmission in a country with the world's highest HIV prevalence. How could it have gone wrong?"First they told me that circumcision will not really ...

CALIFORNIA: AIDS Group Pushes for Measure to Form City Health Department in L.A.
CDC HIV/AIDS/Viral Hepatitis/STD/TB Prevention News Update
May 13, 2013

On May 10, the AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF) announced that they had gathered approximately 70,000 signatures, 50,000 of which they believed were valid, to qualify for a ballot measure that would allow Los Angeles residents to vote on whether the city should have its own public health department ...

Legal help for AIDS patients
Associated Press
May 11, 2013

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - The Mississippi Center for Justice and the University of Mississippi Medical Center are partnering to provide free civil legal services to people living with AIDS.The collaboration includes the Mississippi State Department of Health's Crossroads Clinics Central and ...

NORTH CAROLINA: Teen Medical Ban Could Threaten Gay Youth, Say Advocates
CDC HIV/AIDS/Viral Hepatitis/STD/TB Prevention News Update
May 10, 2013

The North Carolina legislature has sent back to the judiciary committee proposed legislation that would exclude under-18 youth from receiving medical and mental health services without written, notarized parental consent. Proponents of H693 aimed to prevent under-age youth from receiving prevention, ...

EUROPE: Second-Generation Protease Inhibitor Faldaprevir Cures up to 80% of Hepatitis C
CDC HIV/AIDS/Viral Hepatitis/STD/TB Prevention News Update
May 10, 2013

The second-generation protease inhibitor faldaprevir combined with pegylated interferon and ribavirin cured approximately 80 percent of previously untreated individuals with genotype 1 hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection, according to Professor Peter Ferenci of the Medical University of Vienna. Ferenci ...

WHO says Cambodia can end HIV infections by 2020
Agence France-Presse
May 10, 2013

PHNOM PENH, May 10, 2013 (AFP) - Cambodia is on track to become one of the few countries in the world to successfully reverse its HIV epidemic and may eliminate new infections by 2020, the World Health Organization said Friday.The Southeast Asian nation has reduced its HIV prevalence rate ...

GLOBAL: Cancer Vaccines Get a Price Cut in Poor Nations
CDC HIV/AIDS/Viral Hepatitis/STD/TB Prevention News Update
May 10, 2013

The lower price initially will be available only for demonstration projects in Kenya, Madagascar, Ghana, and Laos. However, it will extend to 30 million girls in 40 countries by 2020, according to Dr. Seth Berkley, chief executive of the GAVI Alliance. In wealthy countries like the United States, ...

Scientists Develop Experimental Vaccine Against Heroin
Voice of America
May 10, 2013

Scientists have developed an experimental vaccine to treat heroin addicts. Such a vaccine would be a major advance for both public health and safety. Addiction to the powerful, illicit narcotic not only destroys human lives, but also fuels a violent global drug trade. An estimated ...

UNAIDS Deputy Executive Director commends Zimbabwe for its strong political will, commitment and sustained progress towards Getting to Zero
UNAIDS
May 10, 2013

In a meeting on 8 May 2013 with the Vice President of Zimbabwe, Hon Joice Mujuru, UNAIDS Deputy Executive Director, Management and Governance, Jan Beagle commended the Government of Zimbabwe for its leadership in the AIDS response. She congratulated the country on the successful mobilization of US$ ...

WASHINGTON: Free Hepatitis Testing for At-Risk Individuals
CDC HIV/AIDS/Viral Hepatitis/STD/TB Prevention News Update
May 9, 2013

Snohomish, Wash., Health District is offering free hepatitis C virus (HCV) tests to at-risk individuals. According to Kathy Perkins, health district nurse, they will be using a rapid test this year that gives results in approximately 20 minutes. The test requires a drop of blood from a finger prick. ...

KENYA: AHF, KANCO Organize NO RETREAT ON AIDS March to Call for More Global HIV/AIDS Funding
CDC HIV/AIDS/Viral Hepatitis/STD/TB Prevention News Update
May 9, 2013

The Kenya AIDS Nongovernmental Organizations Consortium (KANCO) and the AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF) anticipate more than 2,000 participants will march from Jevanjee Gardens to Uhuru Park in Nairobi during their sponsored NO RETREAT ON AIDS event on Friday, May 10. The march is part of AHF’s ...

UNITED STATES: Pretreatment Anemia Raises Mortality Risk Among HCV/HIV Coinfected Patients
CDC HIV/AIDS/Viral Hepatitis/STD/TB Prevention News Update
May 9, 2013

Researchers investigated the impact of anemia prior to treatment on survival of patients with hepatitis C virus (HCV) and HIV coinfection. During 7 years of follow-up, researchers reviewed data from 5,000 patients with HCV and HIV coinfection, including 1,671 who had anemia before beginning therapy. ...

UNITED STATES: Barbara Lee Bill Would Push States to Roll Back Criminal HIV Laws
CDC HIV/AIDS/Viral Hepatitis/STD/TB Prevention News Update
May 9, 2013

Rep. Barbara Lee (D-Calif.) has introduced a bill in the US House of Representatives that would force the repeal or amendment of state and federal laws that make it a crime for HIV-infected people to expose sexual partners to the virus, even if they do not transmit the virus. Many states enacted laws ...

New PHAC testing guide includes recommendations to promote routine HIV testing
CATIE News
May 9, 2013

The importance of HIV testing, knowledge of HIV status and early diagnosis of HIV infection cannot be overstated, particularly given recent advancements in our understanding of HIV treatment and prevention. People who are aware of their HIV-positive status can access care and support services ...

NIH Scientists Create New Tool for Identifying Powerful HIV Antibodies: Advance Could Speed HIV Vaccine Research
NIAID News
May 9, 2013

WHAT:A team of NIH scientists has developed a new tool to identify broadly neutralizing antibodies (bNAbs) capable of preventing infection by the majority of HIV strains found around the globe, an advance that could help speed HIV vaccine research. Scientists have long studied HIV-infected ...

Cuba Knows Condom Use Not Enough
Inter Press Service
May 9, 2013

HAVANA, May 9 2013 (IPS) - "But I always used a condom!" was the sentence that played over and over in Jaime Roche's mind when the young Cuban man tested positive for HIV in October. "I couldn't believe it. I'm an advocate of using condoms, even for oral sex," the health worker, who preferred ...

FLORIDA: AIDS Walk Orlando Could Be Biggest Walk Yet
CDC HIV/AIDS/Viral Hepatitis/STD/TB Prevention News Update
May 9, 2013

AIDS Walk Orlando 2013, scheduled to begin at 8:00 a.m. on May 18 at the Walt Disney World Amphitheatre at Lake Eola Park in downtown Orlando, Fla., hopes to draw 3,000 walkers and raise $250,000. According to Hope and Help Events Manager Chris Hessler, Congressman Alan Grayson will make opening remarks ...

GEORGIA: Director of AIDS Athens 'Inspired' from Helping Her Patients
CDC HIV/AIDS/Viral Hepatitis/STD/TB Prevention News Update
May 8, 2013

AIDS Athens, Incorporated diagnoses five or six new HIV cases each month, according to Executive Director Olivia Long, and most of those newly infected individuals are 18–24–year-olds. The nonprofit organization serves 10 northeastern Georgia counties by assisting individuals with HIV/AIDS ...

UNITED STATES: Medical News Focus on STD, Not Cancer Prevention, to Promote HPV Vaccine Use
CDC HIV/AIDS/Viral Hepatitis/STD/TB Prevention News Update
May 8, 2013

A study suggests that focusing on preventing the STD human papillomavirus (HPV) rather than cervical cancer will persuade more young women to get the vaccine. Janice Krieger, assistant professor of communication at the Ohio State University and lead author of the study, concluded that the failure of ...

COLOMBIA: Colombian Antenatal HIV Testing Rates Reveal Health Insurance Paradox
CDC HIV/AIDS/Viral Hepatitis/STD/TB Prevention News Update
May 8, 2013

Although antenatal HIV testing has been a standard of care for pregnant Colombian women since 2000, a survey of 10,596 women revealed that only 35 percent of women who received antenatal care between 2000 and 2005 had an HIV test. Of the 10,596 women surveyed, 26 percent had insurance with their employer ...

UNITED STATES: CDC Urges Second Test to Catch Hepatitis C Infection
CDC HIV/AIDS/Viral Hepatitis/STD/TB Prevention News Update
May 8, 2013

Following an eight-site study, CDC recommends that all people who test positive for hepatitis C virus (HCV) also should have an HCV RNA test to find out whether they have cleared the virus or they still have it. Approximately 20 percent of HCV-infected people get well without treatment. Since HCV has ...

OHIO: Civil Rights Leader Julian Bond to Join 'Keep the Promise on AIDS' March in Cleveland, OH
CDC HIV/AIDS/Viral Hepatitis/STD/TB Prevention News Update
May 8, 2013

On Saturday, May 11, at 12 noon, advocates will gather at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum Plaza in Cleveland for the “Keep the Promise on HIV/AIDS” march and rally. The event will feature civil rights leader Julian Bond, R & B singer Brandy, local Cleveland artists Kaoz and ...

Analysis: Sending the right message on mHealth
Integrated Regional Information Network
May 8, 2013

NAIROBI, 8 May 2013 (IRIN) - We’ve read the stories: From bedridden patients sending text messages to their health workers, to young people receiving HIV prevention messages via SMS, the mobile phone seems to have morphed from communications device to essential life-saver. But is the evidence ...

PENNSYLVANIA: How a Home for People Living with HIV/AIDS in Manheim Township Has Evolved over 20 Years
CDC HIV/AIDS/Viral Hepatitis/STD/TB Prevention News Update
May 7, 2013

Hope House in Manheim Township, Lancaster, Pa., is one of two facilities in the state that provides care, counseling, and hope for persons with HIV/AIDS. When the group home opened 20 years ago, neighbors considered it a “death house” and resisted it, arguing that it would house people ...

ITALY: HIV Meds Protect Against Doubled Cancer Risk in Positive Men
CDC HIV/AIDS/Viral Hepatitis/STD/TB Prevention News Update
May 7, 2013

Italian researchers determined that men with HIV have approximately twice the risk of getting non-AIDS-defining cancers (NADCs) compared to the general public, but antiretroviral drugs (ARVs) can protect the body from the risk. The researchers conducted a retrospective study of 5,090 HIV-infected ...

AUSTRALIA: Free 'Rapid' HIV Tests Available From June Provide Results in 20 Minutes
CDC HIV/AIDS/Viral Hepatitis/STD/TB Prevention News Update
May 7, 2013

Queensland will become the first state in Australia to make rapid HIV tests widely available after recent approval by the state’s Ministerial Advisory Committee on HIV/AIDS. Queensland initially plans to stock the rapid test in sexual health clinics in Brisbane, Cairns, Gold Coast, Townsville, ...

Bill would allow faster HIV testing for infants
Associated Press
May 7, 2013

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) - Infants in California's child welfare system could be tested and treated sooner for HIV under a bill that has passed the state Assembly.A measure from Democratic Assemblywoman Holly Mitchell of Los Angeles would allow social workers to request an HIV test for a ...

UZBEKISTAN: Uzbeks Required to Produce STD, Drugs Certificates to Travel Abroad
CDC HIV/AIDS/Viral Hepatitis/STD/TB Prevention News Update
May 7, 2013

According to Shuhrat Berdiyev, head of the Tashkent STD health clinic, Uzbekistan citizens wishing to travel outside of the country soon will have to produce certificates at border control stations demonstrating they suffer from neither drug addiction nor an STD. Berdiyev said the Senate currently ...

KOREA: U.S. Non-Profit Group to Build Tuberculosis Center in Pyongyang
CDC HIV/AIDS/Viral Hepatitis/STD/TB Prevention News Update
May 7, 2013

The US nonprofit organization Christian Friends of Korea (CFK) will begin construction in mid-May on a Pyongyang center that will train North Korean physicians and researchers on TB prevention and treatment. Training for North Korea’s National Tuberculosis Reference Laboratory currently takes ...

FLORIDA: Simply Healthcare Expands HIV/AIDS Medicaid Plan
CDC HIV/AIDS/Viral Hepatitis/STD/TB Prevention News Update
May 7, 2013

The Florida Agency for Health Care Administration approved Clear Health Alliance’s expansion of its services to Hillsborough, Pinellas, and Polk counties. Previously, the plan only was available in Broward and Miami-Dade counties. Clear Health Alliance is an HIV/AIDS Medicaid specialty plan offered ...

Rwanda's President says young people are increasingly calling for a more inclusive and equitable society
UNAIDS
May 7, 2013

Rwanda's President Paul Kagame emphasised the importance of the active participation of young people in health and development during his meeting on 6 May with UNAIDS Executive Director Michel Sidibé. President Kagame said through virtual networks and social media young people are increasingly ...

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