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JOHANNESBURG, 30 November 2009 (PLUSNEWS) - Some headway has been made in mitigating the impact of HIV/AIDS on children and young people, but too many are still needlessly infected, and receive little or no treatment, care and support.
NAIROBI, 30 November 2009 (PLUSNEWS) - The World Health Organization (WHO) issued a new set of guidelines for the treatment of HIV and prevention of mother-to-child transmission (PMTCT) on 30 November.
"EIGHT-YEAR TREND SHOWS NEW HIV INFECTIONS DOWN BY 17%—MOST PROGRESS SEEN IN SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA "
JOHANNESBURG, 24 November 2009 (PLUSNEWS) - The rate of new HIV infections worldwide has declined by 17 percent in the past eight years and prevention efforts can take some of the credit, according to the annual UNAIDS update on the epidemic released on 24 November.
Newly founded NGO “Think Positive” dedicated to raise awareness on AIDS in Lebanon, held its first conference on Monday October 5th, 2009 at the Gefinor Rotana Hotel in Hazmieh. The meeting was attended by the head of the National AIDS Program (NAP) Mustafah al-Naqib, the president of the NGO Hassan Cherry, religious leaders and representatives from several international and national NGOs.
“Think Positive” association has organized an activity for three days at the sports city from 23rd till 25th of November, 2009 besides the 85th year celebration of the establishment of the Lebanese patriotic resistance.
BAGHDAD, 22 October 2009 (IRIN) - Panic over the possible spread of H1N1 influenza has prompted the closure of more than 2,000 schools in Iraq, according to officials.
NAIROBI, 18 September 2009 (PLUSNEWS) - AIDS activists around the world have welcomed a new UN General Assembly resolution http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=32066&Cr=women&Cr1= to create a single agency to promote the rights and wellbeing of women, which they say is good news for women, who are bearing the brunt of the global AIDS pandemic.
DUBAI, 26 August 2009 (IRIN) - Far fewer Muslims than normal are undertaking the lesser pilgrimage known as 'Umrah' because of coordinated efforts by health ministers in the Gulf and beyond to counter the spread of swine flu.
2 September 2009 – Cape Town, Gaborone, Maseru, Manzini – Southern African TB and HIV activists have welcomed the emphasis placed on tackling increasing levels of TB, HIV and malaria drug resistance, at the Africa regional health committee meeting taking place in Rwanda this week; while accentuating that a bigger paradigm shift is needed to ensure a successful response to rising levels of drug resistance in the regional TB-HIV co-epidemic.
NAIROBI, 11 September 2009 (IRIN) - The UN Office on Drugs and Crime hasreleased a manual to help build capacity among criminal justice practitioners to prevent and combat human trafficking.
JOHANNESBURG, 4 September 2009 (PLUSNEWS) - An attempt to help educators around the world develop sex-education programmes as a way to reduce unwanted pregnancies and the spread of sexually transmitted infections(STIs) among young people has become bogged down in controversy.
NAIROBI, 4 September 2009 (PLUSNEWS) - The search for an AIDS vaccine has taken a step forward with the discovery of two powerful new antibodies that can cripple the HI virus.
The Embassy of the Saudi Arabia has directed medical clinics to impose stricter health screenings on overseas Filipino workers (OFW) suspected of having the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS).
(MENAFN- Jordan Times) A total of 46 people have tested positive for HIV/AIDS in the past eight months, mostly foreigners, a health official said on Monday.
AMMAN - The National AIDS Programme has launched an HIV/AIDS media strategy for 2009-2012, which will help different outlets support the programme in its efforts to eliminate negative attitudes and discrimination against people infected with the disease.
Today, August 31, is Overdose Awareness Day, an occasion initiated by the Salvation Army to draw attention to overdose, an often neglected issue which is the leading cause of death among opiate injectors. In the EU, one of a few regions where statistics on overdose are available, overdose is a leading cause of death among youth. A study of causes of death among PLHIV in the US showed that drug overdose is a leading cause of non-HIV related death in New York and concluded that the care model for PLHIV should include a broader array of physical and mental health needs. There are effective means to prevent and mitigate overdose related death. Though they are still not widely practiced in our region, there is growing momentum to address the issue.
DUBAI, 12 July 2009 (IRIN) - With several million Muslims from all over the world expected in Mecca for the annual Hajj pilgrimage in late November, Saudi authorities are concerned that the event will facilitate the spread of the A(H1N1) virus among pilgrims.
This Report was first published on a flash drive distributed at the XVII International AIDS Conference held in Mexico City August 2008. This online edition—which incorporates all corrections to the first electronic edition and is also the first print edition—should be regarded as definitive.
National HIV/AIDS monitoring should be stressed in the Middle East and North Africa region, according to a report recently released by UNAIDS, RTT News reports. The assessment -- which examined the 35,000 new HIV cases and 25,000 AIDS-related deaths in the region in 2007 -- also looked at the National AIDS Coordinating Authorities in 16 MENA countries.
DUBAI, 20 July 2009 (IRIN)-The Middle East registered its first death due to H1N1 2009 after a 25-year-old Egyptian woman returning from Umrah, the lesser Muslim pilgrimage to Saudi Arabia, died in hospital on 18 July after testing positive for the virus, according to the Egyptian health ministry.
CAPE TOWN, 21 July 2009 (PLUSNEWS) - The idea of using antiretroviral drugs (ARVs) not only to treat HIV infection but also to prevent new infections,and eventually to eradicate the virus almost entirely, is being hotly debated at the 5th International AIDS Society (IAS) Conference on HIV Pathogenesis, Treatment and Prevention in Cape Town, South Africa, this week.
CAPE TOWN, 22 July 2009 (PLUSNEWS) - Alcohol and drug addiction are major drivers of the HIV/AIDS epidemic in many parts of the world, but for political and ideological reasons, scientists and clinicians have tended to shy away from this area of HIV research, while governments and donors have been reluctant to fund programmes targeting addicts.
CAPE TOWN, 23 July 2009 (PLUSNEWS) - Graca Machel, founder and president of the Foundation for Community Development and an outspoken HIV/AIDS activist,closed the 5th International AIDS Society (IAS) Conference on HIV Pathogenesis, Treatment and Prevention in Cape Town, South Africa, on Wednesday with a rousing call to prioritize human lives over bank bail-outs and military spending.
In a study published in The Journal of Infectious Diseases, researchers from Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University have identified cells in blood that predict which HIV-positive individuals are most likely to develop deadly fungal meningitis, a major cause of HIV-related death. This form of meningitis affects more than 900,000 HIV-infected people globally—most of them in sub-Saharan Africa and other areas of the world where antiretroviral therapy for HIV is not available.
A new WHO study has revealed that HIV-positive babies who received the BCG vaccine against tuberculosis were three times more likely to contract the infectious disease. Medical experts have raised concerns over the complications among the vaccinated kids.
United Nations agencies plan to use hundreds of thousands of post offices around the world as part of a new campaign to raise awareness about HIV prevention at a time when more than 7,400 new infections occur every day.
Global HIV/AIDS prevention and treatment programs are already feeling the effects of the global economic crisis, according to a report released Monday by UNAIDS and the World Bank, AFP/Google.com reports.
DUBAI, 21 June 2009 (IRIN) - The prevalence of HIV among intravenous drug users (IDUs) in Egypt is relatively low, but needle sharing is rife among this group, putting them at risk of contracting the virus, experts say.
YAMBIO, 17 June 2009 (PLUSNEWS) - Healthcare workers in Yambio, capital of Sudan's Western Equatoria State, have warned that the number of HIV-positive people receiving treatment has risen, and they cannot keep up with the demand for medication.
NAIROBI, 24 June 2009 (PLUSNEWS) - The US President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) could do more to prevent HIV transmission among injection drug users (IDUs) in Africa, said a recent article in British Medical Journal, The Lancet.
(Amsterdam/Bruxelle s) - The Global Network of people living with HIV/AIDS (GNP+) and the European AIDS Treatment Group (EATG) are concerned by the new immigration procedures of the Czech Republic. With effect from June 1, 2009, Czech visa applicants from Congo, Kenya, Moldova, Mongolia, Nigeria, Pakistan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, and Vietnam will have to present health certificates, showing that they do not suffer from tuberculosis and syphilis and that they are not living with HIV.
A unique meeting of key HIV and AIDS activists from around Africa opens in Nairobi, Kenya on Sunday 31 May at the Sarova Panafric Hotel at 2h30. Their aim is to produce a HIV campaigners road map to meet and navigate dramatic challenges.
Around 70 key HIV and AIDS campaigners from around Africa are meeting in Nairobi 5pm Sunday to Tuesday afternoon. Top of their agenda is December 31st 2010, the target date set by governments worldwide for delivery of Universal Access to prevention, treatment, care and support for people with and affected by HIV. The barriers to achieving that goal are growing as the economic crisis bites, health systems are showing the strain and slow progress is made on HIV prevention, meaning that the number of people newly infected is more than the number going onto medication. To make matters worse, stigma and discrimination against people with HIV or against communities threatened by HIV to keep the virus hidden and harder to defeat.
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