The Brazilian Ministry of Health does not have the capacity to reach its goal of distributing one billion condoms annually as part of a campaign to fight the spread of HIV and other sexually transmitted infections in the country, Mariangela Simao, coordinator of the National Program to Combat HIV/AIDS, said in a statement, DPA/Monsters and Critics reports (DPA/Monsters and Critics, 1/10).
Outcomes following surgically implanted hearing aids that are anchored to bone appear comparable for children younger than five years and those older than five years, according to a report in the January issue of Archives of Otolaryngology-Head & Neck Surgery, one of the JAMA/Archives journals.
A study of nearly 4,000 HIV-infected people in Denmark, matched with about 380,000 people who were not infected, found that people diagnosed with HIV infection between 1995-2005 had a shorter life expectancy (20 years beyond age 25) than the general population (51 years beyond age 25).
Yale researchers now have some answers about how the bacterium that is the leading cause of food-borne illness in the United States enters cells of the gut and avoids detection and destruction, according to a presentation at the annual meeting of the American Society for Cell Biology in San Diego in December.
Yoga guru Ramdev, whose claim that yoga could treat cancer and AIDS has triggered a countrywide controversy, today claimed that the World Health Organisation (WHO) would recognise the utility of yoga ‘very soon’.
Researchers at Duke University Medical Center have developed a highly sensitive test for identifying which drug-resistant strains of HIV are harbored in a patient’s bloodstream.
Stating that his statement on AIDS was wrongly presented in the media, yoga exponent Baba Ramdev said he will not reply to Health Ministry’s notice. “I never claimed AIDS can be cured through Yoga. It was wrongly been presented in media. I only said cancer can be cured but in case of AIDS one can get encouraging improvement by doing Yoga,” Ramdev told reporters here.
The Indian U nion health ministry will sign a memorandum of understanding with former US president Bill Clinton’s foundation and the Indian Medical Association (IMA) as part of a public-private partnership to fight sexually transmitted infections like HIV.
National AIDS Research Institute (NARI), Pune, is conducting a first phase of clinical trial of a newly developed HIV/AIDS vaccine. This ongoing trial is being done under the joint auspices of the National AIDS Control Organization (NACO), the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) and the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative (IAVI).
“Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi expressed his doubts suggesting spy link in HIV case” a Reuters report from Tripoli revealed. Gaddafi defended the court’s decision to sentence five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor to death for infecting more than 400 children with HIV.