A leading population expert will today make a plea for a revitalization of the family planning agenda in the world’s poorest countries, cautioning that soaring population rates are now a bigger threat to achieving the MDGs than HIV/AIDS.
The 100% condom-use programme in Thailand, implemented nationally in 1991, has been widely recognised and documented as an impressive success in achievement of behaviour change. The programme aimed to bring about 100% condom use in commercial sex.
Two individuals who helped transform tuberculosis (TB) control in their home countries have become the first winners of a prestigious international health prize, to mark their contribution to improved TB control. The Stop TB Partnership Kochon Prize was inaugurated this year, and will be awarded for the first time, at the 37th Union World Conference on Lung Health, Palais des Congr?s, Paris.
The first-ever global study of sexual and reproductive health – to be published in the medical journal The Lancet starting this week – shows a picture of declining financial support, increased political interference and an overall reluctance to tackle threats to sexual and reproductive health.
For years researchers have been trying to understand how a few HIV-infected patients naturally defeat a virus that otherwise overwhelms the immune system. Last year, a research team at the University of Rochester Medical Center confirmed that such patients, called long-term non-progressors, maintain higher than normal levels of the enzyme called APOBEC-3G (A3G) in their white blood cells, which function to stave off infections. Now, the same group has teamed up with a structural biologist to provide the first look at the A3G structure. Such information represents an early step toward the design of a new class of drugs that could afford to all the same natural protection enjoyed by few, according to a study published today in The Journal of Biological Chemistry.
In the case of an outbreak of pandemic flu, large majority of Americans willing to make major changes in their lives. Survey also finds many people would face critical work-related problems. The latest national survey conducted by the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) Project on the Public and Biological Security finds that when faced with a serious outbreak of pandemic flu, a large majority of Americans are willing to make major changes in their lives and cooperate with public health officials’ recommendations.
Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) has awarded its highest honor, for the promotion of high public health standards among vulnerable populations, to William H. Foege, former Director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and a founder of the Task Force for Child Survival and Development, and Anthony S. Fauci, Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID). The two recipients have dedicated their lives to protecting people in this country and throughout the world from infectious diseases.
CLA may serve critical role in preventing weight and fat gain during year-end holidays and with normal aging. Avoiding ‘weight creep’ from turkey and sugar plums is the theme of a consumer PR campaign Cognis Nutrition & Health is rolling out in time for the holiday season based on a Tonalin? CLA study recently published online in the prestigious International Journal of Obesity. The research suggests that Tonalin? CLA could have long-term health benefits by preventing weight and fat gain commonly experienced by adults during the November-December holiday season, and in the normal aging process.
Giving the message ‘get tested for AIDS, it’s in fashion’, newly-crowned Miss Universe Zuleyka Rivera Mendzo of Puerto Rico says she was against ‘free sex,’ added she said that the problem is there therefore we have to take care of ourselves.
Pre-school care, combining basic education with health and nutrition programmes, remains the missing link for millions of children in developing countries, and early childhood programmes can make for strong foundations and pay high dividends.