The WIC and Food Stamps programs do not cause obesity, yet those who have uneven access to food are often overweight/obese. With modifications, these federally-funded nutrition programs can not only continue to reduce nutrition-related health disparities but can also help to address obesity.
For injection drug users, the most productive and cost-effective approach to managing the spread of HIV is expanding syringe exchange and drug treatment, as well as promoting antiretroviral treatment for those already infected with HIV, according to a new study by researchers at Yale School of Medicine.
Canada’s New Government announced that the Public Health Agency of Canada Act has come into force. This Act provides a statutory basis for the Public Health Agency of Canada and confirms the position and duties of the Chief Public Health Officer (CPHO) for Canada.
Eight cases of Panton-Valentine leukocidin (PVL) positive community-associated MRSA (CA-MRSA) have been identified among individuals in a hospital and their close household contacts in the West Midlands. Four individuals developed an infection, two of whom died.
The number of people living with HIV in the Middle East and North Africa has risen to 460,000 and some 68,000 people were newly infected in 2006 alone. In a bid to curb the region?s growing epidemic, countries have been working with UNAIDS to secure additional funding to scale-up the AIDS response in the region.
UNAIDS welcomes the report published in BioMed Central Medicine concerning a large and high-quality study in the Guntur district in the south Indian state of Andhra Pradesh. It contributes to a better understanding of the distribution of HIV in India?s enormous and diverse population although it is based on just one district.
The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), announced an early end to two clinical trials of adult male circumcision because an interim review of trial data revealed that medically performed circumcision significantly reduces a man’s risk of acquiring HIV through heterosexual intercourse.
Researchers have discovered a subtle new difference between men and women — this one occurring in the realm of eating.
Research led by the National Drug Evidence Centre at the University of Manchester has found that drug misuse seems to have passed its peak in some previous problem areas.
A CIHR-funded randomized controlled trial conducted in Kenya has demonstrated that male circumcision is an effective measure for reducing HIV incidence in young men.