CRNS and the Institut Pasteur conducted research in France on patients diagnosed with cryptococcosis which ranks second among fatal opportunistic infections in patients infected by HIV and who are profoundly immunosuppressed.
According to an important study released today by the World Health Organization (WHO) at the National Cathedral in Washington DC, efforts are needed to encourage greater collaboration between public health agencies and faith-based organizations (FBOs), if progress is to be made towards the goal of universal access towards HIV prevention, treatment, care and support by 2010.
An HIV scare in Australia is centred around an Australian hospital which fears nearly 100 babies may have been infected while receiving medical care.
Increasing numbers of young people in the Czech Republic are not protecting themselves against HIV transmission, according to the Czech daily newspaper Mlada Fronta, the Prague Daily Monitor reports.
Wednesday marks the seventh annual National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day, which aims to encourage blacks to get tested for HIV, to become educated about the virus and to receive treatment if necessary.
The World Bank plans to provide Thailand with a $750,000, three-year grant aimed at providing HIV-positive people with increased access to antiretroviral drugs, Viroj Tangcharoensathien, program director for international health policy at the country’s Ministry of Public Health, said recently, Thailand’s Nation reports.
HIV therapy halted in S. Africa, 35 women found HIV positive, health minister Manto ordered an enquiry, and a sequelae of reactions start.
A major campaign by the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies to scale up its HIV and AIDS programmes in Southern Africa is being threatened by a looming funding shortfall.
President Bush on monday released his $2.8 trillion fiscal year 2008 budget proposal, which would allocate $5.4 billion for the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief.
Four men in King County, Washington, have been diagnosed with a strain of HIV that is resistant to at least two types of antiretroviral drugs, and health officials on Thursday said they are concerned the strain could spread, the Seattle Times reports.