Category: HIV / AIDS

Three recent clinical trials in sub-Saharan Africa compared the rates of HIV transmission from HIV positive women to circumcised and uncircumcised men through heterosexual activity. These clinical trials provide strong evidence that circumcision reduces by 50-60 percent the risk of virus transmission. The article appears in The Journal of Sexual Medicine.

Former South African President Nelson Mandela on Monday announced that the fifth international concert of his “46664″ HIV/AIDS awareness campaign will be held in Johannesburg, South Africa, on Dec. 1, to mark World AIDS Day, AFP/Google.com reports (AFP/Google.com, 10/1).

Jimmy Kolker, head of UNICEF’s HIV/AIDS office, on Friday said that Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni’s comments earlier in the week comparing AIDS-related deaths to treason could lead to stigma and discrimination against people living with or affected by HIV/AIDS, Uganda’s Monitor/AllAfrica.com reports.Museveni on Sept.

Malaysia is on track to achieve the U.N. Millennium Development Goals on curbing the spread of HIV/AIDS by the end of the decade, Deputy Prime Minister Najib Razak said Monday in Putrajaya, Malaysia, Malaysia’s New Straits Times reports.

Global efforts to treat HIV-positive people in Africa have increased “massively,” but there is still “an ocean of need,” Washington Post columnist Michael Gerson writes in an opinion piece. According to Gerson, the U.S. has taken an “undeniable …

“When nearly half of the estimated 1.2 million Americans living with HIV/AIDS are black, AIDS in America today is a black disease,” Phil Wilson, executive director of the Los Angeles-based Black AIDS Institute, said last week at a town hall meeting at Meharry Medical College,

Rutgers College of Nursing faculty member Rachel Jones has been selected to be the recipient of the Nurse Educator of the New York Times 2007 Tribute to Nurses Award.The New York Times selected three practicing nurses and one nurse educator from hundreds of candidates nominated by patients and their families, students and colleagues. The winners will be featured in a special section in the Dec. 2 New York Times Magazine.

The American Society for Clinical Pathology (ASCP) continues to expand its program to fight AIDS in Africa. The Society learned this week that another $2,841,902 will be granted to support programming through its cooperative partnership with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. This is an increase of more than $1.6 million from the previous year for the program, “Capacity Building Assistance for Global HIV/AIDS Lab Guidelines & Standards Development.

While the HIV prevalence in China remains low, the situation in several provinces affected by drug trafficking and illegal blood donations is serious, senior HIV/AIDS control officials said on Saturday, Xinhua/China Daily reports.According to Hao Yang, deputy director-general of the Department of Disease Control at the

Workers who are HIV positive have a higher risk of workplace discrimination and being without a job, according to an article in Occupational and Environmental Medicine. The most vulnerable, explains the report, are women and people who are less well educated. The researchers looked at data on 478 HIV positive individuals in France (a nationally representative sample).