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The Global Health Video Library
The Kaiser Family Foundation presents Kaiser Global Health - an interactive resource tracking global health news and policy initiatives
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Science & Medicine - Researchers Plan To Target Immune Cells Responsible for Eluding Antiretroviral Treatment
Certain human immune cells known as macrophages are composed of hybrid HIV strains that elude treatment and antiretroviral drugs, according to a new study by researchers from the University of Florida and other institutions, the Gainesville Sun reports. For the study, researchers examined tissue from HIV-pos
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Global Challenges - Legislation Needed To Boost HIV/AIDS Efforts in Solomon Islands, Health Official Says
Isaac Muliloa -- national coordinator of the HIV and sexually transmitted infections unit at the Solomon Islands' Ministry of Health -- recently said that a lack of national HIV/AIDS laws is hindering efforts to address the disease, the Solomon Times reports. Recent World Health Organization estimates said t
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Global Challenges - HIV Prevention Efforts in Five African Countries Not Reaching At-Risk Groups, Report Says
National HIV prevention strategies in at least five African countries are not reaching the groups most at risk of infection, according to a report from UNAIDS and the World Bank conducted in conjunction with the national HIV/AIDS authorities of Kenya, Lesotho, Mozambique, Swaziland and Uganda, IRIN/PlusNews
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Global Challenges - Thai HIV/AIDS Advocates Urge Increased Treatment Access for IDUs
The Thai AIDS Treatment Action Group recently called on the country to launch a comprehensive harm reduction program for injection drug users in an effort to help curb the spread of HIV, Thailand's The Nation reports. According to the group, many IDUs are unable to access drug treatment and substation therap
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Global Challenges - Report Estimates Significant Impact of Widespread Circumcision Effort in Botswana
Botswana's campaign to circumcise about 500,000 men by 2012 will prevent nearly 70,000 new HIV cases by 2025, according to a report published Thursday in the Journal of the International AIDS Society, AFP/Yahoo! News reports. The government's national campaign aims to circumcise 460,000 men over the next fiv
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Special Notice - Important Changes as Kaiser Expands Its Daily Online Reports
The Kaiser Family Foundation is announcing several changes and enhancements in its Daily Reports. In April, the Foundation launched the new Kaiser Daily Global Health Policy Report to synthesize coverage of global health policy developments around the world. Daily summaries of news coverage of global HIV/AID
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Opinion - 'Complacency,' 'Stigma' Hindering Efforts To Reduce HIV/AIDS in Black Communities, Opinion Piece Says
'Nearly 30 years after the discovery of HIV and AIDS, the epidemic is still ravaging black neighborhoods in Baltimore and across the nation,' Kevin Fenton -- director of CDC's National Center for HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD and TB Prevention -- writes in a Baltimore Sun opinion piece. Fenton writes that '
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Global Challenges - Fishing Industry Contributing to Spread of HIV Around Africa's Lake Victoria
The fishing industry and some cultural practices in communities living around Africa's Lake Victoria are contributing to the spread of HIV/AIDS and other sexually transmitted infections in the area, according to a panel of experts at a recent meeting in Kisumu, Kenya, The Citizen reports. According to the pa
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Global Challenges - About 0.59% of Vietnamese Fishery Workers are HIV-Positive, Prevalence Could Rise by 2013, Survey Says
An estimated 33,000 of the total 5.5 million workers in Vietnam's fishery sector, or about 0.59%, were living with HIV in 2008, according to a survey released Tuesday by Vietnam's fishery program, VNA/VOV News reports (VNA/VOV News, 5/27). The report also predicted that the number of HIV-positive people in V
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