Posted on August 23rd, 2006 by Nate
Commentary in the NYTimes August 15, “Fight Against AIDS: Small Triumphs, Sunny Optimism and Grim Reality”
With our 10-year head start in
disbursing AIDS drugs [in the United States], we have learned many times over that the drugs
are just the beginning. Once they are bought and dispensed, the work
only gets harder. Side effects and failures are just [...]
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Filed under: Politics and Policy
Posted on August 23rd, 2006 by Nate
TORONTO, Aug. 15 — Bill, Bill and Melinda dropped into our world for a few days here. It was an unsettling experience, much like coming home from work to find Mr. Gates regrouting your bathroom shower, Mr. Clinton fixing that broken window, and Mrs. Gates cheerily watering the plants. Skip to next paragraph [...]
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Posted on August 21st, 2006 by Nate
As reported by Reuters today:
By Gordon Bell
CAPE
TOWN (Reuters) – Barack Obama, the only black U.S. senator, criticized
South African leaders on Monday for their slow response to AIDS, saying
they were wrong to contrast “African science and Western science.”
AIDS
activists say Health Minister Manto Tshabalala-Msimang is creating
deadly confusion by pushing traditional medicines and a recipe of
garlic, beetroot, [...]
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Posted on August 17th, 2006 by Ben
AllAfrica.com reports an interesting breastfeeding study, suggesting another nutritional factor that can increase risk of HIV acquisition. Several weeks ago in Nairobi, I met a U of Washington researcher who is investigating the potential links between intestinal de-worming and ARV treatment success. It appears that HIV is found in the gastointestinal (GI) tract [...]
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Filed under: Epidemiology
Posted on August 14th, 2006 by Nate
The 16th AIDS Conference is underway today. It should be a fabulous, fashionable event. Great keynotes and many famous faces.
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Filed under: Events Past, Present, and Future