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| | AIDS pandemic - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | He put forward the theory that AIDS was inadvertantly caused in the late 1950's in the Belgian Congo by Hilary Koprowski's research into a polio vaccine. | | | Also, the death rate from AIDS in Western Europe has fallen sharply, as new AIDS therapies have proven to be an effective (if expensive) means of suppressing HIV. | | | Due to the availability of antiretroviral therapy, AIDS deaths have stayed low since the lows of the late 1990s. |
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| | AIDS - Adoption Encyclopedia |
| | In late 1998, according to AIDS Alert, the Institute of Medicine in Washington, D.C., urged that universal testing for HIV be part of prenatal treatment for all pregnant women. | | | The problem with finding adoptive or foster families for children with AIDS is complicated by many states' requirement to keep the AIDS condition confidential. | | | In addition, even when a child does not have AIDS, the knowledge that his parent has the disease can cause the child to be excluded by others. |
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| | Pandemic: Facing AIDS (2003): CAST - PopMatters Film Review |
| | Pandemic suggests repeatedly that AIDS is brought on by individual actions: Lena and Sergei because of their heroin use; Lek because of her prostitution; Nagaraj & Bhanu because of his adultery. | | | Pandemic's reliance on emotion over substance and its refusal to interrogate capitalism and Western hegemony suggests that AIDS is an individual problem to be overcome through individual actions. | | | Pandemic ignores the contemporary impact of the IMF and the World Bank, making no references to the way structural adjustment programs systematically destroy health care in Third World nations while simultaneously limiting the availability of drug treatment. |
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| | HIV & AIDS in Uganda |
| | Much of the prevention work that has been done in Uganda has occurred at grass-roots level, with a multitude of tiny organisations educating their peers, mainly made up of people who are themselves HIV+. | | | Such a rise in deaths would be a natural consequence of the earlier rise in HIV incidence. | | | There was considerable effort made towards breaking down the stigma associated with AIDS, and frank and honest discussion of sexual subjects that had previously been taboo was encouraged. |
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| | Facing The Global HIV/AIDS Pandemic: HIV/AIDS Focus Paper #25 |
| | AIDS is an affliction of the whole human family, a condition in which we all participate. | | | AIDS is affecting all areas of our lives. | | | The emphasis of World AIDS Day this year is AIDS and the Family. |
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| | Health Action AIDS Campaign |
| | There is another AIDS prevention practice that should be endorsed and promoted that has not yet been incorporated into campaigns to confront the pandemic: eliminating sex trafficking. | | | Ending Trafficking as a Means of AIDS Prevention: Currently, “best practices” in HIV/AIDS prevention are known to include a number of medical and political interventions. | | | Since forming our “Health Action AIDS” campaign two years ago, Physicians for Human Rights has engaged in extensive activities to mobilize the medical, nursing, and public health communities in the United States to confront the global HIV/AIDS pandemic. |
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http://www.phrusa.org/campaigns/aids/news062403.html
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| | Matthew Hanley, "Battling the AIDS Pandemic" , eJournal USA: Economic Perspectives, August 2005 |
| | Because people with HIV and AIDS have increased nutritional needs, improving their nutrition improves their quality of life and length of life—particularly when combined with antiretroviral therapy. | | | And the scope of the AIDS pandemic has strained the resources of existing clinics and health care services. | | | The philosophy behind community-based care is rooted in a simple reality of the developing world: Clinics and hospitals are often located many kilometers from rural villages, making them inaccessible for the patients, who usually have no transportation other than their own two feet. |
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| | Network for Good :: Pandemic: Facing AIDS :: AIDS Orphans |
| | The organization provides care for AIDS orphans in its François-Xavier Bagnoud Houses; helps their families through our income-generating projects; prevents and treats AIDS through its programs of information, prevention, screening, research and training. | | | Because of the scale of the AIDS epidemic in Malawi, WMF recognized that relying on institutional responses (i.e. | | | WMF, consequently, developed an innovative, community-based response to the AIDS epidemic, and the scores of children left orphaned as a result. |
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| | Vanguard -Viewpoint : Society and HIV/AIDS pandemic |
| | The latter acronym, AIDS, means the virus was acquired and not innate or hereditary; that the capacity of the body to defend itself (Immune system) has become weakened or not enough (Deficiency). | | | HIV stands for Human Immunodeficiency Virus while its partner, AIDS, means Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome. | | | If sexual transmission is one of the major ways a person can get infected with the AIDS virus, then how many of our community men and women put this into consideration before accepting any of the marriage agreements? |
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| | The African AIDS pandemic [Free Republic] |
| | Mbeki reportedly has used the "HIV does not cause AIDS" argument in lieu of promoting abstinence education, AZT for expectant mothers, and anti-retroviral medicines for dying AIDS patients. | | | They are over capacity with AIDS patients, who quickly die from neglect if they have no money to bribe the staff or pay for medicines. | | | As the AIDS problem intensifies, the government's ability to cope crumbles. |
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| | HIV and AIDS in Africa |
| | In the area of care for orphans and for people living with HIV or AIDS, costs depend very much on what kind of care is being provided. | | | It is vitally important that all aspects and means of prevention, treatment and care are considered and used in Africa. | | | avert.org - bringing you information on HIV and AIDS |
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| | AIDS DataPage |
| | AIDS Vaccine Test: Free Medicine If You Develop AIDS | | | AIDS Virus Material Still Showing In Men Thought To Be In Clear | | | New Treatment May Flush AIDS Virus From Body |
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| | Search Tuna Report for AIDS IN iNDIA |
| | Recently, the Naz Foundation established a 14-bed HIV AIDS care and treatment center with support from the Richard Gere Foundation.... | | | M-Power: AIDS India Conference, Chennai - By- Bobby Ramakant with Megan Gottemoeller This column is dedicated to advocacy of Women Controlled Options to prevent Sexually Transmitted Infections including HIV AIDS, and unwanted pregnancies... | | | Description: Giving Aids drugs to people infected with HIV can reduce transmission of the virus, say Taiwanese researchers. |
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| | The Gender Aspects of the HIV/AIDS Pandemic |
| | Young people often find it difficult to get accurate and practical information on sexual matters from the parents, teachers or health professionals and are forced to rely on inaccurate or incomplete information circulating in peer groups. | | | Tertiary institutions, and especially universities, have an ethical and intellectual responsibility to set an example by openly debating the issues and finding creative responses to the threat that is posed by HIV/AIDS. | | | Screening raises a number of serious human rights and ethical questions: |
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| | AIDS - HIV AIDS Fact |
| | AIDS Partnership Michigan: Education and prevention are our primary goals, followed by early intervention and support. | | | Discussion and help for individuals, families and communities deal with and understand HIV and AIDS - a look at the HIV/AIDS controversy | | | A research portal to relevant HIV and AIDS websites in South Africa |
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| | The Body: Battling the AIDS Pandemic |
| | Secondly, those nations that are in the throes of the AIDS crisis, as well as those that are on the launch pad to a wider outbreak, must accept their own responsibilities. | | | In January of this year, the U.N. Security Council marked the new millennium by taking an historic step in making HIV/AIDS the subject of its first-ever session devoted to a health issue. | | | If you have or suspect you may have a health problem, consult your healthcare provider. |
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| | Missed Points and the AIDS Pandemic (washingtonpost.com) |
| | Meanwhile, it does not fund programs such as clean needle exchange and empowerment of sex workers, both of which have proven most effective in reducing transmission from target groups to the general population. | | | The writer is a policy analyst with the National Center for Ethics in Health Care. | | | From the headline that seemed to question data showing that HIV-AIDS has become a female pandemic to the conclusion that highlighting the predicament of the disease's most victimized group is misplaced, The Post seems curiously insensitive to what some have termed the greatest human rights challenge of our time: the plight of Third World women. |
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| | HIV and AIDS Information |
| | Jewett's positive approach to life and will be encouraged to lift their consciousness and get on with life. | | | Stigma and discrimination are the major obstacles to effective HIV/AIDS prevention and care. | | | Fear of discrimination may prevent people from seeking treatment for AIDS or from acknowledging their HIV status publicly. |
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| | NPR: AIDS 2004: Pandemic Remains Unchecked |
| | Women often say they are terrified to admit to their husbands that they're HIV positive, even though their husbands caused the infection. | | | But, as Richard Knox reports, drug treatments have changed AIDS from a death sentence to a chronic disease, and the stigma is easing. | | | July 12, 2004 · Thailand is ahead of all developing nations except Brazil in the number of people with HIV who are receiving life-saving drug treatment. |
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| | Stigma and Discrimination: World AIDS Day 2002-2003 |
| | Pastoral Care for Those Affected by HIV, 1993. | | | This program facilitates development and strengthening of HIV/AIDS ministries by providing grants for education, compassion, and advocacy for persons living with HIV/AIDS. | | | Unlike a traditional orphanage, children in Africa whose parents have died of AIDS are allowed to remain in their homes and assigned caregivers regularly visit them and attend to their needs. |
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| | The Body: What Is AIDS? |
| | Our thanks to AIDS InfoNet, which provided this article to The Body. | | | Syndrome means a group of health problems that make up a disease. | | | HIV disease becomes AIDS when your immune system is seriously damaged. |
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| | Monitoring the AIDS Pandemic |
| | MAP was created in 1996, through the collaboration of the AIDS Control and Prevention (AIDSCAP) Project of Family Health International, the Francois-Xavier Bagnoud Centre for Health and Human Rights of the Harvard School of Public Health, and the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS). | | | MAP's more than 100 members in 40 countries are epidemiologists, modelers, economists, and social, behavioral, public health and international development specialists, recruited through a nomination process and currently guided by the Chair and Board of Directors. | | | MAP's By-laws describing the operating procedures and final structure were agreed upon in October 2000 and can be viewed below. |
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| | afrol News - Is the African AIDS pandemic a bluff? |
| | Further, protection against AIDS has not improved - only 2 percent of Ugandan women regularly use a condom. | | | According to the WHO's Africa definition, "AIDS is diagnosed on the basis of non-specific clinical symptoms and without an HIV test," Mr Fiala says. | | | It gives the false impression "AIDS is the only problem in Africa, and the only solution is to continue the agitprop until free access to AIDS drugs is defined as a 'basic human right' for everyone." |
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| | Responding to the AIDS Pandemic |
| | Merck provides discounted antiretroviral drugs in the developing world, and offers significant support for AIDS prevention and treatment programs in Botswana. | | | Merck is also actively engaged in AIDS vaccine research and development. | | | Despite the largely positive role Merck has played so far in responding to the AIDS pandemic, there is more that needs to be done, especially on an industry wide basis. |
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| | Canada is, for example, providing training in developing countries—which will soon have access to lower-cost Canadian ARV generic drugs— on how to obtain, ship, store and distribute the HIV/AIDS treatment drugs. | | | At the recent G8 Gleneagles Summit, Canada and other G8 leaders agreed to develop and implement a package of HIV prevention, treatment and care with the aim of as close as possible to universal access for treatment for all those who need it by 2010. | | | Canada is the first country in the world to implement the August 30, 2003, decision of the World Trade Organization to make less expensive versions of patented medicines available to developing countries facing public health problems. |
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| | HIV/AIDS Ministries (UMCOR and Health and Welfare Ministries) |
| | Inspiring Stories of People Living with AIDS: Personal stories. | | | AIDS Awareness and Children Impacted by HIV/AIDS in Africa: The project includes supporting educational programs on the disease and its prevention, community care programs for orphaned children, health coordinator training, and distribution of promotional/educational literature. | | | AIDS Orphan Trust: The goal of this program is to support community efforts to care for orphans by assisting them with their daily necesities, school fees, and moral and spiritual support.. |
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| | The Roanoke Slant: AIDS Pandemic |
| | Roanoke Times, 12/1/05, Pg A 6: Evangelicals focus on AIDS problem. | | | As the HIV+AIDS pandemic rips through the US and the world the media and the government still refuse to address the basic set of issues that have been used to contain and restrain other STD and communicable diseases since Typhoid Mary. | | | Data for the US problem is listed as "estimated"; what a farce! |
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| | Foreign Affairs - The Future of AIDS - Nicholas Eberstadt |
| | It must be emphasized that there is currently no reliable method for accurately forecasting the long-term trajectory of the HIV/AIDS pandemic. | | | Nevertheless, the prospect of tens of millions of Eurasian HIV cases -- and AIDS deaths -- in the decades ahead is by no means fanciful. | | | The affliction is almost invariably lethal: scientists do not consider a cure to be even on the horizon. |
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| | AIDS Info Center |
| | HACI helps communities provide prevention, care and support services to children and their families affected by HIV/AIDS. | | | CORE's mission is to support an inspired, effective and inclusive response to the causes and consequences of HIV/AIDS by strengthening the capacity of community and faith-based organizations worldwide. | | | HIV/AIDS is not only a health problem — it contributes to hunger, wipes out years of socio-economic progress and has disastrous financial effects on families. |
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| | Global AIDS Program (GAP) |
| | The CDC National Immunization Program’s Global Immunization Division (GID) and the CDC Global AIDS Program (GAP) are recruiting medical officers, epidemiologists, public health advisors, behavioral scientists and other health professionals for permanent positions and term appointments. | | | The Prevention of Mother to Child Transmission Monitoring System (PMTCT-MS) is a national facility-based monitoring system developed by the Global AIDS Program, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. | | | GAP helps resource-constrained countries prevent HIV infection; improve treatment, care, and support for people living with HIV; and build capacity and infrastructure to address the global HIV/AIDS pandemic. |
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| | AIDS Pandemic |
| | Contains many articles and links about World AIDS prevention and health information. | | | WHO specifically serves as the convening agency within the United Nations system for HIV/AIDS treatment, care and support as well as for preventing the mother-to-child transmission of HIV. | | | We believe that allocating an additional ONE percent of the U.S. budget toward providing basic needs like health, education, clean water and food, would transform the futures and hopes of an entire generation of the poorest countries. |
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| | 'Disturbing Voices' Addresses HIV/AIDS Pandemic |
| | Terms and conditions, including restrictions on redistribution, apply. | | | Initially, it was Kay Warren who began to pursue more knowledge and understanding about the disease -- how many people are affected, how widespread the problem is, and what is being done to combat it. | | | HIV/AIDS clearly falls into the 'pandemic illness' category, as currently there are more than 40 million women, children, and men worldwide who have HIV/AIDS -- with over one million in America. |
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| | USATODAY.com - Bush's AIDS plan advances |
| | A patient receives counseling at the Reach Out Center in Kampala, Uganda. | | | Secretary of Health and Human Services Tommy Thompson said that no matter how much money the U.S. government commits to AIDS, the challenge is "too big for any one country, and others must get involved." | | | The 99-page "President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief" details the tactics and objectives of the ambitious program President Bush first described in his 2003 State of the Union address. |
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| | Reversing the AIDS Pandemic csmonitor.com |
| | Uganda has shown how prevention efforts can alter behavior. | | | One reason health workers praise the initiative, which focuses on 12 African and two Caribbean countries, is that half of the money is for treatment with low-cost antiretroviral drugs, which up to now have been unaffordable. | | | Today, it provides over 60 percent of international food aid. |
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| | The Body: Global HIV/AIDS: Analysis & Opinion |
| | Review of the Problem of HIV in All Its Aspects (February 16, 2001) | | | Parallel Epidemics: AIDS in the Developed and Developing Worlds (1998) | | | The Global HIV/AIDS Pandemic, Structural Inequalities, and the Politics of International Health (April 15, 2002) |
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| | USAID Press Release: Life Expectancy Will Drop Worldwide Due To AIDS |
| | This means that the majority of Botswanans on average will live 30 years less than they would have if not for the AIDS pandemic. | | | The AIDS Pandemic in the 21st Century and information on USAID's HIV/AIDS programs are available at www.usaid.gov. | | | In Botswana, for example, life expectancy is only 39 years, while it would have been 72, if it were not for AIDS. |
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| | The HIV/AIDS Pandemic among Youth in Sub-Saharan Africa |
| | Some faith traditions in Africa teach that AIDS is a shameful disease and a punishment for those who have been sexually promiscuous, and many adults are reluctant to admit to a disease that seems to imply promiscuity. | | | One study showed three quarters of Nigerian Christian leaders believe that AIDS is a divine punishment. | | | In fact, nearly 70 percent of people living with HIV/AIDS live in sub-Saharan Africa, and over 80 percent of AIDS deaths have occurred there. |
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| | Aids pandemic 'not slowing' |
| | People living with HIV or Aids in 2005, new HIV infections... | | | The major landmarks in the history of Aids, from its speculated beginnings in the 1920s to the present. | | | here are the estimates for the world Aids pandemic. |
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| | Howstuffworks "How AIDS Works" |
| | We will also clear up some of the myths about AIDS and how HIV is transmitted. | | | In this article, we will show you how the HIV virus attacks the immune system and how it causes AIDS. | | | HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, is shown budding out of a human immune cell. |
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| | pandemic - OneLook Dictionary Search |
| | This is a OneLook Word of the Day, which means it might be in the news. | | | pandemic : The On-line Medical Dictionary [home, info] | | | pandemic : Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary [home, info] |
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| | Pandemic: Facing AIDS |
| | Genre: Education/General Interest, Health/Diet, Educational, Documentary, AIDS (Disease), Diseases, Health | | | Rory Kennedy's powerful documentary PANDEMIC: FACING AIDS puts a human face on this statistic by sharing the personal stories of five individuals struggling to live with the devastating effects of the disease on a daily basis. | | | Currently, there are not enough Tomatometer critic reviews for Pandemic: Facing AIDS to receive a rating. |
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| | There are also concerns that teachers are abusing their position to sexually exploit children under their care, helping fuel the transmission of the deadly disease. | | | In the process, they will have to counter significant cultural barriers which hamper frank discussion of the topic, a problem which is particularly severe outside the cities. | | | This year, in conjunction with other international institutions including UNESCO, EI intends to make AIDS prevention an integral part of its education mission. |
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| | Anglican Communion News Service |
| | We commend the six-fold response to AIDS which has been agreed by the All Africa Anglican AIDS Planning Framework to Churches beyond Africa in their strategic planning and policy development to confront this crisis and minister among all affected with this disease. | | | We are committed to develop a global response to the AIDS pandemic and encourage a sharing of financial resources through the Anglican Consultative Council to provide assistance to Churches seeking to develop strategies and programmes to address this crisis. | | | We will also seek to facilitate access to international funds which will support such programmes. |
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| | HBO: Pandemic: Facing AIDS |
| | Find out more about educational resources and treatment centers worldwide. | | | During the last 20 years, HIV/AIDS has spread across social, political and cultural barriers, affecting people in every corner of the globe. | | | Experts predict that in ten years, 112 million people may be HIV-positive, yet it is a disease whose transmission is entirely preventable. |
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| | Young people hardest hit by HIV/AIDS pandemic, new UN report says |
| | The Assembly will bring the world’s nations together tomorrow for a special one-day meeting to review what has been achieved, and the challenges that remain, in realizing the goals they had adopted five years ago. | | | In “Our Voice, Our Future”, youths report on progress made against the pandemic since the General Assembly’s 2001 special session on HIV/AIDS, according to Thoraya Obaid, Executive Director of the UN Population Fund (UNFPA). | | | Young people hardest hit by HIV/AIDS pandemic, new UN report says |
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| | World Bank HIV/AIDS - Global HIV/AIDS Program |
| | The program offers global learning and knowledge sharing on approaches and best practices to addressing HIV/AIDS. | | | The Global HIV/AIDS Program was created in 2002 to support the World Bank's efforts to address the HIV/AIDS pandemic from a cross-sectoral perspective. | | | World Bank > Health, Nutrition and Population > HIV/AIDS > Global HIV/AIDS Program |
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