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World AIDS Day 2009 Reminds Us To Stay Educated & Protected
History was made at JFK Thursday. A Dutch citizen is one of the first HIV positive foreigners to be allowed to enter the United States in almost two dozen years... After the Obama administration lifted a 22-year old ban Monday that kept students, tourists, refugees and would-be adopted children with the virus out of the country. Ida Siegal has the story.
The President talks about the legacy of Ryan White as he reauthorizes the landmark bill named in his honor that helps provide medical treatment to more than half a million Americans living with HIV/AIDS. October 30, 2009. (Public Domain)
World AIDS Day 2009 is December 1st. Help stop the spread of HIV/AIDS to the next generation through mother-child transmission. http://bit.ly/WorldAIDSDay2009
As part of the Nepal Red Cross Society HIV awareness programme the Surkhet District Chapter sponsors peer education workshops on HIV and AIDS awareness. This short video captures one segment of a workshop of married women openly discussing the causes of HIV and how to prevent it. The HIV programme in partially funded by the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies through the generous contributions of its members like the Swedish Red Cross.
GOROMONZI DISTRICT, Zimbabwe, Lillian's father died in 2004 due to complications from AIDS. Her mother, unable to cope, abandoned the family a few days later.
After their mother left, Lillian and her siblings joined their six cousins, whose mothers had already died from AIDS-related illnesses. Their 80-year-old grandmother was suddenly left responsible for the care of nine orphaned children.
Unfortunately, Lillian's life mirrors that of many Zimbabwean girls her age -- children being looked after by ailing grandparents. There are at least 1.1 million children (and possibly as many as 1.6 million) who have lost one or both parents to AIDS in the country.
As part of The Government of Zimbabwe's National Plan of Action (NPA) for orphans and vulnerable children, UNICEF is embarking on a massive programme to improve the health, education, protection and nutrition of the country's orphans and vulnerable children.
Leading global health experts, policy makers and parliamentarians will gather in South Africa for Countdown to 2015 -- a conference on child and maternal mortality. This is one in a series of related stories.
LUAPULA PROVINCE, Zambia, 16 April 2008 -- For the past eight months, 34-year-old Regina, a mother in Zambia's Luapula Province, has been waiting anxiously for the final test results that will decide her daughter's future. It is possible that her child may test positive for HIV.
Regina's local clinic runs a prevention of mother-to-child transmission (PMTCT) programme. By providing both the mother and newborn child with doses of the antiretroviral drug Neviropene, the programme can reduce the chance of the virus being transmitted to her child.
"During childbirth, they gave me and my baby Neviropene, and because of that I hope that my baby will be HIV-negative," said Regina.
Emily Oster re-examines the stats on AIDS in Africa from an economic perspective and reaches a stunning conclusion: Everything we know about the spread of HIV on the continent is wrong.
Her Harvard doctoral thesis took on famed economist Amartya Sen and his claim that 100 million women were statistically missing from the developing world. He blamed misogynist medical care and outright sex-selective abortion for the gap, but Oster pointed to data indicating that in countries where Hepetitis B infections were higher, more boys were born. Through her unorthodox analysis of medical data, she accounted for 50% of the missing girls.Full bio and more links
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