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  • NICE releases new pain relief guidelines

    Many patients with advanced cancer and other debilitating conditions are being "under-treated" for their pain, new guidance from the health watchdog says.

    4 hours ago | BBC

  • Estimated 740,000 Deaths In Africa Averted Between 2004-2008 In Association With PEPFAR, Study Shows

    "The lives of more than 740,000 people in nine African countries were saved between 2004 and 2008 by the U.S. President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief [PEPFAR]," according to a study conducted by Stanford University School of Medicine researchers and published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) on Wednesday.

    17 May 2012 | Kaiser Daily Global Health Policy Report

  • EU drugs regulator accused of being too cozy with Big Pharma - Euro Parliament refuses to approve EMA accounts

    By a large majority, the European Parliament has refused to sign off on the accounts of the EU agency responsible for making sure all medicines in Europe are safe and effective for its citizens to use, accusing the body of being too close to Big Pharma.

    16 May 2012 | EU Observer

  • Keeping Track of HIV Care

    In a time when increasingly limited funding depends on evidence of success, data management has become one of the AIDS Foundation of Chicago’s most important contributions to the AIDS sector in Chicago. Since 2009, the AIDS Foundation of Chicago (AFC) has worked to build out ClientTrack, a client-level database, as a tool to create, manage, and analyze information about the people we serve.

    15 May 2012 | AIDS Foundation of Chicago

  • US Justice Dept. Settles Two HIV Health Care Discrimination Claims

    Two settlements have been resolved involving claims that health care providers refused to serve people with HIV, which is a violation of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), according to a Department of Justice (DOJ) statement. 

    15 May 2012 | Poz magazine news

  • Study Looking At Impact Of HIV Funding On Rwanda's Health System Has 'Serious Limitations'

    The jury is still out on whether HIV/AIDS funding has displaced or improved efforts on other disease control priorities.

    14 May 2012 | Kaiser Daily Global Health Policy Report

  • Cuba’s AIDS Sanitariums: Fortresses Against a Viral Foe

    The network of sanitariums grew to 14. They were harshly criticized — Dr. Jonathan Mann, the first AIDS director at the World Health Organization, called them “pretty prisons” — but they had a huge damping effect on the early epidemic.

    08 May 2012 | New York Times

  • Cuba: A Regime’s Tight Grip on AIDS

    Whatever debate may linger about the government’s harsh early tactics — until 1993, everyone who tested positive for H.I.V. was forced into quarantine — there is no question that they succeeded. Cuba now has one of the world’s smallest epidemics, a mere 14,038 cases. Its infection rate is 0.1 percent, on par with Finland, Singapore and Kazakhstan.

    08 May 2012 | New York Times

  • Global Fund fighting killer diseases cuts jobs, to focus on 20 countries

    The Global Fund, an organization that has received millions of dollars from Bill Gates but has been accused of misusing donor funds, is cutting its workforce and tightening its focus on 20 countries hardest hit by AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria.

    04 May 2012 | Reuters

  • Colombian Court: Abbott Labs' pricing abuse violated health rights

    A Colombian administrative judge ruled that Abbott Laboratories and the Ministry of Health and Social Protection (MoH) threatened and violated collective rights to public health by maintaining the price of the HIV/AIDS treatment, Kaletra, Abbott’s lopinavir+ritonavir, above the reference price.

    30 April 2012 | Public Citizen
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