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Kenya: Kenya Is Losing 62 000 People Yearly to Aids

62,000 people are dying of AIDS in Kenya every year. The Kenya AIDS epidemic update 2012 has also revealed that 104,000 people are getting infected with the disease yearly, 91,000 of these are adults while the rest are infants.

Published
31 January 2013
From
AllAfrica
Drug-resistant TB
Hospital exposure the source of XDR-TB infections, underlining the need for adequate infection control

Numerous hospital transmissions – rather than a single source – fuelled the outbreak of extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis (XDR-TB) at Tugela Ferry, South Africa, in 2005-06, research published

Published
30 January 2013
By
Michael Carter
Epidemiology
U.S. Has Poorer Health, Higher HIV Rates Compared With Wealthy Nations

When compared with other industrialized nations, Americans have a lower life expectancy, as well as increased rates of injury and disease. Despite spending more per capita on health care than other nations, the United States ranked as the worst in nine major health areas, including HIV/AIDS prevalence.

Published
16 January 2013
From
AIDSMeds
Epidemiology
Brazil to begin tracking numbers of HIV cases

Health officials have said they believe there are another 250,000 Brazilians infected with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS. But nobody knows for certain because up to now HIV cases haven't been tracked.

Published
31 December 2012
From
USA TODAY
Epidemiology
CDC: Number of new HIV infections stable

The number of new human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infections across the country has remained stable, according to a new government analysis. There were 47,500 new infections in 2008 and 47,500 in 2010, according to the Centers for Disease Control.

Published
20 December 2012
From
USA TODAY
Epidemiology
CDC Releases Data on New Cases of HIV

These new data establish a baseline for the National HIV/AIDS Strategy (NHAS) goal of decreasing new HIV infections by 25 percent by 2015.

Published
20 December 2012
From
AIDS.gov blog
Epidemiology
HIV prevalence drops among MSM in Zagreb, Croatia: Syphilis rate 7.6%

HIV prevalence lay below 3% among men who have sex with men (MSM) tested in Zagreb, Croatia in 2010 and 2011—a rate lower than the 4.5% prevalence recorded in a similar survey in 2006. Rates of other sexually transmitted infections (STIs) were below 10%.

Published
12 December 2012
From
International AIDS Society
Epidemiology
HIV epidemic out of control in Central African Republic

The Central African Republic is in the midst of a major health and humanitarian crisis, related particularly to the HIV epidemic, that is largely out of control.

Published
07 December 2012
From
The Lancet
Women
Happy World (Ignore Women and) AIDS Day!

Hats off to the spin doctors who managed to turn this year's World AIDS Day into a global celebration. A mere 34 million people are living with HIV! The end of AIDS is near! It's a triumph of exclamation points over data points. And the situation of women is glossed over entirely.

Published
06 December 2012
From
Huffington Post
Epidemiology
China faces HIV/AIDS epidemic

With a long red AIDS ribbon pinned to his chest, Chinese Vice Premier Li Keqiang warned of the grave situation of HIV/AIDS in China, calling it "not only a medical issue but also a social challenge".

Published
02 December 2012
From
CNN
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