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BRICS Ministers of Health call for renewed efforts to face HIV and global health challenges

The 2nd Health Ministers’ meeting of the BRICS countries (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) concluded in New Delhi, India on January 11, with a strong call for strengthened cooperation in the implementation of affordable, equitable and sustainable solutions for common health challenges.

Published
14 January 2013
From
UNAIDS
HIV prevention policy
Australia: Health Minister savages 'radical' LGBTI community leaders, health promoters fire back

Queensland Health Minister Lawrence Springborg has lambasted the state’s AIDS Council and the former Labor Government for a five per cent rise in gay men having unprotected sex between 2011-12. But Labor and the Queensland Association for Healthy Communities (QAHC) both claim that the minister is greatly confused over the issue and is being irresponsible and misleading the public by effectively blaming members and groups within the LGBTI community.

Published
14 January 2013
From
Sydney Star Observer
Global health initiatives
Supreme Court to hear free speech case on anti-prostitution rule

Congress requires groups receiving funds to fight HIV and AIDS globally to have a standard opposing prostitution. Justices will hear the case in spring.

Published
14 January 2013
From
Los Angeles Times
HIV prevention policy
More HIV Prevention Funding Should Be Shifted to Gay Men, Fenway Says

New infections up 12% among men who have sex with men (MSM) in 2010, CDC reports, but prevention for MSM is underfunded compared with other risk groups.

Published
09 January 2013
From
Fenway Health press release
Policy
Greece HIV Remedies Hit as Crisis Threatens Drug Curbs

Greece’s efforts to control its debt crisis threaten to hobble the fight against an outbreak of HIV that has become the largest among drug users in the European Union.

Published
09 January 2013
From
Bloomberg
Vaccines
Crowdfunding an HIV Vaccine: Insane or Genius?

Under the guidance of my board at the Abzyme Research Foundation I launched a crowd-fund to start a new therapeutic vaccine on the FDA approval process on Dec. 1 In two weeks we have raised 50 percent of our initial goal and I believe the project is attractive to donors for two reasons.

Published
21 December 2012
From
Huffington Post (blog)
Finance and funding
Japan’s 2012 contribution to the Global Fund is the highest it has ever made

The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria today welcomed the payment by Japan of the second and final tranche of its total 2012 contribution of US$ 343 million, the highest annual amount that Japan has ever made in 10 years of vigorous support for the Global Fund.

Published
18 December 2012
From
Global Fund
Finance and funding
Tackling HIV and AIDS through taxation in Uganda

Uganda is considering funding HIV prevention work through levies on bank transactions, air tickets, beer, soft drinks and cigarettes. But reactions from ordinary Ugandans have not been particularly favorable - there is considerable scepticism about corruption and government transparency.

Published
17 December 2012
From
Development Education
Finance and funding
Massive shifts reshape the health landscape worldwide

Globally, health advances present most people with a devastating irony: avoid premature death but live longer and sicker.Findings from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010, a collaborative project led by the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington are being announced at the Royal Society in London on Dec. 14 and published in the Lancet, the first time the journal has dedicated an entire issue to one study.

Published
14 December 2012
From
Eurekalert Inf Dis
Types of HIV tests
UK team receives funding to develop HIV detection device

A British team is developing a handheld device for detecting HIV in the early stages of infection. The researchers claim that this will combine the speed of existing point-of-care testing devices.

Published
13 December 2012
From
The Engineer
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