Category: HIV/AIDS
Cancer’s impact on the developing world goes largely unrecognized and unaddressed, panelists said at a Seattle World Affairs Council event held Wednesday night at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center.
To mark the 30th anniversary of the first report of the disease that became known as HIV/AIDs Surgeon General Dr. Regina Benjamin, Director of the White House Office of National AIDS Policy Jeffrey Crowley and Director of the Division of AIDS at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, NIH, Dr. Carl Dieffenbach took questions about the epidemic.
Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, and his Chief of Staff Gregory Folkers look back on the first three decades of the HIV epidemic.
AIDS Statistics:
Number of people living with HIV/AIDS worldwide: 33.3 million
Number who die each year: 1.8 million
Number infected each day: 7,000
Selinah, who has AIDS, agreed to be filmed everyday for 90 days so that her story might help others.
Despite the world economic crisis, funding for global health from both public and private donors continues to rise, albeit more slowly, according to a report by the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington in Seattle.
But aid is not necessarily going where the need is greatest, the report finds.
Two-hour forum on reforming U.S. global health practices was held in Seattle Thursday will be available online.
AIDS programs now exist as a fractured web of resources ranging from community-based clinics that offer free condoms to subsidized health services to federal agencies that provide massive funding programs for treatment and prevention.
UW study shows drug treatment cuts HIV transmission 92%. Some experts say the spread of AIDS in Africa could be contained in as little as five years if everyone infected received treatment now.
Tom Paulson went to Thailand believing the recent AIDS vaccine trial had been a success; when he got there he learned about some serious, unresolved problems.
One out of five people in the U.S. infected with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, doesn’t know it, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reports. CDC recommends that everyone between the ages of 13 and 64 be tested for HIV at least once as part of their routine health care. People [...]
A survey by the Kaiser Family Foundation has found that Americans’ concern about the threat of HIV/AIDS has dropped sharply in recent years with just 6 percent of adults surveyed now naming HIV/AIDS as the most urgent health problem facing the country, down for 44 percent in 1995. The drop comes at the same time [...]
Healthcare providers should make it clear to patients and parents that male circumcision substantially reduces a man’s risk of contracting AIDS, genital herpes and the virus that causes genital warts and cervical cancer, two University of Washington researchers write in today’s issue of the New England Journal of Medicine. In recent years, the value of [...]
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