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The National Medical Association -- which represents 30,000 black physicians in the U.S. and other countries -- has called on the government to tackle HIV/AIDS, NMA President Albert Morris said at the associations annual Convention and Scientific Assembly, which is being held this week at the Hawaii Convention Center, the [click link for full article] - [Read more]

Swiss pharmaceutical company Novartis will not pursue a patent application for its antiretroviral drug atazanavir in India after the patent was declared "abandoned" by the countrys patent office, Indias Business Standard reports (Mathew, Business Standard, 8/25). [click link for full article] - [Read more]

Alex Simwanza, director of programs for Zambias National HIV/AIDS Council, in an interview ahead of Zambias national voluntary counseling and testing day, which was scheduled for Monday, said the countrys testing rates are too low and urged people who do not know their HIV status to be tested, Zambias The Post reports. Simwanza added that about 1. [click link for full article] - [Read more]

Some HIV/AIDS advocates in Papua New Guinea have called on the government and aid agencies to extend HIV/AIDS awareness campaigns from cities and towns to rural areas to fight mistreatment of and discrimination against people living with the disease, AFP/Yahoo! News reports. [click link for full article] - [Read more]

New findings that one in 20 North Carolina men who have sex with men (MSM) reported using crystal methamphetamine during the previous month suggests increased risk for spreading HIV and other sexually transmitted diseases (STD), according to researchers from Wake Forest University School of Medicine and colleagues.The rate of methamphetamine use among 1,189 MSM was 30 times higher than levels reported in the general U.S. population over the same period. [click link for full article] - [Read more]

HHS Secretary Mike Leavitt on Monday during a two-day trip to Rwanda reiterated U.S. support for HIV/AIDS and malaria efforts in the country and called for sustainable relations between the two governments, the New Times/AllAfrica.com reports (Muramila, New Times/AllAfrica.com [1], 8/27). Leavitt and several U.S. [click link for full article] - [Read more]

The impact of HIV in Zimbabwe since the early 1980s is explored in new research published this week in the journal PNAS.Researchers found that HIVs as a whole has not been quite as severe as some predicted in 1989, when a group of epidemiologists at a World Health Organisation meeting modelled its potential effects. Some of the models they created suggested that the population of Zimbabwe might start shrinking, with more people dying than being born. [click link for full article] - [Read more]

Botswana this year has reduced its rate of mother-to-child HIV transmission to less than 4%, the Boston Globe reports. According to some experts, the decrease is the result of policy changes and political support for programs aimed at preventing MTC transmission. [click link for full article] - [Read more]

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has announced that it is awarding the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine a $16 million, five-year grant to establish the Pittsburgh Center for HIV Protein Interactions (PCHPI). Research at the center will give scientists detailed new insights into the life of HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, and have important implications for developing new drug targets. [click link for full article] - [Read more]

The North Carolina Commission for Public Health on Wednesday voted to recommend requiring HIV tests for all pregnant women in the state immediately before delivery if they have not already been tested in the third trimester of pregnancy, the AP/Myrtle Beach News & Observer reports. [click link for full article] - [Read more]

Japans Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare plans to assign counselors to certain hospitals nationwide to provide people living with HIV/AIDS and their families with psychological support, ministry officials announced Friday, Kyodo News/Japan Today reports. [click link for full article] - [Read more]

The "adoption of a comprehensive plan to overhaul health care in a big, politically influential state" such as California "probably would spur similar efforts around the country and increase pressure on presidential candidates to tackle the issue," the Washington Post reports. California Gov. [click link for full article] - [Read more]

A groundbreaking coalition aiming to build, strengthen, and increase interventions addressing HIV related vulnerabilities of men who have sex with men (MSM) in the Asia and Pacific region was launched at the 8th International Congress on AIDS in Asia and Pacific (8th ICAAP). [click link for full article] - [Read more]

Human Rights Watch on Thursday in a statement said that Ugandan President Yoweri Musevenis promotion of homophobia and violence against men who have sex with men, as well as women who have sex with women, is hindering the countrys efforts to fight HIV/AIDS, [click link for full article] - [Read more]

New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer (D) on Thursday signed into law a measure allowing rape survivors to request that indicted suspects undergo an HIV test, the Rochester Democrat and Chronicle reports (Wiessner, Rochester Democrat and Chronicle, 8/24). [click link for full article] - [Read more]

"Making Performance-Based Funding Work for Health," PLoS Medicine: Daniel Low-Beer of the Judge Business School at Cambridge University and colleagues examined the effectiveness of performance-based funding to fight HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria in developing countries. [click link for full article] - [Read more]

The U.S. plans to launch a program to train health care workers in Mozambique in an effort to strengthen the countrys health system and fight HIV/AIDS and malaria, Mozambican Health Minister Ivo Garrido announced Wednesday after a meeting with HHS Secretary Mike Leavitt and Mozambican President Armando Guebuza, AIM/AllAfrica.com reports (AIM/AllAfrica.com, 8/22). [click link for full article] - [Read more]

British Prime Minister Gordon Brown and German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Wednesday announced a global health campaign aimed at increasing aid to fight HIV/AIDS and other diseases in developing countries, Reuters reports. [click link for full article] - [Read more]

Young women and girls in Asia who are trafficked for commercial sex work are emerging as an HIV/AIDS risk factor, according to a report released by the United Nations Wednesday at the 8th International Congress on AIDS in Asia and the Pacific, the AP/PR-Inside.com reports (Nessman, AP/PR-Inside.com, 8/22). [click link for full article] - [Read more]

UNISON has won a case on behalf of a discriminated mental health worker who was stopped from being registered as a social worker, despite the fact he complied completely with employment rules during all times of his training and registration application. The man, who wishes to remain unidentified, works in the mental health sector for a Yorkshire metropolitan district council. [click link for full article] - [Read more]