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The United Nations' goal of providing universal access to antiretroviral drugs by 2010 is unlikely to be reached by some countries, Michel Kazatchkine, executive director of the Global Fund To Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, and Peter Piot, executive director of UNAIDS, said on Wednesday August 06, at the XVII International AIDS Conference in Mexico City. The 2010 target was agreed to at a 2006 United Nations General Assembly meeting and later supported by the Group of Eight industrialized more...
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Despite significant funding for HIV/AIDS treatment in the developing world and efforts to prevent mother-to-child transmission, the global response to the disease has 'short-changed' children, health workers at the XVII International AIDS Conference in Mexico City said on Wednesday, August 06 - during the conference's first plenary lecture on children. In the past five years, 1.5 million children have died of AIDS-related causes, and 15 million children have lost one or both parents to the dise more...
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National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Director Anthony Fauci and UNAIDS Executive Director Peter Piot on August 06 at the XVII International AIDS Conference in Mexico City discussed progress in HIV/AIDS treatments and prevention efforts and the future of HIV treatment. According to Fauci, HIV-positive people eventually might be able to stop taking drugs and live without symptoms if they are treated aggressively with newer antiretroviral drugs. Treating patients soon after they ar more...
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Based on a review of hundreds of studies, the new PWG report focuses on behavioral change prevention, and calls for significantly expanded delivery of HIV prevention programming aimed at reducing high-risk behaviors. The report also identifies gaps in knowledge about behavioral change programming.
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When formulating their HIV strategies, governments worldwide overlook research showing the importance of behavior change in HIV prevention, several experts said Tuesday at the XVII International AIDS Conference in Mexico City. Experts discussed a variety of behavior modifications, including promoting safer sex practices, decreasing injection drug use, providing needle-exchange programs and promoting male circumcision. Although 'none of the measures alone offer a simple solution to preventing inf more...
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Information and Communications Technologies (ICT) continue to be a driving force in today’s economic, social and political development of societies around the world. Yet studies in ICT and their impact on the Arab States remain scarce. UNIFEM Arab States Regional Office integrated the theme of ICTs in its Economic Security Program in the year 2000, and since then the program has been dedicated to implementing ICT projects that aim to provide economic empowerment opportunities for women. Addit more...
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Information and Communications Technologies (ICT) continue to be a driving force in today’s economic, social and political development of societies around the world. Yet studies in ICT and their impact on the Arab States remain scarce. UNIFEM Arab States Regional Office integrated the theme of ICTs in its Economic Security Program in the year 2000, and since then the program has been dedicated to implementing ICT projects that aim to provide economic empowerment opportunities for women. Additi more...
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