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The United States and Romanian Governments, partners in the Romanian Family Health Initiative (RFHI), worked together to foster a strong HIV and AIDS policy environment in post-communist Romania. RFHI used a multi-pronged approach, including coordinating and funding the annual national AIDS campaign, conducting awareness and education activities focusing on youth, conducting training programmes for journalists on how to address HIV and AIDS issues, supporting non-governmental organisations (NGOs more...
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This guide offers information about stigma associated with HIV/AIDS in our communities and its psychosocial effects. It also suggests ten actions to prevent stigma associated with HIV/AIDS and possible efforts to prevent the spread of HIV.The proposed actions are based on the notion of compassion,which is a universal idea shared by many religious and secular traditions.
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“People with AIDS were fighting for their lives and for their friends”, says Sawyer, an AIDS activist and co-founder of ACT UP New York. By 1988, seven years after the first case of AIDS was reported, AIDS was causing more deaths in the US then there were in the Vietnam War, and between 5 and 10 million people were estimated to be infected with HIV around the world. Yet governments, media and society in general were not giving AIDS adequate attention. So, “people with AIDS had to literally more...
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Understanding the impact of male circumcision interventions on the spread of HIV in southern Africa.
Hallett TB, Singh K, Smith JA, White RG, Abu-Raddad LJ, Garnett GP. Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom.
BACKGROUND: Three randomised controlled trials have clearly shown that circumcision of adult men reduces the chance that they acquire HIV infection. However, the potential impact of circumcision programmes--either alone or in combination with other established approaches--is not known and no further field trials are planned. We have more...
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Millett GA, Flores SA, Marks G, Reed JB, Herbst JH.
Division of HIV/AIDS Prevention, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 1600 Clifton Rd, Mail Stop E-37, Atlanta, GA 30333, USA.
CONTEXT: Randomized controlled trials and meta-analyses have demonstrated that male circumcision reduces men's risk of contracting human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection during heterosexual intercourse. Less is known about whether male circumcision provides protection against HIV infection among men wh more...
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The Women's Interagency HIV Study, is funded by the National Institutes of Health and is a collaborative, multi-center, longitudinal study designed to comprehensively investigate the natural history and the spectrum and time course of the clinical manifestations of HIV infection in women. There are 3000 HIV-infected women and 1000 HIV-uninfected high-risk women enrolled in the study nation wide and 400 HIV-infected women and 140 HIV-uninfected women enrolled locally.
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The global burden of disease: 2004 update is a comprehensive assessment of the health of the world's population. It provides detailed global and regional estimates of premature mortality, disability and loss of health for 135 causes by age and sex, drawing on extensive WHO databases and on information provided by Member States.
10 facts on the global burden of disease
* Around 10 million children under the age of five die each year
* Cardiovascular diseases are the leading causes of more...
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