world aids day is observed every year on december 1st. the world health organization established world aids day in 1988. world aids day provides governments national aids programs faith organizations community organizations and individuals with an opportunity to raise awareness and focus attention on the global aids epidemic.
in 2007 the estimated number of persons living with hiv worldwide...... [Show More]
december 1 is world aids day a time to celebrate the many lives saved by hiv prevention and treatment programs. it also serves as a reminder that we all must do moreas individuals communities and as world citizensto fight the spread of hiv and aids.
around the world 33 million people are living with hiv with nearly 7500 new infections occurring each day. an estimated 3 million peopl...... [Show More]
ne post publicado el 8 de noviembre.
mientras el presidente electo de estados unidos barack obama se prepara para sus praximos cuatro aaos en la casa blanca muchos debaten el impacto que tendra su polatica tanto en estados unidos como a nivel mundial en lo que a sanidad se refiere y si cumplira las promesas que realiza a lo largo de la campaaa.
como parte de su campaaa obama y el v...... [Show More]
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i remember when president george bush pledged 15 billion to help reduce aids in africa . i wasnt too pleased. im hardly ever pleased about the government sending billions of dollars.
close to 25 percent of that money goes to groups that promote abstinence outside marriage and fidelity within marriage. the policy prohibited aid to organizations that counseled for and ...... [Show More]
as u.s. presidentelect barack obama prepares for his four years in the white house many are discussing how his term will impact health issues globally and in the u.s. and if he will deliver on his campaign promises.
as part of their campaign obama and vice presidentelect joe biden said that more must be done to fight the global hivaids pandemic as well as malaria and tuberculosis ...... [Show More]
niaid director dr. anthony fauci addresses the united nations general assembly special session on hivaids. image courtesy of nih.
dr. anthony fauci is the director of niaid the national institutes for allergy and infectious disease where he is also chief of the laboratory of immunoregulation. dr. faucis research interests lie primarily in the molecular mechanisms of hiv and aids ...... [Show More]
at separate events this week joe biden and cindy mccain signaled their support for the presidents emergency plan for aids relief . even though the tom lantos and henry j. hyde united states global leadership against hiv aids tuberculosis and malaria reauthorization act allowing a 48 billion price tag for five years worth of funding was signed into law by president bush i...... [Show More]
the following originally appeared in the huffington post on october 8.
cutting foreign aid is not the answer to the financial crisis
when asked on face the nation for specific priorities that might be cut as a result of the economic crisis barack obama offered the possibility that his pledge to double foreign assistance by 2012 might have to be del ayed8221 .
then joe biden duri...... [Show More]
maybe im not the only one who remembers how president george bush puffed with pride when during his 2008 state of the union he said that he would increase aid to africa
america is leading the fight against disease. with your help were working to cut by half the number of malariarelated deaths in 15 african nations. and our emergency plan for aids relief is treating 1.4 mi...... [Show More]
talk about a delayed reaction. two months ago news broke that federal prosecutors alleged ranbaxy labs falsified records resulting in the production and sale of meds that didnt meet fda standards. the allegations under investigation include fabricating bioequivalence and stability data to support aids drugs to be paid for by the pepfar and distributed to foreign countries back story 41...... [Show More]
emailer gary hall sent me a link to a july 30 la times article about how worldwide aids deaths are down 10.
in discussing the improvement its hysterical in one sense but very sad in another to watch how times staff writer thomas h. maugh ii studiously avoided using the word abs tinence8 221 the aword which does not appear even once in his entire piece.
jus...... [Show More]
pepfar merci mr bush Post Source: www.zizoufromdjerba.com Posted: Aug 03 2008 16:07:11
quand on parlera de georges bush dans dix ans. on se rappellera du pepfar et on oubliera la guerre en iraq. grace au pepfar les etats unis vont injecter 48 billions de dollars plus que le pib de la tunisie dans le traitement du sida. cette importante somme dargent qui pour moi restera comme le seul point positif du reigne de bush servira a traiter des millions de personnes et...... [Show More]
... american taxpayers through their vessel the lame duck president george bush this week showed enormous generosity in extending for another five years a program called a hrefrsqu ohttpw ww.pepfar. govrsquo pepfara that essentially makes possible antiretroviral treatment for people with fullblown aids. the treatment works in most cases though as the a hrefrsqu ohttpw ww.ft.com cmss0f8 ba4aa25f... [Show More]
yesterday president bush signed h.r. 5501 the tom lantos and henry j. hyde united states global leadership against hivaids tuberculosis and malaria reauthorization act which will fund pepfar the the global aids program that may be bushs most positive legacy. this second iteration of pepfar bears significant flaws in the area of prevention and troubling caps that could limit how man...... [Show More]
we wanted to share the news that 2.4 million people are on antiretroviral therapy today thanks to the collaboration of impacted countries local stakeholders pepfar and the global fund. thank you red consumers for your role in reaching this goal tamsin...... [Show More]
welcome to the new blog for the palala girls club pgc and palala boys club pbc this is a project that was created by united states peace corps volunteers in 2007 and funded by the united states presidents emergency plan for aids relief pepfar . this projects boasts of four official pgc or pbc club locations that reach over 20 community leaders appr...... [Show More]
christian science monitor examines peace corps efforts to attract experienced volunteers for work related to hivaids other issues
apr 28 2008
the christian science monitor on friday examined how the peace corps is attempting to attract skilled volunteers as it begins to address more complex issues such as hivaids and pro fessionali ze the agency. ...... [Show More]
note this column was originally posted at pajamas media on saturday under the title african aids defeatable thanks to bush.
between bill clinton and george w. bush who has done the better job fighting african aids
in 2002 david corn at alternet told us that clinton had been a bitter disappointment
clinton now wonders ...... [Show More]
lastminute reminder judy norsigian executive director of our bodies ourselves will be at women children first bookstore in chicago sunday april 6 at 430 p.m. to discuss obos new book pregnancy and birth .
get event details here . oh and ill be there too
judy has two events in chicago on monday both of which are free and open to the public. th...... [Show More]
senate foreign relations committee approves pepfar reauthorization bill kaiser daily hivaids report 14 march 2008.
thursday the senate foreign relations committee voted to reauthorize the presidents emergency plan for aids relief at a cost of 50 billion over the next five years. no amendments were considered presently for the senate bill introduced by sen. bide...... [Show More]
er man imod liv hvis man gar ind for fri abort det mener de farreste i danmark hvor vi har haft fri abort i flere artier. her gar den etiske diskussion ikke pa om abort er rigtigt eller forkert men pa om aborten skal gares endnu mere fri skal gransen for abort rykkes til efter den 12. graviditetsuge
globalt set er tendensen imidlertid den stik modsatte for i mange lande vo...... [Show More]
this post originally appeared yesterday in the center for global development s blog views from the center .
yesterday president george bush reported on his recent trip to africa to members of the diplomatic corps ngos and development policymakers at the marriott wardman park hotel in washington d.c. at an event hosted by the leon h. sullivan foundation . president bush relayed the ...... [Show More]
a bipartisan coalition in congress is working to pass legislation to address the hivaids epidemic in africa and youll never guess which side congressman garrett and his ideological blinders are on. matt fretz this has to be a campaign commercial this year. in his most recent post on townhall.com representative scott garrett came out strongly against the compromise bill to reaut...... [Show More]
welcome to this installment of the aids pandemic a podcast hosted by dr. david wessner from davidson college . im dave wessner . yesterday president bush implored congress to extend pepfar the presidents emergency plan for aids relief for an additional 5 years and allocate an additional 30 billion to the program. initially proposed in the presidents 2003 state of the union add...... [Show More]
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