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'Positive results' on AIDS therapy |
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Thursday, 14 August 2008 |
MEXICO CITY -- The early results of a clinical trial to test the efficacy of "second-line" treatments for people suffering from full-blown AIDS have been positive, a senior Chinese health official said at last week's 2008 International AIDS Conference. More than 100 Chinese are currently taking part in the scheme, which was launched in December in Hubei and Anhui provinces, and the Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region, Ma Ye, a specialist with the Chinese Center of Disease Control and Prevention and head of the scheme, said. Its aim is to determine the best course of treatment for about 8,000 Chinese people whose condition has reached the severe symptomatic or full-blown phase, she said. "The scheme has already delivered some positive results, and we are now drawing up guidelines for medical workers with regard to drug selection and prescription," she said.
"We are also working on how to scale up the scheme to the national level."
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US restrictions on immigrants with AIDS lifted |
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Wednesday, 13 August 2008 |
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A current federal law prohibiting the entrance of immigrants suffering from HIV and AIDS will soon meet its end in the United States. A bill allocating $48 million toward researching the disease, recently signed by President Bush, also eliminates the U.S. Immigration visitor provision, United Press International reported.The removal of this provision is attributed to increasing awareness of the disease, and the new U.S. immigration policy aims to reflect contemporary understanding of HIV and AIDS. However, the new bill signed by the president does not fully eradicate restrictions on those with HIV and AIDS. Along with other diseases such as gonorrhea and tuberculosis, HIV and AIDS remain communicable diseases of public health significance to the Department of Health and Human Service. |
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Human rights at the core of AIDS control, conference told |
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Sunday, 10 August 2008 |
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MEXICO CITY -- The AIDS epidemic has been with us for more than 25 years, and it will likely persist for at least 50 more, but by focusing on a "triple combination" of treatment, prevention and human rights, people living with HIV-AIDS will lead relatively normal lives, and health systems around the world will be strengthened, delegates to the International AIDS Conference heard yesterday.
"It is clear that we have moved on from the fruitless debate between prevention and treatment that has plagued us in the past," said Michel Kazatchkine, executive director of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria, arguing that they are complementary. But he cautioned that wide-scale prevention, treatment and progress against the disease will not occur unless "human rights remain at the core of everything we do. "Mr. Justice Edwin Cameron of the Supreme Court of Appeal of South Africa told delegates that the growing criminalization of HIV-AIDS is a travesty that risks undermining progress and fuelling the epidemic. "HIV is a virus, not a crime", he said. |
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