US panel urges protection of humans in research

2011-12-15T12:30:21Z

A bioethics panel that investigated a Guatemalan sex disease scandal urged the US government Thursday to consider compensating victims who are harmed by participating in future research.

The President's Bioethics Commission was tasked by Barack Obama after revelations last year that 1,300 people were exposed to venereal disease as part of macabre research led by an American in Barack Obama after revelations last year that 1,300 people were exposed to venereal disease as part of macabre research led by an American in

African leaders must boost AIDS programmes: Bush

2011-12-04T16:30:24Z

African leaders must ensure that programmes to fight HIV/AIDS on the ravaged continent are successfully carried out, former US president George W. Bush said Sunday.

Bush said at the opening ceremony of the International Conference on AIDS and STIs (ICASA) in Africa that funding from foreign donors...

'Let's finish the fight' against AIDS, says Obama

2011-12-01T16:31:08Z

US President Barack Obama on Thursday added $50 million to fight AIDS in the United States and launched efforts to treat two million more people abroad.

"We can beat this disease," Obama said at an event to mark World AIDS Day which included speeches by satellite ...

Obama raises U.S. goal on fighting AIDS

2011-12-01T13:00:24Z

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama vowed to boost U.S. efforts to fight AIDS with a new target of providing treatment to 6 million people worldwide by 2013, up from an earlier goal of 4 million.

At a celebrity-studded

Obama sets new U.S. goal on fighting AIDS

2011-12-01T10:00:24Z

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama vowed on Thursday to bolster U.S. efforts to fight AIDS, setting a new goal of providing treatment to 6 million people worldwide, up from the earlier goal of 4 million.

Obama, at a W...

Obama to set new goal on fighting global AIDS

2011-12-01T10:00:20Z

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama will set a new goal in the worldwide fight against AIDS with an announcement on Thursday of a target to provide treatment for an additional 2 million people by the end of 2013.

Obama's new global target for AIDS treatment would increase to 6 million from the current goal of 4 mi...

World AIDS Day: Obama Looking Forward To An AIDS-Free Generation

2011-12-01T08:30:27Z

President Barack Obama on Thursday observed World AIDS Day by announcing new steps designed to promote an AIDS-free generation

President Barack Obama on Thursday observed World AIDS Day by announcing new steps designed to promote an AIDS-free generation.

Obama and two former presidents, Reuters) - President Barack Obama will set a new goal in the worldwide fight against AIDS with an announcement on Thursday of a target to provide treatment for an additional 2 million people by the end of 2013.

Obama's new global target for AIDS treatment would increase to 6 million from the current goal of 4 mi...

Many Americans with HIV go untreated: study

2011-11-29T17:30:23Z

Nearly three quarters of the 1.2 million Americans with HIV do not have their infection under control, raising the risk of death from AIDS and transmission to others, said a US study on Tuesday.

One in five people with human immunodeficiency virus are unaware that they have the disease, added the report by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, r...

Few in US with HIV have virus under control: CDC

2011-11-29T12:30:24Z

CHICAGO (Reuters) - Only 28 percent of the 1.2 million Americans living with HIV have the infection under control, increasing the risk that they will spread the disease to others, U.S. health officials said on Tuesday.

A big part of the problem is that one in five U.S. adult infected with HIV do not know it. Of those who are aware, only half rece...

Few in U.S. with HIV have virus under control: CDC

2011-11-29T10:00:16Z

A big part of the problem is that one in five U.S. adult infected with HIV do not know it. Of those who are aware, only half receive...

Doctor brain drain costs Africa $2 billion

2011-11-25T07:01:07Z

LONDON (Reuters) - Sub-Saharan African countries that invest in training doctors have ended up losing $2 billion as the expert clinicians leave home to find work in more prosperous developed nations, researchers said on Friday.

A study by Canadian scientists found that South Africa and CHICAGO (Reuters) - The number of Americans newly infected with syphilis has fallen for the first time in a decade, but sexually transmitted diseases continue to take a staggering toll on the United States, with 19 million new infections each year at a cost of $17 billion annually.<...

U.S. syphilis rates drop, but STDs still big problem

2011-11-17T10:30:32Z

CHICAGO (Reuters) - The number of Americans newly infected with syphilis has fallen for the first time in a decade, but sexually transmitted diseases continue to take a staggering toll on the United States, with 19 million new infections each year at a cost of $17 billion annually.<...

Clinton says AIDS-free generation is US priority

2011-11-08T15:30:15Z

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton declared an AIDS-free generation a US priority Tuesday, saying such a "historic" goal can be met by combining prevention strategies worldwide.

"This, I admit, is an ambitious goal, and I recognize that I am not the first person to envision it," Clinton said in a speech at the National Institut...

Clinton sets new U.S. global AIDS focus on treatment

2011-11-08T11:01:00Z

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States set a new direction for its global AIDS campaign on Tuesday, emphasizing HIV-fighting drugs that can prevent new infections to bring the goal of "an AIDS-free generation" within reach, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton<...

Aurobindo uses patent pool for generic AIDS drugs

2011-10-11T03:30:13Z

LONDON (Reuters) - India's Aurobindo Pharma has become the first major generic drugmaker to join a patent pool designed to make HIV/AIDS treatments more widely available to the poor, paving the way for it to sell cheap medicines in many countries.

The ...

Young people having more unprotected sex: study

2011-09-26T13:30:15Z

The number of young people having unprotected sex in the West has risen sharply over the past two years, a survey said Monday, with health professionals concerned the safe sex message is falling on deaf ears.

The study by the Parenthood Foundation showed particularly sharp increases among sexually active teenagers in the United States and in European countries such as Reuters) - Young people across the globe are having more unprotected sex and know less about effective contraception options, a multinational survey revealed on Monday.

The "Clueless or Clued Up: Your Right to be informed about contraception" study prepared for World Contraception Day (WCD) reports that the number of young people having unsafe sex with a new partner increased by 111 ...

Amphetamine-type drugs more common than cannabis: U.N.

2011-09-13T07:00:50Z

VIENNA (Reuters) - Criminal gangs are selling more cheap and easy-to-make amphetamine-type drugs, such as ecstasy and crystal meth, in new markets, and cannabis is now the only more widely used illegal drug, a United Nations report released on Tuesday said.

The number of methamphetamine pills seized in southeast <...

'Positively Aware's' A Day With HIV In America Wants Your Photo

2011-09-09T06:30:18Z

The editors of 'Positively Aware' are turning to their readers to produce a snapshot of what it's like be HIV-positive in America

The editors of the HIV/AIDS glossy Positively Aware are turning to their readers to produce a snapshot of what it's like be HIV-positive in America.

The magazine is asking readers to take a photograph on Wednesday, September 21 for consideration in its second annual A Day With HIV In Reuters Health) - A new study from South Africa found that more than two-thirds of mothers and other caregivers pre-chew food for their infants -- possibly putting those babies at risk of HIV if the caregiver is HIV-positive.

Though the researchers didn't ask the caregivers whether or not they had the virus when t...

U.S. researchers broke rules in Guatemala syphilis study

2011-08-30T07:00:38Z

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. government researchers must have known they were violating ethical standards by deliberately infecting Guatemalan prison inmates and mental patients with syphilis for an experiment in the 1940s, according to a presidential commission.

The U.S.-funded research in Guatemala did not treat participants as human beings,...

Unethical US research 'killed 83' in Guatemala

2011-08-30T06:30:18Z

At least 83 people died as human guinea pigs in macabre US research on sexually transmitted diseases in Guatemala in the 1940s, a commission ordered by President Barack Obama concluded.

Nearly 5,500 people were subjected to diagnostic testing and more than 1,300 were exposed to venereal diseases by human contact or inocu...

Unethical US research killed 83 in Guatemala: panel

2011-08-29T19:30:24Z

At least 83 people died as human guinea pigs in macabre US research on sexually transmitted diseases in Guatemala in the 1940s, a commission ordered by President Barack Obama concluded Monday.

Nearly 5,500 people were subjected to diagnostic testing and more than 1,300 were exposed to venereal diseases by human contact o...

U.S. to shed light on Guatemala syphilis experiment

2011-08-29T09:00:29Z

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. presidential commission will release on Monday its findings on a government research project that deliberately infected Guatemalan prison inmates and mental patients with syphilis in the 1940s.

The conclusions have consequences for U.S. diplomacy and will impact the ethical discussion surrounding how new drugs are tested on patients, as manufacturers increasingl...

Iran releases jailed HIV doctor: family source

2011-08-29T04:30:38Z

Iranian HIV doctor Arash Alaei has been released from jail in Tehran after spending more than three years behind bars for allegedly conspiring against the regime, his US-based brother said Monday.

"He got released today," Kamiar Alaei told AFP in an email. "He was among 100 Iranian political prisoners who got a pardon today due to the coming end of the

Extend STD treatment beyond patients, say ob-gyns

2011-08-26T12:00:31Z

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - American obstetrician-gynecologists are pushing to extend their reach to the sexual partners of women treated for gonorrhea or Chlamydia.

There is a good chance those men are infected, too, although they may not experience symptoms of the STD, the doctors say. Giving an infected woman antibiotics or a prescription to take to her partner would help cut the chance t...

HIV in America: Studies zero in on trouble spots

2011-08-16T16:00:19Z

CHICAGO (Reuters) - U.S. health experts are turning to sophisticated computer mapping technology and electronic medical records to identify pockets of Americans most at risk of HIV infection.

In one study, presented on Tuesday at 2011 National HIV Prevention Conference in Atlanta

Young gay men who use meth may risk HIV

2011-08-03T15:00:16Z

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Young gay and bisexual men who use methamphetamine are more likely to take sexual risks that boost their chances of contracting HIV, a new study suggests.

Researchers say the findings underscore the fact that meth, and its associated HIV risk, is not just a problem of middle-aged white men.

Methamphetamine triggers a massive release of the feel-good chemical...

HIV infections in U.S. stable but disparities exist

2011-08-03T13:00:09Z

CHICAGO (Reuters) - The number of Americans newly infected with HIV remained stable between 2006 and 2009, but infections rose nearly 50 percent among young black gay and bisexual men, U.S. experts said on Wednesday.

New data from the Reuters Health) - The rising U.S. syphilis rate appears to be disproportionately striking minority gay and bisexual men, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported Monday.

Syphilis is a sexually transmitted bacterial infect...

Life expectancy rises with AIDS therapy in Uganda

2011-07-22T07:30:18Z

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Ugandan HIV and AIDS patients receiving antiretroviral "cocktail" therapy can expect to live nearly as long as their compatriots who don't have HIV, a new study finds.

"They can have almost a normal life expectancy, and live approximately two thirds as long as if they had not had HIV," said Edward Mill...

STD rate twice as high in older women, US study finds

2011-07-12T10:30:30Z

A sexually transmitted disease known as Trichomonas vaginalis is twice as common as previously thought, and is particularly prevalent in women over 40, US doctors said Tuesday.

Using new genetic assay technologies for testing, the research led by Johns Hopkins University found that the overall infection rate among US women was 8.7 percent, compared to previous findings of about four percent...

First drug-resistant gonorrhea strain emerges

2011-07-11T11:30:19Z

For the first time, international researchers have identified a strain of gonorrhea that is resistant to treatment with antibiotics, scientists announced at a sex disease research conference Monday.

The common bacterial infection, often called the "clap," has until now been easily treatable with antibiotics but if left alone can cause infertility in women and painful urination and a pus-oozing infection in men.

"This is both an alarming and a predictable discovery," said

New HIV diagnoses may be dropping in California men

2011-06-17T12:00:12Z

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - The rate of new HIV cases in gay and bisexual men may have dropped in California in the mid-2000's, suggests a new study published 30 years after the discovery of the virus that causes AIDS.

Still, the rates of new, positive HIV tests in recent years were highest in men age 18 to 24, a finding that suggests young...

Gilead receives Justice Department subpoena

2011-06-12T08:32:40Z

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Gilead Sciences Inc, the leading maker of HIV drugs, said it received a subpoena for documents related to its manufacture, quality and distribution practices.

News of the subpoena, from the

AIDS at 30: New funds, smarter spending needed - UNAIDS

2011-06-03T01:30:24Z

More money, less waste and smarter programmes are urgently needed to consolidate precious gains in the war on AIDS and HIV, UNAIDS said on ahead of the disease's 30th anniversary.

"The number of people becoming infected and dying is decreasing, but the international resources needed to sustain this progress have declined for the first time in 10 years, despite tremendous unmet needs,"

Longevity of AIDS patients presents new risks: US

2011-06-02T14:30:23Z

Thirty years after the AIDS epidemic first surfaced, more people than ever before in the United States -- more than 1.1 million -- are living with HIV, the Centers for Disease Control said Thursday.

The longevity of AIDS patients is widely attributed to the success of antiretroviral drugs which became widesprea...

US takes aim at purported sex disease 'cures'

2011-05-03T16:30:36Z

The US government said Tuesday it is taking steps to remove from the market a host of online products that promise to cure HIV, herpes, chlamydia and other sexually transmitted diseases.

The products, mainly sold on the Internet but also available in some retail outlets, include names like Medavir, Herpaflor, Viruxo, C-Cure, and Never An Outbreak.

They are distributed by 11 US companies targeted in the joint action by the US government on Monday ordered US states and territories to ensure occupational trade schools and licensing agencies don't discriminate against applicants who have HIV or AIDS.

The Department of Justice (DOJ) sent letters to the states after learning that applicants were being denied admission to public and private trade sch...

Guatemalans sue US over 1940s STD study

2011-03-15T21:30:19Z

Seven Guatemalans filed a class action lawsuit in Washington over a 1940s US study in which hundreds of people in the Central American nation were deliberately infected with syphilis and gonorrhea without their consent.

The suit by the Guatemalans, filed against the Reuters) - The number of U.S. teenagers and young adults who say they are abstaining from sex is on the rise, even as more young women report having sexual contact with each other, U.S. government researchers said on Thursday.

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control ...

Guatemala STD study was 'wrong': US panel

2011-03-01T16:30:51Z

The head of a bioethics commission convened by President Barack Obama said on Tuesday that a 1940s study of STDs using patients in Guatemala was wrong and that a US probe was continuing.

"What happened was clearly wrong," said Amy Gutmann, who chairs the ...

Rectal gel shows promise in warding off HIV: study

2011-02-28T13:30:38Z

A gel that has been shown to reduce the risk of HIV infection in women during vaginal sex has also shown promise toward preventing transmission during anal sex, US researchers said on Monday.

"HIV was significantly inhibited in tissue samples from participants who used tenofovir gel daily for one week compared to tissue from participants who used the placebo gel," the study said.

The results came from the first clinical trial of tenofovir gel for rectal use, and were released...

Australia clean-needle program keeping HIV at bay

2011-01-23T18:30:55Z

NEW YORK (Reuters Life!) - Australia's early and widespread use of clean-needle programs seems to have kept HIV rates among injection-drug users in check over the long term, according to a study.

In 1986, several years after HIV and AIDS came to widespread attention, Australia set up publicly funded programs to provide injection-drug users wi...

People with HIV have high stroke risk: study

2011-01-19T14:30:35Z

CHICAGO (Reuters) - People infected with the AIDS virus may be three times more likely to suffer a stroke than people not infected, U.S. researchers said on Wednesday.

While stroke rates in the United States fell 7.2 percent in 2006 compared to 1997, rates have spiked among pe...

Larry Brown Wants AIDS Funding To 'Perverted' Gays Cut Off

2011-01-13T05:31:00Z

North Carolina State Representative Larry Brown wants AIDS funding to adults living a 'perverted lifestyle' cut off

North Carolina State Representative Larry Brown wants AIDS funding to adults living a 'perverted lifestyle' cut off, the Reuters) - Expanding screening for the AIDS virus to include every American at least once and the highest-risk people once a year could prevent more than 80,000 infections over the next 20 years, researchers projected on Monday.

And if treatment for infected people were integrated into such a program, it would prevent an estimated 212,000 new infections, the team at

Thousands on HIV drugs desperate amid budget woes

2010-12-16T03:00:17Z

Amid bad economy and budget woes, thousands with HIV on waiting lists for free AIDS drugs
Cash-strapped states are cutting back on a program that provides free medicine to people with HIV, leaving thousands of patients to wonder where their drugs will come from and stirring fears of a return to the days when an AIDS diagnosis meant certain death.
At least 19 states have taken such steps as capping enrollment, dropping patients, instituting waiting lists, low...

States that cut AIDS Drug Assistance Programs

2010-12-16T03:00:10Z

States that have waiting lists or made other cuts to their AIDS Drug Assistance Programs
States with waiting lists for their AIDS Drug Assistance Programs, as of Dec. 9:
_ Arkansas: 5 people
_ Florida: 2,396
_ Georgia: 837
_ Montana: 14
_ North Carolina: 84
_ Ohio: 374
_ South Caro...

US man is HIV-free after stem cell transplant

2010-12-16T02:00:28Z

An American man is still HIV-free more than three years after receiving a stem cell transplant, suggesting the first-ever cure of the virus that causes AIDS, German doctors said.
But while the highly risky technique used on the man known as the "Berlin Patient" would not work for most of the 33 million people with HIV worldwide, scientists say the research shows important progress toward a universal cure.<...

Circumcision may not curb gay HIV transmission

2010-12-07T12:30:44Z

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - While circumcision has been shown to lower a man's risk of contracting HIV through heterosexual sex, a new study indicates that the value of circumcision for gay and bisexual men remains questionable.
In a study of more than 1,800 men from the U.S. and Peru, researchers found that overall, the risk ...

US vows to fight AIDS until it's gone

2010-12-01T20:30:55Z

President Barack Obama on Wednesday hailed "tremendous progress" made in the fight against AIDS and expressed hope of eradicating the disease that has claimed 25 million lives worldwide.
"At a time when so many men and women are living with HIV and AIDS every day, let's also recommit ourselves to build on the tremendous progress we've made both in preventing and treating the disease and ending the stigma and discrimination tha...

Bush calls on US to step up fight against AIDS

2010-12-01T15:31:28Z

George W. Bush, who as president was widely praised for his efforts to combat AIDS in Africa, on Wednesday called for more US action to address the global pandemic.
"No national security strategy is complete in the long run without promoting global health, political freedom and economic progress," the former US president wrote in a

Elton John edits UK newspaper for World AIDS Day

2010-12-01T08:01:05Z

LONDON (Reuters) - British singer/songwriter Elton John has taken time out from touring to edit daily newspaper The Independent on World AIDS Day.
Wednesday's edition of the newspaper featured several pages of coverage of the fight ag...

US launches HIV testing program in Zimbabwe

2010-12-01T05:00:14Z

US launches HIV testing program in Zimbabwe with star musicians, broadcasters, soccer players
The United States launched a program in Zimbabwe Wednesday to encourage HIV testing, with the U.S. ambassador, local musicians, broadcast personalities and soccer stars taking tests to mark the occasion.
Alexio Kawara, one of the nation...

Complacency fuels new AIDS surge in West: UN

2010-12-01T02:30:54Z

Complacency among young people is causing a new surge of the AIDS epidemic in the United States and European nations like Britain and Germany, a top UN expert said ahead of World AIDS Day on Wednesday.
...

Best to focus on preventing HIV in Africa: report

2010-11-29T10:00:22Z

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Efforts to treat everyone in Africa infected with the AIDS virus are virtually futile, and public health experts should instead focus on preventing new cases, a committee of experts reported on Monday.
Currently 22.5 million people in Africa have HIV, but this number will rise to more than 30 million by 2020 -- far more than ...

President Obama Wants Review of Human Medical Experiments

2010-11-29T14:46:14Z
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Obama orders review after Guatemala STD study

2010-11-24T19:31:05Z

President Barack Obama ordered a review Wednesday of human protection in medical research in the wake of a polemic over a newly revealed US study that infected hundreds Guatemalans with sexually transmitted diseases from 1946-1948.
Obama sent a letter to Amy Gutmann, director of the Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues, asking...

Clinical Trials Update: Nov. 24, 2010

2010-11-29T14:35:13Z
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Daily pill reduces HIV among gay men by 44 pct: study

2010-11-23T18:30:58Z

A landmark study across four continents has shown that a daily dose of an oral antiretroviral drug reduced the number of HIV infections among sexually active gay men by 44 percent, researchers said Tuesday.
Even higher rates of success toward preventing the virus that causes AIDS were shown among those who faithfully took the drug, said the study in the November 25 issue of the CDC: Gonorrhea rate at record low in 2009; increase seen in other sexually spread diseases
A new government report on sexually spread diseases shows gonorrhea in the United States has dipped to the lowest rate ever recorded.
But chlamydia (KLAH'-mid-ee-ah) and syphilis infections continued to increase last year. That's according to a report released Monday by the In the shadow of Mugabe's clashes with the West, a US project wages war on AIDS in Zimbabwe
The U.S. ranks high on President Robert Mugabe's enemies list, but at ground level it is leading a war on AIDS that may help save the life of 32-year-old Tineyi Marokwe and hundreds of thousands of other Zimbabweans.
The weapon is cheap a...

Should There Be Prison Time for Unknowingly Transmitting HIV?

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South Korea Koreas Clash

2011-01-05T01:31:08Z
South Korean Foreign Minister Kim Sung-hwan, right, shakes hands with U.S. special envoy on North Korea, Stephen Bosworth before their meeting at the Foreign Ministry in Seoul Wednesday, Jan. 5, 2011. (AP Photo/Jung Yeon-je, Pool)
Copyright 2011...

Hawks Kings Basketball

2011-01-04T22:01:19Z
Sacramento Kings forward Carl Landry, center, goes to the basket against Atlanta Hawks forward Al Horford, right, as Hawks center Zaza Pachulia, left, of Columbus Blue Jackets' R.J. Umberger (18) scores a goal against Phoenix Coyotes' Ilya Bryzgalov, of Russia, during the second period of an Ohio State forward Jared Sullinger, left, shoots over Iowa forward Andrew Brommer during the first half of an NCAA college basketb...

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2011-01-04T16:30:52Z
Milwaukee Archbishop Jerome Listecki answers questions at a news conference Tuesday, Jan. 4, 2011, in St. Francis, Wis. Listecki said the Catholic Archdiocese of Milwaukee is directing its attorneys to file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, saying that pending sexual-abuse lawsuits have left it w...

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