Natural infection and vaccination together provide maximum protection against COVID variants
A combination of vaccination and naturally acquired infection appears to boost the production of maximally potent antibodies against the COVID-19 virus, new UCLA research finds.The findings, published today in the peer-reviewed journal mBio, raise the possibility that vaccine boosters may be equally effective in improving antibodies ’ ability to target multiple variants of the virus, including the delta variant, which is now the predominant strain, and the recently detected omicron variant. (The study was conducted prior to the emergence of delta and omicron, butDr. Otto Yang, the study ’s senior author, said the resul...
Source: UCLA Newsroom: Health Sciences - December 7, 2021 Category: Universities & Medical Training Source Type: news
Brazil's Bolsonaro investigated for linking vaccine and AIDS
Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro is facing a potential investigation into comments linking COVID-19 vaccines to AIDS (Source: ABC News: Health)
Source: ABC News: Health - December 4, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Health Source Type: news
Africa: Prince Harry, the Duke of Sussex, Calls for Vaccine Equity On World Aids Day
[WHO] On World AIDS Day, Prince Harry the Duke of Sussex renews his call for vaccine equity. In a letter to the WHO, in commemoration of 40 years of HIV/AIDS, he expresses his gratitude for the work accomplished so far and calls for vaccine equity while drawing from the lessons learnt from the HIV/AIDS pandemic. This message complements his earlier letter on vaccine equity. (Source: AllAfrica News: HIV-Aids and STDs)
Source: AllAfrica News: HIV-Aids and STDs - December 2, 2021 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news
Exposing inequalities: The underlying connection between COVID and AIDS
It was mid-March 2020 and Brad Sears had a good indication of what was going to happen next. He had survived the AIDS epidemic four decades ago and based on that experience knew COVID-19 would quickly expose existing social inequalities.As a young man in the early 1980s and on a career track in law, Sears was well aware of the policy discussions around HIV/AIDS. Much of that discussion at the federal level characterized AIDS as a gay men ’s disease and thus not a priority for the Reagan-era United States. The impact of oppression and discrimination — whether measured by access to health care, poverty, mental health or ...
Source: UCLA Newsroom: Health Sciences - December 1, 2021 Category: Universities & Medical Training Source Type: news
Liberia: PREVAIL Calls On Liberians to Show Support for People Living With HIV/Aids
[FrontPageAfrica] Monrovia -- Partnership for Research on Vaccines and Infectious Diseases in Liberia (PREVAIL) has admonished Liberians and people around the world to show support for people living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHIV) and to memorialize those who lost their lives to HIV/AIDS. (Source: AllAfrica News: HIV-Aids and STDs)
Source: AllAfrica News: HIV-Aids and STDs - December 1, 2021 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news
Inequality is Set to Kill Millions – “We Have to Fight it Together.”
The UN commemorated World Aids Day on 30 November. Credit: UNAIDSBy Winnie ByanyimaGENEVA, Dec 1 2021 (IPS) This week I called out to the world to warn them that inequalities are making us all unsafe. I noted starkly our new analysis that we face millions of additional AIDS deaths – 7.7 million in the next decade alone – as well continued devastation from pandemics, unless leaders address the inequalities which drive them. We have to treat this threat as an emergency, as a red alert.
To end AIDS, we need to act with far more urgency to tackle these inequalities. And it’s not just AIDS. All pandemics take root in, an...
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - December 1, 2021 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Winnie Byanyima Tags: Development & Aid Editors' Choice Featured Global Headlines Health Inequity Population Poverty & SDGs TerraViva United Nations Source Type: news
Excitement, relief as Alberta children get their first COVID-19 vaccines
There were smiles, some tears and hundreds of Band-Aids plastered on little arms as Alberta's COVID-19 vaccination clinics opened their doors to children Friday. (Source: CBC | Health)
Source: CBC | Health - November 26, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: News/Canada/Edmonton Source Type: news
Antimicrobial Resistance Calls for Brainpower of a Space Agency and Campaigning Zeal of an NGO
This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article. (Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health)
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - November 17, 2021 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: External Source Tags: Global Headlines Health Source Type: news
WTO Finished Without TRIPS Waiver
By Jomo Kwame Sundaram and Anis ChowdhuryKUALA LUMPUR and SYDNEY, Nov 16 2021 (IPS) Quickly enabling greater and more affordable production of and access to COVID-19 medical needs is urgently needed in the South. Such progress will also foster much needed goodwill for international cooperation, multilateralism and sustainable development.
Jomo Kwame SundaramThe World Trade Organization (WTO) will soon decide on a conditional temporary waiver of Trade-Related Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS). The waiver was proposed by South Africa and India on 2 October 2020. Two-thirds of the 164 WTO members – mainly developing cou...
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - November 16, 2021 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Jomo Kwame Sundaram and Anis Chowdhury Tags: COVID-19 Development & Aid Economy & Trade Global Headlines Health Humanitarian Emergencies Sustainability TerraViva United Nations Jomo Kwame Sundaram & Anis Chowdhury Source Type: news
Johnson & Johnson Will Split Into Two Companies, Aiming for Faster Growth
Johnson & Johnson is peeling off a consumer health business that helped it become the world’s biggest health care products maker.
The company said Friday that it will separate its segment that sells Band-Aids, Listerine and over-the-counter medicines like Tylenol from its pharmaceutical and medical device business.
Company leaders told analysts that the split into two publicly traded companies will make each business more nimble in adapting to their respective markets. It also allows for a more precise allocation of capital.
CEO Alex Gorsky said that while the company’s broad focus has worked in the past, t...
Source: TIME: Health - November 12, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: MICHELLE CHAPMAN and TOM MURPHY / AP Tags: Uncategorized Companies wire Source Type: news
Why Have We Waited So Long for a Malaria Vaccine? Why Have We Waited So Long for a Malaria Vaccine?
Why has developing an effective malaria vaccine been so elusive? Three experts from the University of Maryland Center for Vaccine Development and Global Health explore some of the challenges.Medscape Infectious Diseases (Source: Medscape Hiv-Aids Headlines)
Source: Medscape Hiv-Aids Headlines - November 9, 2021 Category: Infectious Diseases Tags: Infectious Diseases Commentary Source Type: news
Zimbabwe ’s High-Risk Cross-Border Trade
COVID-19 lockdowns and restrictions meant that many informal sector traders lost their jobs. Not eligible for compensation, some have turned to sex work. Credit: Marko Phiri/IPSBy Marko PhiriBulawayo, ZIMBABWE , Nov 4 2021 (IPS) Thirty-six-year-old Thandiwe Mtshali* watched helplessly as her informal cross-border trading (ICBT) enterprise came to a grinding halt when the Zimbabwean authorities closed the border with South Africa as part of global efforts to stem the spread of the deadly novel coronavirus.
“That was last year, and I had no idea what to do next,” Mtshali told IPS.
Before the lockdown, she made up to fou...
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - November 4, 2021 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Marko Phiri Tags: Africa COVID-19 Featured Gender Gender Violence Headlines Health Human Rights Humanitarian Emergencies Inequity Labour Poverty & SDGs TerraViva United Nations Women's Health #BeitBridge #Covid19 #HIV/Aids Zimbabwe Source Type: news
6 Ways South Sudan Is Using Data to Tackle Its HIV Epidemic —and Prepare for Future Pandemics
By Alfred Okiria,
Project director, South Sudan
Photo by Cl ément Tardif for IntraHealth International.November 03, 2021I work in South Sudan forIntraHealth International. A lot of people might not realize why collecting and using data efficiently are so important for health services here. But the data we collect inform everything we do, from figuring out how many people need antiretroviral treatment and how many health workers are needed at a specific health facility to helping the government and other funders determine how much to spend on public health services in South Sudan in a year.For the past 15 years, Intr...
Source: IntraHealth International - November 3, 2021 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: kseaton Tags: HIV & AIDS Digital Health Measurement Analytics Source Type: news
Pediatrician Doesn't Turn Away From Vaccine-Hesitant Parents Pediatrician Doesn't Turn Away From Vaccine-Hesitant Parents
Talking about how being vaccinated will let school-aged kids get back to normal life is paramount.Medscape (Source: Medscape Hiv-Aids Headlines)
Source: Medscape Hiv-Aids Headlines - November 1, 2021 Category: Infectious Diseases Tags: Internal Medicine Expert Interview Source Type: news
Flu, cancer, HIV: after Covid success, what next for mRNA vaccines?
The technology was viewed with scepticism before the pandemic but there is now growing confidence about its useIt is one of the most remarkable success stories of the pandemic: the unproven technology that delivered the Moderna and Pfizer/BioNTech vaccines in record time, helping to turn the tide on Covid-19. The vaccines are based on mRNA, the molecule that instructs our cells to make specific proteins. By injecting synthetic mRNA, our cells are turned into on-demand vaccine factories, pumping out any protein we want our immune system to learn to recognise and destroy.Pre-pandemic, the technology was viewed with scepticis...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - November 1, 2021 Category: Science Authors: Hannah Devlin Science correspondent Tags: Medical research Vaccines and immunisation Flu Cancer Cancer research Malaria Aids and HIV Health Biology Science Society Source Type: news
