Africa steps up fight against HIV with trial of new combination vaccines
African-led study expected to involve 1,600 people over next three years in Uganda, Tanzania, Mozambique and South AfricaThe first trial in Africa to test two new vaccines to protect against HIV got under way in Uganda this week, raising hopes of an end to the epidemic that affects millions of people across the continent.The African-ledPrEPVacc study will test two experimental combination vaccines to see if they can provide any protection against HIV in people most at risk of infection.Continue reading... (Source: Guardian Unlimited Science)
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - December 18, 2020 Category: Science Authors: Samuel Okiror in Kampala Tags: Global health Aids and HIV Global development Society Uganda Tanzania Mozambique South Africa World news Science Source Type: news
Top Global Health Moments of 2020
By The Editorial Team,
IntraHealth International
Community Health Nurse Olivia Yeboah thoroughly washes her hands at the Akropong Clinic in Ghana. Photo by Emmanuel Attramah, PMI Impact Malaria/US President ' s Malaria Initiative.December 17, 2020If we wanted to, we could list a COVID-19 moment for every month of 2020. We all know that the onset of the coronavirus pandemic—first in China and then worldwide—overwhelmed news coverage this year. And with good reason. It’s the first large-scale global pandemic in 100 years. At the time this article was ...
Source: IntraHealth International - December 17, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: kseaton Tags: HIV & AIDS COVID-19 Nutrition Policy Advocacy Health Workforce Systems Nursing Midwifery 2020 Health Workers Source Type: news
The Ambulance Science Podcast: Make Up Your Own Mind About the Vaccine
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Master’s in Public Health with a concentration in Health Policy from Yale Medical School.FT Faculty at GWU School of Medicine & Southern Connecticut State University MPH Program, and long-time adjunct faculty at NYMC MPH program in Health Policy.Assistant Commissioner of Health at the NYC Department of Health & Mental Hygiene during the first SARS outbreak.Served as State EMS Director, Consultant to Public Health ...
Source: JEMS Special Topics - December 14, 2020 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: JEMS Staff Tags: Podcasts Ambulance Science Source Type: news
A Vaccine That Was Hijacked by the Rich
A health worker fills a syringe with vaccine at a Rohingya refugee camp in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh. Credit: UNICEF/Patrick Brown. By Thalif DeenUNITED NATIONS, Dec 11 2020 (IPS) There is a longstanding belief that virtually everything in this world is stacked up against the poor and the downtrodden.
The Covid-19 vaccine is no exception because some of world’s richest nations, including the US, Canada and UK, seem to have cornered most of the supplies — whilst marginalizing the world’s poorer nations.
The move towards hijacking the newly-found remedy has triggered a new brand of misguided patriotism: vaccine na...
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - December 11, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Thalif Deen Tags: Development & Aid Education Featured Global Globalisation Headlines Health Inequity Poverty & SDGs TerraViva United Nations Source Type: news
Cells to Society: Year of the Nurse / Global Impact
This article provides a theoretical clarification of the concept "social cohesion" as it relates to health behaviors and outcomes, uncovering the critical attributes, antecedents, and consequences of social cohesion and reflecting on its future in health literature.
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Source: Johns Hopkins University and Health Systems Archive - December 11, 2020 Category: Nursing Source Type: news
President-Elect Biden Names Mass General Hospital Doctor Rochelle Walensky As CDC Director
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Source: WBZ-TV - Breaking News, Weather and Sports for Boston, Worcester and New Hampshire - December 7, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Health – CBS Boston Tags: Boston News Featured Health Syndicated CBSN Boston Syndicated Local CDC Centers For Disease Control And Prevention Mass General Hospital Rochelle Walensky Source Type: news
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NIDCR Welcomes New Director Rena D’Souza
Rena N. D’Souza, DDS, MS, PhD, was sworn in as the director of NIDCR by NIH Director Francis S. Collins, MD, PhD, on October 13. Prior to joining NIH, Dr. D’Souza was the assistant vice president for academic affairs and education for health sciences at the Un...
Source: NIDCR Science News - December 4, 2020 Category: Dentistry Source Type: news
Coronavirus live news: former French president dies of Covid complications; global deaths near 1.5m
Val éry Giscard d’Estaing was 94 and served as France’s leader from 1974 to 1981;Lilly to supply 650,000 more doses of bamlanivimab to US government;Spain caps parties at 10 peopleFormer French president Val éry Giscard d’Estaing dies aged 94Beware fake coronavirus vaccines, says InterpolRural US hospitals ravaged by surge in casesUS braces for Covid surge after Thanksgiving holidaysDozens get Covid after New Orleans swingers convention12.39amGMTPupils in England sitting GCSEs andA-levels next summer will be given advance notice of topics and allowed to take in exam aids including formula sheets, as part of a packa...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - December 3, 2020 Category: Science Authors: Helen Sullivan Tags: Coronavirus World news US news UK news Europe Asia Pacific Science Infectious diseases Source Type: news
Janssen Acquires Rights to Novel Gene Therapy, Pioneering Treatment Solutions for Late-Stage Age-Related Macular Degeneration
RARITAN, NJ, December 2, 2020 – Janssen Pharmaceuticals, Inc., one of the Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies of Johnson & Johnson, today announced the acquisition of rights to Hemera Biosciences, LLC’s investigational gene therapy HMR59, administered as a one-time, outpatient, intravitreal injection to help preserve vision in patients with geographic atrophy, a late-stage and severe form of age-related macular degeneration (AMD). Financial terms of the transaction with Hemera Biosciences, a privately-owned biotechnology company, are not being disclosed. Patients with AMD often have low levels of CD59, a protein that ...
Source: Johnson and Johnson - December 2, 2020 Category: Pharmaceuticals Tags: Innovation Source Type: news
Janssen's Two-Dose Ebola Vaccine Appears Safe, Immunogenic in HIV-Infected Patients Janssen's Two-Dose Ebola Vaccine Appears Safe, Immunogenic in HIV-Infected Patients
Janssen ' s two-dose Ebola vaccine appears to be safe for HIV-infected patients and provokes an immune response, although one that initially is not as strong as in HIV-negative patients, according to new research.Reuters Health Information (Source: Medscape Hiv-Aids Headlines)
Source: Medscape Hiv-Aids Headlines - December 2, 2020 Category: Infectious Diseases Tags: HIV/AIDS News Source Type: news
Africa: Where Are We in the Race for a HIV Vaccine?
[spotlight] While progress in the race for effective COVID-19 vaccines has been rapid and impressive - with three vaccines so far appearing to be effective based on preliminary data, an effective HIV vaccine remains elusive. This is at least partly because the HI-virus is a much tougher nut to crack. (Source: AllAfrica News: HIV-Aids and STDs)
Source: AllAfrica News: HIV-Aids and STDs - December 1, 2020 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news
On World AIDS Day, Those Who Fought the 1980s Epidemic Find Striking Differences and Tragic Parallels in COVID-19
More than three decades after the World Health Organization (WHO) launched the first World AIDS Day on Dec. 1, 1988, the world’s leading global health organization faces another public health crisis in COVID-19. On this World AIDS Day, those who raised awareness of HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, find devastating similarities and haunting differences in America’s response to both crises.
In 1981, scientists recorded the first cases of a rare pneumonia, usually found among immunosuppressed patients, among a group of gay men in Los Angeles, and noticed more cases appearing among gay men in San Francisco and New ...
Source: TIME: Health - December 1, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Olivia B. Waxman Tags: Uncategorized COVID-19 feature HIV/AIDS Source Type: news
Kenya: Vaccine and Cure Remain Elusive, 39 Years After First Aids Diagnosis
[Nation] Awareness programmes are being conducted locally, nationally and internationally to unite people around the world for HIV/Aids awareness. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - December 1, 2020 Category: African Health Source Type: news
Battles Won – and Lost – Against AIDS Hold Valuable Lessons for Managing COVID-19
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Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - November 30, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: External Source Tags: Global Headlines Health World AIDS Day Source Type: news
Africa Should Be at the Forefront of a Global Response to COVID-19
Women in Nigeria collect food vouchers as part of a programme to support families struggling under the COVID-19 lockdown. Credit: WFP/Damilola OnafuwaBy Aeneas Chapinga ChumaJOHANNESBURG, Nov 27 2020 (IPS) As COVID-19 swept across the globe, one thing became clear: a well-functioning, well-resourced, agile and resilient health system can mean the difference between life and death.
For Africa, the economic costs of the health pandemic were high. The prescription was often worse than the illness as Africa’s poor found themselves without work, food and even access to health care as economies were locked down across the cont...
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - November 27, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Aeneas Chapinga Chuma Tags: Africa Headlines Health Poverty & SDGs Source Type: news
