Symposium on Monkeypox Stigma Interrupted by Protesters
(MedPage Today) -- MONTREAL -- A symposium on the status of the monkeypox outbreak at the International AIDS Conference was briefly interrupted by protesters demanding that the U.S.'s stockpile of smallpox vaccines, which could be used to prevent... (Source: MedPage Today Public Health)
Source: MedPage Today Public Health - August 2, 2022 Category: American Health Source Type: news
The Virus Hunters Trying to Prevent the Next Pandemic
Nobody saw SARS-CoV-2 coming. In the early days of the pandemic, researchers were scrambling to collect samples from people who had mysteriously developed fevers, coughs, and breathing problems. Pretty soon, they realized that the disease-causing culprit was a new virus humans hadn’t seen before.
And the world, lacking a coordinated global response, was unprepared. Some countries acted quickly to develop tests for the novel coronavirus, while others with fewer resources were left behind. With a virus oblivious to national borders, and with travel between countries and continents more common than it had been in previo...
Source: TIME: Health - August 1, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Alice Park and Video by Andrew D. Johnson Tags: Uncategorized Disease Frontiers of Medicine 2022 healthscienceclimate Source Type: news
Global HIV/AIDS Fight Is At a Crossroads After COVID-19 Setbacks
Hard-won progress against HIV has stalled, putting millions of lives at risk, according to an alarming report Wednesday on how the COVID-19 pandemic and other global crises are jeopardizing efforts to end AIDS.
Worldwide, the years-long decline in new HIV infections is leveling off. Worse, cases began climbing in parts of Asia and the Pacific where they previously had been falling, according to the United Nations agency leading the global AIDS fight.
The number of people on lifesaving HIV treatments grew more slowly last year than it has in a decade. Inequities are widening. Every two minutes last year, a teen girl or youn...
Source: TIME: Health - July 28, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Lauran Neergaard/AP Tags: Uncategorized healthscienceclimate HIV/AIDS Public Health wire Source Type: news
The Best Way to Slow the Spread of Monkeypox
Only July 23rd, World Health Organization declared monkeypox a public health emergency of international concern (PHEIC). It was a contentious decision, with WHO Director General Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus making the final call and overruling the WHO’s Emergency Committee. The advisory committee’s disagreements mirrored debates unfolding among public officials, on social media, and in opinion pages over the last several weeks. Is monkeypox a public health emergency when it’s “just” spreading among gay and bisexual men and trans women? To what degree do cisgender men, women, and kids need to...
Source: TIME: Health - July 25, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Céline R. Gounder Tags: Uncategorized freelance health Source Type: news
CDC Discourages One-Dose Vaccine Strategy for Monkeypox CDC Discourages One-Dose Vaccine Strategy for Monkeypox
The current demand for the vaccine outstrips our national supply, CDC Director Rochelle Walensky said.Medscape Medical News (Source: Medscape Hiv-Aids Headlines)
Source: Medscape Hiv-Aids Headlines - July 16, 2022 Category: Infectious Diseases Tags: Infectious Diseases News Source Type: news
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Source: Johns Hopkins University and Health Systems Archive - July 13, 2022 Category: Nursing Source Type: news
IntraHealth Reached 317,443 Health Workers in 2021, Extending Health Care to Millions
June 29, 2022
Chapel Hill, NCDuring 2021, the second year of the COVID-19 pandemic, IntraHealth International reached 317,443 health workers in 42 countries, helping to make high-quality health care available to more people around the world. Our programs led to:$33,399,555 in financial aid provided for student health workers through IntraHealth programs2,524,424 COVID-19 vaccines distributed through IntraHealth programs223,677 men provided with voluntary medical male circumcision to prevent HIV infection2,264,216 messages sent to and from health workers via mHero, WhatsApp, or other digital health tools898,190 individual...
Source: IntraHealth International - June 29, 2022 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: kseaton Tags: Health Areas Family Planning & Reproductive Health HIV AIDS Infectious Diseases Maternal, Newborn, Child Health Mental Health Noncommunicable Diseases Nutrition Community Engagement Digital Health Education Performance Heal Source Type: news
White House Expands Access to Monkeypox Vaccines White House Expands Access to Monkeypox Vaccines
More than 56,000 doses of the monkeypox vaccine will be allocated immediately, officials said, prioritizing jurisdictions with high levels of transmission.News Alerts (Source: Medscape Hiv-Aids Headlines)
Source: Medscape Hiv-Aids Headlines - June 29, 2022 Category: Infectious Diseases Tags: Infectious Diseases News Alert Source Type: news
Universal Hepatitis B Vaccination in Adults Aged 19-59 Years Universal Hepatitis B Vaccination in Adults Aged 19-59 Years
The ACIP has expanded the indicated age range for universal HepB vaccination to now include adults aged 19-59 years.Morbidity & Mortality Weekly Report (Source: Medscape Hiv-Aids Headlines)
Source: Medscape Hiv-Aids Headlines - June 24, 2022 Category: Infectious Diseases Tags: Public Health & Prevention Journal Article Source Type: news
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Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines - June 14, 2022 Category: Radiology Source Type: news
A new technology offers treatment for HIV infection through a single injection
A new study from Tel Aviv University offers a new and unique treatment for AIDS which may be developed into a vaccine or a one time treatment for patients with HIV. The study examined the engineering of type B white blood cells in the patient's body so as to secrete anti-HIV antibodies in response to the virus. (Source: World Pharma News)
Source: World Pharma News - June 14, 2022 Category: Pharmaceuticals Tags: Featured Research Research and Development Source Type: news
African Solutions to African Problems: Reframing Science Innovation
Through collaboration we can build on the foundations of our knowledge to bring forward innovative ways to address health challenges that benefit all of humanity. Credit: WHOBy Quarraisha Abdool KarimDURBAN, South Africa, Jun 8 2022 (IPS) Africa is plagued by many epidemics — from tuberculosis and HIV/AIDS to malaria and wild polio — but the continent has also worked for decades to fight these threats. The key to beating these deadly diseases is turning inward to existing expertise and finding locally driven solutions.
The recent COVID-19 pandemic has placed public health back in the global spotlight and has also serve...
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - June 8, 2022 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Quarraisha Abdool Karim Tags: Africa Headlines Health Poverty & SDGs TerraViva United Nations Source Type: news
People With HIV May Need an Additional COVID Vaccine Dose People With HIV May Need an Additional COVID Vaccine Dose
More doses are currently recommended only for those with advanced disease or unsuppressed HIV viral load, but researchers say all with HIV are at higher breakthrough risk.Medscape Medical News (Source: Medscape Hiv-Aids Headlines)
Source: Medscape Hiv-Aids Headlines - June 7, 2022 Category: Infectious Diseases Tags: HIV/AIDS News Source Type: news
Davos Fails on Financial Transparency – And Everything Else
By Matti KohonenLONDON, May 31 2022 (IPS) At this year’s World Economic Forum (WEF) at Davos which ended last week, the attention of the world’s financial and economic elite was captured by the war in Ukraine whose president Volodimir Zelensky used his address to call to “complete withdrawal of foreign businesses from the Russian market”, despite 380 of the largest multinational companies still operating in Russia.
Many companies still present in Russia were sitting in the audience while Zelensky spoke including HSBC that still maintains operations for existing clients, and Credit Suisse that is scaling them back ...
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - May 31, 2022 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Matti Kohonen Tags: Armed Conflicts Climate Change COVID-19 Economy & Trade Financial Crisis Global Headlines TerraViva United Nations Trade & Investment IPS UN Bureau Source Type: news
As COVID Wanes, Tuberculosis Deaths Must Become Visible
Tuberculosis has killed 1,5 million people in 2020 - mostly in African and Asian countries - while two million people died of COVID-19 worldwide during the same period. Credit: Athar Parvaiz/IPSBy Angelique Luabeya Kany KanyCAPE TOWN, South Africa, May 19 2022 (IPS) It is time to treat the scourge of Tuberculosis scourge with the same urgency as we did the COVID-19 pandemic.
As we emerge from the devastating toll of the pandemic on people’s lives and on global economies, we must wake up to face the staggering toll of 1.5 million Tuberculosis deaths and 10 million new infections recorded in 2020. And these deaths wer...
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - May 19, 2022 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Angelique Luabeya Kany Kany Tags: Africa Headlines Health Poverty & SDGs TerraViva United Nations tuberculosis Source Type: news
