Cure For HIV/AIDs and Possibly Other Diseases
By Phil Nguyen
There are essentially 3 known methods to cure AIDs that I know of. These methods are taken as fact to me but if you don't believe me then it is your right to percieve that. Many methods are being deliberately suppressed.
1. Patent discussed by Dr. Boyd Graves. He took the cure and he said that it need to be distributed by everyone. He recently past away which is very suspicious but never the less this is a patented cure for the diseases. If you Google to a patent search website you can find it. The patent number is #5676977 - "Method of curing AIDS with tetrasilver tetroxide molecular crystal devices."
2. Royal Raymond Rife was one of those great scientist that would do good for man-kind but got suppressed. His invention would ultimately cure cancer and many other diseases. His approach is finding the frequency in which these viruses or bacterial are destroyed without affecting any other cells.
The frequency works like breaking glass with a sound frequency except it uses radio wave frequency aim at breaking the small dedicate virus. Viruses are like little crystal that can be broken by electromagnetic waves. For example if you use electromagnetic radiation in a proper form it can kill viruses. It is well known In laboratories, scientist use UV rays to kill viruses. These Rays are what distorts the structure of the fragile bacterial and especially smaller viruses and in terms destroying them.
3. The last method is using electrical waves. Dr. Robert Beck invented a method that was founded at Albert Einstein College of Medicine in the 90s by Dr. Kaali and Wyman. It wasn't brought to any attention and Dr. Robert Beck had a hard time finding information about it until they filed a patent. The patent No. 5,188,738 is issued to treat blood with electrically conductive method. Dr. Robert Beck already had money from his camera flash patent, so I don't think he wanted money from his finding. Therefore he spent $80,000 of his own money on independent research to help test and develop this device. This treatment is said to treat bacterial, viruses, and other known pathogens in the blood. HE said it Cure Diseases. This would be a great invention to society because Dr. Robert Beck invented a way to do this in vitro. In vitro means to do this outside without surgery and such.
I hope this was informative to everyone, and people will do more independent research. The suppression of Cures and Energy Technology is well known to me and maybe others if you seek to past that information on. It is independent research by Dr. Robert Beck and many other scientist that eventually find things that is not impeded by other interest in an organization that is controlled by corporation boards.
Here is Dr. Robert Becks invention to Cure Diseases. This device looks very promising.
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Monday, August 9, 2010
The Cure For HIV, AIDS Has Been Discovered
Would you believe this!? The cure for HIV/AIDS has been discovered but the mainstream media are not reporting it as the big news that it should be! The only mainstream source I have found so far is from MSNBC.
The cure was reported first in May 2008 at an annual conference on "Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections" in Boston by a team of German doctors. The New England Journal of Medicine finally published the report in its Feb. 12, 2009, issue. Gero Huetter, who works in the Department of Hematology, Oncology and Transfusion Medicine at Charity University Hospital in Berlin, Germany is the hero who discovered the cure.
Dr. Huetter claims to have cured a 40-year-old American working in Berlin who has been HIV-positive for 10 years. The patient's HIV infection had been under control for four years with "conventional HAART treatment regimen" (Highly Active Anti-Retroviral Therapy). The patient then developed leukemia and a bone marrow transplant of stem cells was done using standard protocol. Huetter, the German physician treating the American, deliberately chose a stem cell donor who had a gene mutation known as "CCR-5 Delta- 32″. The transplant was successful, as was the second transplant by the same doctor when the leukemia relapsed.
The Cure For HIV, AIDS Has Been Discovered!
By Mitch T
2 years after the transplants were done, the patient being off of all of his HIV drugs for that amount of time, showed no detectable signs of HIV. Not in his blood, bone marrow, lymph nodes, intestines, or brain, and his T-cell count remains normal. According to the doctors it appears that the patients HIV has been "eradicated".
Why isn't the mainstream media reporting on this? Is this a hoax or is does the mainstream media not want the public to know that HIV/AIDS has been cured?
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The cure was reported first in May 2008 at an annual conference on "Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections" in Boston by a team of German doctors. The New England Journal of Medicine finally published the report in its Feb. 12, 2009, issue. Gero Huetter, who works in the Department of Hematology, Oncology and Transfusion Medicine at Charity University Hospital in Berlin, Germany is the hero who discovered the cure.
Dr. Huetter claims to have cured a 40-year-old American working in Berlin who has been HIV-positive for 10 years. The patient's HIV infection had been under control for four years with "conventional HAART treatment regimen" (Highly Active Anti-Retroviral Therapy). The patient then developed leukemia and a bone marrow transplant of stem cells was done using standard protocol. Huetter, the German physician treating the American, deliberately chose a stem cell donor who had a gene mutation known as "CCR-5 Delta- 32″. The transplant was successful, as was the second transplant by the same doctor when the leukemia relapsed.
The Cure For HIV, AIDS Has Been Discovered!
By Mitch T
2 years after the transplants were done, the patient being off of all of his HIV drugs for that amount of time, showed no detectable signs of HIV. Not in his blood, bone marrow, lymph nodes, intestines, or brain, and his T-cell count remains normal. According to the doctors it appears that the patients HIV has been "eradicated".
Why isn't the mainstream media reporting on this? Is this a hoax or is does the mainstream media not want the public to know that HIV/AIDS has been cured?
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Thursday, July 29, 2010
No Excuses: A living experience of the struggle for rights
No Excuses: A living experience of the struggle for rights
Sex workers are the most effective educators of both their clients and other women in sex work. They know best that top-down programs, not guided by community knowledge and participation, do not work. And, after resisting attempts by middle-class social workers in India, who knew very little about sex work, they successfully showed the social workers the way. Within six months, 5,000 Indian sex workers were reached and 350,000 condoms were distributed monthly.
"As we struggled, we learned that pragmatically only rights-centered approaches actually worked," Meena Saraswathi Seshu told a plenary audience at the International AIDS Society conference in Vienna on June 22. She said this is the approach that continues as her organization of sex workers and activists works with rural women, young people, men who have sex with men and transgender people.
Seshu delivered the Jonathan Mann Memorial Lecture after being introduced by Jeffrey L. Sturchio, president and CEO of the Global Health Council. Sturchio told the packed hall that Saraswathi Seshu honored Mann's memory by following in his footsteps in the quest for human rights for people affected by HIV/AIDS.
Seshu is general secretary of Sampada Grameen Mahila Sanstha (Sangram), an organization based in Sangli, West India, which has worked for the empowerment of people in sex work, including mobilization for HIV-related peer education since 1991. In 1996, this work broadened into the organization of a collective of women in prostitution called VAMP.
It was the sex workers in Sangli who saw the importance of confronting HIV and human rights as a real - not rhetorical - everyday guide to action, Seshu said. And this they did by creating the Sangram Bill of Rights:
1. People have the right to be approached with humility and respect.
Seshu said health workers in India were not treating health workers with respect and so they avoided going to the public hospitals. So Sangram set up a temporary clinic outside the brothels, but the sex workers fled the city, abandoning their houses to avoid getting or being "coerced" into treatment.
"We learned our lesson," Seshu said. "You learn you can't tell people they must get a test or they must be treated. You can explain and offer but it must be in a way that allows them agency. It has to be a consultative process."
2. People have the right to say yes or no to things that concern them.
The sex workers realized that "HIV was like a big river and in working with sex workers, we had built only one dam," Seshu said. They said that men listened to sex workers about condom use but never discussed sex or condoms with their wives. They told her, "maybe we need to teach wives negotiation strategies."
3. People have the right to reject harmful social norms.
Sangram had many challenges in reaching rural women. "Giving them the language of rights and urging them to take control of their lives in not only a difficult task, it is near impossible in a rural setting," she said. Still, Sangram activists persisted with the slogan "Pleasure me safely," and held interactive sex education classes that have a strong feminist perspective and deals with controversial issues around sexual diversity, MSM, transgender people and sex workers.
4. People have the right to stand up to and change the balance of power.
"Working with networks of sex workers, women's groups, HIV/AIDS activists, queer activists within the country and outside has resulted in concrete gains," Seshu said.
By mobilizing these groups along with community leaders, the government of India abandoned its plan to amend the Immoral Traffic (Prevention) Act, which would have further stigmatized sex workers by criminalizing the purchase of sex services.
But the "most exciting journey," Seshu said, was influencing the request for proposals to the Global Fund for HIV/AIDS, TB and Malaria, round 10, from India.
The National Network of Sex workers is hoping to be included for the first time to choose their own "home grown" representation and want the sex worker collective to be the primary recipient of the funds.
5. People have the right not to be "rescued" by outsiders who neither understand nor respect them.
Seshu said that HIV became a problem at a time when the political power of religious fundamentalism was growing. Religiously motivated vigilantes from India, and eventually Christian conservative groups from the United States wanted to "rescue" sex workers from "lives of immorality," she said, and targeted Sangram and VAMP for its work. She said the raids have been violent and "were conducted with missionary zeal and thug-like brutality."
6. People have the right to exist how they want to exist.
Seshu said that the activists in India have been marginalized by the "hypocrisies of the system," but they have "the courage and strength to create a world that has much to offer. A world touched not only by their pain but also their dreams for a society and people who will affirm their ‘right' to self worth, dignity and livelihood that no one agency can either confer or deny."
Annmarie Christensen is director of publications and new media at the Global Health Council and executive editor of GLOBAL HEALTH.
Sex workers are the most effective educators of both their clients and other women in sex work. They know best that top-down programs, not guided by community knowledge and participation, do not work. And, after resisting attempts by middle-class social workers in India, who knew very little about sex work, they successfully showed the social workers the way. Within six months, 5,000 Indian sex workers were reached and 350,000 condoms were distributed monthly.
"As we struggled, we learned that pragmatically only rights-centered approaches actually worked," Meena Saraswathi Seshu told a plenary audience at the International AIDS Society conference in Vienna on June 22. She said this is the approach that continues as her organization of sex workers and activists works with rural women, young people, men who have sex with men and transgender people.
Seshu delivered the Jonathan Mann Memorial Lecture after being introduced by Jeffrey L. Sturchio, president and CEO of the Global Health Council. Sturchio told the packed hall that Saraswathi Seshu honored Mann's memory by following in his footsteps in the quest for human rights for people affected by HIV/AIDS.
Seshu is general secretary of Sampada Grameen Mahila Sanstha (Sangram), an organization based in Sangli, West India, which has worked for the empowerment of people in sex work, including mobilization for HIV-related peer education since 1991. In 1996, this work broadened into the organization of a collective of women in prostitution called VAMP.
It was the sex workers in Sangli who saw the importance of confronting HIV and human rights as a real - not rhetorical - everyday guide to action, Seshu said. And this they did by creating the Sangram Bill of Rights:
1. People have the right to be approached with humility and respect.
Seshu said health workers in India were not treating health workers with respect and so they avoided going to the public hospitals. So Sangram set up a temporary clinic outside the brothels, but the sex workers fled the city, abandoning their houses to avoid getting or being "coerced" into treatment.
"We learned our lesson," Seshu said. "You learn you can't tell people they must get a test or they must be treated. You can explain and offer but it must be in a way that allows them agency. It has to be a consultative process."
2. People have the right to say yes or no to things that concern them.
The sex workers realized that "HIV was like a big river and in working with sex workers, we had built only one dam," Seshu said. They said that men listened to sex workers about condom use but never discussed sex or condoms with their wives. They told her, "maybe we need to teach wives negotiation strategies."
3. People have the right to reject harmful social norms.
Sangram had many challenges in reaching rural women. "Giving them the language of rights and urging them to take control of their lives in not only a difficult task, it is near impossible in a rural setting," she said. Still, Sangram activists persisted with the slogan "Pleasure me safely," and held interactive sex education classes that have a strong feminist perspective and deals with controversial issues around sexual diversity, MSM, transgender people and sex workers.
4. People have the right to stand up to and change the balance of power.
"Working with networks of sex workers, women's groups, HIV/AIDS activists, queer activists within the country and outside has resulted in concrete gains," Seshu said.
By mobilizing these groups along with community leaders, the government of India abandoned its plan to amend the Immoral Traffic (Prevention) Act, which would have further stigmatized sex workers by criminalizing the purchase of sex services.
But the "most exciting journey," Seshu said, was influencing the request for proposals to the Global Fund for HIV/AIDS, TB and Malaria, round 10, from India.
The National Network of Sex workers is hoping to be included for the first time to choose their own "home grown" representation and want the sex worker collective to be the primary recipient of the funds.
5. People have the right not to be "rescued" by outsiders who neither understand nor respect them.
Seshu said that HIV became a problem at a time when the political power of religious fundamentalism was growing. Religiously motivated vigilantes from India, and eventually Christian conservative groups from the United States wanted to "rescue" sex workers from "lives of immorality," she said, and targeted Sangram and VAMP for its work. She said the raids have been violent and "were conducted with missionary zeal and thug-like brutality."
6. People have the right to exist how they want to exist.
Seshu said that the activists in India have been marginalized by the "hypocrisies of the system," but they have "the courage and strength to create a world that has much to offer. A world touched not only by their pain but also their dreams for a society and people who will affirm their ‘right' to self worth, dignity and livelihood that no one agency can either confer or deny."
Annmarie Christensen is director of publications and new media at the Global Health Council and executive editor of GLOBAL HEALTH.
Haiti Is Everybody’s Business
Haiti Is Everybody’s Business
The need to invest in people, develop private-public partnerships, and reduce poverty is what is needed right now in Haiti, participants in a Global Health Council panel told a packed room at the International AIDS Society conference in Vienna June 20.
Participants in the panel, moderated by Jeffrey L. Sturchio, president and CEO of the Global Health Council, were Mirta Roses Periago, director of the Pan American Health Organization; Ambassador Eric Goosby, U.S. Global AIDS Coordinator; Paul Farmer, UN Deputy Special Envoy for Haiti and co-founder and executive vice president of Partners in Health; and Jean William Pape, founding and current director of GHESKIO.
"The U.S. Government is committed to putting Haiti in a central position to determine its future," Goosby said. This means Haiti needs to take the lead in planning and deploying its resources to rebuild its infrastructure, he said. The government also needs to look at building a bridge with civil society and find a way to institutionalize the voice of the people, of civil society. "We need to reposition the motors of decision making," Goosby said.
Farmer, whose NGO, Partners in Health, has worked in Haiti for 28 years, applauded Goosby for the U.S. government's reversal of its "hostile approach" to Haiti for the past 200 years. "The model used in the past has not been the right model," he said. The Haitian government, which had 17 percent of its workforce killed or injured and 27 out of 28 federal buildings destroyed when the quake levelled Port au Prince, must be supported in order to build capacity, he said.
Dr. Roses, as others on the panel, lamented that only 10 percent of the $1.8 billion pledged has made its way to the country. Never has she seen a global response as she saw in the aftermath of the Jan. 12 earthquake when there was "such a loss of life, leaders and infrastructure," she said. "Suddenly, Haiti was everybody's business." And, now, she said, support cannot wane and money must be delivered because the country needs a long-term commitment, she said.
Farmer noted that the number of NGOs, who flooded the country in the aftermath of the quake, presented a serious problem, even though they came with the best of intentions. He said Haiti now has the highest per capita number of NGOs in the world with the exception of India. But there is a lack of coordination and a carrot-and-stick approach is needed to improve their performance. And the stick is money, he said, as NGOs often are driven by funding. "We need to pool resources and only make the funds available when they obey the rules of the road," he said. "Haiti does not want a republic of NGOs," he said, but its own system of governance.
"We think the country needs a chance," said Dr. Pape, who with GHESKIO published the first comprehensive description of AIDS in the developing world in 1983. The organization now covers 52 percent of ARV therapy in the country and 47 percent of all TB cases. GHESKIO this year received the Gates Award for Global Health at the Council's annual conference in June.
In the wake of unprecedented destruction, 7,000 people came to GHESKIO's campus overnight, including prisoners who escaped. GHESKIO's TB hospital had entirely collapsed, there was no electricity, sanitation, communications or water, and it lost 70 percent of its workspace. Yet, the staff continued, despite the fact that 60 percent of their homes were destroyed, 24 percent had lost family members, and their own children were in need. "We have to thank the staff, who realized they had to care for their mission," Pape said.
Pape said Haiti needs to have money coming in to improve its infrastructure. "We see no machines, just people with wheelbarrows moving debris." Dr. Marie Marcelle Deschamps, secretary general of GHESKO, said, "There is no way we can go ahead and rebuild without the coordination of NGOs." With hurricane season on top of Haiti, thousands upon thousands of people are still living in camps." She said her priority is to see children educated instead of whiling away their time in stagnation, and GHESKIO has already started a school within the camps.
Pape said with 1.2 million people living in tents, shelter, nutrition and job opportunities are his priorities. GHESKIO's next step, he said, is to build a model village, not just for housing but to create jobs and schools. Haitians, with on-the-job training, need to and will build their own model village on land the government has given them, he said.
"We need the NGOs and government to work as one, as the public-private sector. The biggest challenge is to do that," Pape said.
Poverty reduction is key to the future of Haiti, one of the oldest republics in Latin America, Farmer said. Hospitals, schools and houses need to be built and Haitian workers need to be paid for their labors. "Here is a chance to put millions of dollars into the hands of laborers, doctors and health workers," he said. "We need to transfer $1.8 billion into Haitian pockets to relieve poverty."
Annmarie Christensen is executive editor of GLOBAL HEALTH and director of publications and new media at the Global Health Council
The need to invest in people, develop private-public partnerships, and reduce poverty is what is needed right now in Haiti, participants in a Global Health Council panel told a packed room at the International AIDS Society conference in Vienna June 20.
Participants in the panel, moderated by Jeffrey L. Sturchio, president and CEO of the Global Health Council, were Mirta Roses Periago, director of the Pan American Health Organization; Ambassador Eric Goosby, U.S. Global AIDS Coordinator; Paul Farmer, UN Deputy Special Envoy for Haiti and co-founder and executive vice president of Partners in Health; and Jean William Pape, founding and current director of GHESKIO.
"The U.S. Government is committed to putting Haiti in a central position to determine its future," Goosby said. This means Haiti needs to take the lead in planning and deploying its resources to rebuild its infrastructure, he said. The government also needs to look at building a bridge with civil society and find a way to institutionalize the voice of the people, of civil society. "We need to reposition the motors of decision making," Goosby said.
Farmer, whose NGO, Partners in Health, has worked in Haiti for 28 years, applauded Goosby for the U.S. government's reversal of its "hostile approach" to Haiti for the past 200 years. "The model used in the past has not been the right model," he said. The Haitian government, which had 17 percent of its workforce killed or injured and 27 out of 28 federal buildings destroyed when the quake levelled Port au Prince, must be supported in order to build capacity, he said.
Dr. Roses, as others on the panel, lamented that only 10 percent of the $1.8 billion pledged has made its way to the country. Never has she seen a global response as she saw in the aftermath of the Jan. 12 earthquake when there was "such a loss of life, leaders and infrastructure," she said. "Suddenly, Haiti was everybody's business." And, now, she said, support cannot wane and money must be delivered because the country needs a long-term commitment, she said.
Farmer noted that the number of NGOs, who flooded the country in the aftermath of the quake, presented a serious problem, even though they came with the best of intentions. He said Haiti now has the highest per capita number of NGOs in the world with the exception of India. But there is a lack of coordination and a carrot-and-stick approach is needed to improve their performance. And the stick is money, he said, as NGOs often are driven by funding. "We need to pool resources and only make the funds available when they obey the rules of the road," he said. "Haiti does not want a republic of NGOs," he said, but its own system of governance.
"We think the country needs a chance," said Dr. Pape, who with GHESKIO published the first comprehensive description of AIDS in the developing world in 1983. The organization now covers 52 percent of ARV therapy in the country and 47 percent of all TB cases. GHESKIO this year received the Gates Award for Global Health at the Council's annual conference in June.
In the wake of unprecedented destruction, 7,000 people came to GHESKIO's campus overnight, including prisoners who escaped. GHESKIO's TB hospital had entirely collapsed, there was no electricity, sanitation, communications or water, and it lost 70 percent of its workspace. Yet, the staff continued, despite the fact that 60 percent of their homes were destroyed, 24 percent had lost family members, and their own children were in need. "We have to thank the staff, who realized they had to care for their mission," Pape said.
Pape said Haiti needs to have money coming in to improve its infrastructure. "We see no machines, just people with wheelbarrows moving debris." Dr. Marie Marcelle Deschamps, secretary general of GHESKO, said, "There is no way we can go ahead and rebuild without the coordination of NGOs." With hurricane season on top of Haiti, thousands upon thousands of people are still living in camps." She said her priority is to see children educated instead of whiling away their time in stagnation, and GHESKIO has already started a school within the camps.
Pape said with 1.2 million people living in tents, shelter, nutrition and job opportunities are his priorities. GHESKIO's next step, he said, is to build a model village, not just for housing but to create jobs and schools. Haitians, with on-the-job training, need to and will build their own model village on land the government has given them, he said.
"We need the NGOs and government to work as one, as the public-private sector. The biggest challenge is to do that," Pape said.
Poverty reduction is key to the future of Haiti, one of the oldest republics in Latin America, Farmer said. Hospitals, schools and houses need to be built and Haitian workers need to be paid for their labors. "Here is a chance to put millions of dollars into the hands of laborers, doctors and health workers," he said. "We need to transfer $1.8 billion into Haitian pockets to relieve poverty."
Annmarie Christensen is executive editor of GLOBAL HEALTH and director of publications and new media at the Global Health Council
Monday, July 26, 2010
Reduce HIV/AIDS, TB And Malaria At AIDS 2010
Global Fund Director Calls On Emerging Countries To Invest More In Programs To Reduce HIV/AIDS, TB And Malaria At AIDS 2010
Monday, July 26, 2010
On the final day of the International AIDS Conference-AIDS 2010 Friday, Michel Kazatchkine, executive director of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria called upon "China, India and other fast-growing economies" to chip in to help close the funding gap in efforts to battle HIV/AIDS, Agence France-Presse reports. "Until now, these countries have been recipients of AIDS funds, not donors," the news service writes.
"I believe that in a globalising world, in a world where countries like China are joining, and want to join, world governance, at a time when the G8 is becoming the G20, it is right for these countries to take up a share of the burden," Kazatchkine said, according to AFP.
Kazatchkine said he has already discussed the need for contributions to the Global Fund during a recent visit with Chinese officials and through communications with members of "the petrodollar-flush economies of the Gulf," the AFP writes. Next month, Kazatchkine will take his appeal to Dehli, according to the news service.
Kazatchkine's efforts come ahead of the Global Fund meeting in October, where the group will decide on its financing for its programs over the next three years. There are concerns the Global Fund will fall short of its goal to reach $20 billion in pledges (U.S. Global Health Policy Report, 7/23).
The article explores additional ways the Global Fund is looking to raise funds for its programs and notes how Russia "set a precedent for switching to donor status" in 2006, when after "a rise in income from energy exports, Moscow said it would reimburse 270 million in Global Fund grants for activities in Russia" (Ingham, 7/23).
Capital News reports on the disappointment expressed by some advocates gathered at AIDS 2010 that "the conference failed to make any real commitments to ensure universal access to prevention, treatments and care."
The article includes comments by Oxfam GB Senior Health and HIV Policy Advisor Mohga Kamal-Yanni, who offers a timeline for when countries will begin to announce pledges for the replenishment of the Global Fund (Karong'o, 7/24).
Rep. Barbara Lee Calls For Obama Administration To Commit $6B For Global Fund
VOA News reports that upon returning from AIDS 2010, Rep. Barbara Lee, D-Calif., called on the Obama administration to commit $6 billion over the next three years to the Global Fund.
Although Lee said she "recognize[s], especially being from the United States, the impact of the global economic slowdown," she said a commitment to the Global Fund is "a matter of priority," according to the news service. To come up with the funds for the Global Fund, Lee proposed money could come by eliminating waste in the defense budget. "Another target, she says, is tax breaks for the wealthy," VOA News writes (DeCapua, 7/20).
Wrap Up Coverage Of AIDS 2010: Sex Workers, MSM, Criminalizing Transmission Of HIV
The Wall Street Journal offers a run-down of some of the major themes of AIDS 2010, including concerns over a growing gap in global funding for HIV/AIDS programs and advocates' "call for an end to punitive practices such as laws in many countries that criminalize homosexuality and drug abuse," practices that advocates' argue drive such high-risk groups from seeking HIV/AIDS prevention and treatment. The article includes comments by Julio Montaner, president of the International AIDS Society and co-chair of AIDS 2010 (Winslow, 7/23).
The Globe and Mail examines what the newspaper refers to as the "most overlooked" topics addressed at the meeting: "One of the cheapest, most effective and proven prevention methods is the condom. Yet as new measures come along – microbicides, antiretrovirals, circumcision, etc. – investments in condoms and safer-sex campaigns have fallen off," the newspaper writes. "According to the United Nations Population Fund, 2.7 billion condoms were distributed last year. It is estimated that 13 billion condoms are needed."
The newspaper also looks at how despite the push for countries to sign on to the Vienna Declaration at AIDS 2010, officials from Russia – "home to one of the most explosive epidemics on HIV/AIDS in the world, one fuelled by IV drug use" – remained "virtually silent" on the matter during the conference. "Russian officials have said, essentially, that they will not fund HIV/AIDS programs for drug users, prisoners and sex workers, and they blatantly thumbed their nose at the AIDS Conference in Vienna," the newspaper writes (Picard, 7/23).
HIV/AIDS advocates are hopeful that data presented at AIDS 2010 demonstrating the "increasing toll [of HIV] on men-having-sex-with men or MSM" will lead to greater resources for HIV prevention and treatment targeted to this group, VOA News reports.
The article includes comments on the limited HIV/AIDS funding worldwide that targets MSM and transgenders by Shivananda Khan of the Naz Foundation International, which provides technical and development assistance to MSM groups in South Asia, and Joel Nana, executive director of African Men for Sexual Health and Rights. The piece also includes comments by Nyambura Njoroge, who is a Presbyterian minister and program executive of the Ecumenical HIV and AIDS Initiative in Africa of the World Council of Churches (DeCapua, 7/23).
Meanwhile, IRIN/PlusNews examines the ongoing "tug-of-war" between "governments trying to criminalize the transmission of HIV on one side, and activists who say such laws are not only ineffective as a deterrent but are also harming the fight against AIDS, on the other."
Advocates have argued that laws criminalizing HIV exposure and transmission can "make HIV-negative people complacent by placing the burden of responsibility solely on those living with the virus." Additionally, advocates argue such "laws can also damage efforts to increase HIV testing rates by creating mistrust of health service providers who may, according to some of the new legislation, report a person's HIV status to their partner, or even testify against them in court" (7/23).
U.S. Health Officials Reflect On Key Scientific Finds Delivered At AIDS 2010
To discuss some of the latest scientific advances presented at AIDS 2010, NPR's Talk Of the Nation "Science Friday" features a discussion with Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, and Kevin Fenton, director of the National Center for HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and TB Prevention.
During the hour-long program, Fauci and Fenton share their insights on the significance of treating HIV early, the results of the antiretroviral-containing microbicide gel study presented at AIDS 2010, HIV/AIDS disparities in the U.S., and funding for HIV research in the U.S. (Flatow, 7/23).
Women's Rights Groups At AIDS 2010 Critical Of U.N.'s Approach To Hiring Head For Women's Agency
Also during AIDS 2010, women's rights advocates spoke out about the lack of transparency the U.N. is taking in naming the under-secretary to lead its new agency for women, the Mail & Guardian reports.
Speaking at the conference, "Paula Donovan, co-director of the Aids Free World advocacy organisation, said that she and others central to the agency's creation were assured by [U.N. Secretary-General Ban] Ki-moon that the hiring process would be markedly different from that of other sections of the UN. … Yet advocates claim the process has been completely private, and there has been no outside input," according to the newspaper.
The article details some of the criticisms women rights advocates over the U.N.'s record on dealing with women's issues before noting, "Of central concern to women's rights is the HIV/AIDS pandemic.
"[D]espite increased calls to address gender discrimination as part of the fight against HIV/AIDS, men still dominate the response," the newspaper writes. "At an UNAIDS meeting earlier this year, at which gender was considered a necessary 'pillar', less than a quarter of panel members were women. Despite this, Donovan said 'in the minds of people at the top, there seems to be absolutely no disconnect between those two things ... They say that women need to be at the centre of treatment and are at the centre of the pandemic, but then continue to appoint mostly men.'"
The article includes comments by Stephen Lewis, former U.N. Special envoy for HIV/AIDS (Kardas-Nelson, 7/24).
All of the Kaiser Family Foundation's webcasts of select sessions from AIDS 2010 are available at http://www.kff.org/aids2010.
The Kaiser Daily Global Health Policy Report is published by the Kaiser Family Foundation. © 2010 Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation. All rights reserved.
Monday, July 26, 2010
On the final day of the International AIDS Conference-AIDS 2010 Friday, Michel Kazatchkine, executive director of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria called upon "China, India and other fast-growing economies" to chip in to help close the funding gap in efforts to battle HIV/AIDS, Agence France-Presse reports. "Until now, these countries have been recipients of AIDS funds, not donors," the news service writes.
"I believe that in a globalising world, in a world where countries like China are joining, and want to join, world governance, at a time when the G8 is becoming the G20, it is right for these countries to take up a share of the burden," Kazatchkine said, according to AFP.
Kazatchkine said he has already discussed the need for contributions to the Global Fund during a recent visit with Chinese officials and through communications with members of "the petrodollar-flush economies of the Gulf," the AFP writes. Next month, Kazatchkine will take his appeal to Dehli, according to the news service.
Kazatchkine's efforts come ahead of the Global Fund meeting in October, where the group will decide on its financing for its programs over the next three years. There are concerns the Global Fund will fall short of its goal to reach $20 billion in pledges (U.S. Global Health Policy Report, 7/23).
The article explores additional ways the Global Fund is looking to raise funds for its programs and notes how Russia "set a precedent for switching to donor status" in 2006, when after "a rise in income from energy exports, Moscow said it would reimburse 270 million in Global Fund grants for activities in Russia" (Ingham, 7/23).
Capital News reports on the disappointment expressed by some advocates gathered at AIDS 2010 that "the conference failed to make any real commitments to ensure universal access to prevention, treatments and care."
The article includes comments by Oxfam GB Senior Health and HIV Policy Advisor Mohga Kamal-Yanni, who offers a timeline for when countries will begin to announce pledges for the replenishment of the Global Fund (Karong'o, 7/24).
Rep. Barbara Lee Calls For Obama Administration To Commit $6B For Global Fund
VOA News reports that upon returning from AIDS 2010, Rep. Barbara Lee, D-Calif., called on the Obama administration to commit $6 billion over the next three years to the Global Fund.
Although Lee said she "recognize[s], especially being from the United States, the impact of the global economic slowdown," she said a commitment to the Global Fund is "a matter of priority," according to the news service. To come up with the funds for the Global Fund, Lee proposed money could come by eliminating waste in the defense budget. "Another target, she says, is tax breaks for the wealthy," VOA News writes (DeCapua, 7/20).
Wrap Up Coverage Of AIDS 2010: Sex Workers, MSM, Criminalizing Transmission Of HIV
The Wall Street Journal offers a run-down of some of the major themes of AIDS 2010, including concerns over a growing gap in global funding for HIV/AIDS programs and advocates' "call for an end to punitive practices such as laws in many countries that criminalize homosexuality and drug abuse," practices that advocates' argue drive such high-risk groups from seeking HIV/AIDS prevention and treatment. The article includes comments by Julio Montaner, president of the International AIDS Society and co-chair of AIDS 2010 (Winslow, 7/23).
The Globe and Mail examines what the newspaper refers to as the "most overlooked" topics addressed at the meeting: "One of the cheapest, most effective and proven prevention methods is the condom. Yet as new measures come along – microbicides, antiretrovirals, circumcision, etc. – investments in condoms and safer-sex campaigns have fallen off," the newspaper writes. "According to the United Nations Population Fund, 2.7 billion condoms were distributed last year. It is estimated that 13 billion condoms are needed."
The newspaper also looks at how despite the push for countries to sign on to the Vienna Declaration at AIDS 2010, officials from Russia – "home to one of the most explosive epidemics on HIV/AIDS in the world, one fuelled by IV drug use" – remained "virtually silent" on the matter during the conference. "Russian officials have said, essentially, that they will not fund HIV/AIDS programs for drug users, prisoners and sex workers, and they blatantly thumbed their nose at the AIDS Conference in Vienna," the newspaper writes (Picard, 7/23).
HIV/AIDS advocates are hopeful that data presented at AIDS 2010 demonstrating the "increasing toll [of HIV] on men-having-sex-with men or MSM" will lead to greater resources for HIV prevention and treatment targeted to this group, VOA News reports.
The article includes comments on the limited HIV/AIDS funding worldwide that targets MSM and transgenders by Shivananda Khan of the Naz Foundation International, which provides technical and development assistance to MSM groups in South Asia, and Joel Nana, executive director of African Men for Sexual Health and Rights. The piece also includes comments by Nyambura Njoroge, who is a Presbyterian minister and program executive of the Ecumenical HIV and AIDS Initiative in Africa of the World Council of Churches (DeCapua, 7/23).
Meanwhile, IRIN/PlusNews examines the ongoing "tug-of-war" between "governments trying to criminalize the transmission of HIV on one side, and activists who say such laws are not only ineffective as a deterrent but are also harming the fight against AIDS, on the other."
Advocates have argued that laws criminalizing HIV exposure and transmission can "make HIV-negative people complacent by placing the burden of responsibility solely on those living with the virus." Additionally, advocates argue such "laws can also damage efforts to increase HIV testing rates by creating mistrust of health service providers who may, according to some of the new legislation, report a person's HIV status to their partner, or even testify against them in court" (7/23).
U.S. Health Officials Reflect On Key Scientific Finds Delivered At AIDS 2010
To discuss some of the latest scientific advances presented at AIDS 2010, NPR's Talk Of the Nation "Science Friday" features a discussion with Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, and Kevin Fenton, director of the National Center for HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and TB Prevention.
During the hour-long program, Fauci and Fenton share their insights on the significance of treating HIV early, the results of the antiretroviral-containing microbicide gel study presented at AIDS 2010, HIV/AIDS disparities in the U.S., and funding for HIV research in the U.S. (Flatow, 7/23).
Women's Rights Groups At AIDS 2010 Critical Of U.N.'s Approach To Hiring Head For Women's Agency
Also during AIDS 2010, women's rights advocates spoke out about the lack of transparency the U.N. is taking in naming the under-secretary to lead its new agency for women, the Mail & Guardian reports.
Speaking at the conference, "Paula Donovan, co-director of the Aids Free World advocacy organisation, said that she and others central to the agency's creation were assured by [U.N. Secretary-General Ban] Ki-moon that the hiring process would be markedly different from that of other sections of the UN. … Yet advocates claim the process has been completely private, and there has been no outside input," according to the newspaper.
The article details some of the criticisms women rights advocates over the U.N.'s record on dealing with women's issues before noting, "Of central concern to women's rights is the HIV/AIDS pandemic.
"[D]espite increased calls to address gender discrimination as part of the fight against HIV/AIDS, men still dominate the response," the newspaper writes. "At an UNAIDS meeting earlier this year, at which gender was considered a necessary 'pillar', less than a quarter of panel members were women. Despite this, Donovan said 'in the minds of people at the top, there seems to be absolutely no disconnect between those two things ... They say that women need to be at the centre of treatment and are at the centre of the pandemic, but then continue to appoint mostly men.'"
The article includes comments by Stephen Lewis, former U.N. Special envoy for HIV/AIDS (Kardas-Nelson, 7/24).
All of the Kaiser Family Foundation's webcasts of select sessions from AIDS 2010 are available at http://www.kff.org/aids2010.
The Kaiser Daily Global Health Policy Report is published by the Kaiser Family Foundation. © 2010 Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation. All rights reserved.
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Goodnight Vienna
July 26, 2010The International AIDS Conference in Vienna drew to a close on Friday. More than 20,000 attendees have made their way home, most of them galvanized by a work hard, play hard week of networking, sharing, learning and generally drinking in the special atmosphere generated by what may be regarded as the premier gathering of HIV professionals and policy makers.
The week's headline story, picked up by the world's media and delivered in a presentation interrupted by bursts of spontaneous applause, was the announcement of early trial results showing that a vaginal microbicide gel laced with the antiretroviral tenofovir delivered some protection against the virus in women. The promise of this innovation is such that it is likely that the next stage clinical trial will be fast-tracked and widely supported.
The week also saw revisions to adult treatment guidelines issued by the World Health Organization. These amounted to a declaration of the safety and efficiency of antiretroviral drugs and urged countries to adopt earlier treatment. UNAIDS rallied for Treatment 2.0: in essence simpler treatment delivered by lower cost, more efficient health systems. Ambitious, this would see 15 million people on treatment, up from the 5 million currently on antiretroviral therapy. The cold reality of achieving this: an annual treatment bill estimated in the region of 26 billion USD.
Conference also highlighted that, in spite of the evidence that it works (reducing HIV incidence in newborns down to less than 2% in well resourced settings), children are impacted by the lack of treatments needed to prevent mother to child transmission of HIV. More WHO guidelines were released in support of earlier HIV testing in pregnancy coupled with earlier treatment. The Head of HIV and AIDS at WHO, Gottfried Hirnschall, said "child health is inextricably linked to the health of it's mother...ensuring HIV positive mothers have access to treatment... will greatly enhance outcomes for their children."
Circumcision continued to dominate discussions surrounding transmission prevention in heterosexual men. It has been shown to reduce infection rate by 60% but in the 12 highest prevalence countries less than 1 in 10 men are circumcised. Conference heard of plans to increase this to a rate of 80%, which equates to surgery on a dizzying 41 million men, all of which must be performed safely and efficiently.
With the unveiling pre-conference of the Vienna Declaration, it was always clear that the issue of injecting drug use- and it's contribution to HIV spread- was going to be a hot topic. Governments faced demands to decriminalize both drug users and those who work to make the improve the health (and status in society) of injecting drug users.
Funding, particularly in support of the 2010 target of universal access to treatment, care and support, was examined and largely found wanting. Oxfam has already made a statement that the conference must be considered "a disappointment" with "no real commitments" being made to boosting access to services. The host country, Austria, was also heavily criticized for it's lack of fiscal commitment to the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria. Probably most pilloried, however, was President Barack Obama, who, it was claimed by Eric Goosby, Head of the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, has been 'hurt' by claims he has backtracked on HIV and AIDS. In taped contributions to the conference both President Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton restated their desire to tackle the HIV epidemic in a broad, sustainable and effective way. Ms Clinton, in a rebuttal of the criticism levied against the United States, called access to prevention, treatment and care "a universal, shared responsibility." Meanwhile Michel Kazatchkine, executive director of the Global Fund, called for donors to maintain their nerve, in the face of economic pressures, citing the growing reality of clinic waiting lists.
The International AIDS Conference saw participation in almost 250 sessions and presentation of well over 6000 abstracts. It is likely that the best, most lasting, aspects of the conference will only become apparent in the coming days, away from the hothouse atmosphere of Vienna. There's much to absorb- and ever more work to be done- before the next conference takes place in Washington DC in 2012.
Source: International AIDS Conference Accessed: 26/07/10
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Red faced teachers
July 23, 2010A report released on 23rd July 2010 by UK education watchdog OFSTED suggests that some children receive poor sex education because teachers cannot overcome their embarrassment at having to tackle the subject.
Teenagers themselves stated that the education they received came "too late", with much of the subject being covered as a lesson in human biology with far too little lesson time spent covering relationships.
In more than one third of the schools visited by inspectors over a 3 year period students' grasp of sex and relationship education was rated as "no better than satisfactory." In 3 schools sex education provision was graded "inadequate".
Teachers who lacked the confidence, or knowledge, to tackle the subject area were found to have left students without the opportunity to explore what relationships are, discuss managing risks around sexual behaviours, negotiating saying 'no' and broader issues such as breakdown in relationships.
AVERT has more information on sex education that works plus comprehensive information on sex and relationships, designed for specifically for teens.
Source: The Independent Accessed 23/07/10
July 26, 2010The International AIDS Conference in Vienna drew to a close on Friday. More than 20,000 attendees have made their way home, most of them galvanized by a work hard, play hard week of networking, sharing, learning and generally drinking in the special atmosphere generated by what may be regarded as the premier gathering of HIV professionals and policy makers.
The week's headline story, picked up by the world's media and delivered in a presentation interrupted by bursts of spontaneous applause, was the announcement of early trial results showing that a vaginal microbicide gel laced with the antiretroviral tenofovir delivered some protection against the virus in women. The promise of this innovation is such that it is likely that the next stage clinical trial will be fast-tracked and widely supported.
The week also saw revisions to adult treatment guidelines issued by the World Health Organization. These amounted to a declaration of the safety and efficiency of antiretroviral drugs and urged countries to adopt earlier treatment. UNAIDS rallied for Treatment 2.0: in essence simpler treatment delivered by lower cost, more efficient health systems. Ambitious, this would see 15 million people on treatment, up from the 5 million currently on antiretroviral therapy. The cold reality of achieving this: an annual treatment bill estimated in the region of 26 billion USD.
Conference also highlighted that, in spite of the evidence that it works (reducing HIV incidence in newborns down to less than 2% in well resourced settings), children are impacted by the lack of treatments needed to prevent mother to child transmission of HIV. More WHO guidelines were released in support of earlier HIV testing in pregnancy coupled with earlier treatment. The Head of HIV and AIDS at WHO, Gottfried Hirnschall, said "child health is inextricably linked to the health of it's mother...ensuring HIV positive mothers have access to treatment... will greatly enhance outcomes for their children."
Circumcision continued to dominate discussions surrounding transmission prevention in heterosexual men. It has been shown to reduce infection rate by 60% but in the 12 highest prevalence countries less than 1 in 10 men are circumcised. Conference heard of plans to increase this to a rate of 80%, which equates to surgery on a dizzying 41 million men, all of which must be performed safely and efficiently.
With the unveiling pre-conference of the Vienna Declaration, it was always clear that the issue of injecting drug use- and it's contribution to HIV spread- was going to be a hot topic. Governments faced demands to decriminalize both drug users and those who work to make the improve the health (and status in society) of injecting drug users.
Funding, particularly in support of the 2010 target of universal access to treatment, care and support, was examined and largely found wanting. Oxfam has already made a statement that the conference must be considered "a disappointment" with "no real commitments" being made to boosting access to services. The host country, Austria, was also heavily criticized for it's lack of fiscal commitment to the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria. Probably most pilloried, however, was President Barack Obama, who, it was claimed by Eric Goosby, Head of the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, has been 'hurt' by claims he has backtracked on HIV and AIDS. In taped contributions to the conference both President Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton restated their desire to tackle the HIV epidemic in a broad, sustainable and effective way. Ms Clinton, in a rebuttal of the criticism levied against the United States, called access to prevention, treatment and care "a universal, shared responsibility." Meanwhile Michel Kazatchkine, executive director of the Global Fund, called for donors to maintain their nerve, in the face of economic pressures, citing the growing reality of clinic waiting lists.
The International AIDS Conference saw participation in almost 250 sessions and presentation of well over 6000 abstracts. It is likely that the best, most lasting, aspects of the conference will only become apparent in the coming days, away from the hothouse atmosphere of Vienna. There's much to absorb- and ever more work to be done- before the next conference takes place in Washington DC in 2012.
Source: International AIDS Conference Accessed: 26/07/10
back to top
Red faced teachers
July 23, 2010A report released on 23rd July 2010 by UK education watchdog OFSTED suggests that some children receive poor sex education because teachers cannot overcome their embarrassment at having to tackle the subject.
Teenagers themselves stated that the education they received came "too late", with much of the subject being covered as a lesson in human biology with far too little lesson time spent covering relationships.
In more than one third of the schools visited by inspectors over a 3 year period students' grasp of sex and relationship education was rated as "no better than satisfactory." In 3 schools sex education provision was graded "inadequate".
Teachers who lacked the confidence, or knowledge, to tackle the subject area were found to have left students without the opportunity to explore what relationships are, discuss managing risks around sexual behaviours, negotiating saying 'no' and broader issues such as breakdown in relationships.
AVERT has more information on sex education that works plus comprehensive information on sex and relationships, designed for specifically for teens.
Source: The Independent Accessed 23/07/10
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