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Stephen Lewis, the UN Secretary-General's Special Envoy for HIV/AIDS in Africa, took his impassioned one-man crusade to New York City's Carnegie Council on Ethics and International Affairs yesterday, calling HIV "the ultimate ethical issue." In an hour-long speech, Lewis made the case that, despite a few optimistic advances, the developed world has failed to control the spread of the deadly disease throughout the poorest continent...
...Lewis's lecture coincided with a release of a WHO-UNAIDS report on global access to HIV therapy. Begun in 2003, the "3 by 5" initiative--to provide antiretroviral treatment to 3 million people in low- and middle-income countries by the end of 2005--missed its target numbers. A total of 1.3 million received treatment, and the largest improvements being made in Sub-Saharan Africa where 700,000 more people gained access to treatment in the past two years. The WHO has said that the lessons learned from the "3 by 5" strategy will aid in its new goal...
...global health.” He said that two trends of this era—the revolution in life sciences and globalization—will be remembered “more than any particular event, or terrorist attack, or war.” Summers said that the solution to HIV crisis in India—where the United Nations documented five million cases in 2003—will ultimately come from vaccine research, and to a lesser extent from public education. In the speech, Summers made reference to Harvard School of Public Health Dean Barry R. Bloom?...
...This is an excellent opportunity for students to connect with local Boston community-based organizations that provide services for people at risk for HIV and AIDS,” said Joanna Short, a public health adviser with the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of Public Health and Science Office on Women’s Health...
...nurse at the village's health clinic. He opens the exercise book in which he records new sexually transmitted infections in teenagers; the names - one per line - take up two full pages. "I think it is related to the logging boat crews," he says. Asked if there's hiv in the area, he replies: "I don't know. I can't test for it." The director of the national disease prevention and control unit, Dr. John Paulsen, believes children are at risk from hiv, but says a preventive strategy is helping them. And although the country ran out of condoms...