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...avian influenza A. Once the shipment arrives, UHS hopes to vaccinate more than just people who have a high risk of becoming seriously ill with the flu. Last year and thus far this year, UHS has only inoculated individuals who are at high risk, such as the elderly, infants, pregnant women, and people with chronic medical conditions. Rosenthal emphasized the importance of good hand hygiene in preventing the transmission of the flu. Students should use the Purel and other alcohol-based gels available in dining halls, he said. Rosenthal also said it is not too late to be vaccinated...
...clinic at Wuhan University is now recognized as a national training center for AIDS doctors and has pioneered in China use of a three-drug combination therapy for HIV-positive pregnant women and pediatric formulations of AIDS drugs for children. With medicine donated by the Clinton Foundation, Gui will offer treatment without charge to 200 infected infants over the next few years. Those children will be Gui's legacy, living reminders of the doctor's bravery and dedication. "The road ahead is still very long," he says. But thanks to Gui, China has taken the important first steps...
Busi Bhembe, director of the Swaziland Infant Nutrition Action Network, is one Swazi who is trying to change people's attitudes toward AIDS. She leads a pilot program to help Swazis better understand how the disease affects pregnant women and babies. "The more mothers know about the virus and what it can do, the better they can take care of themselves," says Bhembe, 36, who trained in nutrition at the University of Swaziland in Mbabane before entering health management...
...program is small--some 150 women have enrolled so far, and there are places for only 50 more. But teaching pregnant women about the need for good nutrition while carrying, and giving those with low viral counts antiretroviral drugs to make them healthier have produced encouraging results: only 8 of the 118 children born so far have tested HIV-positive, a sharp drop from the standard...
...they have. Today there are more than 48,000 grandmothers, also known as female community health volunteers (FHCVs) distributing vitamin A to 3.5 million Nepalese children every year. Since the 1980s, infant mortality in the country has been cut in half; the program is now getting the vitamin to pregnant women too, among whom eye disease has plummeted, from 23% to 3%. Shrestha does not minimize what he has accomplished for his country, but he is too modest to make a fuss about it. "As a Nepali," he says, "I figured it was my duty...