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...while initiatives to provide insecticide-treated bed nets and other control measures have cut malaria rates in half in some countries, the disease is adapting, and insecticide-resistant and treatment-resistant strains are increasingly problematic. And the worldwide recession is reducing the funding available to keep malaria-control initiatives going. As a new avenue of attack, the PATH Malaria Vaccine Initiative (MVI) - which is funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation - on Friday, Jan. 15, announced a collaboration with the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and the Sabin Vaccine Institute to create a whole new kind of malaria...
...second approach, he said, is the establishment of facilities in Port-au-Prince to bolster emergency treatment and to identify the patients who require more advanced surgery and must be transported to the Plateau. On Thursday night, PIH posted a lengthy list of immediate needs on its Web site, citing concerns related to transportation and supplies...
...years is a long time to go before finding the right treatment. Have you learned anything that could help others speed up the process? I'd advise people to go to a teaching hospital because the doctors there are less likely to be bought by big Pharma, and they're more connected to the research. It's easy to take the samples and to be lazy. At a teaching hospital, you're more apt to find a psychiatrist who will listen to your story and prescribe medications they know work. My doctor is open to drugs like lithium that have...
...Current treatment guidelines do not call for the prescription of antiretroviral drugs until there is evidence of progressive damage to the immune system. But in the wake of last year's Lancet study, some health experts have begun promoting a "test and treat" policy for populations with high HIV rates, as in major Western cities and parts of the developing world. Test and treat calls for the immediate treatment of all HIV-infected patients to reduce transmission rates. In November, WHO held a conference in Geneva to discuss whether the policy should be rolled out through its various agency programs...
...Kahn, a professor of medicine at the University of California, San Francisco, and a contributor to the Science study, says test and treat should not be confused with WHO's goal of universal access to antiretroviral drugs, which he says is a worthy one. But because the treatment for drug-resistant HIV strains is expensive - it requires a constantly changing cocktail of new, pricey drugs - and because adherence to such a complicated drug regimen can be difficult for patients, Kahn believes WHO and other institutions should begin planning for the time that HIV drug resistance begins in earnest, particularly...