PozNews - HIV News - STD News: AIDS Care Gap Between Wealthy And Developing Countries Risks Becoming A Chasm ================================================================================ Medical News Today on 09 March, 2010 10:00:00 AIDS leaders gathering in London today face the daunting challenge of implementing new World Health Organization (WHO) recommendations for earlier treatment with better AIDS drug Also In Global Health News: Leishmaniasis Treatment; China's National Health Plan; Zimbabwe Food Security; HIV/AIDS Spending In India ================================================================================ Medical News Today on 10 March, 2010 01:00:00 Heating Device Effectively Treats Cutaneous Leishmaniasis, Study Says "A heating device that uses radio frequency energy to heat parasites and Opinions: Don't Slow Fight Against HIV, TB, Malaria; U.S. Focus On Women, Girls ================================================================================ Medical News Today on 10 March, 2010 01:00:00 2010 To Be 'Decisive Year' For Global Health, Global Fund Director Says In a BusinessDay opinion piece, Executive Director of UNAIDS Director Cautions Against Funding Cuts To Global Fund ================================================================================ Medical News Today on 10 March, 2010 01:00:00 During an appeal to government and private donors to pledge money to the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria on Monday, UNAIDS Executive Aktuelle Informationen zum Thema Hepatitis C - Updated German Easy C Factsheets ================================================================================ HCV Advocate on 10 March, 2010 11:43:25 Aktuelle Informationen zum Thema Hepatitis C - Updated German Easy C Factsheets * Austausch von Injektionsnadeln (Sharing Needles) * Hygieneartikel und HCV (Hygiene and Hepatitis C) * Übertragung der Hepatitis C von HCV ADVOCATE WEEKLY NEWS REVIEW: Week Ending: March 6, 2010 ================================================================================ HCV Advocate on 10 March, 2010 11:46:34 This Issue: ** Ethnic Media Support Hepatitis C Awareness Campaign ** City College of San Francisco Students Train to Handle Ex-Inmates' Health Issues ** IL28B Gene Variation Predicts Response to Letter to President Obama Requesting World Hepatitis Day Proclamation ================================================================================ HCV Advocate on 10 March, 2010 11:48:45 Be sure to check out this letter from several Members of Congress to President Obama Seminal plasma HIV levels in men with asymptomatic sexually transmitted infections ================================================================================ MedWorm on 09 March, 2010 10:06:05 The effect of asymptomatic sexually transmitted urethral infections on human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) RNA viral load in semen is poorly defined. We studied five such A pilot qualitative analysis of the psychosocial factors which drive young people to decline chlamydia testing in the UK: implications for health promotion and screening ================================================================================ MedWorm on 09 March, 2010 10:06:05 In conclusion, understanding psychosocial cultural phenomena in the context of screening programmes for sexually transmitted infections (STIs) in young people are important for their success. Viral and bacterial aetiologies of male urethritis: findings of a high prevalence of Epstein-Barr virus ================================================================================ MedWorm on 09 March, 2010 10:06:05 In this study the prevalences of Epstein–Barr virus (EBV), herpes simplex virus type 1 (HSV-1), HSV-2, cytomegalovirus (CMV), adenovirus, Chlamydia trachomatis, Mycoplasma genitalium and Ureaplasma