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GlobalPost launches new special reporting series on fight against AIDS

GlobalPost on Monday launched a new special reporting series called "AIDS: A Turning Point," according to an email alert from the new service. "In the lead up to July's International AIDS Conference in Washington -- the first such conference on U.S. soil in 22 years -- the world news site GlobalPost presents a deep look at both the global struggle to reduce HIV infection rates as well as some surprising lessons on the effective approaches that Southern Africa has to teach America," the email alert reports.

12 Jun 2012

Presidential campaigns jockey for support from seniors, Hispanic voters

Press reports detail how both the Romney and Obama campaigns are taking steps to attract these voting blocs.

12 Jun 2012

African journalists announce first continent-wide health journalism network

"Journalists from across Africa announced the creation of the first continent-wide professional association of health journalists," South Africa's Health-e reports. "The new organization, the African Health Journalists Association, aims to improve the quality and quantity of reporting on health issues so that people across the continent can make healthy choices for their lives," the news agency writes.

12 Jun 2012

Updated AAN guideline outlines treatments for infantile spasms

The American Academy of Neurology has issued an updated guideline outlining the best treatments for infantile spasms, a rare type of seizure that can occur in infants and young children.

12 Jun 2012

Health exchange progress pending in some states ... along with court decision

Meanwhile, implementation issues related to health exchanges, such as the importance of a state's insurance market, are emerging. Also, a model for exchange development has been unveiled.

12 Jun 2012

Journalists, policy experts, bloggers discuss hunger situation in Africa's Sahel

"Journalists, policy experts, bloggers including myself and World Food Programme staff joined in a robust discussion last week about the current hunger situation in Africa's Sahel region, including its causes and what can be done moving forward," Jennifer James, founder of Mom Bloggers for Social Good, writes in this post in the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation's "Impatient Optimists" blog.

12 Jun 2012

MSF report examines past, present, future management of neglected tropical diseases

"In order to break the vicious cycle that leaves tropical diseases neglected, existing programs that diagnose and treat patients need to be expanded and medical research to develop simpler, more effective tools needs to be supported, according to a new report, Fighting Neglect, released Monday by Medecins Sans Frontieres/Doctors Without Borders (MSF)," the organization reports on its webpage.

12 Jun 2012

Chagas disease – ‘the AIDS of the Americas’

A recent editorial published in the Public Library of Science's Neglected Tropical Diseases called Chagas disease, a parasite which kills about 20,000 people a year, "the AIDS of the Americas." The disease can be transferred to a child from its mother or by blood transfusions. About 20 percent of those infected can develop life-threatening illness that includes enlarged hearts or intestines, and the drugs used today to treat the disease can take months to work.

12 Jun 2012

No link between alcohol consumption and disclosure of HIV status in Russians

Disclosure of HIV positive serostatus to sexual partners is considered an important public health goal to prevent new infections. Disclosure can motivate sex partners to make informed choices and change behavior through negotiation of safer sex practices. It might also prompt partner testing and counseling.

12 Jun 2012

Agence France-Presse reports on efforts to eradicate sleeping sickness in sub-Saharan Africa

Agence France-Presse reports on Human African trypanosomiasis, "commonly known as sleeping sickness, which is transmitted by tsetse flies found in 36 sub-Saharan African countries," writing, "Without treatment in four months to a year, 'the parasite penetrates into the brain, causing serious neurological symptoms, until death,' said Doctor Benedict Blaynay, head of neglected tropical diseases at French pharmaceutical giant Sanofi."

12 Jun 2012

UNAIDS governing body calls for range of recommendations to strengthen global HIV response

"The Programme Coordinating Board -- governing body of the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) -- concluded its 30th session on 7 June calling for a range of recommendations to strengthen the global HIV response," a UNAIDS press release reports.

12 Jun 2012

India to host parallel conference for those who can't attend International AIDS Conference in U.S.

"When stakeholders from across the world converge at Washington next month to participate in the International AIDS Conference (IAC) to share their experience and evaluations and to influence both popular and official perceptions and practices for curbing HIV/AIDS, India will host a parallel event for those who cannot make it there," the Hindu reports.

12 Jun 2012

Sept. 11 compensation fund to cover cancer costs

A Sept. 11 compensation fund will cover the treatment of many different kinds of cancers -- at a cost of up to $147 million -- for people exposed to toxic material during and after the attacks.

12 Jun 2012

Opinion pieces published in advance of 'Child Survival Call to Action' event to take place in Washington

The following are summaries of several opinion pieces published in anticipation of the Child Survival Call to Action event to be held on June 14-15 in Washington, D.C. Convened by the Governments of United States, Ethiopia and India, and organized in close collaboration with UNICEF, the event will focus on ending preventable child death through the survival of newborns, children and mothers and will convene 700 prominent leaders from government, the private sector, faith-based organizations and civil society to kick off a long-term, focused effort to save children's lives.

12 Jun 2012

Anthem Blue Cross president Pam Kehaly: Wrestling with rising medical costs, keeping coverage affordable

Pam Kehaly, 51, is president of Anthem Blue Cross in California, the state's largest for-profit health insurer and a unit of WellPoint Inc. The executive said she wrestles with how to control rising medical costs and find ways to keep coverage affordable for millions of employers and consumers.

12 Jun 2012

Gay and lesbian couples more likely to mutually influence each other's health habits

Women bear the brunt of being the health police in heterosexual marriages, but gay and lesbian couples are more likely to mutually influence each other's health habits - for better or for worse. The findings are reported in the June issue of the journal, Social Science & Medicine.

12 Jun 2012

International summit to be held in London aims to provide 120M women with family planning services

The Guardian reports on a "major summit" to be held in London on July 11, which "aims to provide access to family planning to 120 million women at an estimated cost of $4 billion." According to the newspaper, the summit "is being organized by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the British government's department for international development (DFID)," and "between 20 and 25 countries are scheduled to attend, including the U.S., India, Ethiopia, Nigeria and Tanzania."

12 Jun 2012

Viewpoints: Hoping that 'Gang of Six' will cut fiscal deal; Sen. Alexander links health law and college tuition increases

The public has a famously low opinion of Congress, even though people tend to hold a less disparaging view of their own representatives. The last two years have been especially tough on the institution's reputation, a response to the body's relentless brinkmanship and paralyzing partisanship in the face of a slow economy. So it is with some trepidation that I throw out a little love for a handful of senators still seeking bipartisan agreement on a plan to bring the federal government back to fiscal responsibility.

11 Jun 2012

VOA reports on global polio vaccination challenges

"International health experts say the global campaign to eradicate polio has reached a critical stage, with Afghanistan, Pakistan and Nigeria the only countries where the crippling and potentially deadly virus is still prevalent," VOA News reports.

11 Jun 2012

Prime Health Services announces acquisition of Casualty Management Network

Prime Health Services (Prime), one of the nation's largest workers' compensation, group health, corrections, and auto liability PPO networks is pleased to announce it has acquired Casualty Management Network (CMN).

11 Jun 2012

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GlobalPost launches new special reporting series on fight against AIDS

Presidential campaigns jockey for support from seniors, Hispanic voters

African journalists announce first continent-wide health journalism network

Updated AAN guideline outlines treatments for infantile spasms

Health exchange progress pending in some states ... along with court decision

Journalists, policy experts, bloggers discuss hunger situation in Africa's Sahel

MSF report examines past, present, future management of neglected tropical diseases

Chagas disease – ‘the AIDS of the Americas’

No link between alcohol consumption and disclosure of HIV status in Russians

Agence France-Presse reports on efforts to eradicate sleeping sickness in sub-Saharan Africa

UNAIDS governing body calls for range of recommendations to strengthen global HIV response

India to host parallel conference for those who can't attend International AIDS Conference in U.S.

Sept. 11 compensation fund to cover cancer costs

Opinion pieces published in advance of 'Child Survival Call to Action' event to take place in Washington

Anthem Blue Cross president Pam Kehaly: Wrestling with rising medical costs, keeping coverage affordable

Gay and lesbian couples more likely to mutually influence each other's health habits

International summit to be held in London aims to provide 120M women with family planning services

Viewpoints: Hoping that 'Gang of Six' will cut fiscal deal; Sen. Alexander links health law and college tuition increases

VOA reports on global polio vaccination challenges

Prime Health Services announces acquisition of Casualty Management Network

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