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As HIV vaccine conference opens, experts appeal for sustained commitment to global fight against disease

Experts, gathered for the start of a four-day conference on HIV vaccines in Paris, called upon donors to maintain their funding support for the fight against HIV/AIDS despite the global economy, Agence France-Presse reports.

20 Oct 2009

Biomagnetics Diagnostics to raise $1 million

Biomagnetics Diagnostics Corp. (Pink Sheets:BMGP), a producer of revolutionary diagnostic systems and technology for malaria, tuberculosis, HIV and hepatitis testing today announced the completion of its equity financing designed to fund entry into the Integrated Optical Biosensor Systems (IOBS) market.

20 Oct 2009

Shire Canada supports initiative for further access to antiretroviral medicine for Rwanda

Shire Canada Inc., a division of Shire plc, announced today its voluntary cooperation to enable further royalty-free access to HIV/AIDS medicines for Rwanda as part of ongoing collaborative efforts to improve health and save lives in the developing world.

20 Oct 2009

Opinions: HIV vaccine; HIV resources help promote global disease control; U.S. fight against world hunger

Seth Berkley, president and chief executive of the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative, in a New York Times opinion piece examines how the "pessimism" over the recent controversy surrounding the results of an experimental HIV vaccine tested in Thailand "may ultimately thwart other efforts to develop an AIDS vaccine.

20 Oct 2009

School-age children most vulnerable to malaria infection in Africa, study says

Children and adolescents between the ages of 5 and 19 in malaria-endemic African countries are "the most vulnerable group to malaria following the successful distribution of the free bednets to protect children under five and pregnant women against the killer fever," according to a study published in the journal BMC Public Health, the East African reports.

19 Oct 2009

Campaign seeks to hold governments accountable to meeting MDG targets

Inter Press Service examines the Stand Up Take Action campaign, which took place October 16-18 to highlight the Millennium Development Goals' [MDG] 2015 deadline.

19 Oct 2009

Research study on cowpox virus

In the annals of medicine, Edward Jenner's 1796 vaccination of a young boy against smallpox, using fluid from cowpox blisters, remains a landmark case. In a new study, Kathryn Sykes, a researcher at Arizona State University's Biodesign Institute and her colleagues have taken a fresh look at cowpox.

19 Oct 2009

WHO, UNICEF publish plan to reduce childhood diarrhea deaths

The WHO and UNICEF have released a seven-point treatment and prevention plan to reduce the number of children around the world who die from diarrhea, the BBC reports (10/14). BMJ News writes, "Every year 1.5 million children aged under 5 years die from diarrhoea, more than 80% of them in Africa and south Asia" (Zarocostas, 10/14).

19 Oct 2009

Recent releases in global health

In light of a recent Guttmacher Institute report that indicated 70,000 women in developing countries die each year from unsafe abortion, a Lancet editorial outlines ways to reduce deaths, and says, "The current political climate is favourable, because the global-gag rule (the U.S. Government's policy on banning funding of foreign organisations linked to any type of abortion practice) is out of favour" (10/17).

19 Oct 2009

BioMedReports.Com releases an exclusive interview with spokesman for Biomagnetics Diagnostics

BioMedReports.Com, the news portal which covers Wall Street's biomedical sector and delivers financial and investment intelligence to a community of highly informed investors, has released an exclusive interview with a spokesman for Biomagnetics Diagnostics Corp., the company behind a revolutionary diagnostic systems and technology for malaria, tuberculosis, HIV and hepatitis field testing.

15 Oct 2009

Genetic diversity thwarts the usefulness of malaria vaccine

Researchers at the University of Maryland School of Medicine Center for Vaccine Development (CVD) have charted the extreme genetic differences that occur over time in the most dangerous malaria parasite in the world. While there is no approved vaccine for malaria, various experimental vaccines are in development.

15 Oct 2009

BioMedReports electronic newsletter releases an article about Biomagnetics Diagnostics

Biomagnetics Diagnostics Corp., a producer of revolutionary diagnostic systems and technology for malaria, tuberculosis, HIV, and hepatitis testing, today announced the Company is the subject of a cover page story in the prestigious BioMedReports electronic newsletter and portal.

14 Oct 2009

Is DDT pesticide safe to combat malaria?

Malaria risk threatens the life and health of thousands daily. In high-risk areas, including sub-Saharan Africa, malaria-related deaths happen every thirty seconds.

14 Oct 2009

Inovio Biomedical's proprietary DNA vaccine development platform introduced

Inovio Biomedical Corporation (NYSE Amex:INO), a leader in DNA vaccine design, development and delivery, announced today that Dr. J. Joseph Kim, president and CEO, presented at the invitation-only World Knowledge Forum being held in Seoul, South Korea.

14 Oct 2009

Also in Global Health News: Ban addresses women's health; Afghanistan's health services; PMI Africa grants; Q&As

U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon on Monday called for countries around the world to "renew their commitment to educate girls, end sexual violence, and provide access to modern birth control," the Associated Press/Washington Post reports.

14 Oct 2009

African leaders, Chirac unite to fight fake drug manufacturing, distribution

Leaders from Benin, Burkina Faso, the Central African Republic, Congo-Republic, Niger and Senegal on Monday joined former French President Jacques Chirac in Cotonou, Benin, in a campaign against the manufacturing and sale of fake pharmaceutical products, Reuters reports (Lewis, 10/12).

14 Oct 2009

Also in global health news: HIV immigration rules; Global Fund Aid in Kenya; water shortage in Yemen; testing for TB

NPR examines U.S. policy for HIV-positive visitors and immigrants. While "Congress has removed the statute, and the Department of Health and Human Services is working on a more lenient immigration rule,"

12 Oct 2009

News outlets examine efforts to improve sanitation worldwide

The Washington Post examines how the "No Toilet, No Bride" campaign in India is helping to increase access to home toilets in rural India. According to the newspaper, "About 665 million people in India -- about half the population -- lack access to latrines." Yet, since the campaign launched two years ago, "1.4 million toilets have been built here in the northern state of Haryana, some with government funds, according to the state's health department" - a movement that women's rights activists hail as "a revolution."

12 Oct 2009

Findings may reveal new treatments for people suffering from chronic hemoglobin levels

A gene with a significant effect on regulating hemoglobin in the body has been identified as part of a genome-wide association study, which looked at the link between genes and hemoglobin level in 16,000 people.

12 Oct 2009

Haiti, Dominican Republic leaders aim to eradicate malaria, lymphatic filariasis by 2020, funding unclear

Leaders from Haiti and the Dominican Republic "agreed Thursday to cooperate in a campaign aimed at eradicating the last vestiges of malaria from the islands of the Caribbean by 2020," but funding sources for the estimated $250 million effort are "uncertain," the Associated Press reports.

9 Oct 2009

Malaria News and Research

Latest Malaria News and Research

As HIV vaccine conference opens, experts appeal for sustained commitment to global fight against disease

Biomagnetics Diagnostics to raise $1 million

Shire Canada supports initiative for further access to antiretroviral medicine for Rwanda

Opinions: HIV vaccine; HIV resources help promote global disease control; U.S. fight against world hunger

School-age children most vulnerable to malaria infection in Africa, study says

Campaign seeks to hold governments accountable to meeting MDG targets

Research study on cowpox virus

WHO, UNICEF publish plan to reduce childhood diarrhea deaths

Recent releases in global health

BioMedReports.Com releases an exclusive interview with spokesman for Biomagnetics Diagnostics

Genetic diversity thwarts the usefulness of malaria vaccine

BioMedReports electronic newsletter releases an article about Biomagnetics Diagnostics

Is DDT pesticide safe to combat malaria?

Inovio Biomedical's proprietary DNA vaccine development platform introduced

Also in Global Health News: Ban addresses women's health; Afghanistan's health services; PMI Africa grants; Q&As

African leaders, Chirac unite to fight fake drug manufacturing, distribution

Also in global health news: HIV immigration rules; Global Fund Aid in Kenya; water shortage in Yemen; testing for TB

News outlets examine efforts to improve sanitation worldwide

Findings may reveal new treatments for people suffering from chronic hemoglobin levels

Haiti, Dominican Republic leaders aim to eradicate malaria, lymphatic filariasis by 2020, funding unclear

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