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PAHO launches Regional Platform on Access and Innovation for Health Technologies

Washington, D.C., 2 April 2013 (PAHO/WHO) - Three Latin American countries are working to strengthen their management of drugs for the treatment of HIV/AIDS, as part of a pilot project supported by the Pan American Health Organization/World Health Organization (PAHO/WHO) and the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria. The project aims, among other things, to prevent shortages of antiretroviral drugs, a problem that has affected a number of countries in Latin America and the Caribbean.

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Countries in the Americas improve management of HIV/AIDS drugs to prevent shortages

A pilot project supported by PAHO/WHO and the Global Fund may expand to other countries

Washington, D.C., 2 April 2013 (PAHO/WHO) - Three Latin American countries are working to strengthen their management of drugs for the treatment of HIV/AIDS, as part of a pilot project supported by the Pan American Health Organization/World Health Organization (PAHO/WHO) and the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria. The project aims, among other things, to prevent shortages of antiretroviral drugs, a problem that has affected a number of countries in Latin America and the Caribbean. Read More

UNAIDS calls for Zero parallel systems for HIV and TB

GENEVA, 20 March 2013—Every day more than 1000 people living with HIV die of tuberculosis. This is unacceptable. Today we have the knowledge and the power to stop HIV and TB in their tracks. By integrating HIV and TB services and systems, we can save millions of lives and millions of dollars.Read More

HIV high on the agenda of Commission on Narcotic Drugs

In wide-ranging opening remarks to the current session of the Commission on Narcotic Drugs in Vienna, the Executive Director of the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) Yury Fedotov placed HIV and drug use at the heart of the global agenda.Read More

UN conference on women : some rights won, but more battles ahead

Posted by Rowan Harvey

It may not sound like much, but the attempted insertion of the word "recalls" in place of "reaffirms" about previous women’s rights agreements by the Holy See in the first line of the proposed draft document set the tone for much of the negotiations at this year’s UN Commission on the Status of Women (CSW).Read More

HIV increases the risk of heart attack, even in people with a suppressed viral load

Infection with HIV is associated with an increased risk of heart attack, investigators from the United States report in the Journal of the American Medical Association Internal Medicine. Importantly, this finding was based upon comparison of HIV-positive and HIV-negative individuals with the same demographic and cardiovascular-risk profiles. Overall, infection with HIV was associated with a 50% increase in the risk of heart attack beyond that explained by other risk factors.Read More

In Honduras, Fighting HIV/AIDS Through Music And Theater

n the village of Corozal in Honduras, men ready boats for fishing excursions and boys play soccer on a beach lined with thatched huts.

On a sandy lot next to the town’s main street, two teenage boys begin playing drums while women sing. For centuries, this has been the signature sound of celebration for the Garifuna – an Afro-Caribbean people on the Atlantic coast of Central America. Now this music has an additional purpose – to prevent HIV.Read More