World concern over Gaza Jan 6, 2009
" British aid charity Save the Children echoed the UN's concerns over the impact of the conflict on children in Gaza. Gaza without power In a statement, the charity warned most homes and hospitals in Gaza are now without power and have no heating. The group stressed that many newborn babies could lose their lives to hypothermia. "We want (British Prime Minister) Gordon Brown and all EU leaders to push for a ceasefire so that we have safe access to those people in need in Gaza," said a Save the... (iAfrica.com)
Kaiser Family Foundation Partners With Media Around The Globe to Address HIV/AIDS Nov 27, 2008
The Foundation has partnered with Univision since 2001 to reach Latinos with information about HIV/AIDS. For more information: and ; uniclave: SIDA. Regional media partners of the Global Media AIDS Initiative (), a project conceived and run by the Foundation with support by the United Nations to mobilize media around the world in response to HIV/AIDS, are also using the platform of World AIDS Day to announce new programming commitments. (PR Newswire)
Helping the Hidden Community of HIV Aug 20, 2008
Frustrated with the lack of health services for gay patients, who are routinely shunned by Burundian physicians, Kanuma founded a nonprofit AIDS organization, Association National de Soutien Aux Seropositif et Aux Malades du SIDA (ANSS), eight months ago. ANSS's first task has been to provide gel lubricants to gay men in Burundi, where in 2004, the government banned NGOs from sending the taboo lubricant there, leaving many men to use unsafe substitutes during sex Vaseline, for instance, which... (Time.com)
USA to open borders to those with AIDS... Aug 11, 2008
Many of them are referred to the clinic through a nonprofit aid group in San Antonio, Mujeres Unidas Contra el SIDA or United Women Against AIDS. The group's director, Yolanda Rodr;guez-Escobar, concurred with Talley that most HIV immigrants here are border-crossers who might never have heard of the travel exclusion. They'd prefer to enter the country legally for treatment if given the option, said one of them. (The Drudge Report)
Study Details Heart Risks from HIV Drugs Apr 3, 2008
Personalize Your Medical News. Thursday, April 03, 2008. (MedPage Today)
ISOLATED COMMUNITIES Mar 30, 2008
These activities receive financial support from the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC), the Humanitarian Aid Department of the European Commission (ECHO), the Department for International Development (DFID), UNICEF, the Swedish Government (SIDA), the Office of U.S. Foreign Disaster Assistance (OFDA), BSF (DFID - British Government and Worldbank), the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs (BuZa), TearFund New Zealand, ERF (Emergency Response Fund/UNDP administrated by OCHA), CHF (the... (AlertNet)
Hillary Clinton To Speak At Don Haskins Center Feb 12, 2008
"I think she will sway a couple of votes, I think Barack is a much better candidate," said Ryan Sida from West El Paso. "I think that Hillary coming to El Paso could sway some votes in her favor, however Hillary already has a lot of support from El Paso's demographic," said Conklin. (KFOXTV.com, TX)
A U.S. service member monitors the terrain. Nov 22, 2007
A U.S. service member from Combined Joint Task Force - Horn of Africa monitors the terrain while conducting a tactical movement exercise as part of a desert survival course conducted by the French military in Sida, Djibouti, on Nov. 10, 2007. U.S. service men and women are being instructed on land navigation, global positioning systems, what to eat to survive, using camels to transport equipment, helicopter medical evacuations, starting a fire and techniques for rigging traps. (DOD DefenseLINK -- News)
Humanitarian Assistance Often Lacks Needs Assessment Nov 12, 2007
One of Dr von Schreeb's sub-studies examined the extent to which Sida took account of needs assessments in its decisions to fund humanitarian health projects in 2003. Only one third of these decisions contained information about the size of the population to be helped or other factors reflecting their health needs. (Science Daily)
HIV-TB Spreads In Africa, Undermines Control Of World's Two Deadliest Infectious Diseases Nov 5, 2007
Along with the Forum for Collaborative HIV Research, many of the world's leading global health organizations co-sponsored these events, including the Agence Nationale de Recherches sur le Sida et les H;patites Virales (ANRS) in France, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, CREATE (Consortium to Respond Effectively to the AIDS-TB Epidemic), the European and Developing Countries Clinical Trials Partnership (EDCTP), the International AIDS Society, Tibotec, the U.S. National Institutes of Health, and... (Science Daily)
How Adhesive Protein Causes Malaria Sep 28, 2007
The study is a collaboration between Karolinska Institutet, the Swedish Institute for Infectious Disease Control, Makerere University and Medical Biotech Laboratories in Uganda, and has been financed by the Swedish International development cooperation Agency (Sida), the Swedish Research Council and the EU.. Reference: "PfEMP1-DBL1a amino acid motifs in severe disease states of Plasmodium falciparum malaria", Johan Normark, Daniel Nilsson, Ulf Ribacke, Gerhard Winter, Kirsten Moll, Craig E.... (Science Daily)
Congolese mourn 'Rumba king' Aug 24, 2007
In the early days when Madilu system came we had a young girl who use to dance Madilu's music so frantically that she was named "Madilu System and she grew up to be known by that name and so Madilu still lives amongst us.Peter and Mary, Kampata Uganda He was one of the best legends in rumba, Congo has ever produced. His voice, composition of songs, sense of humour, and main ideas of songs can tell how much we will miss him. It is surely hard to acquire such a musician in our modern world! Que... (BBC News -- Africa)
Read more... Jul 25, 2007
The National Latino AIDS Delegation: LaClinica del Pueblo, Washington, DC; BIENESTAR, Southern California; The Latino Commission on AIDS, New York; Salud Latina/Latino Health, Chicago, IL; CPG, Puerto Rico; Mujeres Unidas Contra el SIDA, San Antonio, TX; Florida Health Department; NASTAD Latino Advisory; Latin American Health Institute, Boston, MA.. Related links. (PNN Online)
UNFPA to expand HIV prevention project in Myanmar Jul 24, 2007
The 3D Fund was developed in 2006 for an operational period of five years by a group of six donors comprising the European Commission, Sweden's Sida, the Netherlands, United Kingdom's Department for International Development, Norway and Australia's Aus AID to compensate for grants which were suspended in August 2005 by the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria. A recent workshop involving Myanmar, the World Health Organization (WHO) and UNAIDS stated that 338,911 people were estimated to... (People's Daily Online)
Cable Positive: POP Go the Winners Jun 17, 2007
Outstanding Original Spanish-Language Public Service: Enterate ; Sida 25 A;os Despues, Univision. Outstanding Original Spanish-Language Programming: Enterate ; Sida 25 A;os Despues, Univision; and. (Multichannel News)
Curing Male Sexual Debility Jun 16, 2007
Sida cordifolia (Country Mallow): The plant belongs to family Malvaceae. Leaves and roots are used as an aphrodisiac. (Suite101.com)
CSUN Spanish-Language media project targets AIDS00000241 Jun 2, 2007
The results of their work, "Relatos contra el silencio: El sida en la communidad Latina" ("Stories Against the Silence: AIDS in the Latin Community"), is a 48-page special edition of El Nuevo Sol, the campus' Spanish-language newspaper. In moving detail, it tells the stories of the Casa's inhabitants and beams a spotlight on the issue of AIDS in the Spanish-speaking community. (Los Angeles Daily News)
Team ID's Cell Mechanics Of Hallmark Malaria Protein May 26, 2007
The research was funded by an interuniversity grant received by GEM4, a Pasteur Institut research grant, Agence Nationale de Recherche sur le Sida, the National University of Singapore and the Computational Systems Biology Program of the Singapore-MIT Alliance. Note: This story has been adapted from a news release issued by Massachusetts Institute of Technology. (Science Daily)
Medical officer call for collaboration to reduce death Apr 18, 2007
It is the second in a series of international training programmes being organized by the Swedish International Development Agency (SIDA) in collaboration with Lund University in Sweden, to give participants knowledge, experience and inspiration to initiate sustainable change in sexual and reproductive health and rights. Participants from eight African countries including Ghana, Tanzania, the Gambia, Nigeria, and Kenya are attending. (Ghana Web, Ghana)
Botanists discover new bamboo species Mar 22, 2007
Their work appeared last fall in the journal "Sida, Contributions to Botany.". She and Triplett are studying North American bamboo as part of a larger worldwide project to develop an evolutionary family tree of bamboo species. (Herald Online, SC -- Health)
Botanists Identify New Species Of North American Bamboo Mar 14, 2007
They submitted their evidence in a manuscript to the scientific journal Sida, Contributions to Botany, convincing the peer reviewers that the bamboo they discovered was new. Their study was published last fall. (Science Daily)
Relief to flood affected people in Garissa, Kenya Feb 15, 2007
GARISSA, KENYA, December 11, 2006 - International Aid Services has received a grant from Danish Mission Council Development Department , Swedish Mission Council / Sida, and Lkarmissionen for a relief intervention in Garissa, North East Kenya. In the last weeks since the beginning of November 2006, abnormal rainfall has hit Eastern Africa, specifically eastern Kenya and in this case, Garissa and Tana River districts and surroundings. (AlertNet)
K'la Men Rush to Get Circumcised Jan 4, 2007
Similar trials in South Africa were halted in early 2005 by researchers from the French Agence Nationale de Recherches sur le Sida (ANRS). It found a 60 per cent reduction in the risk of acquiring HIV over 21 months of follow-up in men who were circumcised at the beginning of the study. (AllAfrica.com)
