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Medical News Today (Free subscription) | 12/08/2009
Nearly 51 600 people in the WHO European Region were newly diagnosed as infected with HIV in 2008, more than double the annual rate in 2000. In the 43 countries in the Region that consistently reported HIV surveillance data during this period, the infection rate rose from 44to 89 cases per million population, according to HIV/AIDS surveillance in Europe 2008, a report releasedlast...
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H5N1 (Free subscription) | 12/06/2009
Via Spanish News.es: A/H1N1 infection rate declines in Spain. Excerpt:During the past week, the number of cases of A/H1N1 swine flu has been decreasing in Spain according to the latest report from the Ministry of Health. During the week of...
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Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog (Free subscription) | 12/06/2009
Originally published in Insidermedicine More than half of patients in intensive care units (ICUs) worldwide are suffering from infections, which lengthen their hospital stays and increase their mortality rate, according to research published in the December 2 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association. According to the Infectious Diseases Society of America, basic...
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All Africa (Free subscription) | 12/02/2009
THE Government has expressed worry at the increase of new HIV infection rate which has risen to 82,000 in the past two years.
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All Africa (Free subscription) | 12/02/2009
THE Government has expressed worry at the increase of new HIV infection rate which has risen to 82,000 in the past two years.
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Scotsman.com (Free subscription) | 12/02/2009
THE pace of HIV diagnoses more than doubled in Europe between 2000 and 2008, new figures show.
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Scotsman.com (Free subscription) | 12/02/2009
THE pace of HIV diagnoses more than doubled in Europe between 2000 and 2008, new figures show.
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News Scotsman (Free subscription) | 12/02/2009
THE pace of HIV diagnoses more than doubled in Europe between 2000 and 2008, new figures show.
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RantingsbyMM (Free subscription) | 11 hours ago
... from the Ministry of Health. Basically I said that although global and local trends show that new infections are declining, we must still be watchful because it is clear that new groups, especially women, are now being infected more than before. Also although national infection rates are declining, in some states they are actually increasing and we need to know why....
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ProjectDisaster (Free subscription) | 12/08/2009
... seem to indicate an increase in unsafe sexual practices, which could lead to a rise in HIV infection rates……”
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Medical News Today (Free subscription) | 13 hours ago
The not-for-profit group Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium on Friday launched a Web site designed to address high sexually transmitted infection rates among the state's rural youth, the Anchorage Daily News reports. The site, called "I Know Mine," allows young people to order up to 20 no-cost condoms at once, request an appointment for STI testing, read fact sheets and...
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Gothamist (Free subscription) | yesterday
... confidential urine samples during the past school year tested positive for one of those two infections. While that percentage is lower than the 2007-08 school year (when 7.3 percent tested positive) it's still up from 2006-07, when the infection rate among a smaller sample of students was just 4.8 percent. *School year runs from July 1 to June 30 of the following year...
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Musings from Graceland (Free subscription) | 8 hours ago
... for me and Zodwa. Please do not ever forget us. I do not want to be hungry again. . With an HIV infection rate of over 45%, widows and orphans are the only people left in Swaziland. That's why Pastor Walter, already poor himself, took money from his own pocket to start our first carepoints. The smoke from the fires brought the hungry children from the countryside. They emerged from...
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SexGenderBody (Free subscription) | yesterday
... potential disaster in the combination of a criminalized sex trade, one of the world's highest HIV infection rates, and the arrival of an expected 450,000 soccer fans. The consultation, co-sponsored by the Sex Workers Education and Advocacy Taskforce (SWEAT) and SANAC, brought together civil society, government, and other key players to discuss the potential impact of the World Cup...
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Ideas (Free subscription) | 12/07/2009
In the U.S. and Europe, AIDS transmission via vaginal intercourse seems to be very low, with sexual transmission occurring mainly via anal intercourse—one reason why the infection rate is much higher among male homosexuals than in the general population. It is widely believed that this is not true in Africa, that, due perhaps to the prevalence of genital sores, vaginal transmission...
