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Many U.S. Residents Test Positive For HIV Late In Illness, Few High School Students
Many people who test positive for HIV are diagnosed late in the course of their infection when treatment might be less effective, according to a report published Thursday in CDC"s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, Reuters Health reports. The report looked at data on people who were diagnosed with HIV from 1996 to 2005 and found that 45 percent had developed AIDS within three years of their initial HIV diagnosis, 38.3 percent within one year and an additional 6.7 percent within the next two years (Reuters Health 6/25). R. Luke Shouse of CDC"s Division of HIV/AIDS Prevention in the National Center for HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD and TB Prevention, said, "This means that they may have unknowingly transmitted HIV. It also means that there is a time when they had HIV when they were not under appropriate medical care, so there are missed opportunities for prevention and care." A separate CDC report also published yesterday found that 22.3 percent of high school students who are sexually active and 12.9 percent of all students have been tested for HIV (Reinberg, HealthDay/KATC.com, 6/25).

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HIV-Positive Students In Taiwan; U. K. Commitment To Zimbabwe; Scientists Discover Faster, Cheaper HIV Test, How Schistosomiasis Drug Works

Taiwan Marks Increased Numbers Of HIV-Positive Students The Taiwan AIDS Foundation said that according to Department of Health"s Centers for Disease Control statistics, the average age of HIV positive people in the country is getting younger, the China Post reports. Lin Chiung-chao, the foundation"s secretary-general, said that the number of HIV-positive students rose to 156 in 2008, up from 110 in 2007. "The figures mark an alarming 42 percent year-on-year surge," he said, adding, "This is a general world trend, as the AIDS prevention publicity campaign has failed to catch up with the tendency that the average age of youngsters having sex for the first time has dropped to 16" (China Post, 6/25). U.K. To Give Zimbabwe Total of $100M Aid In a meeting with Zimbabwe"s Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai on Monday, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown said the U.K. would give the country a total of $100 million in humanitarian support for 2009 and 2010, SW Radio Africa reports. Brown made the announcement after he pledged an additional $8 million for food security and educational textbooks (Gonda, SW Radio Africa, 6/24). "Fast, Inexpensive" HIV Test Could Be Used To Test Babies During Their First Year An HIV test that uses dried blood samples is "fast, inexpensive, and could aid the testing and treatment of HIV-positive babies in the first year of life, scientists say," SciDev.Net reports. Researchers tested the technique, which extracts and amplifies the virus" genetic material from a sample of blood that is blotted onto filter paper. Scientists found the test was "accurate as well as twice as fast and 40-fold cheaper than commercial viral tests. It was also just as accurate after samples were stored at 37 degrees Celsius for seven days." The study is published in PLoS One (Makoni, SciDev.Net, 6/24). Scientists Identify How Schistosomiasis Drug Works University of Minnesota Medical School researchers say they understand how the drug praziquantel works to treat the parasitic disease schistosomiasis, UPI reports. Although the "drug has been used as the main treatment for several decadesò€¦ scientists have never understood" how it works to kill the parasitic worms, writes the news agency. The results are published in PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases (UPI, 6/24). According to a release, "[d]eciphering how this drug works is important because scientists could design new drugs that work in similar ways should the parasites develop resistance to praziquantel" (University of Minnesota release/EurekAlert, 6/23). IRIN Examines Efforts To Increase Access To Male Circumcision Procedures In Southern Africa After more than two years since the WHO recommended that male circumcision be used as one method to prevent the spread of HIV, PlusNews/IRIN examines what several countries in Southern Africa have done to increase access to the procedure. The article details the diverse responses to the WHO"s recommendations (PlusNews/IRIN, 6/23). This information was reprinted from globalhealth.kff.org with kind permission from the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation. You can view the entire Kaiser Daily Global Health Policy Report, search the archives and sign up for email delivery at globalhealth.kff.org. © Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation. All rights reserved.


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