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Still remaining on the list, however, is action to prevent a scheduled reduction in Medicare payments for physicians. A proposal to avert this cut is included in a broader measure that would extend the payroll tax break.
"Unless African governments increase their funding for and engagement in HIV research, the continent cannot hope to attain equal status in determining its research agenda and priorities, speakers said at the 16th International Conference on AIDS and Sexually Transmitted Infections (STIs) in Africa," PlusNews reports. "Donor-driven funding often means that research starts and ends on the say-so of funders, rather than being based on a country's needs," the news service writes. The article includes comments from researchers, funders, and representatives of research initiatives (12/9).
"Millions of people in Africa's Sahel region need urgent help to cope with food shortages brought on by erratic rainfall and drought, and at least one million children in the area face malnutrition next year, U.N. agencies warned," AlertNet reports. "The World Food Programme (WFP), which called for a new type of response to climate-related crises, estimates that between five and seven million people in the semi-arid zone just south of the Sahara need assistance now," and it "said the situation would worsen if nothing was done to help the countries in need -- as more people are expected to run out of food supplies by February and March next year," the news service writes (Fominyen, 12/9).
Today's early morning highlights from the major news organizations, including reports about Congress' efforts to inch toward the finish line on a spending deal, on a payroll tax bill and on a way to avert a scheduled deep cut in Medicare reimbursement rates for doctors.
The candidates traded barbs about the individual mandate to buy insurance and what they would do about the health law.
Former Massachusetts governor reminds voters in Iowa that his opponent once dismissed the bill drawn up by House Republican Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan.
The plan would cut $21 billion in health law funding and $16 billion in hospital payments.
The KHN blog Capsules reports that the $5 billion fund that helped cover health insurance for more than 5 million people will stop taking claims for expenses incurred after Dec. 31 because it is running out of money.
Science examines recent successes in clinical trials in the HIV prevention field, limitations to mathematical models resulting from these trials, and funding issues facing campaigns to ramp up HIV prevention interventions. "[M]odels now suggest that combining [prevention strategies] might virtually stop HIV's spread," but "there's a vast difference between a study having success and thwarting HIV in the real world," according to Science. "Models only point out routes to ending AIDS, and many will surely differ," the magazine writes, concluding, "But for the first time since AIDS surfaced 31 years ago, many researchers believe the destination itself is no longer a mirage" (Cohen, 12/9).
Secretary Kathleen Sebelius says the money will help treat about 112,000 students.
A study uses a new measure to judge nation's health care, another asks doctors to rate the best and worst insurers.
A selection of stories from Florida, Maryland, California, Louisiana, Iowa, Wisconsin and Connecticut.
The nonprofit, consumer-owned insurance plans are part of the health overhaul set in motion by the 2010 law.
House Republicans want to know if HHS consulted state insurance commissioners when writing MLR rules, while Texas seeks a waiver.
Boehner is readying a plan to continue a payroll tax cut and has sweetened the pot for rank-and-file Republicans with cuts to the health law and approval of the Keystone XL pipeline. The plan would almost certainly face stiff opposition in the Senate.
Also, Georgia and New Hampshire have their own Medicaid provider news.
The joint venture seeks to help health organizations integrate data.
In this Toronto Star opinion piece, Richard Elliott, executive director of the Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network, and Nicci Stein, executive director of the Interagency Coalition on AIDS and Development, discuss how progress made in the fight against HIV/AIDS over the last 30 years "is in peril, due to governments reneging on repeated promises to fund the fight against the pandemic."
"[S]topping the AIDS pandemic requires sustained engagement from both donor and developing countries, political commitments that are backed by dollars. ... Yet many donor countries have chosen precisely this moment to abandon their promises," they write. They discuss the cancellation of Round 11 grants by the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, and ask the Canadian government to deliver on its HIV/AIDS funding pledges. Elliott and Stein conclude, "We can turn the tide on the spread of HIV -- victory has never been closer. But we need to make sure that those with the power and the money use it toward achieving the goal of an end to AIDS" (12/7).
"The Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC), through its partnership with the Millennium Challenge Account-Lesotho, is helping Lesotho address key challenges in its health sector through a $122 million investment in health infrastructure and health systems," IIP Digital reports. "More than 720,000 Basotho are expected to benefit from the MCC health project over the next 20 years," the news service writes.
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