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  • World Must Scale Up AIDS Fight, Even As Donors Scale Back

    UNAIDS Executive Director Michel Sidibe writes in a Los Angeles Times opinion piece that "amid all the good news" about HIV prevention recently presented at the 6th International AIDS Society Conference on HIV Pathogenesis, Treatment and Prevention, "one stubborn fact was hard to ignore: AIDS remains a metaphor for inequality." With discrepancies in access to HIV treatment and prevention between developed and developing countries, "[i]t is hard not to conclude from all this that life is not valued equally across the world. This is morally wrong and unacceptable," he writes.

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  • Concentrated HIV Epidemics Emerging Among MSM In Middle East, North Africa, Study Shows

    Concentrated HIV epidemics are emerging among men who have sex with men in the Middle East and North Africa, "and high levels of risky sexual behavior threaten to spread the AIDS virus further in the region, researchers said Tuesday" in a study published in PLoS Medicine, Reuters reports. The researchers "found evidence for concentrated HIV epidemics

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  • Scientists Say Antibiotic-Resistant Salmonella Strain May Spread Worldwide

    "Scientists have identified an emerging 'superbug' strain of salmonella that is highly resistant to the antibiotic Ciprofloxacin, or Cipro, often used for severe salmonella infections, and say they fear it may spread around the world," according to a study published online Tuesday in the Journal of Infectious Diseases, Reuters reports (Kelland, 8/3).

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  • First Edition: August 3, 2011

    Today's early morning highlights from the major news organizations, including reports about the impact the debt deal might have on health care providers, as well as how the agreement's "super committee" will be charged with finding spending reductions in Medicare, Medicaid and a range of other government programs.

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  • With Clock Ticking, Debt-Deal Moves Toward Finish

    A Senate vote on the package is set for today. The deal itself has left both liberals and conservatives unhappy but clarified both parties' priorities. For Democrats, it was protecting Medicaid and Social Security. For Republicans, preventing tax increases.

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  • N.Y. Brothers Earn $1 Million With Medicaid-Financed Business

    The New York Times details a the expensive lifestyle of two men from Brooklyn who earned nearly $1 million a year running a Medicaid-financed nonprofit organization serving the developmentally disabled. Meanwhile, in Florida, state officials submitted their plans for converting Medicaid to a managed care program.

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  • Famine Will Spread In Somalia Unless ‘Massive’ Response Mounted, U.N. Says

    The famine in the Horn of Africa is getting worse, and unless there is "a massive increase in the response, the famine will spread to five or six more regions" in Somalia, Valerie Amos, the U.N. under-secretary-general for humanitarian affairs, told reporters on Monday, Reuters reports. Amos said the U.N. needs an additional $1.4 billion to help those in need and that the African Union would soon hold a funding conference, the news agency notes (Charbonneau, 8/1).

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  • Reducing Commodity Costs For ARVs Could Mean Providing Treatment To Millions More People

    "Reducing commodity costs [for antiretroviral drugs] by a mere five to 10 percent can represent hundreds of millions of dollars in savings for the global community. In turn these savings translate into millions of more patients who can receive access to life-saving treatment," David de Ferranti, president of Results for Development Institute (R4D), and Kanika Bahl, managing director at R4D, write in a Huffington Post opinion piece. They discuss a strategic plan for increasing access to and lowering the cost of antiretroviral drugs (ARVs) that R4D developed for the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria.

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  • Neglected Tropical Diseases Becoming More Common In Europe, Study Shows

    "Worm infestations, food parasites, Chagas disease, sand fly-transmitted infections and other neglected tropical diseases usually found in Africa and Asia are turning up more often in Europe, according to a new study" published recently in the International Journal of Infectious Diseases by researchers from the Sabin Vaccine Institute, the New York Times reports.

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  • Different Health Care Delivery Systems Offer Differing Visions Of Efficiency

    One California partnership that involved a large insurance company, a major hospital chain and a group of doctors has reduced health care costs. But a new report shows that the growing number of hospital-based physicians may ultimately be taxing Medicare resources. Meanwhile, a public hospital's attempt to redesign its care delivery model offers "a mircrocosm of reform goals."

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  • GlobalPost Interviews USAID Officials About Family Planning, Funding

    GlobalPost's "Global Pulse" blog features an interview with Ellen Starbird, deputy director of the Office of Population and Reproductive Health at USAID, and Judy Manning, health development officer in USAID's Research, Technology and Utilization Division, who discuss "family planning and reproductive health issues, including new innovations and promising technologies still in the research stage." Starbird says that funding for family planning programs is critical for "making possible for women in the developing world the kinds of choices that women all over the developed world have" (Donnelly, 8/1).

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  • Debt Deal Raises Concerns For States

    State officials worry that federal funding for health and other programs could be squeezed by the special congressional committee that will hammer out further spending cuts.

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