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"Backtracking by international donors in funding for HIV/AIDS may undermine years of progress and is already putting lives at risk," according to a report (.pdf) released Thursday by Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF), Reuters reports (Kelland, 5/27).
USAID Administrator Rajiv Shah on Wednesday at the Food Security Investment Forum outlined U.S. plans for its food security partnership with Bangladesh as part of the Feed the Future intiative, the Daily Star reports. The goal of the two-day forum was "to help Bangladesh finalise a roadmap for future investments in food and agriculture," the publication writes (5/27).
Kaiser Health News presents a selection of today's opinions and editorials from around the country.
Research published in the Lancet online Thursday "provides the strongest evidence to date" that antiretroviral therapy (ART) might also be used to prevent transmission of HIV, Agence France-Presse reports. The observational study found that treating HIV-positive patients with ART reduced the risk of HIV transmission to their sexual partners by 92 percent (5/26).
As the first of the laid-off to receive a 65 percent subsidy on the cost of continuing their former employer's coverage under COBRA prepare to try to afford coverage without the assistance, news outlets are helping people examine their options.
Millions of people worldwide face repression and human rights abuses, including the denial of health care, Amnesty International said in its annual report on human rights, which was released on Wednesday, msnbc.com reports (5/26).
Each state's situation will be a bit different, the study finds. "Oregion will experience the largest jump in federal spending on Medicaid -- 51 percent," Reuters reports. "Meanwhile, Mississippi will have the biggest increase in state spending at 5 percent."
The Wall Street Journal examines GlaxoSmithKline's (GSK) plan to share its database of compounds that could treat tropical diseases. The initiative will test how well "open-source principles work for developing new drugs," the newspaper reports.
The Philadelphia Inquirer reports that "more than 200 area hospital administrators, doctors, nurses, and others met with national experts at the Union League in Center City to learn about strategies to reduce hospital readmissions in the five-county Philadelphia area."
UnitedHealth Group has drastically raised dividends paid to shareholders - from $35 million to $560 million a year - in a move that may draw criticism for profits that rose alongside soaring health costs.
Arkansas incumbent, widely considered one of the most vulnerable members of Congress, uses television ads highlighting her support of the federal health care law, The Associated Press reports.
Hospitalists, the fast-growing medical speciality, coordinate care in a hospital and can help reduce length of hospital stays, The New York Times reports.
The health insurer WellPoint has announced guidelines for using comparative effectiveness studies to pit drugs against one another and determine which works best.
A $5 billion fund to create high-risk pools in the states as part of the health overhaul may fall short of meeting the needs of uninsured people with health problems if state and federal officials closely monitor the program.
The Associated Press reports that a $15 million Medicare fraud case in California has ended as the last of 17 defendants was sentenced this week to 30 months in prison.
Report suggests that states will get big benefits for relatively little cost, but some states are still worried about coming up with that modest increase in funding.
Despite the new health law's requirement that young adults be able to stay on their parents' health plans until the age of 26, some recent college students are facing a gap in coverage, NPR reports.
Today's early morning highlights from the major news organization, including a study about the federal government's funding level for high-risk pools as well as congressional Democrats' ongoing struggle to extend the COBRA benefit subsidy and to prevent a scheduled cut in Medicare payments to physicians.
The conclusions of this comprehensive study rebut concerns and protests by governors that the health law's Medicaid expansion will be a state budget buster.
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