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SmartGlobalHealth.org features the latest episode of "Small Screen Sessions," in which J. Stephen Morrison, director of the Center for Strategic & International Studies' Global Health Policy Center, discusses the policy changes that enabled the International AIDS Conference to return to the U.S. in 2012 after a 22-year hiatus, and the beginning of the "end of AIDS" (1/4).
PSI's "Healthy Lives" blog features a video from the University of North Carolina (UNC) Medical Center News Office in which Myron Cohen, a professor of medicine, microbiology, immunology and public health at UNC-Chapel Hill and the director of the Institute for Global Health and Infectious Diseases, discusses his research into HIV/AIDS prevention, including his lead role in HPTN 052. That study, which found "that the sexual transmission [of HIV] can be virtually stopped when the infected person is treated with ARVs, this year was heralded as the 'Breakthrough of the Year' by Science magazine," according to the blog (1/4).
Today's early morning highlights from the major news organizations, including a report that health law opponents want to add plaintiffs to their lawsuit as well as dispatches from the GOP primary election compaign trail.
As she announced she was leaving the presidential race, Rep. Bachmann referred to "Obamacare" 11 times.
A British Medical Journal study found that drug research, including federal government-sponsored clinical trials, is often suppressed, which lead to higher drug costs and harm for patients.
In a pair of stories, NPR reports on how tight budgets are playing out with staff reductions for full-time school nurses and how hospitals and medical schools are marketing themselves.
Republicans step up attacks on a new fee on private health plans -- created in the health law and set to take effect this week -- to private insurance plans to fund comparative effectiveness research.
A selection of stories from Texas, Florida, Massachusetts, Iowa and Georgia.
A new report from Citigroup Global Markets forecasts difficult times ahead for hospitals and other related businesses that rely on government spending.
Also, California officials prepare to appeal federal court decision striking down cuts to some providers, and Wisconsin announces that its shortfall is less than expected.
Congress starts 2012 facing the same old health policy fights, including the GOP push to pay for a more permanent Medicare "doc fix" with cuts to health law programs or Medicare. Meanwhile, Politico Pro reports on how House Ways and Means Committee Chair Dave Camp, R-Mich., has been pivotal in Republican efforts to undermine the health overhaul law.
A selection of editorials and opinions on health care policy from around the country.
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GOP presidential hopeful Mitt Romney edged out rival Rick Santorum by a margin so slim it is viewed by many as a tie. News outlets review the political dynamics behind the vote tally, and highlight how the outcome reflects the ongoing GOP ideological divide as well as what might happen next.
The state was one of 13 seeking an exemption from the health law's medical-loss ratio requirement that insurance companies spend at least 80 percent of premiums on medical care. Others, however, get a 30-day extension. Also in the news, the Department of Health and Human Services named 73 advisers to work with the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation. And, the American Hospital Association registered concern about some antitrust policies regarding accountable care organizations. Meanwhile, Politico lists some of the key health policy dates to watch in 2012.
"Aid workers say malnutrition rates among children under five at the Dolo Ado camp [in Ethiopia] are alarming," with "[o]ver 50 percent of children in Dolo Ado's Hilaweyn camp and nearly half of all children in Kobe camp
"UNICEF is preparing ambitious plans to update, strengthen and vastly expand its global vaccination program," and "is gearing up to triple its capacity over the next five years," according to a UNICEF news story. "A more effective and wide-reaching vaccination program will also help UNICEF fulfill its commitment to reaching the most vulnerable," the story reports (Niles, 1/3).
"Sri Lanka is making progress in the battle against mosquito-borne dengue fever, say health officials," IRIN reports. According to the health ministry, 26,722 dengue cases were reported in 2011, down from 34,105 cases in 2010, and the number of dengue-related deaths dropped from 246 to 172, IRIN notes. Officials credit the establishment in May 2010 of an "anti-dengue Presidential Task Force -- involving the ministries of health, defense, the environment, education, and local government, and headed by Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa" -- for the drop in cases, IRIN writes. The agencies worked together to launch widespread education campaigns, "clea[n] up areas suspected of being mosquito breeding grounds," and impose fines for illegal dumping, according to the news agency (12/29).
"Ethiopia's new plan to eliminate mother-to-child HIV transmission by 2015 cannot be attained unless men are more meaningfully involved in reproductive health, experts say," PlusNews reports. Ethiopia launched an accelerated prevention of mother-to-child transmission (PMTCT) program in December with "three objectives: reaching 90 percent of pregnant women with access to antenatal care services; ensuring universal access by pregnant women to a skilled attendant during delivery; and providing ARVs to at least 80 percent of HIV-positive pregnant women," according to the news service.
In the wake of "decades of conflict" and famine, Somalia "face[s] yet another widespread terror: an alarming increase in rapes and sexual abuse of women and girls," the New York Times reports. "The famine and mass displacement, which began over the summer, have made women and girls more vulnerable. Many Somali communities have been disbanded," leaving many women alone and vulnerable to al-Shabab militants, "rogue militiamen and even government soldiers [who] rape, rob and kill with impunity," the article states, adding, "Often, the women are left wounded or pregnant, forced to seek help" (Gettleman, 12/27).
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