World's Health. (Health).HIV/AIDS HIV/AIDS Human Immunodeficiency Virus/Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome : Stephen Lewis, the U.N. special envoy for HIV/AIDS in Africa The HIV/AIDS epidemics spreading through the countries of Sub-Saharan Africa are highly varied. Although it is not correct to speak of a single African epidemic, Africa is without doubt the region most affected by the virus. , told the press that it is "absolutely certain" AIDS in Africa can be beat as long as the international community helps fund African countries' dogged efforts to defeat the disease. HIV/AIDS: Experts and activists meeting here at a conference on HIV/AIDS in Africa called on the United States to take the lead in donating more to the Global Fund to Fight HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria and for more of the money that is devoted to the cause to actually reach the intended targets in the world's most affected region. WHO: The food industry has infiltrated the World Health Organization and influenced policies governing dietary guidelines and safe levels of pesticides and additives, according to a report by an independent consultant to the WHO that is cited in today's London Guardian. Norbert Hirschhorn. The World Health Organization rejected allegations yesterday in the London Guardian that its policies on diet and nutrition were unduly influenced by the food industry, saying it welcomed open debate with all stakeholders and had strengthened its procedures against covert lobbying. POLIO: Following immunization immunization: see immunity; vaccination. campaigns sponsored by organizations such as the World Health Organization and UNICEF UNICEF (y  `nĭsĕf'), the United Nations Children's Fund, an affiliated agency of the United Nations. , Indonesia announced yesterday that it is free of polio and expects to be certified as such by the WHO in 2005. MEASLES: The Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization The GAVI Alliance (GAVI) (formerly The Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization) is an alliance between different stakeholders, in both the private and public sectors, committed to the mission of saving children's lives and protecting people's health through the has endorsed a World Health Organization-UNICEF plan to provide children in developing countries with two chances to receive measles vaccinations CHILD MORTALITY: Despite a drop in child mortality rates worldwide, rates in developing nations are on the rise or holding steady and international efforts to reverse the trend remain unfocused, according to an editorial in the current issue of The Lancet, journal of the British Medical Association The British Medical Association (BMA) is the trade union to which the vast majority of British doctors belong. It is based in Tavistock Square in central London. It owns the "British Medical Journal". TANZANIA; Tanzania now has the highest number of HIV-infected people in East Africa, Prime Minister Frederick Sumaye said. POLIO: India's Bihar state is for the third time involving militant groups, including banned groups, in a polio immunization campaign, the Economic Times reports. EL SALVADOR: Officials from El Salvador's Metapan hospital have launched a maternal assistance program to reduce the growing numbers of young girls who become pregnant, saying that despite assistance from the country's Health Ministry and the Pan American Health Organization The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) is an international public health agency with 100 years of experience in working to improve health and living standards of the countries of the Americas. It serves as the specialized organization for health of the Inter-American System. , the number of adolescent pregnancies has grown in the past year, San Salvador El Diario de Hoy El Diario de Hoy (Today's Newspaper) is a national daily newspaper published in San Salvador, El Salvador, one of the two dailies of highest circulation in the Central American country. reports today. AFGHANISTAN: The United Nations is dispatching medical supplies to mountain villages in Afghanistan's northeast to fight a whooping cough outbreak. |
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