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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="EN-GB">Please
find attached the following AIDS-related articles compiled by UNAIDS<u></u><u></u></span></font></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span><b><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold" lang="EN-GB">UNAIDS<u></u><u></u></span></font></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="EN-GB">1.
Global Voices Online - </span></font></span><span><font color="#e93e35" face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#e93e35" lang="EN-GB">Blogging Positively: Turning the Tide at AIDS
2012<u></u><u></u></span></font></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><u></u><span><b><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold" lang="EN-GB">AFRICA</span></font></b></span><u></u><span><b><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold" lang="EN-GB"> AND MIDDLE EAST <u></u><u></u></span></font></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="EN-GB">1.
The Nation, <u></u><u></u>Kenya<u></u><u></u>
- </span></font></span><span><font color="#e93e35" face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#e93e35" lang="EN-GB">Move quickly to stop abuse of HIV drugs (Editorial) <u></u><u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="EN-GB">2.
South African Government - </span></font></span><span><font color="#e93e35" face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#e93e35" lang="EN-GB">HIV/Aids and TB Are Workplace Diseases With
Effect On Productivity - Cautions ILO <u></u><u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="FR">3. Le
Soleil, Senegal - </span></font></span><span><font color="#e93e35" face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#e93e35" lang="FR">Thiès - Plus 2.600 personnes consultées et 600 personnes
dépistées au VIH<u></u><u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="EN-GB">4.
Daily <u></u><u></u>Trust<u></u>, <u></u>Nigeria<u></u><u></u> - </span></font></span><span><font color="#e93e35" face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#e93e35" lang="EN-GB">Nation Receives
U.S.$225 Million Grant for HIV, TB, Malaria<u></u><u></u></span></font></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><u></u><span><b><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold" lang="EN-GB">ASIA</span></font></b></span><u></u><span><b><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold" lang="EN-GB"> AND PACIFIC<u></u><u></u></span></font></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="EN-GB">1.
<u></u><u></u>Bangkok<u></u><u></u> Post - </span></font></span><span><font color="#e93e35" face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#e93e35" lang="EN-GB">Battling deadly
diseases<u></u><u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="EN-GB">2.
Economic Times, <u></u><u></u>India<u></u><u></u>
- </span></font></span><span><font color="#e93e35" face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#e93e35" lang="EN-GB">Cancer, HIV patients suffer as morphine supplies are hobbled by
excessive regulation <u></u><u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="EN-GB">3.
<u></u>VietNamNet<u></u> <u></u>Bridge<u></u>
- </span></font></span><span><font color="#e93e35" face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#e93e35" lang="EN-GB">Disease with AIDS-like symptoms appears in <u></u><u></u>Vietnam<u></u><u></u>: false report <u></u><u></u></span></font></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span><b><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold" lang="FR">EUROPE<u></u><u></u></span></font></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="FR">1. LePoint.fr
- </span></font></span><span><font color="#e93e35" face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#e93e35" lang="FR">Asie
: une nouvelle maladie voisine du sida <u></u><u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="FR">2. Slate.fr
- </span></font></span><span><font color="#e93e35" face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#e93e35" lang="FR">L'histoire
vraie —et rectifiée— du sida <u></u><u></u></span></font></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span><b><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold" lang="EN-GB">LATIN AMERICA AND <u></u>CARIBBEAN<u></u><u></u><u></u></span></font></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="EN-GB">1.
ABC <u></u><u></u>Color<u></u>, <u></u>Paraguay<u></u><u></u> - </span></font></span><span><font color="#e93e35" face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#e93e35">EE.UU. aprueba nueva píldora
contra VIH <u></u><u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="EN-GB">2.
<u></u><u></u>Diario Correo<u></u>, <u></u>Peru<u></u><u></u> - </span></font></span><span><font color="#e93e35" face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#e93e35">Realizaron jornada
multisectorial de prevención contra el Sida <u></u><u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="EN-GB">3.
<u></u><u></u>El Comercial<u></u>, <u></u>Argentina<u></u><u></u> - </span></font></span><span><font color="#e93e35" face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#e93e35">REALIZAN ENCUENTRO
INTERNACIONAL DE SIDA Y HEPATITIS <u></u><u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="FR">4. Agência
de Notícias da Aids, Brazil - </span></font></span><span><font color="#e93e35" face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#e93e35" lang="FR">Ativistas que lutam contra a aids organizam
série de protestos em São Paulo</span></font></span><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="FR"><u></u><u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="FR"><u></u> <u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><u></u><span><b><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold" lang="EN-GB">NORTH AMERICA</span></font></b></span><u></u><span><b><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold" lang="EN-GB"><u></u><u></u></span></font></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="EN-GB">1.
New York Times - </span></font></span><span><font color="#e93e35" face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#e93e35" lang="EN-GB">F.D.A. Approves Once-a-Day Pill for H.I.V.<u></u><u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="EN-GB">2.
<u></u><u></u>Washington<u></u><u></u>
Post - </span></font></span><span><font color="#e93e35" face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#e93e35" lang="EN-GB">New health law broadens free preventive services for
women; men fare less well<u></u><u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="EN-GB">3.
New York Times - </span></font></span><span><font color="#e93e35" face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#e93e35" lang="EN-GB">Stigma of H.I.V. Is a Barrier to Prenatal Care<u></u><u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="EN-GB">4.
New York Times - </span></font></span><span><font color="#e93e35" face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#e93e35" lang="EN-GB">Factor in Breast Milk May Cut H.I.V. Spread <u></u><u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="EN-GB">5.
Associated Press - </span></font></span><u></u><u></u><span><font color="#e93e35" face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#e93e35" lang="EN-GB">China</span></font></span><u></u><u></u><span><font color="#e93e35" face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#e93e35" lang="EN-GB"> AIDS patients topple
gate of gov't office<u></u><u></u></span></font></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span><b><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold" lang="EN-GB">UNAIDS<u></u><u></u></span></font></b></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font color="#e93e35" face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#e93e35" lang="EN-GB">Blogging Positively: Turning the Tide at AIDS
2012<u></u><u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font color="#e93e35" face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#e93e35" lang="EN-GB">Global Voices Online <u></u><u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font color="#e93e35" face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#e93e35" lang="ES-TRAD">27/08/2012<u></u><u></u></span></font></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="EN-GB">Written
by Maureen Agena<u></u><u></u></span></font></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial">Rising Voices
Note: Maureen Agena recently represented RV at the AIDS 2012 Conference
recently held in <u></u><u></u>Washington<u></u>,
<u></u>DC<u></u><u></u>. She'll be highlighting some
of the people and projects that are using these digital media tools to help
fight the spread of HIV.<u></u><u></u></span></font></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial">The global
AIDS community recently met in <u></u><u></u>Washington<u></u>,
<u></u>DC<u></u><u></u> on July 22-27, 2012 for its
biennial meeting called AIDS 2012: Turning the Tide Together, with a clearer sense
that the end of the AIDS epidemic is possible with sustained financial,
political, and scientific commitment. Delegates, exhibitors and organizers
convened at the event, which drew nearly 24,000 participants from 183 countries
to discuss the coordinated efforts to expand HIV prevention and treatment
initiatives, integrate HIV programs into broader health services, maintain
funding, and improve human rights across vulnerable populations. However, there
was also a special emphasis on the role that citizen media is playing in this
effort to stop the spread of HIV. Throughout the five days, there was a full
slate of sessions and conversations about new media and HIV/AIDS. <u></u><u></u></span></font></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial">Social media
and web 2.0 technologies have been used to advance the human rights of many
young people and adolescents in many spheres of life, but until recently,
little had been done to advance the rights of young people living with
HIV/AIDS. Although many people argue that the impact of new media is being
overstated, it cannot be denied that more and more people are able to access
this participatory form of mass communication. Many more people who were once
excluded from vital information are increasingly using new media to advance
their own well-being and that of their families. <u></u><u></u></span></font></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial">For example,
UNAIDS, the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS highlighted how social
media and/or mobile technologies are instrumental in the response to HIV/AIDS
in different settings. Young activist Aram Barra (@arambarra) from Mexico
talked about the campaign Crowd Out AIDS </span></font></span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="EN-GB">(<a href="https://twitter.com/crowdoutaids" target="_blank">@CrowdOutAIDS</a>),</span></font><span><u><font color="blue" face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="EN-GB"> </span></font></u></span><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial">an online social collaboration platform developed with
UNAIDS that maximizes the potential for young people's participation and
leadership in the AIDS response and serves as the hub for all UNAIDS
youth-related activities. The platform takes advantage of crowdsourcing which
gathers information from the general public about current events, products and
retail establishments. </span></font></span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="EN-GB"><a href="http://www.crowdoutaids.org/wordpress/" target="_blank">Crowd Out AIDS</a></span></font><span lang="EN-GB"> </span><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial">features include CrowdMap, a global
geo-location database of youth activists and organizations, as well as a forum,
a blog and a wiki all built around engaging youth. <u></u><u></u></span></font></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial">An example
demonstrating the use of crowd sourcing is Declaration for Change
(#dec4change). Young people from around the world used an app to develop a list
of priorities and a declaration for change for the AIDS response aimed at
achieving an AIDS-free generation.<u></u><u></u></span></font></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial">This just an
overview of some of the topics and initiatives using participatory media to
help fight the spread of HIV and raise awareness about this global issue. We'll
bring you a few more stories about organizations and projects that were in
attendance at AIDS 2012 and how they are using these tools for a positive
change<u></u><u></u></span></font></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><u></u><span><b><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold" lang="EN-GB">AFRICA</span></font></b></span><u></u><span><b><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold" lang="EN-GB"> AND MIDDLE EAST<u></u><u></u></span></font></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="EN-GB"><u></u> <u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="EN-GB">===========================<u></u><u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="EN-GB"><u></u> <u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font color="#e93e35" face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#e93e35" lang="EN-GB">Move quickly to stop abuse of HIV drugs
(Editorial) <u></u><u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font color="#e93e35" face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#e93e35" lang="EN-GB">The Nation, <u></u><u></u>Kenya<u></u><u></u><u></u><u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font color="#e93e35" face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#e93e35" lang="ES-TRAD">26/08/2012<u></u><u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="PT-BR"><u></u> <u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="EN">Reports
that medicines for the management of HIV are being used in the brewing of
illicit alcohol have been met with a loud silence, especially from regulatory
authorities. <u></u><u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="EN"><u></u> <u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="EN">Media
reports in recent days have presented evidence that antiretrovirals are,
indeed, being diverted from legitimate use to the manufacture of illicit alcohol.
<u></u><u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="EN"><u></u> <u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="EN">The
brewers are sophisticated, packaging their wares to mimic popular brands in the
market and selling them in legal establishments. <u></u><u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="EN"><u></u> <u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="EN">The
unscrupulous brewers are also using chemicals such as the preservative
formalin. <u></u><u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="EN"><u></u> <u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="EN">It is
not known how such compounds would interact or affect the health of consumers,
but they definitely are not safe.<u></u><u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="EN"><u></u> <u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="EN">It is
curious that neither of the ministries of Health, the National Agency for the
Campaign Against Drug Abuse, or even the Kenya Bureau of Standards (Kebs) have
come out to warn the public about the dangers of these products.<u></u><u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="EN"><u></u> <u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="EN">Indeed,
Kebs and the Anti-Counterfeit Agency should have moved fast to flush out these
criminals and saboteurs of genuine business.<u></u><u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="EN"><u></u> <u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="EN">Although
the reports did not indicate the volume of the antiretrovirals involved and
whether they are significant enough to sabotage HIV control programmes, the
relevant civil groups should have weighed in to seal the loopholes. <u></u><u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="EN"><u></u> <u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="EN">Non-governmental
groups may not welcome such negative reports since they may discourage donors,
but doing nothing can only escalate the problem while criminals find other ways
of using the free HIV medicines.<u></u><u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="EN"><u></u> <u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="EN">This
is a matter of protecting Kenyans’ health and government agencies must
act with the same zeal being demonstrated in the fight against counterfeit
mobile phones to stop these activities. <u></u><u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="EN"><u></u> <u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="EN">The
current Alcohol Control Act provides the muscle to deter the criminals.<u></u><u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font color="#ff99cc" face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#ff99cc" lang="EN"><u></u> <u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><a name="1396ce16773a93b8_AfricaMiddleEast2"><b><font color="white" face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:white;font-weight:bold" lang="EN-GB">2<u></u><u></u></span></font></b></a></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font color="#e93e35" face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#e93e35" lang="EN-GB">HIV/Aids and TB Are Workplace Diseases With
Effect On Productivity - Cautions ILO <u></u><u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font color="#e93e35" face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#e93e35" lang="EN-GB">South African Government<u></u><u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font color="#e93e35" face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#e93e35" lang="ES-TRAD">23/08/2012<u></u><u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="PT-BR"><u></u> <u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="PT-BR">A
strong partnership and shared strategy between employers, unions and
surrounding communities was imperative in addressing the ravages caused by
diseases such as HIV/Aids and tuberculosis (TB) in the workplace, said
International Labour Organisation (ILO) senior technical advisor on health
Simphiwe Mabhele.<u></u><u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="PT-BR"><u></u> <u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="PT-BR">Mabhele
said despite more than three decades of advocacy about the effects of the
diseases, he was concerned that the management of human immune virus (HIV) and
acquired immune deficiency syndrome (Aids) including tuberculosis as workplace
diseases seemed to have been relegated to the periphery.<u></u><u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="PT-BR"><u></u> <u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="PT-BR">"Despite
awareness campaigns a stigma index still shows that people still have fears
around HIV/Aids disease. It is not clear why this reaction still prevail -
whether it is because of lack of information or other reasons," Mabhele
cautioned.<u></u><u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="PT-BR"><u></u> <u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="PT-BR">Mabhele
was speaking at a Department of Labour (DoL) organised workshop that was held
at the Eastern Cape Training Centre (ETC) in Port Elizabeth, Eastern Cape today
(August 22).<u></u><u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="PT-BR"><u></u> <u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="PT-BR">The
gathering is used by DoL's Employment Equity (EE) Advisory Unit Directorate to
outline the newly unveiled key steps for successful implementation of the
revised HIV/Aids and TB Code, and the technical assistance guideline (TAG)
policy in the world of work.<u></u><u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="PT-BR"><u></u> <u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="PT-BR">The
national roadshows are also used by the department as part of an annual
campaign to provide information about the Public Register and guidance for
successful EE reporting.<u></u><u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="PT-BR"><u></u> <u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="PT-BR">The
new HIV/Aids Code and its TAG were signed and gazetted by Labour Minister
Mildred Oliphant recently.<u></u><u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="PT-BR"><u></u> <u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="PT-BR">The
new guidelines and accompanying TAG cover aspects relating to: elimination of
unfair-discrimination and promotion of equal opportunity and fair treatment,
using a multilateral approach to deal with the disease(s), promoting a safe
working environment, management of HIV and Aids plus TB and the world of work,
monitoring and evaluation.<u></u><u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="PT-BR"><u></u> <u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="PT-BR">Mabhele
said the review was also informed by the ILO's Recommendation concerning HIV
and Aids and the World of Work, 2010 (No. 200) adopted by governments,
employers and trade unions in June 2010 and recognition that HIV/Aids and TB
were problem diseases of workplace.<u></u><u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="PT-BR"><u></u> <u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="PT-BR">The
HIV/Aids and TB code was developed by DoL in partnership with the ILO, an
international labour organisation responsible for generating labour standards
following a national consultation exercise of review.<u></u><u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="PT-BR"><u></u> <u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="PT-BR">According
to ILO, employers are obligated to provide and maintain a workplace that is
safe and without risk to the health of its workers. The organisation recommends
the following methods to deal with disease management: prevention, treatment,
care and support, occupational health and safety, and wellness at work.<u></u><u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="PT-BR"><u></u> <u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="PT-BR">Mabhele
said prevention programmes must be sensitive to culture, gender and language
with relevant information that is accessible.<u></u><u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="PT-BR"><u></u> <u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="PT-BR">The
primary objective of the code is to provide guidance on how to eliminate unfair
discrimination and stigma in the workplace based on real or perceived HIV
status; deal with equitable employee benefits, effective means of managing HIV
in the workplace; counselling and matters relating to confidentiality.<u></u><u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="PT-BR"><u></u> <u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="PT-BR">Mabhele
said employees with HIV/Aids may not be dismissed on the basis of their status.
He said the management of HIV & Aids including TB in the workplace should
be informed by two general principles in the workplace and these are
mainstreaming HIV and Aids and TB activities into the core function of the
organisation, and developing a gender sensitive response.<u></u><u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="PT-BR"><u></u> <u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="PT-BR">According
to Mabhele strategies to assess and manage HIV in the world of work should
reflect a management commitment, create a new or strengthen an existing
committee to manage HIV, developing an action or operational plan, monitoring
and evaluation.<u></u><u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="PT-BR"><u></u> <u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="PT-BR">Mabhele
said in accordance with occupation health and safety act (OHSA), the work
environment should provide for compensation of a worker should he or she become
infected with HIV as a result of an occupational incident, in terms of the
compensation for occupation injuries and diseases act (COIDA).<u></u><u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="PT-BR"><u></u> <u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="PT-BR">He
said organisations that place commitment in management of diseases are
characterised by creating a new or strengthening an existing committee to
manage HIV/Aids and TB among other diseases, develop HIV&Aids, TB and
broader disease policy; monitoring and evaluation and developing an action or
operational plan.<u></u><u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="PT-BR"><u></u> <u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="PT-BR">Mabhele
called for management to take a lead and demonstrate commitment by championing
the course for corporate citizenship on HIV/Aids and TB; promoting partnerships
in disease management; taking principled stance on human rights issues and
using platforms to educate employees, customers and suppliers.<u></u><u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="PT-BR"><u></u> <u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="PT-BR">Meanwhile,
DoL has announced that the EE Reporting season will open for manual submission
on 1 September 2012 and closes on 1 October 2012. For the posted or hand
delivered EE reports, these must reach the DoL by no later than 1 October 2012.<u></u><u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="PT-BR"><u></u> <u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="PT-BR">The
online reporting period opens on 1 September 2012 and closes on 15 January
2013.<u></u><u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="PT-BR"><u></u> <u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="PT-BR">The
next workshops will be held simultaneously in Polokwane Royal, Limpopo and Protea
Hotel Kimberley-Big Hole, Northern Cape on 28 August. The workshops start at
10h00-13h00.<u></u><u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><i><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial;font-style:italic" lang="PT-BR">PR issued by: Department of Labour<u></u><u></u></span></font></i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="PT-BR"><u></u> <u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><a name="1396ce16773a93b8_AfricaMiddleEast3"><b><font color="white" face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:white;font-weight:bold" lang="FR">3<u></u><u></u></span></font></b></a></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><a name="1396ce16773a93b8_AfricaMiddleEast4"><span><font color="#e93e35" face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#e93e35" lang="FR">Thiès - Plus 2.600
personnes consultées et 600 personnes dépistées au VIH<u></u><u></u></span></font></span></a></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font color="#e93e35" face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#e93e35" lang="FR">Le Soleil, Senegal<u></u><u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font color="#e93e35" face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#e93e35" lang="ES-TRAD">27/08/2012<u></u><u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="PT-BR"><u></u> <u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="PT-BR">Par
Mohamadou Sagne<u></u><u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="PT-BR"><u></u> <u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="FR">Plus
de 2600 personnes consultées gratuitement et 600 autres dépistées au Vih, ce
sont les statistiques tirées des journées médicales organisées par
l'Association Taxawu Thiès/Agir pour le développement de Thiès en partenariat
avec le ministère de la Santé et de la prévention médicale.<u></u><u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="FR"><u></u> <u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="FR">Les
organisateurs ont tiré un bilan satisfaisant de trois (3) jours d'intenses
activités sanitaires. Plusieurs populations ont saisi l'occasion pour se faire
consulter et soigner gratuitement dans les différents sites choisis à cet
effet. Notamment à Darou Salam, au poste de santé de Grand Thiès de même qu'à
la mosquée du même quartier.<u></u><u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="FR"><u></u> <u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="FR">Selon
le Dr Doudou Séné, coordonnateur du pool médical : « les infections
respiratoires aiguës ont constitué les cas les plus fréquents notés chez les
patients.<u></u><u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="FR"><u></u> <u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="FR">Il y
a également les dermatoses, l'hyper tension artérielle pour laquelle d'ailleurs
nous allons développer des stratégies pour mieux prendre en charge la
précocité, les maux de dents ».<u></u><u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="FR"><u></u> <u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="FR">Par
ailleurs, à coté des consultations gratuites, des services de dépistage
volontaire sur le VIH ont été offerts, ce qui a permis, selon le Dr Séne : « de
voir 627 personnes dont deux (2) cas ont été jugés positifs et qui sont des
femmes. Il faut donc accorder encore davantage une place à la sensibilisation
de la gente féminine qui est une cible très fragile ».<u></u><u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="FR"><u></u> <u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="FR">Autres
actes posés pendant ses trois jours (24-25-26 août 2012), la collecte de don de
sang qui a permis de disposer de 70 poches et la séance de circoncision d'une
centaine d'enfants.<u></u><u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="FR"><u></u> <u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="FR">Il y
a eu également le panel sur la couverture médicale universelle avec un plateau
de personnalités importantes qui ont échangé sur la question.<u></u><u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="FR"><u></u> <u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="FR">Thierno
Alassane Sall, coordonnateur des cadres républicains et directeur de l'Artp,
parrain des journées médicales, tire ici le bilan de ces consultations
médicales.<u></u><u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="FR"><u></u> <u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="FR">« Le
bilan est extrêmement satisfaisant mais en même temps quelque peu triste.
Satisfaisant dans la mesure où nous avons été largement au dessus de nos
espérances pour la réussite de ces journées, le don de sang et le dépistage.<u></u><u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="FR"><u></u> <u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="FR">Le
panel a été un grand succès ainsi que le nombre de personnes qui ont été
touchées par les prestations médicales offertes gratuitement, les médicaments
qui les ont accompagnées et les enfants circoncis.<u></u><u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="FR"><u></u> <u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="FR">Ce
fut vraiment une gamme d'activités qui nous ont permis de parler pendant trois
jours avec les populations et de sentir leur préoccupations ». Mais la note de
tristesse brandie par M. Sall est liée, selon lui, « au fait que nous sommes
dans une ville relativement bien nantie en infrastructures sanitaires par
rapport au reste du pays.<u></u><u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="FR"><u></u> <u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="FR">Mais
le taux de fréquentation de ces structures par des personnes atteintes de
maladies souvent chroniques, reste encore faible du fait que ces malades n'ont
pas les moyens de faire face aux difficultés financières que représenterait
cette consultation.<u></u><u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="FR"><u></u> <u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="FR">Des
problèmes préoccupants qu'il faut résoudre en développant des chaînes de
solidarité ». Le Dr Omar Sarr, Médecin chef de la région médicale de Thiès
s'est félicité de l'initiative de l'association Taxawu Thies/Agir pour le
développement dont il a invité les membres à relever le pari du suivi de ces
actions qui ont permis aux populations d'accéder à des soins gratuits.<u></u><u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="FR"><u></u> <u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="FR">Car,
selon le Dr Sarr : « le nombre de personnes consultées lors de ces journées
montre que le besoin est là et que les gens n'ont pas les moyens pour se faire
consulter dans les structures de santé».<u></u><u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="FR"><u></u> <u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="FR">Une
raison qui a poussé Mamadou Traoré, président de l'association de réaffirmer
l'engagement de ses pairs à s'inscrire davantage dans cette dynamique non
seulement dans le secteur de la santé mais aussi des autres secteurs liés à
l'environnement par une implication dans la gestion de la salubrité, de
l'assainissement en général, entre autres.<u></u><u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="FR"><u></u> <u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="FR">Les
organisateurs ont remercié les ministres de la santé Eva Marie Coll Seck et du
tourisme, Youssou Ndour qui ont honoré de leur présence le panel sur la
couverture médicale universelle.<u></u><u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="PT-BR"><u></u> <u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><a name="1396ce16773a93b8_AfricaMiddleEast5"><b><font color="white" face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:white;font-weight:bold" lang="EN-GB">5<u></u><u></u></span></font></b></a></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font color="#e93e35" face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#e93e35" lang="EN-GB">Nation Receives U.S.$225 Million Grant for
HIV, TB, Malaria<u></u><u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font color="#e93e35" face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#e93e35" lang="EN-GB">Daily <u></u><u></u>Trust<u></u>,
<u></u>Nigeria<u></u><u></u><u></u><u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font color="#e93e35" face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#e93e35" lang="ES-TRAD">26/08/2012<u></u><u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font color="#e93e35" face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#e93e35" lang="ES-TRAD"><u></u> <u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="PT-BR">By
Ben Atonko<u></u><u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="PT-BR"><u></u> <u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="PT-BR">The
Minister of Health, Professor Onyebuchi Chukwu in Abuja, on behalf of the
federal government received $225 million from the Global Fund to fight the
three pandemic diseases: HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria.<u></u><u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="PT-BR"><u></u> <u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="PT-BR">Global
Fund is an international financing institution dedicated to attracting and
disbursing resources to tackle these diseases.<u></u><u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="PT-BR"><u></u> <u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="PT-BR">Shortly
before the signing of the grants documents, the Deputy Executive Director of
the Global Fund to fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, Dr Debrework Zewdie said,
"This is a reflection of the tremendous progress you [Nigeria] have made
and our commitment to work together towards reducing child mortality and
reaching the MDGs [Millennium Development Goals].<u></u><u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="PT-BR"><u></u> <u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="PT-BR">"We
have proved sceptics wrong. They say Nigeria is too complex to achieve any
meaningful progress in fighting malaria. But collaborative efforts have started
to pay off and we should be very proud.<u></u><u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="PT-BR"><u></u> <u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="PT-BR">"The
special thing about these grants we are signing today is that the Global Fund
board, to my knowledge, for the first time approved the full funding amount
available which allows us to include an additional $50 million for bed nets,
upon further funding commitments by the government of Nigeria."<u></u><u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="PT-BR"><u></u> <u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="PT-BR">The
health minister said, data from the country's 2010 malaria indicator survey
show that Nigeria is working hard on the new initiatives on controlling and
eliminating malaria.<u></u><u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="PT-BR"><u></u> <u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="PT-BR">He
stated, "This money coming in is going to contribute significantly to the
total funding of malaria elimination programme in Nigeria.<u></u><u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="PT-BR"><u></u> <u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="PT-BR">"The
proposal as approved by the Global Fund...should be implemented with all due
diligence.<u></u><u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="PT-BR"><u></u> <u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="PT-BR">"Nigerians
should look forward to significantly reducing the burden of malaria before
2015."<u></u><u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="PT-BR"><u></u> <u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="PT-BR">Mr
Aigboje Aig-Imoukhuede who is Chief Executive Officer Access Bank and chairman,
Friends of the Global Fund Africa described the grant as opportunity for
Nigeria to show leadership and commitment in the fight against malaria by
committing more resources to save lives.<u></u><u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="PT-BR"><u></u> <u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="PT-BR">Alhaji
Aliko Dangode, chairman of Dangote Group who was represented by Isa Yusuf
pledged continuous support.<u></u><u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="PT-BR"><u></u> <u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="PT-BR">Minister
of State Health, Alhaji Ali Pate was present along with representatives from
ministries of finance, defence, and the World Bank among others.<u></u><u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="PT-BR"><u></u> <u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="EN-GB">=======================<u></u><u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="EN-GB"><u></u> <u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><u></u><span><b><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold" lang="EN-GB">ASIA</span></font></b></span><u></u><span><b><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold" lang="EN-GB"> AND PACIFIC<u></u><u></u></span></font></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="EN-GB"><u></u> <u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="EN-GB">=======================<u></u><u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="EN-GB"><u></u> <u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font color="#e93e35" face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#e93e35" lang="EN-GB">Battling deadly diseases<u></u><u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><u></u><u></u><span><font color="#e93e35" face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#e93e35" lang="EN-GB">Bangkok</span></font></span><u></u><u></u><span><font color="#e93e35" face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#e93e35" lang="EN-GB"> Post<u></u><u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font color="#e93e35" face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#e93e35" lang="ES-TRAD">26/08/2012<u></u><u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font color="#e93e35" face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#e93e35" lang="ES-TRAD"><u></u> <u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="PT-BR">Through
the efforts of many dedicated people, Thailand enjoys a reputation for fighting
the spread of three of the deadliest diseases - HIV/Aids, tuberculosis and
malaria. But the gains could be nullified if more is not done, according to an
international financing institution<u></u><u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="PT-BR"><u></u> <u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial">Intense
projects have been undertaken for decades to eradicate the diseases with
foreign financing. One group with a strong presence in <u></u><u></u>Thailand<u></u><u></u> is the Global Fund to fight
Aids, Tuberculosis and Malaria.<u></u><u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial"><u></u> <u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial">It finances
programmes to fight the diseases initiated and designed by the individual
grant-recipient countries.<u></u><u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial"><u></u> <u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial">The Global
Fund says its model is based on the concepts of country ownership and
performance-based funding. It offers financing on the condition that verifiable
results are achieved.<u></u><u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial"><u></u> <u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial">In <u></u><u></u>Thailand<u></u><u></u>,
the Fund has pledged to provide more than US$500 million (1.55 billion baht)
worth of grants over the next five years, focusing on vulnerable population
groups.<u></u><u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial"><u></u> <u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial">Christoph
Benn, the Global Fund's director for resource mobilisation and donor relations
division, said the vulnerable population targets are migrant workers who are in
the country illegally, particularly in the fishing industry, gay men and
injecting drug users.<u></u><u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial"><u></u> <u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial">Around $500
million in grants has sustained several health programmes in <u></u><u></u>Thailand<u></u><u></u> in the past nine years.<u></u><u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial"><u></u> <u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial">"<u></u><u></u>Thailand<u></u><u></u>
did very well to fight the three diseases and more work is still needed to help
some risk groups in the near future," he said.<u></u><u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial"><u></u> <u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial">The
additional grants will be extended to support both new and existing health
projects by the Public Health Ministry, civil society, the private sector and
affected communities.<u></u><u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial"><u></u> <u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial">Some that
will benefit from Global Fund-sponsored health projects are the campaign for
condom use to prevent HIV infection, directly observed treatment shots for TB
control and partnerships to reduce malaria in areas affected by conflicts or
with a high concentration of migrant workers.<u></u><u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial"><u></u> <u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial">The Global
Fund raised its concern over risk population groups in discussions with the
Public Health Ministry's representatives at a forum on Investing in Asia
Pacific: Public-Private Partnerships in Health held in <u></u><u></u>Bangkok<u></u><u></u> last month.<u></u><u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial"><u></u> <u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial">"In the
case of malaria, we should be serious about countering fake drugs in border
towns.<u></u><u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial"><u></u> <u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial">"Some
malaria-affected people buy drugs from the black market and these drugs may
lead to the higher risk of artemisinin-resistant malaria. It's dangerous and
could spread to other areas," Dr Benn said.<u></u><u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial"><u></u> <u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial">During the
first five months of this year, 4,381 new cases of malaria were reported in <u></u><u></u>Thailand<u></u><u></u>,
according to the Public Health Ministry.<u></u><u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial"><u></u> <u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial">With a $29
million grant, the Public Health Ministry last year began a programme focusing
on containing artemisinin resistance in populations affected by the disease and
eliminating the malaria-causing plasmodium falciparum parasite in border areas.<u></u><u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial"><u></u> <u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial">The programme
is operating actively in regions bordering <u></u>Myanmar<u></u>
and <u></u>Cambodia<u></u>, and in areas
close to <u></u><u></u>Laos<u></u><u></u>,
benefiting Thai people and migrants living in the malaria-infested areas.<u></u><u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial"><u></u> <u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial">Currently,
the risk of artemisinin-resistant malaria spreading to other countries is very
high.<u></u><u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial"><u></u> <u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial">The programme
involves close monitoring of treatment outcomes, intensive vector-control,
indoor residual spraying and distribution of long-lasting insecticide-treated
bed nets. To date, 680,000 bed nets have been distributed to
malaria-eradication target areas in <u></u><u></u>Thailand<u></u><u></u>.<u></u><u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial"><u></u> <u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial">For
tuberculosis, the problem is particularly prevalent among migrants, especially
in the towns bordering <u></u><u></u>Myanmar<u></u><u></u>.<u></u><u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial"><u></u> <u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial">World Vision
implements the tuberculosis reduction programme near the Thai-Myanmar border,
targeting non-Thai migrants vulnerable to the disease.<u></u><u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial"><u></u> <u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial">The programme
reaches more than 235,000 people in six border and adjacent provinces including
Tak, the frontline zone with a large concentration of <u></u><u></u>Myanmar<u></u><u></u> workers.<u></u><u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial"><u></u> <u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial">The success
rate in curing patients enrolled for treatment was 89% in 2011.<u></u><u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial"><u></u> <u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial">However,
there is a danger the infected migrant workers relocating to the cities
including <u></u><u></u>Bangkok<u></u><u></u>
could contribute to the spread of tuberculosis, according to Global Fund.<u></u><u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial"><u></u> <u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial">Altogether
216 community health posts are up and running under the programme which are
accessible to migrant workers. This is where they can be tested for
tuberculosis infection and receive health information.<u></u><u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial"><u></u> <u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial">Besides
tuberculosis eradication, Global Fund's funding also provides education to
children living with or affected by HIV/Aids, livelihood support to affected
families, and HIV/Aids treatment.<u></u><u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial"><u></u> <u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial">The Rak Thai
Foundation is a non-government organisation which carries out the HIV/Aids
projects through the Global Fund grants. The foundation aims to strengthen
communities and aid marginalised people.<u></u><u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial"><u></u> <u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial">The projects
work to reduce HIV infection among the most at risk populations (Marp).<u></u><u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial"><u></u> <u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial">The <u></u>Bangkok<u></u> forum last month was told the programmes were
established to reduce new HIV infections among needle injecting drug users in <u></u><u></u>Bangkok<u></u><u></u> and major
provinces of Surat Thani and Nakhon Sri Thammarat and to prevent HIV infections
among teenagers in 12 northeastern provinces and build a strong preventive
mechanism for remote communities.<u></u><u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial"><u></u> <u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial">Dr Benn said
many campaigns fighting HIV/Aids have met their targets.<u></u><u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial"><u></u> <u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial">However, the
campaigns should refocus on the high-risk population of gay men as they might
be less concerned about disease prevention.<u></u><u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial"><u></u> <u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial">The Public
Health Ministry's report said the number of accumulated HIV patients was about
1.15 million in <u></u><u></u>Thailand<u></u><u></u>
with about 10,000 new cases reported in 2011.<u></u><u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial"><u></u> <u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial">Dr Benn said
the government should not be left alone to combat HIV/Aids, malaria and
tuberculosis. The private sector must help.<u></u><u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial"><u></u> <u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial">"The
private sector can bring much needed skills, capabilities, expertise resources
and networks that are critical in the fight against Aids, tuberculosis and
malaria," he said.<u></u><u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial"><u></u> <u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial">"The
continued and expanded engagement of private contributors will ensure long-term
success in fighting the three epidemics," he added.<u></u><u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial"><u></u> <u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial">Anthony
Pramualratana, executive director of the Thailand Business Coalition on Aids,
said despite the resources and energy expended in trying to tackle the
diseases, the general public is largely unaware of how they, as a collective
force in society, can turn the situation around.<u></u><u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font color="#ff99cc" face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#ff99cc"><u></u> <u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><a name="1396ce16773a93b8_AsiaPacific2"><b><font color="white" face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:white;font-weight:bold" lang="EN-GB">2<u></u><u></u></span></font></b></a></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font color="#e93e35" face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#e93e35" lang="EN-GB">Cancer, HIV patients suffer as morphine
supplies are hobbled by excessive regulation <u></u><u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font color="#e93e35" face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#e93e35" lang="EN-GB">Economic Times, <u></u><u></u>India<u></u><u></u><u></u><u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font color="#e93e35" face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#e93e35" lang="ES-TRAD">28/08/2012<u></u><u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font color="#e93e35" face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#e93e35" lang="ES-TRAD"><u></u> <u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="PT-BR">DIVYA
RAJAGOPALDIVYA RAJAGOPAL,ET Bureau<u></u><u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="PT-BR"><u></u> <u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="PT-BR">MUMBAI:
India, the world's largest exporter of morphine sulphate, has very little of
the drug to offer its terminally ill patients suffering from cancer and HIV.
The supply of morphine, a narcotic pain reliever used for treating pain, is
severely constrained in local hospitals and retail stores due to stringent laws
that prevent and hinder companies from making and transporting the final
product.<u></u><u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="PT-BR"><u></u> <u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="PT-BR">Morphine
sulphate is a byproduct of opium and is the most common and cheapest painkiller
for terminally ill patients suffering from cancer or HIV. India is one of the
few countries that allow planting of poppy seeds, from which opium is derived. <u></u><u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="PT-BR"><u></u> <u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="PT-BR">Ironically,
even as patients in the country writhe in pain for lack of the medicine,
foreign countries are getting a ready supply of morphine sulphate due to
India's booming exports (the figure for 2009 was 390 tonnes). <u></u><u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="PT-BR"><u></u> <u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="PT-BR">Due
to the short supply at home, patients are either turned down by chemists or
given substitutes such as sentanyl, which are more expensive and a poor
substitute. <u></u><u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="PT-BR"><u></u> <u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="PT-BR">"A
pharma company needs a minimum of 10 licences to manufacture morphine tablets,
and if you are shipping to different states, separate state licences are
required," rues Umesh Kumar Modi, MD of the Delhi-based Modi Mundi Pharma,
one of the few makers of narcotic drugs in India. <u></u><u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="PT-BR"><u></u> <u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="PT-BR">The
process of procurement varies from region to region, and is further hindered by
lack of licences at hospitals across the country, Modi adds. Even hospitals
that do have a licence can only consume morphine up to the possessional and
annual quota fixed by the excise and drug departments. <u></u><u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="PT-BR"><u></u> <u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><a name="1396ce16773a93b8_AsiaPacific3"><b><font color="white" face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:white;font-weight:bold" lang="EN-GB">3<u></u><u></u></span></font></b></a></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font color="#e93e35" face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#e93e35" lang="EN-GB">Disease with AIDS-like symptoms appears in <u></u><u></u>Vietnam<u></u><u></u>:
false report <u></u><u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><u></u><u></u><span><font color="#e93e35" face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#e93e35" lang="EN-GB">VietnamNet</span></font></span><u></u><span><font color="#e93e35" face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#e93e35" lang="EN-GB"> <u></u>Bridge<u></u></span></font></span><u></u><span><font color="#e93e35" face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#e93e35" lang="EN-GB"><u></u><u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font color="#e93e35" face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#e93e35" lang="ES-TRAD">28/08/2012<u></u><u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font color="#ff99cc" face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#ff99cc" lang="ES-TRAD"><u></u> <u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="PT-BR">The
study of American experts<u></u><u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="PT-BR"><u></u> <u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="PT-BR">The
community of Vietnamese health experts has been stirred up by the
recently-released study by researchers at the National Institutes of Health
(NIH) (USA).<u></u><u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="PT-BR"><u></u> <u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="PT-BR">The
study, released in the New England Journal of Medicine last Thursday, found patients
with the disease were making antibodies that attacked their immune systems in
Southeast Asia.<u></u><u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="PT-BR"><u></u> <u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="PT-BR">"We
all make molecules and proteins in the body that tell our immune system how to
function properly," said Dr. Sarah Browne, a clinical investigator at the
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases at NIH and the lead
author on the study.<u></u><u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="PT-BR"><u></u> <u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="PT-BR">"They
tell different immune cells when to turn on and when to start fighting
infection," she said. "We found a large number of the patients that
we studied with serious opportunistic infections make an antibody that blocks
the function of one of these molecules, which is interferon-gamma."<u></u><u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="PT-BR"><u></u> <u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="PT-BR">Without
functioning interferon-gamma, people become more susceptible to certain types
of infections -- infections people with working immune systems normally don't
get, she said.<u></u><u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="PT-BR"><u></u> <u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="PT-BR">The
disease is being called an adult-onset immunodeficiency syndrome because it
strikes adults. Cases date back to 2004, with most of them occurring in
Thailand and Taiwan. The NIH has been studying the disease since 2005.<u></u><u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="PT-BR"><u></u> <u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="PT-BR">"It's
rare -- more prevalent over in Southeast Asia," Browne told CNN. "But
we have been diagnosing it here in the U.S. in individuals of Asian
descent."<u></u><u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="PT-BR"><u></u> <u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="PT-BR">So
far NIH has seen about 12 cases, all of them in people of Asian descent.
According to Browne, most patients survive. There have been deaths in other
countries, she said, but did not know how many. No one has died in the United
States.<u></u><u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="PT-BR"><u></u> <u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="PT-BR">Dr.
Anthony Fauci, director of NIAID, says it's important to note the disease is
not contagious.<u></u><u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="PT-BR"><u></u> <u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="PT-BR">"It
is not a virus, that's the first thing. It's not a new AIDS-like virus,"
Fauci said. "It's a syndrome that was noticed and discovered in Asia where
people get opportunistic infections similar to HIV/AIDS, but the cause of the
syndrome is not an infection like HIV."<u></u><u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="PT-BR"><u></u> <u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="PT-BR">Fauci
said researchers "found that people have an autoimmunity, where their
bodies are making antibodies against a protein that's important in fighting
infection.<u></u><u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="PT-BR"><u></u> <u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="PT-BR">"The
reason the body is making that antibody is unclear but it isn't a virus like
HIV that's causing it," he said. "It's autoimmune disease, and people
get secondary infections similar to AIDS."<u></u><u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="PT-BR"><u></u> <u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="PT-BR">The
study was already in the early stages in 2009, when Kim Nguyen, a 62-year-old
Vietnamese woman from Tennessee, came to NIH suffering from symptoms that would
be linked to the mystery disease.<u></u><u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="PT-BR"><u></u> <u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="PT-BR">A
little more than 200 people -- almost exclusively from Thailand and Taiwan
between the ages of 18 and 78 -- were studied. All were HIV-negative.<u></u><u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="PT-BR"><u></u> <u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="PT-BR">"We
want to understand what triggers people to make these antibodies in the first
place," Browne said. "And we want to use that information to guide
treatment -- because really, when you treat the infection you're treating the
symptom. You're not treating the underlying cause."<u></u><u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="PT-BR"><u></u> <u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="PT-BR">Right
now, doctors are simply treating the infections. For many of the patients,
that's sufficient, Browne said, but for those cases where it's not, they are
trying to find ways to target the antibodies themselves by lowering the
antibody levels and trying to reverse the immunodeficiency.<u></u><u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="PT-BR"><u></u> <u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="PT-BR">Both
Fauci and Browne believe a combination of both genetic and environmental
factors are most likely at play, but don't yet know what those factors are.<u></u><u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="PT-BR"><u></u> <u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="PT-BR">"Overall
it appears to be a chronic disease, but we have not yet studied it for a long
enough period of time to know the long-term prognosis," Browne said.
"We don't yet know what factors may distinguish those with mild versus
those with severe disease."<u></u><u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="PT-BR"><u></u> <u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="PT-BR">Vietnam
has many patients? <u></u><u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="PT-BR">A
local news website recently published a long story about the new disease.
According to the article, after the study was made public, many patients who
caught the disease went to big hospitals in HCM City to seek treatment.<u></u><u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="PT-BR"><u></u> <u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="PT-BR">It
quoted health expert Pham Thanh from the HCM City Department of Health as
saying that he was very interested in the study because of its influence on the
people and the society.<u></u><u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="PT-BR"><u></u> <u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="PT-BR">The
article also cited Dr. Ho Quang Hau, from the HCM City Healthcare Development
Program, as saying that he had just received the NIH’s study.<u></u><u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="PT-BR"><u></u> <u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="PT-BR">The
article also mentioned a patient named Le Ngoc Ha, 42, from Thu Duc district,
who has been living with this disease for nearly four years.<u></u><u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="PT-BR"><u></u> <u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="PT-BR">“Previously
I used drugs but I gave it up. After successful detoxification, I was infected
with an unknown disease. Doctors said I suffered from immune deficiency
syndrome. This disease is difficult for curing. I’m very happy to know
about Dr. Sarah Browne’s study because the cure for this disease has been
found,” Ha said in the article.<u></u><u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="PT-BR"><u></u> <u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="PT-BR">The
article also mentioned doctor Le Thi Thu Huong, from the HCM City Health
Research Center, who said that Vietnamese scientists are working on this
disease. <u></u><u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="PT-BR"><u></u> <u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="PT-BR">“I’ve
met with many patients who have similar symptoms of AIDS but tests showed that
they were not infected with HIV virus. I and many colleagues have been seeking
effective measures to treat this disease. If the disease is not treated,
patients will lose all antibodies and their bodies will gradually die like
HIV/AIDS carriers,” Huong said.<u></u><u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="PT-BR"><u></u> <u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="PT-BR">According
to the article, Mr. Tran Pham Hung, deputy director of a HCM City-based
hospital, said that his hospital has detected many patients who have similar
symptoms like NIH’s study. However, doctors have not had effective
methods to treat the disease.<u></u><u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="PT-BR"><u></u><u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="PT-BR">Hung
said the NIH’s study is extremely accurate to say that this disease only
appears in Asian, particularly Southeast Asian countries. Many patients have
been found in Vietnam.<u></u><u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="PT-BR"><u></u> <u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="PT-BR">Hung
added that the study will help patients to seek survival. It’s time for
Vietnamese agencies to apply NIH’s study to seek treatment methods.<u></u><u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="PT-BR"><u></u> <u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="PT-BR">In
recent days, many patients have gone to big hospitals in HCM City like Cho Ray,
Gia Dinh, Binh Dan and Thu Duc for examinations, the article wrote. <u></u><u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="PT-BR"><u></u> <u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="PT-BR">This
article has been published by many other websites, raising worry among people. <u></u><u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="PT-BR"><u></u> <u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="PT-BR">However,
Lao Dong Newspaper has checked the accuracy of the above article and confirmed
that the information about the strange disease in Vietnam is completely false.<u></u><u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="PT-BR"><u></u> <u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="PT-BR">“At
this moment, there is no report from any hospital mentioning the appearance of this
disease in Vietnam. I’ve directly called the hospitals which were named
in the article and doctors confirmed that they had not received any patient who
suffer from this strange disease,” Nguyen Hoai Nam, an official from the
HCM City Department of Health told Lao Dong.<u></u><u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="PT-BR"><u></u> <u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="PT-BR">Nam
also said that there is no “health expert Pham Thanh from the HCM City
Department of Health” as being cited in the article.<u></u><u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="PT-BR"><u></u> <u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="PT-BR">HCM
City does not have any center named “HCM City Healthcare Research Center
and the HCM City Health Development Program,” Nam added.<u></u><u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="PT-BR"><u></u> <u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="PT-BR">“Even
the HCM City Tropical Hospital where is specialized in HIV/AIDS has not
received any patient of this kind,” said doctor Vo Minh Quang, vice chief
of the hospital’s General Planning Department<u></u><u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="PT-BR"><u></u> <u></u></span></font></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font color="#e93e35" face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#e93e35" lang="FR">Asie : une nouvelle maladie voisine du sida <u></u><u></u></span></font></span></p>
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Anne Jeanblanc<u></u><u></u></span></font></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="FR">Une
maladie - dont les premiers cas ont été découverts en 2004 - vient d'être
décrite dans le New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM). Selon une étude menée à
Taïwan et en Thaïlande, cette affection, dont les symptômes sont similaires à
ceux du sida, s'attaque au système immunitaire, empêchant les personnes
atteintes de se battre contre un certain type d'infections. Elle touche surtout
des adultes d'origine asiatique qui ne sont pas porteurs du virus du sida. Les
chercheurs estiment qu'un facteur génétique ou environnemental pourrait être en
cause, puisque la plupart des cas ont été détectés en Asie. Explications de
Marie-Lise Gougeon, chef de l'unité "immunité antivirale, biothérapie et
vaccins" à l'Institut Pasteur, à Paris.<u></u><u></u></span></font></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="FR">Le
Point.fr - Êtes-vous surprise de cette publication ?<u></u><u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="FR">Marie-Lise
Gougeon : Non, puisque cette maladie a été découverte pour la première fois en
2004 en Asie de l'Est. Mais l'article du NEJM porte, pour la première fois, sur
un groupe important de patients et confirme qu'il s'agit bien d'une affection
auto-immune. Son mécanisme est maintenant connu : le système immunitaire des
personnes concernées produit des auto-anticorps dirigés contre l'interféron
gamma, une molécule indispensable au contrôle des infections mycobactériennes
comme la tuberculose. L'une des explications plausibles est que, en
vieillissant, le système de défense de l'organisme ait de plus en plus de mal à
s'auto-contrôler et qu'il finisse parfois par s'attaquer à lui-même. Mais, à la
différence du sida, les malades ne souffrent pas de déficit immunitaire et
aucun virus n'est en jeu. <u></u><u></u></span></font></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="FR">L'Asie
est-elle la terre des maladies nouvelles ?<u></u><u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="FR">Si
cela arrive d'Asie, c'est peut-être tout simplement dû au hasard. En
l'occurrence, les auteurs disent ne pas savoir pourquoi cette affection est
limitée à cette région du monde. Néanmoins, les patients restent en nombre
restreint et aucun cas n'a été décrit ailleurs depuis 8 ans. <u></u><u></u></span></font></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="FR">La
maladie peut être liée soit à des facteurs de l'hôte, c'est-à-dire une forme
génétique expliquant pourquoi les Asiatiques ont tendance à développer ce type
d'auto-anticorps, ce qui est possible, et/ou à des facteurs environnementaux
qui font qu'ils développent plus souvent des maladies auto-immunes que les
habitants d'autres parties du monde. On ne peut pas répondre à cette question
pour l'instant. <u></u><u></u></span></font></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="FR">Quand
une maladie apparaît dans le monde, comment la communauté scientifique se
mobilise-t-elle ?<u></u><u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="FR">La
première question qui se pose est celle de sa possible transmission par un
agent infectieux ; là, manifestement, ce n'est pas le cas et c'est très
important. La deuxième question est de déterminer, sur le plan épidémiologique,
la fréquence des personnes qui ont cette maladie dans le monde. Il est possible
de le savoir, puisqu'un test "Elisa" permet de faire le diagnostic et
de voir si l'affection est en train de s'étendre ou si elle reste limitée à une
région et à une population particulière. Enfin, il faut rappeler que la maladie
n'étant pas contagieuse, les Français ou les personnes voyageant en Asie de
l'Est ne courent apparemment aucun risque particulier.<u></u><u></u></span></font></span></p>
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sida <u></u><u></u></span></font></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="PT-BR">Didier
Lestrade*<u></u><u></u></span></font></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="PT-BR">Le
sida est confronté à la perte de sa mémoire. Les livres qui racontent ces trois
décennies d’épidémie passées sont finalement rares et l'histoire se dilue
entre poncifs et souvenirs perdus. Pourtant, depuis un an, ce travail de
transmission est réanimé avec la sortie successive de plusieurs documentaires
américains qui ont forcé l'admiration de la critique et des militants.
L'histoire du sida passe désormais plus facilement par l'image que par l'écrit.<u></u><u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="PT-BR"><u></u> <u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="PT-BR">Trois
de ces documentaires méritent d'être découverts en France. «We Were Here»,
sorti en novembre 2011, a reçu un prix au festival de Sundance et a bénéficié
d'articles élogieux dans les médias. «How to Survive a Plague» a poursuivi
cette dynamique en janvier. Enfin, «United in Anger» vient juste d'être
présenté au festival de films sur le sida, en parallèle à la XIXe conférence
internationale sur le sida qui s'est achevée à Washington.<u></u><u></u></span></font></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="PT-BR">Ces
trois films ont pour ambition de raconter aux nouvelles générations la vraie
histoire du sida aux Etats-Unis, telle qu'elle fut vécue dans des villes
extrêmement touchées par l'épidémie comme San Francisco ou New York. Ces docus
ne cherchent pas à être des «tear jerkers», des films qui forcent les larmes à
travers la souffrance et le désespoirs des témoins de cette époque. <u></u><u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="PT-BR"><u></u> <u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="PT-BR">Oui,
ces films font pleurer, mais ils vous font rire aussi et ils sont remplis
d'images d'archives et de vidéos rares que les militants les plus pointus n'ont
jamais vues. Les trois documentaires ont aussi en commun leur structure à base
de témoignages de survivants (séropositifs ou séronégatifs). Ils racontent
leurs vies mais surtout à partir d'un point de vue communautaire, social,
politique. Bref, il ne s'agit pas ici d'anciens qui font mousser leur égo, mais
plutôt un message collectif qui fait mieux comprendre l'épidémie d'aujourd'hui.<u></u><u></u></span></font></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="PT-BR">«We
Were Here» de David Weisseman, à qui l'on doit la réalisation de «The
Cockettes» en 2002, est absolument fantastique. Les images en noir et blanc du
San Francisco de la fin des années 70 sont inédites, très belles, illustrant le
bonheur de vivre dans cette ville qui attirait alors tous les esprits libres de
l'Amérique et d'ailleurs. SF était alors la ville de la liberté, l'aimant de
tous les contre pouvoirs. <u></u><u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="PT-BR"><u></u> <u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="PT-BR">«We
Were Here» l'énergie et le burn outC'est sur ce terreau que débutent les
témoignages de 5 hommes et une femme. 5 homosexuels et une infirmière se
succèdent pour raconter combien le sida a traumatisé leur existence tout en
offrant à leurs vies une refonte totale de leurs idées. Etrangement, pour
chacun de ces «anciens», le sida a causé la perte de leurs amants et amis, mais
le sida leur a aussi donné l'énergie de réussir des carrières. <u></u><u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="PT-BR"><u></u> <u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="PT-BR">Très
peu de musique dans ce docu, très peu d'effets, on est captivé par chaque
phrase, chaque souvenir. L'éditing est très serré mais laisse à chacun le temps
de s'exprimer. Tout est très dense mais le rythme est lent. <u></u><u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="PT-BR"><u></u> <u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="PT-BR">La
vie du quartier gay de Castro est très bien décrite, on voit Harvey Milk, le
développement des premières associations de malades comme le Shanti Project,
l'organisation progressive d'une communauté gay qui restait alors très
stigmatisée dans l'Amérique de Reagan. On voit les premiers malades avec leurs
taches de Kaposi mais on est témoin aussi de l'influence déterminante des
femmes et des lesbiennes qui s'engagent dès le début de l'épidémie comme cette
collecte de sang organisée par des lesbiennes pour leur «frères» homosexuels. <u></u><u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="PT-BR"><u></u> <u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="PT-BR">Et
ça, pour les vétérans de ce combat, fut une des plus belles manifestations
d'entraide entre hommes et femmes, à une époque où les gays n'offraient pas
beaucoup d'espace à leurs sœurs lesbiennes.<u></u><u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="PT-BR"><u></u> <u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="PT-BR">«We
Were Here» est définitivement un des meilleurs docus jamais réalisés sur le
sida du tout début. Mais l'histoire traverse les années 90, le burnout et
l'épuisement (très bien décrit) et les années 2000, quand les anciens malades
sont revenus à la vie.<u></u><u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="PT-BR"><u></u> <u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="PT-BR">Le
mot de fin insiste sur une idée qui a été beaucoup développée lors de la
conférence de Washington en juillet dernier. Le dévouement des gays et
lesbiennes contre le VIH a été déterminant pour le reste du monde. L'Afrique,
l'Asie, l'Amérique du sida ont tous bénéficié de l'approbation accélérée des
antirétroviraux. Si plus de 8 millions de personnes ont accès à des
multithérapies en Afrique et ailleurs, c'est parce que les gays ont servi de cobayes
dans les essais thérapeutiques qui ont prouvé que le sida pouvait être
éradiqué. Avant que le premier traitement contre le sida soit commercialisé,
l’AZT, 15.548 personnes sont décédées du sida dans la seule ville de San
Francisco.<u></u><u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="PT-BR"><u></u> <u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="PT-BR">«United
in Anger», le traumatisme d'Act Up«United in Anger» de Jim Hubbard est, c'est
surprenant, le seul docu récent sur Act Up aux Etats-Unis. La dissolution du
groupe au milieu des années 90 a été si traumatisante que les fondateurs du
mouvement ont souvent passé de longues années à s'éviter. Ce film, tout neuf, a
probablement bénéficié du rapprochement des anciens sur Facebook. Il aura fallu
25 ans pour que ces hommes et ces femmes se parlent à nouveau et dépassent
l'échec d'une mort associative prématurée.<u></u><u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="PT-BR"><u></u> <u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="PT-BR">Il
y a un aspect amusant dans ce docu. On dirait qu'il a été fait en 1995. Pour
mieux coller à l'époque, à sa mode, à sa culture, toutes les typos du film
semblent figées dans le temps. Même la musique paraît sortir d'une soirée
passée devant MTV old school. Cette envie de tout garder dans son jus exacerbe
encore davantage la sensation de voyage dans le temps.<u></u><u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="PT-BR"><u></u> <u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="PT-BR">La
création d'Act Up en 1987 est bien documentée et pour ceux qui ont eu la chance
d'en être les témoins, tout est raccord: comment 300 personnes se sont rassemblées
spontanément suite à un discours d'anthologie de Larry Kramer, l'ambiance des
réunions au centre LGBT de New York, le fonctionnement des «groupes
d'affinités» sur le modèle du mouvement féministe américain du début des années
80, l'influence du graphisme et de l'art. <u></u><u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="PT-BR"><u></u> <u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="PT-BR">Si
«We Were Here» raconte la fondation de la lutte contre le sida, «United in
Anger» marque le vrai envol de cette lutte en tant que bouleversement
politique. Tous les leaders d'Act Up du début sont là, hommes, femmes, latinas,
blancs, bien portants et handicapés. <u></u><u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="PT-BR"><u></u> <u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="PT-BR">Le
docu est rempli d'images et d'enregistrements jamais vus. C'est comme si on
ouvrait une boite qui était restée fermée depuis 20 ans. Ici aussi, la présence
des femmes est centrale. Act Up est le premier mouvement gay dominé par la
pensée féministe.<u></u><u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="PT-BR"><u></u> <u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="PT-BR">Les
héritiers«How to Survive a Plague» de David France est le prolongement des deux
films précédents en unissant l'histoire d'Act Up et celle de son offshot le
plus important, le groupe TAG (Treatment Action Group). Né de la désintégration
d'Act Up pour des raisons liées à l'éthique médicale, TAG sera le groupe
activiste qui servira de modèle à travers le monde quand il s'agira de
travailler uniquement sur les traitements, face à l'industrie pharmaceutique,
les agences gouvernementales, la bureaucratie. <u></u><u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="PT-BR"><u></u> <u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="PT-BR">Ce
film, qui sortira dans les salles de cinéma américaines le 12 septembre
prochain, est beaucoup plus technique que les précédents mais possède lui aussi
des images d'archives. Manifs, zaps, rencontre avec les dirigeants des grandes
institutions américaines (FDA, NIH, etc.), c'est un film qui mélange la
désobéissance civile et le travail fastidieux des rapports médicaux, des
conférences internationales, de la publication de données médicales
indépendantes. <u></u><u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="PT-BR"><u></u> <u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="PT-BR">C'est
vraiment un manuel, un «How to», sur le combat contre le VIH qui sert d'exemple
pour toutes les autres maladies ou tous les combats politiques basés sur le
radicalisme. Après tout, les manifs d'Act Up on eu un tel impact sur notre
inconscient que désormais ces types d'actions sont repris à travers le monde,
chez les Indignés d'Espagne ou la nouvelle génération d'Occupy The Streets.<u></u><u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="PT-BR"><u></u> <u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><i><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial;font-style:italic" lang="PT-BR">*</span></font></i></span><i><span style="font-style:italic" lang="PT-BR"> </span></i><span><i><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial;font-style:italic" lang="PT-BR">Didier Lestrade est journaliste et écrivain. Il est
également connu en tant qu’activiste dans le domaine de la lutte contre
le sida et fondateur d'Act Up<u></u><u></u></span></font></i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="PT-BR"><u></u> <u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="EN-GB">========================<u></u><u></u></span></font></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span><b><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold" lang="EN-GB">LATIN AMERICA AND <u></u>CARIBBEAN<u></u><u></u><u></u></span></font></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="EN-GB"><u></u> <u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="EN-GB">========================<u></u><u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="EN-GB"><u></u> <u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font color="#e93e35" face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#e93e35">EE.UU. aprueba nueva píldora contra VIH <u></u><u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font color="#e93e35" face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#e93e35" lang="FR">ABC Color, Paraguay<u></u><u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font color="#e93e35" face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#e93e35" lang="ES-TRAD">27/08/2012<u></u><u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font color="#ff99cc" face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#ff99cc" lang="ES-TRAD"><u></u> <u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="PT-BR">WASHINGTON.
Una nueva píldora de única toma diaria para combatir la infección del VIH -que
combina dos fármacos ya autorizados, más dos nuevos- fue aprobada para los
adultos que viven con el virus que causa el sida<u></u><u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="PT-BR"><u></u> <u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="ES">La
noticia fue dada este lunes por la la FDA, la agencia reguladora de
medicamentos en Estados Unidos.<u></u><u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="ES"><u></u> <u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="ES">Esta
dosis diaria de única toma proporciona un tratamiento completo para la
infección del virus de inmunodeficiencia humana, y es parte de las opciones de
medicación cada vez más simplificadas, dijo la Administración de Drogas y
Alimentos (FDA, por sus siglas en inglés) , en un comunicado.<u></u><u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="ES"><u></u> <u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="ES"> Este
medicamento, el Stribild, proporciona un tratamiento completo para la infección
del virus de inmunodeficiencia humana, y es parte de opciones de medicación
cada vez más simplificadas, dijo la Administración de Drogas y Alimentos (FDA,
por sus siglas en inglés) , en un comunicado.<u></u><u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="ES"><u></u> <u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="ES">"A
través de la investigación continuada y del desarrollo de fármacos el
tratamiento para aquellos infectados con VIH ha evolucionado de regímenes
multi-píldoras a tratamientos de una sola pastilla", afirmó Edward Cox,
director de la Oficina de Productos Antimicrobiales en el Centro de la FDA para
evaluación e investigación de fármacos.<u></u><u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="ES"><u></u> <u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="ES">"Nuevas
combinaciones de fármacos para VIH, como Stribild, ayudarán a simplificar los
tratamientos", añadió.<u></u><u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="ES"><u></u> <u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="ES">El
nuevo fármaco, fabricado por Gilead Sciences en California (oeste) , fue
probado en más de 1.400 pacientes en dos ensayos clínicos a doble ciego.<u></u><u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="ES"><u></u> <u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="ES">Los
resultados mostraron que Stribild era tan eficaz o mejor que otras dos
combinaciones de tratamientos y reducía el virus a niveles indetectables en
nueve de diez pacientes luego de 48 semanas de ingestión.<u></u><u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="ES"><u></u> <u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="ES">El
fármaco combina Truvada -otra píldora que aúna emtricitabina y tenofovir para
luchar contra una enzima que el VIH necesita para reproducirse- con
elvitegravir, otra sustancia que lucha contra una enzima, con cobicistat, como
potenciador de los efectos del elvitegravir.<u></u><u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="ES"><u></u> <u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="ES">El
medicamento fue probado en pacientes adultos que no habían sido previamente
tratados de VIH. La FDA afirma que se requieren más estudios para determinar la
seguridad del fármaco en niños y mujeres, cómo éste puede desarrollar
resistencia y si interactúa con otras medicaciones. (AFP)<u></u><u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="PT-BR"><u></u> <u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><a name="1396ce16773a93b8_LatinAmericaCaribbean3"><b><font color="white" face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:white;font-weight:bold" lang="ES">3<u></u><u></u></span></font></b></a></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font color="#e93e35" face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#e93e35" lang="ES">Realizaron jornada multisectorial de
prevención contra el Sida <u></u><u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font color="#e93e35" face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#e93e35" lang="ES">Diario Correo, Peru<u></u><u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font color="#e93e35" face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#e93e35" lang="ES-TRAD">27/08/2012<u></u><u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font color="#ff99cc" face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#ff99cc" lang="ES-TRAD"><u></u> <u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="ES-TRAD">Zenaida
Condori<u></u><u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="ES-TRAD"><u></u> <u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="PT-BR">27
agosto 2012 | Arequipa - En el Perú se estima que hay 70 mil personas
infectadas con el Síndrome de Inmunodeficiencia Adquirida (Sida), de ellos la
tercera parte son mujeres en edad fértil. Según explicó la coordinadora
Nacional de Unidad de Gestión de Programas del Fondo Mundial de CARE, Virginia
Baffigo, si no se aplicaran estrategias, al año nacerían 400 niños infectados.<u></u><u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="PT-BR"><u></u> <u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="PT-BR">"Estamos
trabajando para evitar que niños nazcan con sida. Por ello todas las madres
infectadas tienen que someterse a una cesárea. Por eso es muy importante que
toda gestante se haga una prueba de descarte de VIH, para tomar las
precauciones", indico Baffigo.<u></u><u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="PT-BR"><u></u> <u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><a name="1396ce16773a93b8_LatinAmericaCaribbean4"><b><font color="white" face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:white;font-weight:bold" lang="FR">4</span></font></b></a><font color="white" face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:white" lang="FR"><u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font color="#e93e35" face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#e93e35" lang="FR">REALIZAN ENCUENTRO INTERNACIONAL DE SIDA Y
HEPATITIS <u></u><u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font color="#e93e35" face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#e93e35" lang="FR">El Comercial, Argentina<u></u><u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font color="#e93e35" face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#e93e35" lang="ES-TRAD">27/08/2012<u></u><u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font color="#ff99cc" face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#ff99cc" lang="ES-TRAD"><u></u> <u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="PT-BR">Buenos
Aires, 27 de agosto (Télam).- Especialistas, funcionarios y referentes de la
sociedad civil participarán entre miércoles y jueves de un simposio organizado
por la Fundación Huésped cuyo objetivo es debatir sobre los avances científicos
y nuevas estrategias de prevención y atención del VIH y la Hepatitis. <u></u><u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="PT-BR"><u></u> <u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="PT-BR">El
11º Simposio Científico Internacional SIDA 2012 y 1º Simposio Internacional
Hepatitis 2012, que se realizará en los Salones Palais Rouge (Salguero 1433,
Ciudad de Buenos Aires), ofrecerá más de 20 charlas y contará con la participación
de 2000 personas, entre profesionales de la salud y líderes comunitarios. <u></u><u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="PT-BR"><u></u> <u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="PT-BR">Además
de Pedro Cahn, Presidente de Huésped y Jefe de Infectología del Hospital
Fernández, las jornadas contarán con la presencia de otros destacados
referentes en la temática como Steve Deeks, miembro del AIDS Program del
Hospital General de San Francisco; Craig Mc CLure, Jefe del Departamento de
VIHsida de UNICEF, y Buenaventura Clotet, director del Instituto de
Investigación de Sida IrsiCaixa en Barcelona, entre otros. <u></u><u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="PT-BR"><u></u> <u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="PT-BR">Las
actividades del Simposio, que comenzará a las 10, pueden consultarse en la
página de la Fundación: www.huesped.org.arsesionessida2012. (Télam)<u></u><u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="PT-BR"><u></u> <u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><a name="1396ce16773a93b8_LatinAmericaCaribbean5"><b><font color="white" face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:white;font-weight:bold" lang="FR">5<u></u><u></u></span></font></b></a></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font color="#e93e35" face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#e93e35" lang="FR">Ativistas que lutam contra a aids organizam
série de protestos em São Paulo <u></u><u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font color="#e93e35" face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#e93e35" lang="FR">Agência de Notícias da Aids, Brazil<u></u><u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font color="#e93e35" face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#e93e35" lang="FR">24</span></font></span><span><font color="#e93e35" face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#e93e35" lang="ES-TRAD">/08/2012<u></u><u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font color="#e93e35" face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#e93e35" lang="ES-TRAD"><u></u> <u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="PT-BR">Ativistas
de todo o Brasil reunidos em São Paulo para o IX Congresso Brasileiro de Aids
realizarão atos de protesto na cidade para denunciar a diminuição do interesse
dos gestores em relação à pandemia. No dia 28 de agosto, às 10h, acontece o
“Ocupa CRT”, manifestação em frente ao Centro de Referência e
Treinamento em DST/aids (CRT) da Secretaria de Estado da Saúde, e no dia 30 o
manifesto acontece na Praça do Patriarca, no centro da cidade, a partir das
10h.<u></u><u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="PT-BR"><u></u> <u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="PT-BR">Uma
das motivações para os protestos, segundo os organizadores é a ameaça de
fechamento de leitos no CRT e da Casa da Aids. Segundo o presidente do Fórum de
ONG/Aids do Estado de São Paulo (FOAESP), Rodrigo Pinheiro, são necessárias
ações inovadoras e continuadas para que o quadro se reverta e dê prioridade de
fato às populações vulneráveis. <u></u><u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="PT-BR"><u></u> <u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="PT-BR">Para
ele, a perda do protagonismo do Brasil é fruto de um desmonte da saúde pública
e da falta de compromisso efetivo de gestores, além do crescente fechamento das
ONG/Aids sem apoio para seu funcionamento. <u></u><u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="PT-BR"><u></u> <u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="PT-BR">O
FOAESP está mobilizando a manifestação em frente ao CRT e pretende pressionar
para uma mudança na forma de atenção à aids no estado de São Paulo. “O
estado responde por grande parte dos casos do país, e é preciso um olhar de
qualidade e não uma resposta baseada na economia e no encolhimento de
serviços”, diz Rodrigo Pinheiro. <u></u><u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="PT-BR"><u></u> <u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="PT-BR">O
objetivo dessa manifestação, que segundo os organizadores, foi a saída
encontrada após reuniões sem solução com os gestores, é chamar a atenção da
sociedade para o problema, principalmente o vivido pelos pacientes de HIV/Aids
que fazem seus tratamentos naquele órgão. <u></u><u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="PT-BR"><u></u> <u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="EN-GB">========================<u></u><u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="EN-GB"><u></u> <u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><u></u><span><b><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold" lang="EN-GB">NORTH AMERICA</span></font></b></span><u></u><span><b><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold" lang="EN-GB"><u></u><u></u></span></font></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="EN-GB"><u></u> <u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="EN-GB">========================<u></u><u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="EN-GB"><u></u> <u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font color="#e93e35" face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#e93e35" lang="EN-GB">F.D.A. Approves Once-a-Day Pill for H.I.V.<u></u><u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font color="#e93e35" face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#e93e35" lang="EN-GB">New York Times<u></u><u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font color="#e93e35" face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#e93e35" lang="ES-TRAD">27/08/2012<u></u><u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font color="#ff99cc" face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#ff99cc" lang="ES-TRAD"><u></u> <u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="PT-BR">By
ANDREW POLLACK<u></u><u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="PT-BR"><u></u> <u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="EN-GB">The
Food and Drug Administration approved a new once-a-day H.I.V. treatment from
Gilead Sciences that contains four different drugs in one pill.<u></u><u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="EN-GB"><u></u> <u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="EN-GB">But
the price Gilead plans to charge for the new drug — about $28,500 a year
— was criticized as excessive by one AIDS activist, who said it would put
additional pressure on the already strained public health programs that pay for
the majority of H.I.V. medications. <u></u><u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="EN-GB"><u></u> <u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="EN-GB">“That’s
shockingly irresponsible,” said the activist, Michael Weinstein, the
president of the AIDS Healthcare Foundation, which treats more than 100,000
infected individuals around the world. “It’s just unsustainable at
these levels.” <u></u><u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="EN-GB"><u></u> <u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><u></u><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="EN-GB">Gilead</span></font></span><u></u><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="EN-GB"> said the price was in line with that of some other
regimens for treating H.I.V. <u></u><u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="EN-GB"><u></u> <u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="EN-GB">The
new drug, which will be called Stribild, is the third once-a-day pill for
H.I.V. brought to market by <u></u>Gilead<u></u>, after
Atripla in 2006 and Complera in 2011. In the late 1990s, when cocktails of
drugs began to be used to successfully treat the infection, patients sometimes
had to take two dozen pills, at various times of the day and night. <u></u><u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="EN-GB"><u></u> <u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="EN-GB">Stribild,
which was previously known as the Quad, does not appear to represent a huge
leap medically. <u></u><u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="EN-GB"><u></u> <u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="EN-GB">In
the clinical trials that led to its approval, Stribild was roughly equivalent
to Atripla and to another combination, though it avoids some psychiatric side
effects of Atripla. About 88 to 90 percent of those who took Stribild had
undetectable amounts of H.I.V. in their blood after 48 weeks, compared to 84
percent treated with Atripla and 87 percent treated with the combination of
Gilead’s Truvada, Bristol-Myers Squibb’s Reyataz and Abbott’s
Norvir. <u></u><u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="EN-GB"><u></u> <u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="EN-GB">But
Stribild could be important commercially for <u></u>Gilead<u></u>
because the company owns all the ingredients. By contrast, Atripla contains a
drug from Bristol-Myers Squibb and Complera contains a drug from Johnson &
Johnson, so <u></u>Gilead<u></u> must split profits. <u></u><u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="EN-GB"><u></u> <u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="EN-GB">Geoffrey
Meacham, an analyst for J.P. Morgan Chase, estimated Stribild’s worldwide
sales could reach $2.5 billion annually by 2015. “Given similar efficacy
with an improved safety profile, we expect the Quad to take share from
Atripla,” he wrote in a note Monday. <u></u><u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="EN-GB"><u></u> <u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="EN-GB">Two
of the ingredients in Stribild — emtricitabine and tenofovir — are
also in Atripla and Complera and are sold as a dual combination known as
Truvada. <u></u><u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="EN-GB"><u></u> <u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="EN-GB">The
other two drugs in Stribild are elvitegravir, which is a type of drug known as
an integrase inhibitor, and cobicistat, which enhances the effect of
elvitegravir. Neither of those drugs has been approved yet for use
independently. <u></u><u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="EN-GB"><u></u> <u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="EN-GB">The
wholesale acquisition of Stribild is about one-third more than that of Atripla,
which costs about $21,000 a year. “If that is not true excess, I
don’t know what is, for something that is not a true advance,” Mr.
Weinstein said. <u></u><u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="EN-GB"><u></u> <u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="EN-GB">Erin
Rau, a spokeswoman for <u></u>Gilead<u></u>, said in an
e-mail that the price of Stribild “reflects a reasonable return on our
product development investment.” <u></u><u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="EN-GB"><u></u> <u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="EN-GB">She
said the company would provide discounts to state AIDS Drug Assistance
Programs, and would also offer various programs to help privately insured
patients obtain the drug. Gilead said it had also granted rights to certain
companies in <u></u><u></u>India<u></u><u></u>
to make generic versions of Stribild for distribution in poor countries. <u></u><u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="EN-GB"><u></u> <u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><i><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial;font-style:italic" lang="EN-GB">A version of this article appeared in print on August 28,
2012, on page B4 of the <u></u><u></u>New York<u></u><u></u>
edition with the headline: F.D.A. Approves Once-a-Day Pill for H.I.V...<u></u><u></u></span></font></i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="PT-BR"><u></u> <u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><a name="1396ce16773a93b8_NorthAmerica2"><b><font color="white" face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:white;font-weight:bold" lang="EN-GB">2<u></u><u></u></span></font></b></a></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font color="#e93e35" face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#e93e35" lang="EN-GB">New health law broadens free preventive
services for women; men fare less well<u></u><u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><u></u><u></u><span><font color="#e93e35" face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#e93e35" lang="EN-GB">Washington</span></font></span><u></u><u></u><span><font color="#e93e35" face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#e93e35" lang="EN-GB"> Post<u></u><u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font color="#e93e35" face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#e93e35" lang="ES-TRAD">27/08/2012<u></u><u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font color="#ff99cc" face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#ff99cc" lang="ES-TRAD"><u></u> <u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="PT-BR">By
Michelle Andrews<u></u><u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="PT-BR"><u></u> <u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="EN">The
Affordable Care Act of 2010 greatly expanded women’s access to free
preventive services, particularly for </span></font></span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="EN"><a href="http://www.hrsa.gov/womensguidelines/" target="_blank">sexual and reproductive health</a><span><font face="Arial"><span style="font-family:Arial">. Men
didn’t fare nearly as well.<u></u><u></u></span></font></span></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="EN"><u></u> <u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="EN">The
ACA guidelines’ promise of free contraception may have generated the most
controversy, but the law also provides many other services for women, including
free screening for HIV, chlamydia and gonorrhea, and pregnancy-related benefits
such as screening for gestational diabetes, and breast-feeding support,
supplies and counseling.<u></u><u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="EN"><u></u> <u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="EN"><a href="http://www.healthcare.gov/law/resources/regulations/prevention/regs.html" target="_blank">Under
the law</a>,<span><font face="Arial"><span style="font-family:Arial"> new health plans or those whose benefits have changed substantially are
required to provide four types of preventive care without any co-payments or
other forms of cost-sharing: services recommended by the U.S. Preventive
Services Task Force, immunizations recommended by the Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices and
preventive services and screenings for women and for children that are
recommended by the Health Resources and Services Administration.<u></u><u></u></span></font></span></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="EN"><u></u> <u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="EN">Sen.
Barbara Mikulski (D-Md.) championed adding women’s preventive services
recommended by HRSA following an outcry over a Preventive Services Task Force
recommendation that regular mammography screening for most women begin at age
50 rather than age 40. In a separate amendment, she successfully pushed to
reinstate the earlier recommendations that called for mammography screening starting
at age 40.<u></u><u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="EN"><u></u> <u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="EN">Limited
free coverage <u></u><u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="EN">The
new law requires most health plans to begin providing free contraceptives to
women when their new plan year begins this fall or next year. It covers all
FDA-approved methods, including permanent ones such as tubal ligation. But
since its scope is limited to women’s services, it does not offer free
coverage for vasectomies.<u></u><u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="EN"><u></u> <u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="EN">Men’s
health specialists say both men and women could have benefited from such a
requirement. Even though they’re generally simpler and less expensive
than female sterilization, cost can be a factor that deters men from getting
vasectomies.<u></u><u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="EN"><u></u> <u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="EN">“Particularly
for older men who are interested in playing a role in pregnancy prevention
through sterilization, there are not many low-cost services available, even in
a large city,” says David Bell, medical director of the Young Men’s
Clinic at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital’s Family Planning Clinic.<u></u><u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="EN"><u></u> <u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="EN">The
health law also requires free coverage for screening for a number of sexually
transmitted diseases in women but not men. For example, </span></font></span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="EN"><a href="http://www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf05/hiv/hivrs.htm#clinical" target="_blank">HIV
screening</a></span></font><span lang="EN"> </span><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="EN">is
covered annually for all sexually active women. In men, free screening is
recommended for those who are at higher risk, such as men who have sex with men
or with multiple partners.<u></u><u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="EN"><u></u> <u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="EN">Similarly,
the Preventive Services Task Force, a federal panel of experts, recommends
screening all sexually active women younger than 25 for chlamydia and screening
at-risk women for gonorrhea. But the task force says there’s not enough
evidence to make such recommendations for men.<u></u><u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="EN"><u></u> <u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="EN">Some
of the new preventive coverage requirements do address men’s sexual
health. For example, under CDC recommendations that become effective in
December, new health plans must </span></font></span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="EN"><a href="http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm6050a3.htm" target="_blank">cover the
three-shot human papillomaviru<font face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman"">s</span></font></a> (HPV)</span></font><span lang="EN"> </span><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="EN"> vaccine for young men at no charge.
Previously recommended for young women primarily to prevent cervical cancer, the
vaccine is also associated with some cancers that affect men. It is recommended
routinely for boys aged 11 or 12, and for those ages 13 to 21 who haven’t
been vaccinated.<u></u><u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="EN"><u></u> <u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="EN">Women’s
extra burden <u></u><u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="EN">It’s
no accident that most of the new preventive benefits are aimed at women, say
experts. “Women bear a disproportionate burden when it comes to sexually
transmitted diseases and preventing pregnancy,” says Deborah Arrindell,
vice president for health policy at the American Social Health Association, an
advocacy group.<u></u><u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="EN"><u></u> <u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="EN">As
women enter their reproductive years, they typically begin to see a
primary-care practitioner, often a gynecologist, for regular checkups and to
receive contraceptives. In 2009, 66 percent of women ages 18 to 44 visited a
primary-care provider, compared with 52 percent of men in that age group,
according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s <u></u><u></u>National<u></u> <u></u>Center<u></u><u></u> for Health Statistics.<u></u><u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="EN"><u></u> <u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="EN">Although
men may visit the doctor to get a physical for work, sports or school,
it’s not routine, say experts. “Many of the men who visit the
family planning clinic are sent by their partners,” says <u></u><u></u>Bell<u></u><u></u>. “Fifty percent
came because of a female in their life.”<u></u><u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="EN"><u></u> <u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="EN">Part
of the problem in improving coverage of sexual and reproductive health for men
is that research is scarce and comprehensive clinical guidelines have never
been established, say experts. The Preventive Services Task Force, in declining
to recommend screening for chlamydia in men, for example, said there was a
“critical gap” in research on the benefits of screening men for the
disease.<u></u><u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="EN"><u></u> <u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="EN">Some
women’s health advocates note wryly that although there may be a relative
dearth of data related to men’s sexual and reproductive health, much of
the broad medical research conducted to date has focused on men. Clinical
trials for many drugs, for example, </span></font></span><font face="Arial"><span style="font-family:Arial" lang="EN-GB"><a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1761670/" target="_blank"><font size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt" lang="EN">for many years excluded women.</span></font></a></span></font><span lang="EN-GB"> </span><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="EN"><u></u><u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="EN">Regardless,
advocates agree that leveling the playing field for the sexes for sexual and
reproductive health services only makes sense.<u></u><u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="EN"><u></u> <u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="EN">“It
seems foolish to do it differently for women than for men,” says Adam
Sonfield, a senior public policy associate at the Guttmacher Institute, a
research and advocacy organization.<u></u><u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="EN"><u></u> <u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="EN">This
column is produced through a collaboration between The Post and </span></font></span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="EN"><a href="http://www.kaiserhealthnews.org/" target="_blank">Kaiser Health News</a>.<span><font face="Arial"><span style="font-family:Arial"> KHN, an
editorially independent news service, is a program of the Kaiser Family
Foundation, a nonpartisan health-care-policy organization that is not
affiliated with Kaiser Permanente. E-mail: <a href="mailto:questions@kaiserhealthnews.org" target="_blank">questions@kaiserhealthnews.org</a>. <u></u><u></u></span></font></span></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><a name="1396ce16773a93b8_NorthAmerica3"><b><font color="white" face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:white;font-weight:bold" lang="EN-GB">3<u></u><u></u></span></font></b></a></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font color="#e93e35" face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#e93e35" lang="EN-GB">Stigma of H.I.V. Is a Barrier to Prenatal Care<u></u><u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font color="#e93e35" face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#e93e35" lang="EN-GB">New York Times<u></u><u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font color="#e93e35" face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#e93e35" lang="ES-TRAD">27/08/2012<u></u><u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font color="#ff99cc" face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#ff99cc" lang="ES-TRAD"><u></u> <u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="EN-GB">By
DONALD G. McNEIL Jr.<u></u><u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="EN-GB"><u></u> <u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="EN-GB">Fear
of being stigmatized as an AIDS patient is still a major barrier to good
medical care for pregnant young women in many countries, a new study and a
literature review have found.<u></u><u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="EN-GB"><u></u> <u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="EN-GB">The
study, based on a survey of 1,777 women in rural <u></u>Nyanza<u></u>
<u></u>Province<u></u> in <u></u><u></u>Kenya<u></u><u></u>, was published Wednesday in
PLoS Medicine. Only 44 percent of mothers in the province delivered in clinics,
and the study found that a major obstacle was that they feared H.I.V. tests. <u></u><u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="EN-GB"><u></u> <u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="EN-GB">That
echoed the findings of a </span></font></span><font color="black" face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="EN-GB"><a href="http://www.healthpolicyproject.com/index.cfm?ID=publications&get=pubID&pubID=92" title="Abstract of the review" target="_blank"><font color="#004276"><span style="color:#004276">review</span></font></a></span></font><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="EN-GB"> of multiple studies in many countries published in
July by the same author, Janet M. Turan, a professor of public health at the <u></u>University<u></u> of <u></u>Alabama<u></u>
at <u></u><u></u>Birmingham<u></u><u></u>. <u></u><u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="EN-GB"><u></u> <u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="EN-GB">Women
may know that treatment saves them and their babies but avoid testing anyway.
Many fear being kicked out by their husbands if they are found to be infected.
One woman said her neighbors would assume she was a prostitute. <u></u><u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="EN-GB"><u></u> <u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="EN-GB">The
Kenyan government’s own campaign to get women to visit clinics may have
inadvertently backfired by implying that it was especially important for
H.I.V.-infected mothers. About 84 percent of the province’s women of
childbearing age were not infected, the report said. <u></u><u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="EN-GB"><u></u> <u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="EN-GB">The
worldwide review described all sorts of stigmatizing behavior. One Mexican
woman, for example, described a doctor saying, “How can you even think of
getting pregnant knowing you will kill your child because you’re
positive?” The doctor threatened not to see her again if she became
pregnant, the woman said. <u></u><u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="EN-GB"><u></u> <u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="EN-GB">A
version of this article appeared in print on August 28, 2012, on page D6 of the
<u></u><u></u>New York<u></u><u></u>
edition with the headline: H.I.V. Stigma of Disease Is a Barrier To Medical
Care for Pregnant Women..<u></u><u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="PT-BR"><u></u> <u></u></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><a name="1396ce16773a93b8_NorthAmerica4"><b><font color="white" face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:white;font-weight:bold" lang="EN-GB">4<u></u><u></u></span></font></b></a></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font color="#e93e35" face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#e93e35" lang="EN-GB">Factor in Breast Milk May Cut H.I.V. Spread <u></u><u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font color="#e93e35" face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#e93e35" lang="EN-GB">New York Times<u></u><u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font color="#e93e35" face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#e93e35" lang="ES-TRAD">27/08/2012<u></u><u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font color="#ff99cc" face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#ff99cc" lang="ES-TRAD"><u></u> <u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="PT-BR">By
NICHOLAS BAKALAR<u></u><u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="PT-BR"><u></u> <u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="EN">A
substance in human breast milk seems to reduce the risk of mother-to-child
transmission of H.I.V., scientists have reported.<u></u><u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="EN"><u></u> <u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="EN">Researchers
working in <u></u><u></u>Zambia<u></u><u></u>
collected breast milk samples from 81 H.I.V.-positive women who transmitted the
virus to their infants during breast-feeding, 86 H.I.V.-positive women who did
not transmit, and 36 uninfected women. The scientists analyzed the samples for
concentrations of a carbohydrate called human milk oligosaccharides. There is
growing evidence that the substance contains immunologically active components
that may minimize the risk of viral transmission.<u></u><u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="EN"><u></u> <u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="EN">The
study, published online Aug. 15 in The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition,
found that </span></font></span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="EN"><a href="http://www.ajcn.org/content/early/2012/08/15/ajcn.112.039503.abstract" target="_blank">women whose breast milk held concentrations of human milk
oligosaccharides above the median were less than half as likely to have
transmitted the infection to their babies</a><span><font face="Arial"><span style="font-family:Arial"> as those with concentrations below
the median.<u></u><u></u></span></font></span></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="EN"><u></u> <u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="EN">In
resource-poor countries, the risk of H.I.V. transmission from breast milk is
outweighed by its various benefits, so infected women are encouraged to
breast-feed while taking antiretroviral drugs.<u></u><u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="EN"><u></u> <u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="EN">“People
talk about proteins and lipids that are important in human milk, but
oligosaccharides are something people don’t appreciate as much,”
said Lars Bode, the lead author of the study and an assistant professor of
pediatrics at the <u></u>University<u></u> of <u></u>California<u></u>, <u></u><u></u>San
Diego<u></u><u></u>.<u></u><u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font color="#ff99cc" face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#ff99cc" lang="EN-GB"><u></u> <u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><a name="1396ce16773a93b8_NorthAmerica5"><b><font color="white" face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:white;font-weight:bold" lang="EN-GB">5<u></u><u></u></span></font></b></a></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font color="#e93e35" face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#e93e35" lang="EN-GB">China AIDS patients topple gate of gov't office<u></u><u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font color="#e93e35" face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#e93e35" lang="EN-GB">Associated Press<u></u><u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font color="#e93e35" face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#e93e35" lang="ES-TRAD">27/08/2012<u></u><u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font color="#e93e35" face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#e93e35" lang="ES-TRAD"><u></u> <u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="PT-BR">GILLIAN
WONG |<u></u><u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="PT-BR"><u></u> <u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="DE-CH">BEIJING
— About 300 AIDS patients and their relatives tore down the main gate of
a government office in central China during a protest Monday over unmet demands
for financial assistance.<u></u><u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="DE-CH"><u></u> <u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="DE-CH">Protester
Li Xia said police in Zhengzhou city beat some of the patients with batons
after the group gathered outside the Henan provincial government office and
blocked the main gate to demand a meeting with officials. She said one
protester was dragged into the government building by police.<u></u><u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="DE-CH"><u></u> <u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="DE-CH">"We
want the government to give us some help," said Li, who like many of the
protesters was infected with HIV when she sold blood in 1995. Tens of thousands
of people contracted the virus that causes AIDS in a blood-selling scandal in Henan
in the 1990s that is widely seen as a failure of government leadership.<u></u><u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="DE-CH"><u></u> <u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="DE-CH">Collectors
paid villagers to give their blood, pooled it without testing for HIV or
anything else, extracted the valuable plasma then re-injected the blood back
into those who sold it. Officials covered up the problem for years, which
allowed HIV to spread when people were unknowingly infected from tainted
transfusions at hospitals.<u></u><u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="DE-CH"><u></u> <u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="DE-CH">Activists
say that local courts reject lawsuits for compensation, leaving the victims of
the scandal with few avenues to seek redress. The patients and their families
stage regular protests outside health bureaus and government buildings.<u></u><u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="DE-CH"><u></u> <u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="DE-CH">The
group that protested on Monday had been told in April by an official from the
local civil affairs department that the government would respond to their
request for help in two months, but had been repeatedly put off since.<u></u><u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="DE-CH"><u></u> <u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="DE-CH">"We
had been waiting outside here for so long, and it was raining, but no one
cared," said Gao Yanping, another protester. "Now they are asking us
to wait another 2 months? We cannot control our anger anymore."<u></u><u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="DE-CH"><u></u> <u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="DE-CH">Officials
at the Zhengzhou city government propaganda office and the city's police bureau
refused to comment. A woman who answered the phone at the Henan provincial
government office denied that there had been a protest.<u></u><u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="DE-CH"><u></u> <u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="DE-CH">After
ignoring or demonizing people with AIDS for much of the 1980s and 1990s,
China's authoritarian government has taken a more compassionate line on the
disease and combating its spread in recent years. But people with AIDS still
face difficulties in getting treatment and compensation, and authorities remain
deeply suspicious of independent activists.<u></u><u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="DE-CH">___<u></u><u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.0pt"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="DE-CH">Associated
Press researcher Flora Ji contributed to this report.<u></u><u></u></span></font></span></p>
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