[Viva] Fwd: FW: ICAD Weekly News Digest / Bulletin hebdomadaire de nouvelles

Wed Aug 31 10:17:38 PDT 2011

Interesting article on breast feeding, looks like it is being considered low
risk now. Which is great news!!
Also the article on AIDS orphans was interesting to me since my kids went
through a lot of the same things caring for me through many serious
illnesses.
ox

On Sun, Aug 28, 2011 at 7:45 PM, Denise Becker <dbecker106 at gmail.com> wrote:

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> Date: Sat, Aug 27, 2011 at 1:49 PM
> Subject: FW: ICAD Weekly News Digest / Bulletin hebdomadaire de nouvelles
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> *Sent:* Friday, August 26, 2011 6:55 AM
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> *Subject:* ICAD Weekly News Digest / Bulletin hebdomadaire de nouvelles***
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> Although ICAD is committed to providing information in both official
> languages, many of the news stories or announcements included in the weekly
> news digest are sent to us in English only. Stories and announcements in
> French or in both languages will be circulated whenever possible.****
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> La CISD est engagée à fournir de l’information dans les deux langues
> officielles, mais plusieurs des articles et annonces inclus dans nos
> nouvelles hebdomadaires nous sont transmis uniquement en anglais. Chaque
> fois que cela sera possible, nous inclurons des textes en français ou dans
> les deux langues.****
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>  *In the News… / Des nouvelles...*****
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> Should Breastfeeding be an Option for HIV Positive Women in Developed
> Countries?<http://www.hivandhepatitis.com/hiv-populations/pregnancy-hiv-mtct/3195-should-breastfeeding-be-an-option-for-hiv-positive-women-in-developed-countries>
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> August 25, 2011****
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> Public health experts recommend that HIV positive women in resource-limited
> countries should breastfeed their babies. Women in industrialized countries
> who are on effective antiretroviral therapy (ART) and have undetectable
> viral load should also be advised that breastfeeding may be an acceptable
> option, according to an opinion piece by Pamela Morrison, an international
> board-certified lactation consultant, and colleagues in the August 5, 2011,
> advance online edition of AIDS.****
>
> Canadian study finds criminalisation confusion "chills" open and honest
> discussion of HIV risk-taking <http://www.aidsmap.com/page/2052837/>****
>
> August 23, 2011****
>
> The lack of clarity over when a person with HIV has a legal obligation to
> disclose their HIV-positive status to a sexual partner is resulting in
> "anxiety, confusion and contradictory HIV counselling advice," according to
> a new study on the impact of HIV criminalisation in Canada. ****
>
> Global Fund lifts China grant freeze<http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5htRR1U4wpZ0Cg-X4QGgcj9sswKyw?docId=655b550527774056b051be884e77fe76>
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> August 23, 2011****
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> A high-profile global health fund that has come under pressure to clean up
> corruption has ended its dispute with China and will resume hundreds of
> millions of dollars in funding for programs to fight AIDS and other
> diseases, thereby removing a source of embarrassment for Beijing.****
>
> New Research Carves Window Looking into the Lives of AIDS Orphans<http://www.soschildrensvillages.ca/News/News/orphan-charity-news/Pages/Research-AIDS-Orphans-Africa-090.aspx>
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> August 23, 2011****
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> An ongoing study by a team of researchers led by an Oxford University
> academic is breaking new ground in studying the lives of children affected
> by AIDS. With an original study on children orphaned by AIDS<http://www.soschildrensvillages.ca/What-we-do/Pages/default.aspx> underway,
> Oxford University researcher, Dr. Lucie Cluver, is discovering the toll that
> the disease takes on children who have spent time caring for their ailing
> parents.****
>
> Human Rights Protections for Sexual Minorities in Insular Southeast Asia:
> Issues and Implications for Effective HIV Prevention<http://hivaidsclearinghouse.unesco.org/no-cache/clearinghouse-services/news/single-view.html?tx_ttnews%5Btt_news%5D=2022>
> ****
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> August 23, 2011****
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> UNESCO Bangkok is releasing this week at the International Congress on AIDS
> in Asia and the Pacific (ICAAP) in Korea the publication: Human Rights
> Protections for Sexual Minorities in Insular Southeast Asia: Issues and
> Implication for Effective HIV Prevention. This publication aims to provide
> an overview of the situation regarding protection of the rights of sexual
> minorities in six countries in insular Southeast Asia (Brunei Darussalam,
> Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore and Timor-Leste).****
>
> Pathogens May Change, But Fear Is the Same<http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/16/health/16epidemics.html>
> August 15, 2011****
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> In “House on Fire: The Fight to Eradicate Smallpox<http://health.nytimes.com/health/guides/disease/smallpox/overview.html?inline=nyt-classifier>,”
> Dr. William H. Foege, one of the conquerors of the virus, describes a
> grotesque moment in the war: The last victim in Benin, in West Africa, is
> visited by several “fetisheurs” — witch doctors — seeking to harvest his
> scabs. For a fee, fetisheurs performed inoculations, a medical practice
> common in Africa for centuries. Into a small cut in the arm of a healthy
> person, they would rub in a victim’s powdered scabs. (The inoculee had about
> a 2 percent risk of dying, but a typical African epidemic was about 25
> percent lethal.)****
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> *Letter to the Editor in response to the above article:*
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> Mobilized Against AIDS <http://nyti.ms/pmnhEC> by Dr. Agnes Binagwaho,
> Rwanda's Minister of Health****
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> August 22, 2011****
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> Your article painted a false picture of all Africans as fatalistic victims
> of the virus, instead of activists who are building the global movement to
> demand access to the fruits of modern medicine. Rwandans are in no way
> resigned.****
>
> You can find the un-edited full version <http://bit.ly/mQoqkp> on her
> blog.****
>
> International AIDS Society to endorse the Code of Good Practice for NGOs
> Responding to HIV/AIDS<http://www.iasociety.org/Web/WebContent/File/Code_of_Good_Practice_announcement_Aug2011.pdf>
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> August 19, 2011****
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> The International AIDS Society (IAS) has “officially embraced the Code of
> Good Practice for NGOs Responding to HIV” - issuing a press release to that
> effect on the 19th of August. “The Code is another milestone in striving
> towards a global consistency and efficiency for tackling this epidemic –
> said Bertrand Audoin, IAS Executive Director – the IAS, with a membership of
> 16,000, is committed to promote and circulate its principles and
> guidelines.”****
>
> HIV Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP)—A Quantitative Ethics Appraisal<http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0022497>
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> August 5, 2011****
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> There is now strong evidence that preventive oral antiretroviral therapy
> can moderately reduce likelihood of HIV infection. This concept is called
> HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP). Premature closures of some previous
> PrEP clinical trials, secondary to ethical concerns, did not stop research.
> We aimed to appraise the extent of ethics considerations reporting in PrEP
> study documents.****
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>  *Announcements… / Des annonces...*****
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