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Terrence Higgins Trust Re-Launches Support Group For Gay Men With Hepatitis C And HIV, UK
On Thursday 12 August, Terrence Higgins Trust (THT) will be running another six week course for gay men who are living with HIV and Hepatitis C. The group will meet each week from 6.30 - 9.30pm in central London. The course looks at living with both HIV and Hepatitis C, but the primary focus will be on Hepatitis...

D.C. Health Dept. Pushes Female Condoms In HIV Outreach Initiative
The Washington, D.C., health department has launched a campaign to promote use of the female condom as a way to help curb the spread of HIV in the city, the AP/Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports. A 2009 study found that about 3% of the city's population over age 12 is HIV-positive...

Also In Global Health News: House Passes Bill Including Haiti Relief; Kenya Adopts Safer ARVs; Florida At Risk Of Dengue Outbreak; Merck, More
House Passes War Supplemental Spending Bill; Includes Fund For Haiti The House on Tuesday passed a $59 billion war supplemental spending bill by a vote of 308-114, which will now be sent to President Barack Obama "for his signature," CongressDaily reports (Sanchez, 7/28). The bill includes "$2...

Chimerix's CMX157 Shows Potential To Treat Multi-Drug-Resistant HIV And Improve The Activity And Toxicity Profile Of Tenofovir
Chimerix, Inc...

News From The American Journal Of Pathology
Transforming Growth Factor-βa (TGF-β1) Contributes to Kidney Disease Dr...

Peer-Reviewed Journal Publishes Findings By Viral Genetics' Lead Scientist
Research co-authored by Viral Genetics, Inc., (Pink Sheets: VRAL) lead scientist Dr. M. Karen Newell has been published in the peer-reviewed Journal of Leukocyte Biology (JLB). Newell's article identifies a potential mechanism that promotes chronic inflammation, a characteristic of most autoimmune diseases. Viral Genetics has been pursing treatments for Lyme Disease and HIV/AIDS...

Results From Two Multi-Site Collaborative Studies Highlight The Value Of 454 Sequencing Systems For Genotyping Applications
454 Life Sciences, a Roche Company (SWX:RO)(SWX:ROG)(Pink Sheets: RHHBY), has announced promising new results from a multi-site collaborative research study which used the company's Genome Sequencer FLX System to perform HIV drug-resistant mutation detection...

Abbott's Enhanced ARCHITECTPLUS Systems Helps Labs Manage Surging Testing Demand Due To Aging Population
As hospital and clinical laboratories endure increasingly intense pressures to do more with less, they now face another challenge - rising demand for medical tests driven by an aging U.S. population that is expected to swell to more than 70 million in the next 20 years, an increase of more than 80 percent from today...

Preventing Mother-To-Child Transmission Of HIV Is Critical To Achieving Millennium Development Goals In Africa
Investing in the health of women and children was the focus of the high-level Summit of the African Union held 25-27 July in Kampala, Uganda. The meeting, attended by more than 35 Heads of State and politicians, highlighted progress and challenges in advancing Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) 4 and 5, which call for reducing child mortality and improving maternal health...

Richard Graham, MP For Gloucester, To Visit Terrence Higgins Trust's Centre For People Living With HIV In Gloucester, UK
Richard Graham, Conservative MP for Gloucester, will be visiting HIV and sexual health charity Terrence Higgins Trust (THT) on Friday 30 July at 11.00am. The centre provides a dedicated range of sexual health services, including one-hour HIV testing, one to one counselling, and support groups for people living with HIV...

New York Times Examines Questions Left Unanswered By Microbicide Trial
The New York Times examines a set of questions raised by news out of the International AIDS Conference-AIDS 2010 last week that a microbicide gel containing the antiretroviral (ARV) tenofovir used by women before and after sex helped reduce their risk of HIV infection by 39 percent. "After more than a dozen microbicide failures, [the news of the trial] was a huge relief ...

At Summit, AU Leaders Discuss Funding Challenges For Maternal, Child Health
African leaders focused on the theme of the 15th African Union (AU) Summit on Sunday: maternal and infant mortality on the continent, PANA/Afrique en ligne reports (7/26). Leaders expressed concern that women continue to face health challenges that are easily treatable, according to Daily Nation/allAfrica.com...

Successful Microbicide Trial Prompts Questions About Future Research, Use
Following results of a trial in which a microbicide gel lowered a woman's risk of HIV by 39%, health experts are considering how to make the treatment more effective and what its applications might be, the New York Times reports (McNeil, New York Times, 7/26)...

Blogs Comment On Global HIV Policy, N.J. Family Planning Bill, Other Topics
The following summarizes selected women's health-related blog entries...

Major Funding Awarded To Improve Treatment Of Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis And HIV Co-infection
For the third time in four months, the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has awarded Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University a research grant aimed at helping people infected with multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB). Taken together, all three NIH grants total $8.57 million...