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- UN gives aid to Guinea Bissau to fight cholera epidemic
- BISSAU AFP — The United Nations gave 400,000 euros (600,000 dollars) in aid to the tiny west African nation of Guinea Bissau to fight a cholera epidemic that has claimed 40 lives to date, the UN said Saturday. "The funds complement contributions by all the local United Nations agencies,"...
- Research articles 2008-08-16
- Uganda hepatitis epidemic toll rises to 110
- KAMPALA AFP — A hepatitis E epidemic in northern Uganda has killed 110 people since last October and continues to spread across the region, the health ministry said Thursday. The virus, concentrated in the Kitgum district which is home to numerous camps for civil-war displaced, has caused 6,762 infections,...
- Research articles 2008-08-14
- AIDS has undoubtedly been the most politicized disease in history
- AIDS has undoubtedly been the most politicized disease in history. A key feature of its politicization was the claim that without massive funding for prevention programs, the disease would escape into the general population from its bases among homosexual men and needle-using drug addicts. Heterosexuals were all under threat, we...
- Research articles 2008-06-30
- China seals off quake town over epidemic fears: report
- BEIJING AFP — One of the towns worst hit in last month's devastating China earthquake has been sealed off to prevent epidemics from spreading, after having been opened just briefly, state media said on Saturday. More than 600 police officers have been posted around southwest China's Beichuan town, which...
- Research articles 2008-06-28
- Red Cross calls AIDS epidemic a disaster for Africa
- GENEVA AFP — Africa's AIDS epidemic is so severe that it should be classed as a disaster comparable to floods or famine, the Red Cross said Thursday. In its annual "World Disasters Report", the International Federation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies IFRC said that there was...
- Research articles 2008-06-25
- Epidemics emerge as major threat in China's quake zone: report
- BEIJING AFP — Infectious diseases are emerging as a major threat in China's quake zone, with injured and traumatised victims most at risk, the health minister was quoted as saying Wednesday. As summer approaches, the warmer weather creates optimal conditions for epidemics, with survivors of the massive May 12...
- Research articles 2008-06-17
- Type 2 diabetes seen as epidemic but manageable
- The risk factors for diabetes are well-known, and preventive methods have been shown to work, so responsibility for managing the disease rests largely on patients, according to health-care officials. Seven percent of the U.S. population has diabetes, according to the American Diabetes Association. And while type 2 diabetes...
- Research articles 2008-06-17
- Mystery epidemic hits NKorea: aid group
- SEOUL AFP — A mystery epidemic spreading along some North Korean border towns with China has claimed the lives of dozens of children, a Seoul-based humanitarian group said Tuesday. The highly contagious disease has sparked a health alert with an estimated five or six children dying every day since...
- Research articles 2008-06-03
- US child obesity may be stabilizing after huge rise: study
- WASHINGTON AFP — The obesity rate among American children and teenagers may have stabilized after a dramatic rise in the 1980s and 1990s that has been described as an epidemic, according to a US study on Wednesday. The study published in The Journal of the American Medical Association JAMA,...
- Research articles 2008-05-28
- China in emergency vaccination drive in quake-hit areas
- BEIJING AFP — China said Tuesday it would provide mass emergency vaccinations in quake-hit areas to curb potential epidemics, but reported no major disease outbreaks so far. "By June 15, emergency inoculation of vulnerable people will be completed including vaccines against Hepatitis A and Encephalitis B," Sun Jiahai, a...
- Research articles 2008-05-27
- China quake zone on guard against epidemics
- SHIFANG, China AFP — In this earthquake-ravaged stretch of southwestern China, drinking water and vaccines are running short as health authorities face the daunting task of caring for millions of homeless. People who lost their homes are packed into camps with only rudimentary sanitation as the government races to...
- Research articles 2008-05-21
- Burkina meningitis toll passes 800, capital struck for first time
- OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso AFP — A meningitis epidemic has killed more than 800 people in Burkina Faso since the start of the year and has now reached the capital, the health ministry said on Wednesday. "Between January 1 and April 20, we have counted a total of 8,382 suspected...
- Research articles 2008-04-23
- Euro 2008: Swiss health authorities warn of measles risk
- GENEVA AFP — Football fans risk being literally as "sick as a parrot" whether their teams win or lose at this summer's Euro 2008 games in Switzerland due to a measles epidemic, health authorities warned Wednesday. Switzerland has been in the grip of a measles epidemic for more than...
- Research articles 2008-04-23
- National Experts Retreat from Estimate of 40,000 New US HIV Infections Annually
- Still No Date Given for Release of Crucial Data Expected to Show Far Higher Incidence; AHF to Press White House for CDC's Release of New HIV Numbers WASHINGTON -- In a community forum and conference call hosted today by the Federal AIDS Policy Partnership FAPP to discuss HIV incidence...
- Research articles 2008-04-15
- AIDS and the churches: getting the story right.
- Responses to the global HIV/AIDS epidemic are often driven not by evidence but by ideology, stereotypes, and false assumptions. Referring to the hyperepidemics of Africa, an article in The Lancet this fall named "ten myths" that impede prevention efforts-including "Poverty and discrimination are the problem," "Condoms...
- Research articles 2008-04-01
- An epidemic without enmity: explaining the missing ethnic tensions in New Haven's 1918 influenza epidemic.
- Although much of the historiography of urban public health documents scapegoating of immigrant and working-class civilians during onsets of epidemic disease, the 1918 influenza epidemic in New Haven, Connecticut, suggests a very different story. A large number of industrial working-class Italians made up a significant proportion of the city's population....
- Research articles 2008-03-22
- Australian PM targets binge drinking 'epidemic'
- SYDNEY AFP — Binge drinking by young Australians has become an "epidemic" and will be targeted by a new government strategy, Prime Minister Kevin Rudd announced Monday. An initial 53 million dollars (49 million US) would be spent on a programme to tackle the problem, particularly in sporting organisations,...
- Research articles 2008-03-10
- Meningitis kills hundreds in Burkina Faso
- OUGADOUGOU AFP — A meningitis outbreak in Burkina Faso has infected thousands of people, killing hundreds, in the past two months, the health ministry told the AFP Thursday. "We have identified 3,181 suspected cases of meningitis from January 1 until March 2, 2008, of whom 366 have died," said...
- Research articles 2008-03-06
- Groups seek end to needle-exchange ban
- Seeking bold action to stem the HIV/AIDS epidemic among Black Americans, the NAACP, the National Urban League and other groups urged Congress to repeal a 20 year-old ban on federal funding for needle-exchange programs. More than 200 such programs have been established across the country, with the aim of...
- Research articles 2008-02-25
- Obesity more dangerous than terrorism: experts
- SYDNEY AFP — World governments focus too much on fighting terrorism while obesity and other "lifestyle diseases" are killing millions more people, an international conference heard Monday. Overcoming deadly factors such as poor diet, smoking and a lack of exercise should take top priority in the fight against a...
- Research articles 2008-02-24
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