LOVE Yourself & LOVE Your Partner in Manzini
LOVE Yourself & LOVE Your Partner in Manzini
AIDS Healthcare Foundation, in partnership with Manzini City Council hosted a talent show in Manzini on World Condom Day (February 13th). Get educated, get tested for HIV, and know your status. For more information, or to find out how you can be tested, go to www.lovecondoms.org or www.freehivtest.net
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Gleeman's Daily News--03/12/10
WTC responders reach settlement with NYC
Pool photo by Stan Honda
Firefighters worked at the ruins of the World Trade Center in New York in Oct. 2001.
A settlement of up to $657.5 million has been reached in the cases of thousands of rescue and cleanup workers at ground zero who sued the city over damage to their health, according to city officials and lawyers for the plaintiffs.
They said that the settlement would compensate about 10,000 plaintiffs according to the severity of their illnesses and the level of their exposure to contaminants at the World Trade Center site.
I did not know the extent of the illnesses from 9/11, but looking at the photo, it is easy to see how this massive exposure could and did cause physical harm to the people who worked at the scene.
Once a cesarean, always a cesarean? Panel says no
A panel constituting of medical experts from various institutes on Wednesday recommended steps to reverse the old trend--“once a cesarean, always a cesarean”.
Eliminating the difficulty of finding doctors who can help women, who have had a cesarean section before, deliver normally was the main agenda of the panel.
The panel met at a conference held in Bethesda, Md., U.S. by the National Institutes of Health and discussed the reasons behind the constant decline in the rate of VBAC, vaginal deliveries after a cesarean section in the past.
Wouldn’t the doctor decide on this issue? I get the feeling there is a reason for the custom of staying with cesarean, but if you ever watched one, it is quite a drastic surgical procedure.
Sniffing inhalants reported favorite drug of 12-year-olds
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(CBS) More 12-year-olds in the U.S. get high by sniffing inhalants than by using marijuana, cocaine or hallucinogens combined, a new government report finds.
A survey released by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration finds that lifetime use of potentially deadly inhalants among 12-year-olds was 6.9 percent in 2008, compared with 5.1 percent for illegal prescription drugs, 1.4 percent for marijuana, 0.7 percent for hallucinogens and 0.1 percent for cocaine.
No 12-year-old should be doing any kind of drug, least of all inhalants that destroy the brain. What would a doctor do if he or she suspected that a child was doing this kind of activity?
Boston Scientific's Express LD Iliac Premounted Stent System approved by FDA
The FDA has issued approval for Boston Scientific's Express LD Iliac Premounted Stent System, granting it an indication for the treatment of peripheral artery disease in iliac arteries. It is the same balloon expandable stent that has FDA indication for palliation of malignant neoplasms in the biliary tree, and already has the European CE Mark of approval for PAD in iliac procedures.
This is a company known for their stent products and doing very well. We recently saw a story about their stents for carotid artery doing as well as the normal surgery for this condition.
South Africa increases rate of HIV testing
An estimated 5.7 mln of 48 mln South Africans are HIV positive
CAPE TOWN — The South African government on Thursday announced a ramped up AIDS plan that aims to test 15 million residents for HIV in the world's worst affected country by next June.
President Jacob Zuma's cabinet, which approved the scaled up programme on Wednesday, will lead a voluntary and public testing campaign with the goal of a 50 percent drop in the rate of infection by 2011.
"The target of the HCT (HIV counselling and testing) campaign is to test up to 15 million people by June 2011," cabinet spokesman Themba Maseko told journalists.
"All public health facilities, fixed and mobile, will be equipped to offer HIV testing and to provide ART's (antiretroviral therapy)."
I’m glad to see the country take the problem seriously for a change, they are even planning to provide the antiretroviral therapy, and that should always go along with increased testing. Otherwise, what’s the point of testing?
Rush Limbaugh says he will leave the country if health care reform bill passes
While most of those were empty threats, there are notable exceptions: Film director Robert Altman moved to France after George W. Bush's victory in 2000; Law & Order star Michael Moriarty shipped off to Canada well before that.
But now the decidedly non-liberal Rush Limbaugh has made a similar move, telling his audience he will move to Costa Rica if health care reform becomes law. And now the only question that remains is whether Limbaugh will make good on his word, or join the ranks of the empty-promisers.
I hope the bill passes and he moves to another country, so many of his opinions are against the “common man”, you have to own a corporation to receive any good words from good old Rush.
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Namibia: HIV/Aids, 'If You Kiss for Five Minutes You Get It'
"At home we have a bar," says grade seven learner David Bravo* (14). "When my mother puts on the music I cannot concentrate on (my) schoolwork anymore. Sometimes, in the middle of the night, I just sit there and watch the people."
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HIV/Aids Fighting Associations Press for Major Governments Aid
The civil associations involved in the fight against Hiv/Aids and Sexually Transmitted Diseases within the Portuguese Speaking Community (CPLP), appealed to their respective governments for major assistance.
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