http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. China reported Tuesday that four more people in one province have been seriously sickened by a bird flu virus new to humans, as cities along the eastern seaboard stepped up public health measures to guard against the disease, which has already caused two deaths. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-04-china-rare-bird-flu-cases.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Tue, 02 Apr 2013 08:54:50 EST news284111681 Harvard AIDS researchers gathered at the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) last Thursday to mark 10 years of work under a key federal anti-AIDS program that has been instrumental in stemming the tide of a disease that once threatened to destroy entire societies. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-africa-success-aids-school-health.html HIV & AIDS Thu, 17 Jan 2013 10:37:52 EST news277641415 The President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPfAR) began in 2003 with good intentions, but it was not until the U.S. government's massive overseas public health campaign adopted generic drugs that it became a success, according to a new article by Brown University researchers in the July issue of the journal Health Affairs. Nearly a decade later, expanding the availability of generics remains urgent, especially as doctors in the field encounter resistance to first-line treatment regimens. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-07-drugs-key-overseas-hiv-relief.html Medications Mon, 09 Jul 2012 16:00:12 EST news261066195 The U.S. President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, the government's far-reaching health-care foreign aid program, has contributed to a significant decline in adult death rates from all causes in Africa, according to a new study by Stanford University School of Medicine researchers. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-05-documents-benefits-aids-relief.html HIV & AIDS Tue, 15 May 2012 16:00:11 EST news256309510 (AP) -- President Barack Obama is renewing the U.S. commitment to ending AIDS Thursday, setting new goals for getting more people access to life-saving drugs and boosting spending on treatment in the U.S. by $50 million dollars. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-12-obama-combat-aids.html HIV & AIDS Thu, 01 Dec 2011 10:00:01 EST news241955150 A collection of nine new articles to be published in PLoS Medicine and PLoS ONE, in conjunction with the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) and the United States President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), highlights how scaling up voluntary medical male circumcision (VMMC) for HIV prevention in eastern and southern Africa can help prevent HIV not only at individual but also at community and population level as well as lead to substantial cost savings for countries due to averted treatment and care costs. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-11-scale-up-voluntary-male-circumcision-cost-effective.html HIV & AIDS Wed, 30 Nov 2011 05:14:41 EST news241852472 A landmark study by the BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS (BC-CfE) and the University of British Columbia (UBC) shows that patients in Africa receiving combination antiretroviral therapy (cART) for HIV can expect to live a near normal lifespan. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-07-hiv-therapies-lifespan-africa.html HIV & AIDS Mon, 18 Jul 2011 17:00:07 EST news230221879