Health Dimensions of Sex and Reproduction: Global Burden of Sexually Transmitted Diseases, HIV, Maternal Conditions, Perinatal Disorders and Congenital Anomalies (Global burden of disease)
I knew the material that is the source of The Blind Side since I had quickly consumed the Michael Lewis book when it was released. I was late to the cult of Moneyball and had caught up with his work. The thing about The Blind Side was that it was fascinating on some levels and completely unfocused in others. It kinda wanted to be the football version of Moneyball, thus the subtitle "Evolution...
More than half a million people in the U.S. have died from HIV infection, and more than a million currently live with the virus, but a relative handful of people infected with HIV never get treatment for it and never get sick from it. The immune systems of this small population—perhaps 50,000 Americans—somehow control the [...]
This is NOT a Broadway album! Trust me! Fans of John Barrowman will be heartily disappointed! Released in 2001 and very much available from CD Baby, this CD is very welcome indeed. This album is special in that it is a charity disc for the Broadway Cares / Equity Fights Aids foundation, and a portion of the proceeds from the sale of the CD goes straight to that charity in order to ensure direct support...
The cloture vote is through.Byrd was wheeled in in a chair. Landrieu sat near the clerk. You could barely hear her "aye." Lincoln sounded more confident. Lucky (or unlucky) Senate aids sat near the clerk as well....
Well, I think I have come to the end of my Africa posts.....maybe. I know that you are heaving a big sigh of relief with this after wondering, "Egads, how long can the woman go on about a trip to Africa? Thank goodness she isn't making us look at a slide show!" A long time evidently. Believe me, you think these posts have gone on forever then you might not want to read my notes from the trip....
Since the discovery in 2007 that a component of human semen called SEVI boosts infectivity of the virus that causes AIDS, researchers have been trying to learn more about SEVI and how it works, in hopes of thwarting its infection-promoting activity.
It's a sad day when the made up nonsense of the E-Timothy's Rumour Mill makes depressing reading but these are the times we live in. So without even the slightest attempt to pass these rumours of as my own here is video delights to only add to the disappointment when it turns out to be complete and utter rubbish. Keita Suzuki is described as a natural holding midfielder which means that You Tube footage...
Sexcapaids is a two-man play set on the premises of living with HIV/AIDS in Nigeria in 1996 (an era when public awareness of the disease was minimal), Ayo Thomas an upwardly mobile middle class young man and BOBO rasta, a street schooled hustler, both escape inmates of an HIV positive quarantine institution recap their life history prior to their testing positive.
The LA Times Blog asks whether this is art: In the U.K. next month, a dance artist who has epilepsy will attempt to induce a seizure on stage. Rita Marcalo has stopped taking her medication ahead of the event at the Bradford Playhouse, according to the BBC News . "If she has a seizure, an alarm will sound and the audience will be invited to film on their mobile phones," said the report. And...
Melanie Lofgren 11/20/09 3:10 p.m. The Global Fund is a finical institution that works in the prevention, treatment, and care of three diseases in low-income countries: AIDS/HIV, malaria, and tuberculosis (which estimates claimed have killed over 4 million people each year). To date, it has contributed $18.4 billion dollars in 140 countries since 2002. On November 12, 2009, the United Nation- backed...
Tuesday, December 1st is World AIDS Day, and pianist Reiko Uchida and I will be performing a Classical Action benefit concert to raise money for AIDS-related services across the country. The concert will take place in a beautiful home in...
Were you disappointed that you were unable to add your name to the newest Religious Right manifesto so that you could do your part to save America from its descent into Nazi-like totalitarianism ? Well, have we got good news for you - now you can : This Friday, November 20, 2009, at the National Press Club in Washington D.C., a seminal statement signed by over 125 Evangelical, Orthodox, and Catholic...
I’m Lindsay Sween, and welcome to this installment of the AIDS Pandemic blog and podcast. Human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) invades a CD4+ (T4) cell through the attachment of the viral protein gp120 to its primary cellular receptor, CD4, and to a transmembrane chemokine coreceptor, usually CCR5 or CXCR4. Agrawal et al. (2007) explain that the removal of 32 base pairs from the CCR5 gene...
J'burg, NYC, DC: Gay Uganda Protests Show Solidarity (Activists picketing in Washington yesterday at the Ugandan Embassy. Photo credit: Michael T. Luongo, Gay City News .) (Demonstrators outside the Ugandan mission to the UN yesterday. Photo credit: Gay City News .) As someone who criticized the non-governmental orgs for not taking to the streets because of the draconian Anti-Homosexuality Bill under...
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