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The Future of the U.S.-South Africa HIV/AIDS Partnership

(CSIS) South Africa has the highest burden of HIV/AIDS in the world, with 5.6 million people living with the virus and over 400,000 newly infected annually. Since 2004, the U.S. government has committed more than $4 billion to combating HIV/AIDS in South Africa—the largest U.S. investment in HIV/AIDS worldwide. Continued progress in controlling HIV/AIDS in  Read More »

Anthrax found in body of drug user in Glasgow

(GlasgowEveningTimes) Health officials said the middle-aged man’s death could have been caused by injecting contaminated heroin, or a contaminated cutting agent mixed with the drug. NHS Greater Glasgow And Clyde said it was an isolated case in the city. Police are investigating the man’s death, which happened on Sunday. Dr Syed Ahmed, public health consultant  Read More »

Infectious Diseases Kill 17315 on Chinese Mainland

(Crienglish) Infectious diseases killed a total of 17,315 people across the Chinese mainland in 2012, up from 15,802 in the previous year, the Ministry of Health said Friday. The top six infectious diseases, in terms of the number of deaths they caused, were AIDS, tuberculosis, rabies, viral hepatitis, hand-foot-mouth disease and epidemic hemorrhagic fever, a  Read More »

Drug-resistant MRSA bacteria — here to stay in both hospital and community

(Princeton University) The drug-resistant bac­te­ria known as MRSA, once con­fined to hos­pi­tals but now wide­spread in com­mu­ni­ties, will likely con­tinue to exist in both set­tings as sep­a­rate strains, accord­ing to a new study.

The Deadly Virus That’s Spreading Faster Than Malaria or West Nile

(TakePart) About half of the world is at risk of a virus that Americans don’t know at all. For Americans, dengue fever is about as foreign as the metric system or the leading contenders in next year’s World Cup. But while we don’t know much about it, for the rest of the world, dengue is  Read More »

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