health - "national hiv"

Public health professionals from across the country will convene July 14-15 in Indianapolis for a national summit on ethical and policy issues faced by public health officials and the medical community while preparing for a large-scale epidemic. (Source: News-Medical News Feed)

The U.S. Agency for International Development awarded a $500,000 grant to the YMCA of the USA to combat HIV/AIDS in Ethiopia.

Brussels - European Union citizens should be able to go to a doctor, dentist or optician anywhere in the bloc without having to get permission at home first, officials in Brussels said Wednesday. And the patient's national health service should not o...

'Coverage for All: Inclusion of Mental Illness and Substance Use Disorders in State Healthcare Reform Initiatives,' national Alliance on Mental Illness/National Council for Community Behavioral Healthcare: The study finds that more than one in four uninsured U.S.

Twelve investigators have received grants totaling $5 million over two years to lead high-impact, innovative studies of food allergy, a significant public health concern. This program, called Exploratory Investigations in Food Allergy, is funded by the national Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the national Institutes of health, and two advocacy groups, the Food Allergy and Anaphylaxis Network (FAAN) and the Food Allergy Project (FAP).read more

Today is national hiv Testing Day. Why, might you ask, is this important to know for someone with hepatitis? Because everyone with hepatitis needs to know their hiv status! Here's a great place to find an hiv ...

Bill Gates on Friday announced that the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has approved a three-year, $23 million grant to India's national AIDS Control Organisation to fight HIV/AIDS in the country, the

Indian generic pharmaceutical companies Cipla and Matrix Laboratories and the HIV/AIDS advocacy group Delhi Network of Positive People, or DNP+, recently filed an objection to an Indian patent office's decision to give a patent to

News that the full roll-out of the antenatal hiv screening programme will be delayed by up to a year is unacceptable, national Party associate health spokeswoman Jackie Blue said yesterday.

States are 'bracing for another difficult fiscal year' as they face 'high inflation, dwindling tax revenues and a national economic downturn,' the New York Times reports. As a result of the revenue declines, a number of state legislatures are 'embroiled in pitched budget battles' that have put community and social service programs 'in the crosshairs,' according to the Times.