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While the HIV epidemic has shifted toward poor, rural Southern areas, the funding mechanism behind the AIDS Drug Assistance Program (ADAP) favors the populated, urban states where the epidemic first erupted 25 years ago, southern AIDS advocates say.
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Mental illnesses have had a great impact on the AIDS epidemic, and new research shows that providing psychiatric treatment to HIV-infected patients who have a psychiatric comorbidity will produce better treatment outcomes, a researcher says.
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With the waning of the publicity hoopla over international support for providing antiretrovirals to sub-Saharan Africa and other developing regions, the actual work of bringing antiretroviral medications to millions of people has begun, and experts say it shows both great promise and great challenges.
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The Mother-to-Child-Transmission (MTCT)-Plus initiative was developed in response to the expansion of programs for preventing HIV transmission between mothers and children with the added feature of providing ongoing antiretroviral treatment to mothers.
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Antiretroviral treatment soon will be available to millions more people in sub-Saharan Africa and other developing nations, and international HIV experts fear theyll see increased risk behaviors when the drugs become commonplace.
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SAN FRANCISCO, California The field of electrophysiology has changed dramatically over the past three decades, as the management of arrhythmias, or irregular heart rhythms, has evolved from simple pacemakers in the early 1970s to highly sophisticated implantable cardioverter defibrillators (ICDs) that can swiftly halt a sudden cardiac death episode, to biventricular pacers that provide significant relief from congestive heart failure.
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The UK Department of Health has launched a consultation on a new chapter of the National Service Framework (NSF) on Coronary Heart Disease. The new area will cover heart arrhythmias, which will form an important part of the heart disease agenda. Cardiac arrhythmia covers a range of conditions from a transient loss of consciousness and reflex anoxic seizures to cardiomyopathy and sudden adult death syndrome (SADS).
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Microtek Medical Holdings (Microtek; Columbus, Mississippi) said that its newly formed Netherlands-based subsidiary, Microtek Medical BV, has acquired International Medical Products BV (IMP) and its affiliates, from Cardinal Health (Dublin, Ohio).