Global Challenges - IRIN News Examines HIV/AIDS Awareness Levels Among IDUs in Myanmar IRIN News recently examined how the 'thousands' of injection drug users in Myanmar have 'little or no awareness of the risks' associated with the practice, including an increased risk of HIV/AIDS. The government reports that the number of registered IDUs in the country is around 70,000, with a majority of ne www.kaisernetwork.org/daily_reports/rep_index.cfm?hint=1&DR_ID=57412

2009-03-11

Opinion - Needle-Exchange Programs 'Save' Lives, Money, Editorial Says The 'simple truth about needle-exchange programs is that they save lives and save money,' a San Antonio Express-News editorial says. It continues, 'Numerous research studies and practical experience with such programs around the nation demonstrate the savings,' adding, 'The same studies and practical experie www.kaisernetwork.org/daily_reports/rep_index.cfm?hint=1&DR_ID=56102

2008-12-16

Global Challenges - IDUs At High Risk of HIV in Indonesia, Study Says An Indonesian Ministry of Health study conducted in 2007 found that injection drug users are at the greatest risk of HIV in the country, with approximately 50% of the IDUs participating in the study living with the virus, the Jakarta Post reports. The survey was released on Monday and conducted in eight prov www.kaisernetwork.org/daily_reports/rep_index.cfm?hint=1&DR_ID=54993

2008-10-15

Global Challenges - HIV-Positive Drug Users in Thailand Experience Difficulties Accessing Treatment, Advocates Say Although many injection drug users in Thailand are HIV-positive, the government's campaign to curb drug use makes it difficult for IDUs to access no-cost antiretroviral treatment provided by the government, advocates said recently, VOA News reports. According to VOA News, an estimated half of the country's 1 www.kaisernetwork.org/daily_reports/rep_index.cfm?hint=1&DR_ID=53979

2008-08-15

Global Challenges - India's NACO, UNAIDS Launch Five-Year Campaign To Fight Spread of HIV/AIDS in Northeastern States India's National AIDS Control Organization and UNAIDS on Friday launched a five-year campaign that aims to reduce the risk and impact of HIV/AIDS in the country's northeastern states, ANI/DailyIndia.com reports. Panabaka Lakshmi, minister of state in the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, said the govern www.kaisernetwork.org/daily_reports/rep_index.cfm?hint=1&DR_ID=48207

2007-10-16

Global Challenges - Injection Drug Use in India More Widespread Than Previously Thought, Could Fuel Spread of HIV, Survey Says Injection drug use in India might be more widespread than previously thought, which some health experts and advocates say could fuel the spread of HIV in the country, according to a UNAIDS-supported survey recently released by the Society for Promotion of Youth and Masses, Reuters reports. The survey found t www.kaisernetwork.org/daily_reports/rep_index.cfm?hint=1&DR_ID=45536

2007-06-13

Opinion - Spread of HIV Could Have Been Curbed by Changes in Sexual, IDU Practices, Opinion Piece Says The U.S. HIV/AIDS epidemic 'could have been greatly contained by intense campaigns to modify sexual and drug-use behavior in 25 to 30 neighborhoods from New York [City] and Miami to San Francisco,' but 'political values impeded public health requirements,' columnist George Will writes in a Washington Post op www.kaisernetwork.org/daily_reports/rep_index.cfm?hint=1&DR_ID=37720

2006-06-06

Across The Nation - New HIV/AIDS Diagnoses Stable, But Significant Racial Differences Still Exist, CDC Data Show New HIV/AIDS diagnoses remained level between 2001 and 2004, but blacks and Hispanics are still more likely to be newly diagnosed with HIV than whites, according to CDC data from 33 states published on Friday in the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, the Atlanta-Journal Constitution reports. Overall, the www.kaisernetwork.org/daily_reports/rep_index.cfm?hint=1&DR_ID=33825

2005-11-18

Public Health & Education - Baltimore Needle-Exchange Program Celebrates 10th Anniversary, Decline in New IDU-Related HIV Cases Baltimore last weekend celebrated the 10th anniversary of its needle-exchange program, which has collected more than six million used needles since its inception and is the largest city-run program in the country, city Health Commissioner Peter Beilenson said, the AP/Wilmington News Journal reports. About 7% www.kaisernetwork.org/daily_reports/rep_index.cfm?hint=1&DR_ID=25401

2004-08-24

Across The Nation - Groups Working to Increase Awareness of N.Y. Syringe Law Community health and HIV/AIDS activists are working to make New York's intravenous drug users and pharmacists more aware of a new state law that permits pharmacies to sell up to 10 syringes at a time without a prescription, Newsday reports. Since the Expanded Syringe Access Demonstration Program, an initiati www.kaisernetwork.org/daily_reports/rep_index.cfm?hint=1&DR_ID=6082

2001-07-31