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Sexual Violence Against Girls In Africa Linked To STD Incidence, Pregnancy Complications, Miscarriage And Depression
A UNICEF-funded study from Swaziland has shown that sexual violence against female children is linked to lifetime STD contraction, pregnancy complications or miscarriage, unwanted pregnancy, and depression. The findings are reported in an Article published Online First and in an upcoming edition of The Lancet, written by Dr Avid Reza and Dr Matthew Breidling Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Atlanta, GA, USA, and Dr Jama Gulaid, UNICEF, Mbabane, Swaziland, and colleagues.

Can Inflammatory Arthritis Be 'Worse Than Death'?
Patients with inflammatory arthritis completing a health-related quality of life questionnaire report levels of pain that result in their health being rated as "worse than death" by members of the general population.
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Efforts Underway In Namibia To Treat Pediatric HIV
Inter Press Service examines how efforts underway in Namibia have helped to decrease the number of infants born with HIV while also increasing the number of HIV-positive infants on life-saving antiretrovirals (ARVs). According to the news service, since the launch of an early infant detection (EID) program in 2006, "the number of HIV-infected newborns has dropped from 13 percent to two percent in Namibia, according to the national Ministry of Health" -- figures that "stand in sharp contrast with data from other African countries where many pregnant women are not diagnosed in time to prevent mother-to-child transmission of the virus and only a few HIV-positive infants receive ARVs."
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Lancet Examines Leishmaniasis In East Africa

A Lancet world report examines the growing threat of visceral leishmaniasis on populations in eastern Africa. Each year, the parasitic disease affects around 500,000 people worldwide, killing roughly 50,000. Though "[t]wo-thirds of [leishmaniasis] patients are in southeast Asia ̣€¦ the second largest foci is east Africa: perhaps as many as 40,000 cases every year, and incidence is on the rise," according to the article. The report explores the difficulty monitoring visceral leishmaniasis due to poor diagnostics and data surveillance, a surge in leishmania/HIV coinfection in Ethiopia and the Sudan, the shortcomings of the therapies available to treat visceral leishmaniasis, as well as future efforts to control the spread of the disease. According to the article, "The Spanish Government funds interventions in east Africa, and the World Bank is active in southeast Asia. But other agencies have not been as forthcoming." Though fighting the disease is "not necessarily a question of money," says FranÓ§ois Chappuis of Medicines Sans Frontiers, adding that "the ministries of health just don"t pay attention to these diseases, especially if they occur in remote areas." At the end of next year, the WHO"s Jorge Alvar "aims to have established the global strategy for leishmaniasis" that "will encompass a technical report, accurate epidemiological information, regional strategies - vital for a transborder problem in which epidemiology and ecology vary from place-to-place - and updated information about drug administration. He hopes that as the strategy starts to come together, international funders will become involved in fighting this most neglected of diseases," the article says (Burki, 8/1). This information was reprinted from globalhealth.kff.org with kind permission from the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation. You can view the entire Kaiser Daily Global Health Policy Report, search the archives and sign up for email delivery at globalhealth.kff.org. © Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation. All rights reserved.


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