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Volume 1, Number 33
19 November 2001
FAMILY PLANNING / REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH LAW AND POLICY
Kenya: Condoms Still Free, Says Ongeri
Representatives From 20 Latin American Countries Meet to Discuss Legalization of Abortion
Criminalization of HIV Transmission: Implications for Public Health in Scotland
FAMILY PLANNING / REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH RESEARCH
American Medical Association Recommends Nonhormonal Contraception During Rifampin Use
As Research Accelerates, Focus Intensifies on Options for 'First-Generation' Microbicide
Maternal
Infections and Subsequent Psychosis Among Offspring
Related News Article: Schizophrenia
Linked to Herpes Infection in Mother
Possible Benefits of Skipping Oral Contraceptive Spacer Pills
Chlamydia
Trachomatis Cytotoxicity Associated with Complete
and Partial Cytotoxin Genes
Related News Article: Chlamydia's
Toxin-Producing Gene Identified
FAMILY PLANNING / REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH NEWS
Offering Patients More Choices is the Newest Thing in Contraception
Kenya: Government to Check Condom Quality
HIV / AIDS RESEARCH
Women May Have High HIV Levels in Genital Tract Even if Virus Appears Suppressed in Blood Tests
HIV / AIDS NEWS
China Holds First National AIDS Conference
Ethiopia to Get AIDS Resource Center
"Rolling Stone" Investigative Report Examines the Accuracy of AIDS Statistics in Sub-Saharan Africa
HIV/AIDS: World Bank may Loan Africa $500 Million More to Fight Disease
South Africa: Local Governments Spend Less on Anti-AIDS Campaign
South African Anglican Bishop Says Mbeki's Questioning of HIV/AIDS Link Has Fueled Disease Spread
Swazi King Pays Fine For Violating Sex Ban
Kenya: Drugs' Promise to Aids Patients
Gambia: Stakeholders Discuss HIV Sentinel Surveillance
MATERNAL AND CHILD HEALTH RESEARCH
Comparison
of Two Training Strategies for Essential Newborn Care
in Brazil 
Unwanted Caesarian Sections Among Public and Private Patients in Brazil: Prospective Study
Test Can Screen for Down Syndrome in First Trimester
MATERNAL AND CHILD HEALTH NEWS
South Africa: Governments AIDS Pilot Projects Hampered By Lack of Infrastructure
MEN'S HEALTH RESEARCH
Gene Mutation Identified in Infertile Men
Newly Found Estrogen Role In Males Might Lead To Contraceptive For Men
MEN'S HEALTH NEWS
Tanzania: Male Partners Unwilling to Use Condoms
Man on Life Support Fathers Healthy Baby Boy
POPULATION NEWS
Britain: Immigration will Boost Population to 65 Million
Nigeria: Population Chief Pledges Fair Census
US: Adjusted Census Data To Be Released
Nigeria: More Babies, More Problems
Chinese Experts Warn of Population Issues
WOMEN'S HEALTH RESEARCH
Researchers Say Mammography Doesn't Cut Mortality: Prevention Experts Question Findings and Still Support the Breast Cancer Screening Tool
Tamoxifen
and Breast Cancer Incidence Among Women With Inherited
Mutations in BRCA1 and BRCA2
Related News Article: Tamoxifen
May Not Prevent BRCA1 Breast Cancer
Research
Letters: Relationship Between Estrogen-Receptor Genotype
and Tooth Loss in Postmenopausal Women
Related News Article: Estrogen Receptors
Linked to Tooth Loss in Women
WOMEN'S HEALTH NEWS
UNFPA Meeting on Women's Needs Proposes Protection Steps
YOUTH RESEARCH
40% of Boys in the UK Have Never Heard of HIV or AIDS
Exposure
to Violence and Associated Health-Risk Behaviors Among
Adolescent Girls
Related News Article: Girls Exposed
to Violence May Take Health Risks
YOUTH NEWS
China: Fight Against AIDS Brings Sex Education to Campus
Uganda: 'Include Sex Education On Primary School Syllabus'
Africa is Home to 70% of World's HIV/AIDS Orphans
PROFILES / SPECIAL REPORTS
Guidelines
for Laboratory Test Result Reporting of Human Immunodeficiency
Virus Type 1 Ribonucleic Acid Determination: Recommendations
from a CDC Working Group
Monitoring human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1)
ribonucleic acid levels (also known as HIV viral load)
has become the standard of care for monitoring response
to therapy in HIV-infected patients. In 1999, CDC
published updated surveillance case definitions for
HIV infection and acquired immunodeficiency syndrome
(AIDS) reporting, including positive results of HIV-1
viral detection tests. Since 1996, an increased number
of public and private laboratories have begun performing
viral load tests. Results obtained with available
test methods are variable, and laboratories present
these results in different ways, indicating that guidelines
to promote standard practice in reporting of test
results are warranted. This report provides guidelines
for standardized reporting of viral load test results
by licensed laboratories to health-care providers
and facilities for public health case reporting of
HIV infection and AIDS.
HIV/AIDS:
UNAIDS Official Sees Global Progress, Calls For U.S.
Change
Joint U.N. Program on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) Intercountry
Program Adviser for the Southern Cone Pedro Chequer
was a founder of Brazil's widely praised National
STD/AIDS Program. In Washington last week for a luncheon
at the Inter-American Development Bank, he spoke with
UN Wire's Joe Fiorill about the fight against HIV/AIDS
in Brazil and around the world.
Three widows in Kenya tell their stories of the traditional of inheritance and the fears, taboos, of discussing condoms and HIV.
Clan to Widow: Be Inherited or Get Out!
'My Life With Inheritor No. 3'
Mountain Voices:
Oral Testimonies from Mountain and Highland Regions
This website presents interviews with over 300 people
who live in mountain and highland regions round the
world. Their testimonies offer a personal perspective
on change and development.
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