Needle Funding Ban May Soon End
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Nearly a decade after it was first imposed, a unique congressional ban limiting the District's effort to fight AIDS could be lifted and the city again allowed to use local tax dollars for needle-exchange programs.
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Safer syringes could avert 1.3 million deaths a year, especially in poorer countries where 40 percent of all injections involve unsterilized reused needles, the World Health Organisation (WHO) said on Tuesday.
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Drug-using prisoners may be given clean needles under a scheme being considered by the Scottish Prison Service (SPS). The service has confirmed it is considering handing out kits to inmates as part of a harm-reduction programme.
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A needle-exchange program is the best way to stop the alarming increase of HIV and hepatitis C in Canadian prisons, medical and legal groups said Wednesday.
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The Supreme Court may give the clearest indication so far of whether it intends to call a halt the practice of lethal injection.
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China&#39;s parliament passed a law Saturday banning the buying or selling of blood to prevent the spread of AIDS (news - web sites) and outlawing discrimination against victims of infectious diseases, state media said.
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Federal funding for abstinence education will likely fall considerably this year as Democratic leaders said Wednesday they will let a $50 million grant program expire on June 30
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OTTAWA - A compensation fund for people who contracted hepatitis C through tainted blood between 1986 and 1990 could be extended to those who got the disease outside that time frame, the federal health minister said Wednesday.
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The multi-billion-dollar health care programthat helps fund everything from medical colleges to insurance for poor children may run a shortfall by the end of the state fiscal year.
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Internet sales of prescription drugs to U.S. consumers could be banned by Canada if a proposal being drafted by health officials is approved, changes that would essentially kill a &#36;700 million industry that has become increasingly popular with underinsured patients in search of cheaper medicine.
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A ban could transform the way parents cope with the most common illness in young children, but drug makers said they would fight the recommendations.
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The Global Fund to fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria urged donors on Friday to pay up what they have pledged by the end of next month or risk seeing the United States cut short its contribution.
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Tuberculosis may reach the point where most new cases in some countries are resistant to many drugs unless far greater efforts are made now.
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In the wake of more than 400 deaths nationwide from heroin laced with the painkiller fentanyl, some needle exchange programs are giving addicts prescriptions for a drug to keep on hand to halt an overdose.
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The alarming prevalence of HIV and hepatitis C infection among inmates is a health issue that affects all Canadians and requires the country&#39;s prisons to immediately adopt needle exchange programs, advocacy groups said yesterday.
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The Federal Government appears set to change its policy over compensation for people who contracted hepatitis C through the blood supply.
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If the South African National Blood Service were to stop using race as one of its criteria for screening potential donors for HIV, the number of people receiving HIV-contaminated blood could rise from two or three a year to as many as 100, the service&#39;s