October 11-17 event aims to reduce health threats in border region
By Eric Green Washington File Staff Writer
Washington -- U.S. officials are participating in a weeklong effort to identify and reduce significant threats to the health of people living near the U.S.-Mexico border.
The October 11-17 event, called Border Binational Health Week, will focus on diabetes, disaster preparedness, injury prevention, immunization and health promotion as priority areas for joint work along the lengthy border between the United States and Mexico.
New methods allow faster implementation of HIV-prevention programs
New research suggests a better way to more rapidly disseminate and implement the best new ideas for prevention of HIV/AIDS, according to a press release from the National Institute of Mental Health, the U.S. government agency that funded the work.
Most of the innovative ideas for HIV-infection prevention are born in the United States and disseminated to the health care community through scientific journals. Those journals rarely make it to the developing world, however, where health care providers are coping with the most serious AIDS problems.
Work will help in the design of new bioterror vaccines and drugs
Results of a new study in monkeys shed light on how the smallpox virus caused mass death and suffering throughout history and will help in the design of new diagnostics, vaccines and drugs that would be needed in the event of a smallpox bioterror incident, according to an October 12 National Institutes of Health (NIH) press release.
The research was funded by the NIH National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID). "In light of today's concerns about bioterror attacks, we have an urgent need to know as much as possible about the workings of the smallpox virus and other bioterror agents," said NIAID Director Dr. Anthony Fauci.
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