Tuesday, April 7, 2009
The honeymoon's over
Obama's out collecting love from the rest of world, but back home he's earned his first negative press release from a health organization. The AIDS Healthcare Foundation today expressed "deep disappointment" at Obama's proposed domestic spending on AIDS awareness--$45 million. The foundation wants to see $200 million spent on testing to combat recent dramatic increases in CDC-estimated infections. Someone was bound to be disappointed sooner or later; hopefully, this isn't an indicator of underwhelming funding coming for other health initiatives.
The president did make a move likely to gain support among the fake doctors of America. Kal Penn, who had a role on the TV show House but is best known as stoner/would-be med student Kumar (of Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle), is now going to the White House as a liason between the administration and arts groups, news organizations reported today. Makes us wonder--has anyone considered Neil Patrick Harris (aka Doogie Howser, MD) for the open surgeon general slot?
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Friday, August 8, 2008
Fighting HIV with drugs and nurses
The XVI International Conference on AIDS is being held in Mexico City this week and some studies presented there highlighted new avenues for cost-effectively combatting HIV:
- In two African studies (reported in the Washington Post), researchers compared outcomes for HIV patients who had their care led by specially-trained nurses with a group receiving standard care from doctors. The clinical results were the same, but the nurses' patients were more confident in managing their own care and took their meds more regularly. The results aren't likely to put any of you out of a job, but may be useful in areas with severe physician shortages.
- Of course, reducing the quantity of new HIV infections would give both doctors and nurses less to do. A new mathematical model from Canadian researchers proposes to do just that, by giving poor patients more access to HAART. The study calculated that if British Columbian health authorities could increase HAART coverage from 50% to 90%, the rate of new infections would drop by half. A convincing argument for good prescription coverage.
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