A New Year, Reflections on 2008

Hello everyone, and Happy New Year! Lone Star Health is wishing all of you a prosperous and healthy 2009!

As 2008 came to a close and 2009 has been progressing, there has been alot happening in the world of Health and in particualr, infectious diseases. This post is dedicated to summarizing some of the developments that have transpired so far.

POZ magazine organized a list of their most talked about stories of 2008:
http://www.poz.com/articles/most_talked_about_401_15836.shtml

and a look back on treatment in 2008:
http://www.poz.com/articles/2008_treatment_review_401_15852.shtml

Access to Life's photo diary of people in 9 countries beginning ART
http://www.theglobalfund.org/en/accesstolife/#

In organizational news:
US government expands committment to PEPFAR http://www.pepfar.gov/about/index.htm
UNAIDS welcomes its new Executive Director, Michel Sidibe http://www.unaids.org/en/KnowledgeCentre/Resources/FeatureStories/archive/2009/20090123_EXD_SG.asp

International Health News:
Health crisis in Zimbabwe http://physiciansforhumanrights.org/library/report-2009-01-13.html
Iranian Doctors, HIV/AIDS activists convicted in conspiracy http://physiciansforhumanrights.org/library/news-2009-1-20.html
Female genital mutilation in Kenya and HIV/AIDS http://www.plusnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=82590

HIV/AIDs in Liberia:
http://www.irinnews.org/Report.aspx?ReportId=82519

People to remember:
Martin Delaney, founder of Project Inform http://www.projectinform.org/martindelaney.shtml


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Thank you all for your support!