High-risk Sexual Behavior Adolescents Attract Peers With Similar Attitudes
... author. "First, it supports the use of adolescent leaders for preventive interventions. Second, it suggests that interventions that use attitude change to change behavior may be more effective among females than among males."...Experts to Develop New Weapons Against Food Poisoning
...Both GangaGen and The University of Nottingham are leaders in bacteriophage research and view the technology as a vital breakthrough in the control of bacterial contamination and associated health risks. The research agreement, announced today [May 22], will mean they pool their resources for at least three ...Art of Living Foundation to Train Iraqi Youths
...flew into Baghdad from Amman Tuesday and met Iraqi leaders as well as grieving widows and urged people to end...d Aqaadi as saying. Ravi Shankar met many Iraqi leaders including Shia cleric Al-Sheikh Bashir Hussain Al-Najafi. All of them sought his cooperation in brin...UK Scientists Identify Gene Mutations That Trigger Breast Cancer
...fund the study. Professor Bruce Ponder, one of the leaders of the study and director of Cancer Research UK's Cambridge research institute, said that the new technique has greatly accelerated the rate at which cancer genes can be found. "We have been able to search two thirds of the genome in one go. Rather...Cultural Bias Against Women Hampering Fight Against AIDS in Africa
...waziland, particularly among women, the countries' leaders need to enforce women's legal rights," Karen Leite...e, said African governments and traditional social leaders were failing to ensure existing legal and constitutional protections for women's rights. Almost 25...WHO Condemns Tobacco Industry for Misleading Public
...s" as the theme of World No Tobacco Day, Omi urged leaders to protect people from second-hand tobacco smoke by passing and enforcing laws requiring smoking bans in all indoor and public places. He warned that second-hand smoke causes cancer, acute and chronic heart disease and has been linked to bronchitis...Brazil Slashes the Price of Contraceptives to Stop Illegal Abortions
...t that it is a public health question. Religious leaders also accused the government of "fostering promiscuity" with their sex education programme and the free distribution of condoms in the schools. According to a study published last week by the health ministry, last year 230,523 women were admitted to...Thai 'Condom King's' NGO Wins Gates Award for Anti-AIDS Work
...the Global Health Council. "The world needs more leaders like Mechai, who are willing to tackle taboo subjects like sex and HIV/AIDS directly in order to save lives." The non-profit association It was chosen from more than 90 nominees by a jury of global health leaders. The prize will be presented at t...The Global Health Council Announces Launch of Global Health TV
...now no borders, it's important that the public and leaders understand better what problems face people in developing countries, what roles the developed countries play in addressing these issues, and what all of us need to know about improving health worldwide."...Bush Announces Request for $30B, Five-Year Extension of PEPFAR
...million. Bush's announcement comes one week before leaders from the Group of Eight industrialized nations are...zambique at the end of June to meet with community leaders and participants in HIV/AIDS programs....Indonesian Teenager Dies of Bird Flu
...new initiative to fight the virus. About 100,000 leaders of villages will receive the kits, which also contain educational material about the virus, and urges them to take precautions when handling poultry. The first kits were handed out in Tenggulun Timur village this week in a high-risk area of West Java...Bush Seeks Doubling of AIDS-fighting Funds
...dly disease. "She's going to meet with community leaders and visit with participants in HIV/AIDS programs during her trip to Zambia, Senegal, Mali, and Mozambique. And she's going to come back with her findings," the president said. Bush urged the US Congress to renew and double his President's Emergency...G8 Members To Announce Plans To Increase HIV/AIDS Spending at Summit
... According to a draft of the summit's agenda, G8 leaders also plan to increase commitments aimed at strengt...es, the Kyodo News reports. The document says that leaders plan to increase their efforts to meet the goal of providing Africans with universal access to HIV p...Bush Isolated on Climate Change Heading into G8
...ons, leaving him isolated among other rich nation leaders who favour stronger action on global warming. On...e World Bank president. But while European Union leaders have been willing - even eager - to set aside trans-Atlantic divisions over Iraq, ordinary Europeans...Manmohan Singh to Meet UN Chief, Discuss Climate Change
...ted energy-saving technology when he meets the G-8 leaders on Friday. German Chancellor and summit host Angela Merkel has been working to get fellow G-8 leaders to agree to limit global warming, and not let temperatures rise more than two degrees Celsius, a pla...LCA Hails Congressional Front Against Pink Camel Cigarette Campaign
...y, Lung Cancer Alliance (LCA) hailed Congressional leaders and their efforts to challenge the marketing of C...merican Legacy Foundation, Congress, public health leaders and anyone else interested in getting these cigarettes off the market entirely," she said. Lung Ca...Fangs Taken Out of Canadas Bill 29
...nion contracts, has been hailed by union and labor leaders from all fields. The bill was passed in 2002 to pr... ways to achieve the government objective. Labor leaders are exulting over the ruling, which has recognized workers right to bargain collectively, as part of...Researchers Cracking the Human Genome Function
...oulos, UW professor of genome sciences, one of the leaders of the ENCODE project, and a senior author on the Nature article. The diverse nature and sheer volume of the ENCODE data enabled us for the first time to visualize how the packaging of DNA, the replication of DNA, the production of RNA, and the evolu...Newspaper Analysis positive Results for Organ Transplantation
...nce holds that media selectively influence opinion leaders on an issue, who in turn discuss the topic with individuals who may not attend to the issue in media," Feeley noted. "I think this is what happens with organ donation." To get a fuller picture of the role of the media, future research on organ dona......, neither government officials nor local political leaders have done anything for Hakimuddin's family. Finally they have appealed for mercy death. "In my letter to the President of India, prime minister and Orissa chief minister, I have urged them to take responsibility for my sons or else allow us to end ...