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Lansing - (11.20.06) The MDCH-HAPIS Training Unit today announced a new
training consultant, Rachel Mroz. "Rachel joins us, bringing with her a
wealth of knowledge and experience working in the HIV field, said Unit Manager
Rhonda J. W. Bantsimba. Mroz has been an active member of the Michigan STD, HIV
and Adolescents Networking Committee for many years. For the past year she has
worked with the Parent Action for Healthy Kids as a Talk Early, Talk Ofter
Workshop Facilitator. Previously Mroz was a prevention counselor at the Taylor
Teen Health Center and a Prevention Case Manager at the Teen Pregnancy
Prevention Project. She begins her new position today and will be based in
Detroit at the DHWDC Cadillac Place office.
HAPIS is only filling this one position, where two trainers have moved on in
recent months. Ann Miceli has returned to her passion of foreign aid work in
Africa and is currently working in Malawi. Dee Hurlbert has returned to school
for a teaching degree.
National
Former Head of Global AIDS Program Resigns in Sex Scandal
After his name surfaced in an investigation into an alleged Washington, D.C.,
area prostitution ring, Randall Tobias, the former U.S. Global AIDS
Coordinator appointed by President George W. Bush, resigned in late April from
his new post in the U.S. Department of State. Tobias, a married father of four,
was a staunch proponent of abstinence-only education and was responsible for
enforcing a Bush administration policy to withhold funding from countries unless
they signed a pledge against prostitution. In an interview, Tobias acknowledged
using the D.C.-area escort service, but insisted he only did so "to have gals
come over to the condo to give me a massage." What's New at The Body, May 9,
2007
Five Named to NIAID Advisory Council
NIH News (3/14/07)
The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) today
announced the appointment of five new members to the National Advisory Allergy
and Infectious Diseases Council, its principal advisory body. NIAID is part of
National Institutes of Health (NIH), an agency within the Department of Health
and Human Services.
The council provides recommendations on the conduct and support of research,
including training young scientists and disseminating health information derived
from NIAID research. It embodies a diverse perspective on science, health and
the human impact of disease. The council is composed of physicians, scientists
and representatives of the public who contribute their time and expertise for a
four-year term.
The new council members are Robert Brooks, M.D., of the Florida State University
College of Medicine; Satya Dandekar, Ph.D., from the University of California,
Davis; Sharon C. Kiely, M.D., M.P.H., of Allegheny General Hospital in
Pittsburgh and Drexel University School of Medicine; Marc E. Rothenberg, M.D.,
Ph.D., from the Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center; and David S.
Wilkes, M.D., of the Indiana University School of Medicine.
Satya Dandekar, Ph.D., is professor and chair, Department of Internal
Medicine, University of California, Davis. Her expertise and research interests
are in the areas of HIV/AIDS. She has participated in the review of grant
applications and program projects for several NIH committees and has been a
scientific reviewer for numerous journals and boards. She also has been invited
to lecture on clinical infectious diseases for professional organizations.
Sharon C. Kiely, M.D., M.P.H., is medical director for quality and
patient safety at Allegheny General Hospital in Pittsburgh and associate
professor of medicine at Drexel University School of Medicine in Philadelphia.
She has served on the United Network for Organ Sharing board of directors as
well as the HHS Secretary’s Advisory Committee on Xenotransplantation. She is a
specialist in internal medicine and has focused her clinical, research and
volunteer efforts on juvenile diabetes, medical education and care to
underserved populations, including those with HIV/AIDS.
NIAID is a component of the National Institutes of Health. NIAID supports basic
and applied research to prevent, diagnose and treat infectious diseases such as
HIV/AIDS and other sexually transmitted infections, influenza, tuberculosis,
malaria and illness from potential agents of bioterrorism. NIAID also supports
research on basic immunology, transplantation and immune-related disorders,
including autoimmune diseases, asthma and allergies.
The National Institutes of Health (NIH)--The Nation's Medical Research
Agency--includes 27 Institutes and Centers and is a component of the U. S.
Department of Health and Human Services. It is the primary federal agency for
conducting and supporting basic, clinical and translational medical research,
and it investigates the causes, treatments and cures for both common and rare
diseases. For more information about NIH and its programs, visit http://www.nih.gov.
International Moves
Patricia Pérez, an activist from Argentina who was diagnosed
HIV-positive in 1986, has been nominated for the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize for her
activism on behalf of women living with the AIDS virus.
http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=37705
New Global Fund Director
[Apr 23, 2007]
Michel Kazatchkine, France's former global ambassador for HIV/AIDS and
communicable diseases, on Monday will take over as the new executive director of
the Global Fund To Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, the Boston Globe
reports (Donnelly, Boston Globe, 4/22). The Global Fund in February announced
that the organization's board had selected Kazatchkine to replace former
Executive Director Richard Feachem, whose contract ended in March (Kaiser Daily
HIV/AIDS Report, 2/9). As the Global Fund executive director, Kazatchkine will
lead a financing organization that has committed $7.1 billion over five years,
including $1.9 billion from the U.S., to 136 countries. (Boston Globe, 4/22).
"China's Chan Elected Head of UN Health Agency"
Agence France Presse (11.09.06):: Patrick Baert
On Thursday, the World Health Organization's World Health Assembly of member
nations overwhelmingly voted to approve Dr. Margaret Chan as WHO's next
director-general, the assembly's President Ivo Garrido announced. Garrido, who
is also Mozambique's Health Minister, said Chan's tenure will be from Jan. 4,
2007 to June 30, 2012. Her predecessor, South Korean Lee Jong Wook, died
suddenly in May. Since 2003, Chan, 59, has helped WHO deal with SARS and bird
flu and became director-general for communicable diseases. Chan's new portfolio
will include ongoing efforts to prevent pandemic influenza; the deepening
HIV/AIDS pandemic hitting poor countries; the growing drug resistance of
diseases such as TB and malaria; chronic diseases engulfing emerging nations;
and the lack of primary care. The medical charity Doctors Without Borders called
on Chan to renew efforts to increase access to affordable, effective drugs for
millions of people in poor countries affected by infectious diseases including
HIV.
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