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Diet summons key figure in HIV scandal

TOKYO, Japan, Aug. 24 Kyodo - Takeshi Abe, former head of the Health and Welfare Ministry's AIDS study team and former vice president of Teikyo University, raises his hand to testify as unsworn witness at a House of Representatives committee session in Tokyo in April 1996 over his connection with HIV infections through tainted blood products in the early 1980s. An expert on hemophilia treatment, Abe is regarded as the key figure who influenced a ministry decision to continue the use of unheated blood products in 1984.(Kyodo)

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Condom Illustrations - Netherlands

An illustration showing a person carefully opening a condom and handling it with their fingers in Rotterdam, Netherlands on September 3, 2024. Condoms are among the most widely used and essential tools for sexual health, providing effective protection against both unintended pregnancies and sexually transmitted diseases or infections. Condoms are a highly effective method of contraception and remain a crucial component in the global fight against HIV and other STIs, being used by millions worldwide as a reliable form of protection. Photo by Robin Utrecht/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Condom Illustrations - Netherlands

An illustration showing a person carefully opening a condom and handling it with their fingers in Rotterdam, Netherlands on September 3, 2024. Condoms are among the most widely used and essential tools for sexual health, providing effective protection against both unintended pregnancies and sexually transmitted diseases or infections. Condoms are a highly effective method of contraception and remain a crucial component in the global fight against HIV and other STIs, being used by millions worldwide as a reliable form of protection. Photo by Robin Utrecht/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Condom Illustrations - Netherlands

An illustration showing a person carefully opening a condom and handling it with their fingers in Rotterdam, Netherlands on September 3, 2024. Condoms are among the most widely used and essential tools for sexual health, providing effective protection against both unintended pregnancies and sexually transmitted diseases or infections. Condoms are a highly effective method of contraception and remain a crucial component in the global fight against HIV and other STIs, being used by millions worldwide as a reliable form of protection. Photo by Robin Utrecht/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Condom Illustrations - Netherlands

An illustration showing a person carefully opening a condom and handling it with their fingers in Rotterdam, Netherlands on September 3, 2024. Condoms are among the most widely used and essential tools for sexual health, providing effective protection against both unintended pregnancies and sexually transmitted diseases or infections. Condoms are a highly effective method of contraception and remain a crucial component in the global fight against HIV and other STIs, being used by millions worldwide as a reliable form of protection. Photo by Robin Utrecht/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Condom Illustrations - Netherlands

An illustration showing a person carefully opening a condom and handling it with their fingers in Rotterdam, Netherlands on September 3, 2024. Condoms are among the most widely used and essential tools for sexual health, providing effective protection against both unintended pregnancies and sexually transmitted diseases or infections. Condoms are a highly effective method of contraception and remain a crucial component in the global fight against HIV and other STIs, being used by millions worldwide as a reliable form of protection. Photo by Robin Utrecht/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Condom Illustrations - Netherlands

An illustration showing a person carefully opening a condom and handling it with their fingers in Rotterdam, Netherlands on September 3, 2024. Condoms are among the most widely used and essential tools for sexual health, providing effective protection against both unintended pregnancies and sexually transmitted diseases or infections. Condoms are a highly effective method of contraception and remain a crucial component in the global fight against HIV and other STIs, being used by millions worldwide as a reliable form of protection. Photo by Robin Utrecht/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Condom Illustrations - Netherlands

An illustration showing a person carefully opening a condom and handling it with their fingers in Rotterdam, Netherlands on September 3, 2024. Condoms are among the most widely used and essential tools for sexual health, providing effective protection against both unintended pregnancies and sexually transmitted diseases or infections. Condoms are a highly effective method of contraception and remain a crucial component in the global fight against HIV and other STIs, being used by millions worldwide as a reliable form of protection. Photo by Robin Utrecht/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Condom Illustrations - Netherlands

An illustration showing a person carefully opening a condom and handling it with their fingers in Rotterdam, Netherlands on September 3, 2024. Condoms are among the most widely used and essential tools for sexual health, providing effective protection against both unintended pregnancies and sexually transmitted diseases or infections. Condoms are a highly effective method of contraception and remain a crucial component in the global fight against HIV and other STIs, being used by millions worldwide as a reliable form of protection. Photo by Robin Utrecht/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Condom Illustrations - Netherlands

An illustration showing a person carefully opening a condom and handling it with their fingers in Rotterdam, Netherlands on September 3, 2024. Condoms are among the most widely used and essential tools for sexual health, providing effective protection against both unintended pregnancies and sexually transmitted diseases or infections. Condoms are a highly effective method of contraception and remain a crucial component in the global fight against HIV and other STIs, being used by millions worldwide as a reliable form of protection. Photo by Robin Utrecht/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Condom Illustrations - Netherlands

An illustration showing a person carefully opening a condom and handling it with their fingers in Rotterdam, Netherlands on September 3, 2024. Condoms are among the most widely used and essential tools for sexual health, providing effective protection against both unintended pregnancies and sexually transmitted diseases or infections. Condoms are a highly effective method of contraception and remain a crucial component in the global fight against HIV and other STIs, being used by millions worldwide as a reliable form of protection. Photo by Robin Utrecht/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Condom Illustrations - Netherlands

An illustration showing a person carefully opening a condom and handling it with their fingers in Rotterdam, Netherlands on September 3, 2024. Condoms are among the most widely used and essential tools for sexual health, providing effective protection against both unintended pregnancies and sexually transmitted diseases or infections. Condoms are a highly effective method of contraception and remain a crucial component in the global fight against HIV and other STIs, being used by millions worldwide as a reliable form of protection. Photo by Robin Utrecht/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Condom Illustrations - Netherlands

An illustration showing a person carefully opening a condom and handling it with their fingers in Rotterdam, Netherlands on September 3, 2024. Condoms are among the most widely used and essential tools for sexual health, providing effective protection against both unintended pregnancies and sexually transmitted diseases or infections. Condoms are a highly effective method of contraception and remain a crucial component in the global fight against HIV and other STIs, being used by millions worldwide as a reliable form of protection. Photo by Robin Utrecht/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Condom Illustrations - Netherlands

An illustration showing a person carefully opening a condom and handling it with their fingers in Rotterdam, Netherlands on September 3, 2024. Condoms are among the most widely used and essential tools for sexual health, providing effective protection against both unintended pregnancies and sexually transmitted diseases or infections. Condoms are a highly effective method of contraception and remain a crucial component in the global fight against HIV and other STIs, being used by millions worldwide as a reliable form of protection. Photo by Robin Utrecht/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Condom Illustrations - Netherlands

An illustration showing a person carefully opening a condom and handling it with their fingers in Rotterdam, Netherlands on September 3, 2024. Condoms are among the most widely used and essential tools for sexual health, providing effective protection against both unintended pregnancies and sexually transmitted diseases or infections. Condoms are a highly effective method of contraception and remain a crucial component in the global fight against HIV and other STIs, being used by millions worldwide as a reliable form of protection. Photo by Robin Utrecht/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Emmanuel Macron Awards Jean Nallit as Grand'croix in the "Legion d'honneur" - Lyon

French President Emmanuel Macron and Lyon's mayor Gérard Collomb during a ceremony to award war resistant Jean Nallit as Grand'croix in the "Legion d'honneur" French order at the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes' prefecture in Lyon, central eastern France, on October 9, 2019, ahead of the two-day conference of Global Fund to Fight HIV, Tuberculosis and Malaria. Macron is to chair the final day of the meeting on October 10, 2019, and meet African heads of state. The fund has asked for $14 billion, an amount it says would help save 16 million lives, avert "234 million infections" and place the world back on track to meet the UN objective of ending the epidemics of HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria within 10 years. Photo by Mathis Boussuge/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Chinese with HIV

BEIJING, China - About 70 Henan Province residents with HIV call for state support in front of the Chinese Health Ministry (the building in the background) in Beijing on March 1, 2013. HIV infections spread in the province in the 1990s via sales of blood.

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Chinese with HIV

BEIJING, China - About 70 Henan Province residents with HIV call for state support in front of the Chinese Health Ministry in Beijing on March 1, 2013. HIV infections spread in the province in the 1990s via sales of blood.

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World not on track to end AIDS pandemic, UNAIDS chief

STORY: World not on track to end AIDS pandemic, UNAIDS chief DATELINE: Nov. 30, 2022 LENGTH: 00:03:33 LOCATION: DAR ES SALAAM, Tanzania CATEGORY: HEALTH SHOTLIST: 1. various of the launching event of 2022 report 2. SOUNDBITE 1 (English): WINNIE BYANYIMA, UNAIDS Executive Director 3. SOUNDBITE 2 (English): BAHATI HAULE, HIV infected girl 4. SOUNDBITE 3 (English): GEORGE SIMBACHAWENE, Tanzanian minister of State in the Prime Minister's Office responsible for Policy and Parliamentary Affairs STORYLINE: The world is not on track to end the AIDS pandemic as new infections are rising and AIDS deaths are continuing in too many communities, the UNAIDS executive director, Winnie Byanyima, said on Tuesday. "Inequalities are blocking the end of the AIDS pandemic," said Byanyima while launching a new UNAIDS report in Dar es Salaam ahead of World AIDS Day on Dec. 1. "But this is not a counsel of despair, it is a call to action. Through bold action to confront these inequalities, we can end AIDS," added Byanyima

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Argentina announces 1st monkeypox death

STORY: Argentina announces 1st monkeypox death DATELINE: Nov. 29, 2022 LENGTH: 00:01:35 LOCATION: Buenos Aires CATEGORY: HEALTH SHOTLIST: 1. various of street views, vaccination sites in Argentina STORYLINE: Argentina recorded its first death from monkeypox of an adult male with underlying pathologies, the health ministry announced Monday. In a bulletin, the ministry said that the 44-year-old man "had been in intensive care on a ventilator since Oct. 9," adding that he presented HIV/AIDS risk factors. As of Nov. 22, the South American country had accumulated 895 monkeypox cases, a weekly increase of 3.46 percent, according to official data. Over 66.4 percent of confirmed cases were registered in the city of Buenos Aires, which along with the provinces of Buenos Aires and Cordoba, accounted for 94.9 percent of national infections, the bulletin reported. Meanwhile, infections have been recorded in 15 of the 24 provinces in the country since the first case was detected on May 27, while the ave

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WHO, G20 members warn of potential "silent pandemic" from antimicrobial resistance

STORY: WHO, G20 members warn of potential "silent pandemic" from antimicrobial resistance DATELINE: Aug. 25, 2022 LENGTH: 00:01:34 LOCATION: BALI, Indonesia CATEGORY: HEALTH SHOTLIST: 1. various of the meeting 2. SOUNDBITE 1 (English): HANAN BALKHY, Assistant Director-General for the AMR Division at the WHO 3. SOUNDBITE 2 (English): DANTE HARBUWONO, Indonesian Vice Health Minister STORYLINE: The World Health Organization and the Group of 20 members warned on Wednesday at a meeting in Indonesia's Bali of a potential "silent pandemic" of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) triggered by overdosage of drugs and antibiotics. This meeting is a side event of the third G20 Health Working Group, which was held from Monday to Tuesday. The Lancet journal published in January said that drug-resistant infections killed 1.27 million people in 2019, more than HIV/AIDS (864,000 deaths) or malaria (643,000 deaths). Assistant Director-General for the AMR Division at the WHO Hanan Balkhy said a stronger health system is import