HIV-positive farmer cleared of disease doubted
BEIJING, Dec. 6 (Xinhua) — Jilin farmer Wen Congcheng, who caused a stir earlier this week after he was cleared of HIV/AIDS six years after first testing HIV positive, says his relatives and fellow villagers do not believe he is free from the disease.    Speaking to Xinhua, Wen, a 37-year-old farmer [...]

China launches TV AIDS awareness campaign to promote safe sex
 BEIJING, Dec. 6 (Xinhua) — China launched a large-scale television public service announcement campaign, produced by Oscar-winners and featuring superstars such as Jackie Chan, on Thursday to promote safe sex and combat HIV/AIDS.
    Hundreds of millions of members of the public will see the television campaign on [...]

Jilin farmer’s HIV-negative test results verified
BEIJING, Dec. 7 (Xinhua) — In the latest development of the mystery involving Jilin farmer Wen Congcheng, who was cleared of HIV/AIDS six years after first testing HIV positive, local health officials have confirmed the authenticity of his HIV-negative test result.    ”We do not have any doubts over Wen’s HIV-negative results,” [...]

Ambulatory Surgery gynecology, what developments?
Ambulatory Surgery includes surgical procedures and / or programmed explorations (…) and made in the technical conditions requiring mandatory safety of an operating room under anesthesia mode variable, and followed by a prolonged postoperative monitoring, permitting, without increased risk, leaving the patient on the day of admission. ”
Recovery is defined by [...]

BEIJING, Oct. 18 (Xinhuanet) — Instead of just keeping it under control, Bill and Melinda Gates told more than 300 malaria scientists and policy makers at a forum Wednesday they should seek to wipe out the disease worldwide.
“It’s a long-term goal; it won’t come soon,” Melinda Gates said, “but to aspire to anything less is [...]

KATHMANDU, Oct. 18 (Xinhua) — Diarrhea outbreak has killed at least another 19 people in Nepal, local leading media group’s website Nepal news reported on Thursday.    In Ghaulagoh Village Development Committee (VDC) in remote Kalikot district, some 400 km west of capital Kathmandu, at least 16 died of Diarrhea in the last six days.
    The victims of [...]

BEIJING, Oct. 18 (Xinhuanet) — A new screening test for cervical cancer that spotted the virus 95 percent of the time — compared to 55 percent for the traditional screening — could replace the Pap smear in a few years, experts say. And women won’t need to test as often according to researchers at McGill [...]

PHNOM PENH, Oct. 18 (Xinhua) — The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has received an additional 1.9 million U.S. dollars of grant from the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) to control and prevent the spread of the highly pathogenic avian influenza in Cambodia, said a press release here on [...]

BEIJING, Oct. 18 (Xinhuanet) — Britain’s health secretary didn’t blame his countrymen’s eating habits for a new government report that warns most of the nation’s citizens could be obese by 2050, instead he said it was “a consequence of abundance, convenience and underlying biology.”    ”As this report starkly demonstrates, people in the U.K. are not more [...]

NUKU’ALOFA, Tonga, Oct. 18 (Xinhua) — Pacific island countries on Thursday voiced great concerns over the public health problems in the region, with the shortage of skilled workers being a major cause.    A statement released by the 16-member Pacific Islands Forum (PIF) said “the range and complexity of public health problems in the Pacific is immense” [...]