Sentences with phrase «aids rate of»

In fact, Africa, a highly bigoted Nation in respect to homosexuality, has the HIGHEST Aids rate of ANY country.

Zimbabwe, which has an AIDS rate of 25 %, an average life expectancy of 39, and an 80 % poverty rate, ranked near the bottom at 177.

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«Our «rational exuberance» rests on a combination of above - trend US and global economic growth, low albeit slowly rising interest rates, and profit growth aided by corporate tax reform likely to be adopted by early next year,» Kostin said in a report for clients.

The steady leakage of plastic packaging into the oceans — at the rate of one garbage truck full of plastic per minute — has been aided by the lack of a unified global effort to reuse the plastic produced every year.

In recent years, rich countries have not kept their promises to provide aid to the developing world at a rate of 0.7 per cent of GDP, and although aid has not declined, it has remained flat for some time.

These risks and uncertainties include: Gilead's ability to achieve its anticipated full year 2018 financial results; Gilead's ability to sustain growth in revenues for its antiviral and other programs; the risk that private and public payers may be reluctant to provide, or continue to provide, coverage or reimbursement for new products, including Vosevi, Yescarta, Epclusa, Harvoni, Genvoya, Odefsey, Descovy, Biktarvy and Vemlidy ®; austerity measures in European countries that may increase the amount of discount required on Gilead's products; an increase in discounts, chargebacks and rebates due to ongoing contracts and future negotiations with commercial and government payers; a larger than anticipated shift in payer mix to more highly discounted payer segments and geographic regions and decreases in treatment duration; availability of funding for state AIDS Drug Assistance Programs (ADAPs); continued fluctuations in ADAP purchases driven by federal and state grant cycles which may not mirror patient demand and may cause fluctuations in Gilead's earnings; market share and price erosion caused by the introduction of generic versions of Viread and Truvada, an uncertain global macroeconomic environment; and potential amendments to the Affordable Care Act or other government action that could have the effect of lowering prices or reducing the number of insured patients; the possibility of unfavorable results from clinical trials involving investigational compounds; Gilead's ability to initiate clinical trials in its currently anticipated timeframes; the levels of inventory held by wholesalers and retailers which may cause fluctuations in Gilead's earnings; Kite's ability to develop and commercialize cell therapies utilizing the zinc finger nuclease technology platform and realize the benefits of the Sangamo partnership; Gilead's ability to submit new drug applications for new product candidates in the timelines currently anticipated; Gilead's ability to receive regulatory approvals in a timely manner or at all, for new and current products, including Biktarvy; Gilead's ability to successfully commercialize its products, including Biktarvy; the risk that physicians and patients may not see advantages of these products over other therapies and may therefore be reluctant to prescribe the products; Gilead's ability to successfully develop its hematology / oncology and inflammation / respiratory programs; safety and efficacy data from clinical studies may not warrant further development of Gilead's product candidates, including GS - 9620 and Yescarta in combination with Pfizer's utomilumab; Gilead's ability to pay dividends or complete its share repurchase program due to changes in its stock price, corporate or other market conditions; fluctuations in the foreign exchange rate of the U.S. dollar that may cause an unfavorable foreign currency exchange impact on Gilead's future revenues and pre-tax earnings; and other risks identified from time to time in Gilead's reports filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the SEC).

One could argue the distance would be covered faster with aid of another interest - rate cut.

On the contrary, a growing number of experts in the industry as well as academia have come to the conclusion that excessive speculation by traders and investors, aided by ultra-low interest rates and easy money, is severely distorting the market.

The silver lining to this credit creation was that Japanese exporters were aided as the conversion of yen into foreign currencies drove down the exchange rate.

U.S. stocks rose, with the Standard & Poor's 500 Index near a record, as investors weighed economic data for clues on the timing of higher interest rates amid optimism that a deal on Greek aid is within reach.

Recent movements in the exchange rate have also been reflected in indexes of trade prices; the export price index rose by more than 16 per cent over the past year, with higher prices for base metals, chemicals, and petroleum aided by higher world prices and increased demand.

In late October, South Korea announced that its economy grew at an annual rate of 2.6 % in the third quarter, the fastest pace in five years, aided by a stimulus - driven rebound in domestic demand that outweighed the negative effect of slowing Chinese and global demand.

Energy exporting governments must use falling costs as an prospect to reduce generous subsidies and restore their fiscal health, according to the personal arm of the Planet Financial institution Low oil rates will aid invigorate personal investment decision in the Center East according to a leading determine at the private...

Despite Trump's complaints during the presidential race that the Fed was aiding Democrats in keeping rates ultra-low under President Barack Obama, his choices for a chairman and for other slots on the Fed's board have been moderates rather than hard - core conservatives who would favor a faster tightening of credit.

Low interest rates aid and abet bubbles, that's one of the reasons we got into this economic mess in the first place.

Having spent the past three years (up until August 1991) working in the public health department of a Florida city, I can assure you that AIDS can be transmitted through heterosexual intercourse, and that it in fact is being so transmitted at an increasing rate.

The reason that science changes is because we learn more over the centuries and with the aid of computers and better technology we are learning at an exponential rate.

It the region where people with albinism are killed for sake of richness (belief), it is the region where people sacrifice even their children so as to get gold or diamond and its the region where the main trucks from Dar es Salaam to Rwanda, Burundi, Uganda and DRC pass across, thus high rates of HIV / AIDS.

Let the libertines fix the AIDS epidemic, the soaring teen pregnancy rate, the soaring divorce rate, slow down the abortion industry, help the many thousands of single mothers who had the courage to carry to term.

The plan will tie federal financial aid to college performance based a new rating system: President Obama is directing the Department of Education to develop and publish a new college ratings system that would....

In the upcoming reauthorization of the Higher Education Act, the President will seek legislation allocating financial aid based upon these college ratings by 2018, once the ratings system is well established.

Breakdown of families, higher rates of divorce, STDs, and the AIDs epidemic heightened their concerns.

Before such folks criticize any religious take on s * x, they should fix the AIDS epidemic, fix the teen prgnancy rate, help the millions of struggling single mothers, fix the divorce rate, slow down the abortion industry.

the statistics about the rate of AIDS being so high among gays must be completely made up.

We give Israel billions of dollars of aid every year from our hardworking tax - payers» money when nearly 50 million Americans live under poverty in this nation, as well as having lots of problems in this nation, such as bad infrastructure, high unemployment rate, billions of dollars in debt, etc..

His 2003 book, Rethinking AIDS Prevention, showed how abstinence and faithfulness, for the most part in its religiously ordered form, had contributed more to Uganda's striking reduction of its HIV infection rate in the late 1980s and early»90s than «safe sex» could hope to.

Either a woman is actually raped (South Africa has the highest rate of rape in the world; the rumor of the «virgin cure» has sent male AIDS patients on the hunt for younger and younger girls to rape), or she is pressured socially and economically.

Pushed incessantly by figures like the World Bank's McNamara, the idea that nations could become rich only if they moved to control their population rates became an article of faith among Western and Western - educated intellectuals in Asia — a faith backed up by aid dollars linked to the willingness of recipient countries to develop control measures.

She is the Director of the Optimal Birth BC program, funded by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, which develops syntheses of evidence for clinicians, decision - aids and information packages for childbearing families, and uses local data to evaluate clinical practice and direct change to reduce rates of cesarean section in BC hospitals and health authorities.

Following the 1988 Armenian earthquake there was an influx of aid and inappropriate distribution of infant formula resulted in an immediate and extended decrease in breastfeeding rates: from 64 % of babies exclusively breastfed to 4 months, down to 59 % 2 years on and down to 20 % 6 years on from the disaster.

HIV / AIDS can be, but is not always, transmitted through breastmilk (the rate of transmission is about 15 %), and as such, many people have advocated that any mothers in areas of high prevalence should resort to artificial feeding.

For example, Ethiopia's growth rates of close to 10 percent per annum are the product of the combination of soaring investment in dams, railways and roads (often in partnership with Chinese firms); a continued reliance on Western aid (to the tune of more than $ 4 billion annually); and, crucially, a domestically crafted strategy of agriculture - led development first.

The measure would create a marketplace exchange that ostensibly would bring down insurance rates and free up millions of dollars in federal aid to the state.

The sheer numbers of foreign personnel and agencies operating at the subnational level — all responding to a higher - level focus on «burn rates» — further fueled the disparate character of aid distribution.

Cuomo has insisted that extending high rates on wealthy earners is a key piece of his budget, which also includes a $ 961 million spending increase for education aid and a $ 163 million plan to phase out college tuition costs at state and city universities for those who earn less than $ 125,000.

Over the past four years, school aid has grown at an average annual rate of 4.4 percent, while the Department of Health's Medicaid program has increased 3.3 percent annually on average.5 To maintain overall growth of about 2 percent per year in total state spending, all other spending growth has been held to only 1.0 percent per year on average.

Just last week, he won the endorsement of The New York Times as well as other left - of - center groups as they criticized Hochul's past opposition to state aid for illegal aliens and her 100 percent rating from the National Rifle Association, according to the New York Post.

Stung by the expiration of federal aid intended to help states balance budgets as they seek to recover from the recession that began in 2008, the final budget is also expected to include another cut in local aid to cities and towns and to call for reduced growth in the rate of spending on education and health care, although special education is one of the few areas in which significant investments appear imminent.

He concluded with a waspish idea: if so much money was available, why not cut basic rate income tax by 2p to reduce the burden of recession at home rather than giving away unmanageable amounts of aid abroad?

The money will also serve as an aid in studying the recruitment, academic success and retention rate of underrepresented minority students in STEM.

In addition to Marriage Allowance and pension relief at source, the agreement also confirms that Gift Aid will continue to be paid to charities at the basic rate, with Scottish taxpayers able to claim the correct amount of additional relief on top of this.

«Although school aid is statutorily capped at the annual growth rate of personal income, the projected increase for next fiscal year is a much larger 7.5 percent,» the budget watchdog wrote.

So does Assembly Health Committee Chairman Richard Gottfried, likening such a change to a legislative surrender of the allocation of school aid or the power to establish tax rates.

The governor is expected to increase school aid at a pre agreed upon rate of around 4 %, he's also said he'd like children from disadvantaged homes to have access to all day pre kindergarten.

Mr Cretz said the US President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, in collaboration with Ghana's Health Ministry, the Ghana Health Service and the Ghana AIDS Commission played an important role in the decline of Ghana's HIV prevalence rate from 3.6 per cent in 2005 to 1.3 per cent in 2013.

The governor is expected to increase school aid at a pre agreed upon rate of around four percent, he's also said he'd like children from disadvantaged homes to have access to all day pre-kindergarten.

At the launch of this year's Ghana AIDS World AIDS Day in Accra, Director General of the Ghana AIDS Commission, Dr. Angela El - Adas said voluntary counselling and testing still remains the surest way to address the high rate of HIV and AIDS cases.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo in February unveiled a budget that included a menu of policy measures, an extension of an expiring tax rate on millionaires and a boost in school aid.

This could mean no serious boost in education aid and a straight extension of expiring tax rates on millionaires — an ox gored for Assembly Democrats and Senate Republicans alike.

Justice, delivered by the lowest bidder, coupled with arbitrary rate cuts will create an unviable system of legal aid that fails to grasp the importance of client choice, competition and quality.