Sentences with phrase «infected people on»

At WHO, he led a program called «3x5» that pushed for the goal of having 3 million HIV - infected people on antiretroviral drugs by 2005.

In addition to preventing disease and death, treatment is also a key prevention tool: abundant evidence now shows that infected people on treatment are less likely to transmit HIV.

Not exact matches

In an effort to capture personal and business details, hackers have developed malicious programs that can infect a computer that can record every keystroke the person makes on the keyboard.

Tiger Brands said on Monday it recalled products made at the Pretoria facility, but added that it was not clear if the bacteria detected there were the same as the strain that has infected about 950 people since January 2017.

«We have now clear information that the vaccine needs to be dealt with in a much safer way by using it exclusively in people already infected with dengue before,» Alejandro Cravioto, Chair of the WHO's Strategic Advisory Group of Experts (SAGE) on Immunization, told reporters.

On the other hand, there are obviously means by which the AIDS virus is transmitted from a person who is infected to one who is not.

As much as I've tried, and tried I have, I can not dismiss or deny this principle that has infected and affected every person and thing on this planet.

The growth counselor's function is to help such persons as they work through their resistance to bury a dead relationship; uncouple without infighting so as to avoid further hurt to each other and to their children; agree on a plan for the children that will be best for the children's mental health; work through the ambivalent feelings that usually accompany divorce — guilt, rage, release, resentment, failure, joy, loss — so that each person's infected grief wound can heal; discover what each contributed to the disintegration of their relationship; learn the relationship - building and love - nurturing skills which each will need either to enjoy creative singlehood or to establish a better marriage.

We all know that Africans on average tend have too many sexual partners and infect many young people.

Thus, if a minister today is not in process of being ousted, is regarded by at least many of his people as a wonderful Christian, a helpful preacher, a diligent pastor, and so on, he may rest content in this kind of status even though privately he is disturbed at all the kids who drop out of church school, at the inattentiveness of the church to its neighborhood, at the virtual neglect of older people, and at the bourgeois aroma that infects everything.

We had a good laugh together, but then he went on to tell me that these are urgent times when we need the Church to be the Church — and to remember that we are people of reconciliation and peace in a world infected with violence and prejudice.

Your baby can catch the virus if an infected person touches her bottle or if an infected person coughs or sneezes on the nipple of the bottle.

Mayor de Blasio and health officials reassured city residents on Friday that Spencer was not contagious while he roamed, and that Ebola can only be caught when the infected person is showing symptoms of the disease, including fever and vomiting.

A statement signed by Director of Media and Publicity, KOCO, Lere Olayinka on Thursday stated that Ekiti people will never allow their State to be added to the comity of States already infected with the plague of mis - governance by the President and his party.

Outlined in the governor's 2016 policy book are new laws would eliminate the parental consent requirement for HIV - positive teens in need of treatment and for at - risk teens who want to get on Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis, or PrEP — a medication that protects HIV - negative people from becoming infected.

Hepatitis is a highly prevalent infection, the World Hepatitis Alliance estimates that as many as one person in 12 worldwide may be infected with the blood - borne strains Hepatitis B or C, which are passed on in similar ways to the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV).

The World Health Organization (WHO) in Geneva, Switzerland, put the brakes on implementation of the world's first dengue vaccine today when it recommended it only be used in people who have previously been infected with the disease — a move that will shrink the potential market for the vaccine's producer, Sanofi Pasteur.

This is the measure of how infective a disease is, or how many people one infected person will pass it on to in the course of their illness.

One SARS patient with diarrhea managed to infect 321 other people in an apartment complex because faulty plumbing aerosolized his feces, allowing them to drift on wind currents into other apartments.

To control the spread of cholera during an outbreak, rapid care for infected people is vital, including providing ready access to rehydration therapy — a huge challenge in a country where civil war has wreaked havoc on public health and other infrastructure.

New research on HIV transmission shows that viral fitness is an important basis of a «genetic bottleneck» imposed every time a new person is infected.

The woman was in contact with an infected person and was put on low - dose Tamiflu as a precaution, but she developed flu anyway.

He also found viral particles on the sparrows» feathers, meaning infected merit release birds could pass the disease on to susceptible people.

The Swiss HIV Cohort Study (SHCS) launched in 1988 contains data on more than 19,000 people infected with HIV in Switzerland.

They're in gyms, at the beach, and increasingly, on the farm.One strain of methicillin - resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) known as CC398 has been rapidly spreading through poultry and pig farms, infecting people who work with the animals around the world (up to 26.5 percent of farm workers sampled in the Neatherlands), and popping up in nearly half of all meat sampled in the U.S.

Nyunt, a malariologist at the University of Maryland School of Medicine (UMD) in Baltimore, is visiting Sa - ka - pin to assess the extent of one of the biggest problems facing an ambitious campaign to wipe out malaria from the Mekong region (see feature story on How drug resistance triggers war to wipe out malaria in the Mekong region): the number of people infected with malaria who have no symptoms.

TRIP zeroes in on the social networks most likely to be infected rather than attempting to use «weak ties» to recruit people who inject drugs who are socially and geographically distant from the «seeds,»» Friedman said.

All last week CDC officials reiterated their conclusion — based on nearly 40 years worth of successfully containing past outbreaks — that you can not catch the Ebola virus from people who are infected unless they have already begun suffering a fever or started showing other signs of illnesses.

If even one person who encountered bodily fluids of an Ebola patient is missed by surveillance, he or she can go on to infect family, friends and medical personnel.

Early results show that the capsules have cured 32 people infected with drug - resistant Clostridium difficile, a dangerous microbe that installs itself in the gut and causes inflammation marked by diarrhea, cramping and pain.Thomas Louie, an infectious disease physician at the University of Calgary in Alberta, presented the data on October 3 at ID Week, a meeting of infectious disease specialists.

The virus only infects bovines, but to people who depend on cattle, it means starvation.

«Because the bacterium that causes TB can lie dormant in someone's lung for months or even years before it causes disease, we had no way of knowing whether a TB case we have just diagnosed was a recent infection — suggesting the outbreak is still going on — or whether the person was infected years ago.»

Significantly, the results could help identify new compounds which could be used to develop improved mosquito traps that could specifically target malaria - infected mosquitoes before they have the chance to pass on the parasite to the people they bite.

This will provide information that could be used to illuminate how malaria — a disease which causes more than half a million deaths a year — is spread from human to human by parasite - infected female mosquitoes which bite people to feed on blood they need in order to reproduce.

Rather than waiting for an infected person's immune system to produce noticeable amounts of antibodies, the team chose to home in on the bacteria itself — specifically, proteins the bug sheds when attacked by the body's defenses.

«The influenza field is largely fixated on studying pandemic or potential pandemic viruses, but those viruses only infect a few dozen people every year whereas seasonal flu infects millions — and yet we don't study human influenzas closely enough.»

Y. pestis was initially passed from person to person — say, when an infected individual coughed on a healthy person — and most likely caused lung infections known as pneumonic plague or blood infections called septicemic plague, the researchers report October 22 in Cell.

Twenty - six - year - old nurse Nina Pham is the first person to catch Ebola from an infected human on U.S. soil.

Europe and Asia, by contrast, had a heads - up, and countries have closely monitored travelers returning from North America, putting many infected people and their close contacts on antiviral drugs, as well as forcing some patients to remain in isolation.

While there are no figures on how many people enter hospitals already infected, over 2 million fall prey to microbes once they get there, in this country alone.

Estimating that as many as 5 to 10 million people could be infected with HIV worldwide, the WHO launches its Global Programme on AIDS

Around 400 million people worldwide are infected with the hepatitis B virus (HBV); of those, one - third will go on to develop life - threatening complications, such as cirrhosis and liver cancer.

Waldman described such facilities as «leaky,» meaning that they may not completely prevent infected people from spreading the disease, but they could help to relieve some of the pressure on the larger hospitals.

While mainly a concern in hospitals, cases of the C. difficile infection (or C. diff) are on the rise in the community, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that has seen increased reports of the infected people who have had no contact with hospital patients with the infection.

Early in the summer, Phyllida Brown asserted that «lawyers acting for people infected with HIV are increasingly exploiting genetic studies of the virus as «forensic» evidence to pin blame on their clients» previous sexual partners» (This Week, 11 July).

The team now plans to test the method on people infected with the flu or another virus.

Shortly after the 11 September 2001 attacks in New York City, anthrax powder was mailed to several politicians and journalists on the U.S. East Coast; 22 people were infected and five died.

As the Ebola outbreaks rages on in West Africa, the World Health Organization (WHO), desperate for a way to help infected people, is reconsidering a potential Ebola treatment tried as far back as 1976, after the first documented outbreak of the deadly viral disease: using the blood of people who have recovered from an infection to treat those still fighting the virus.

Most people on the planet are exposed to aflatoxins from fungi that infect staple crops, but now a GM approach could help change that

They found antibodies in about half of 500 people who had handled infected poultry; based on the total number of poultry workers at risk, the team concludes that at least 1000 people must have become infected, most of them without any symptoms.