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USAID Commits $1M To Help Several African Nations Deal With Natural Disasters, Disease Spread
USAID announced on Thursday a $1 million commitment to a Red Cross project aimed at helping those "living along southern Africa"s Zambezi River cope with worsening natural disasters because of climate change," the AP/Washington Post reports.

AFFiRiS AG: Atherosclerosis Vaccine Development Receives EU Support
The atherosclerosis vaccine development program by AFFiRiS AG is receiving financial support from the EU"s EUROTRANS-BIO call. The respective project is being carried out in cooperation with German company EMC microcollections GmbH. The aim of atherosclerosis vaccination is to increase the amount of "good" high density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDLc) in the blood and thus reduce the occurrence of harmful fatty deposits in the arteries. Product candidates were delivered by AFFiRiS" AFFITOME(R) platform technology. The target is a protein known as CETP (cholesteryl ester transfer protein). Following vaccines for Alzheimer"s disease and Parkinson"s disease, the atherosclerosis vaccine is the third such project announced by AFFiRiS AG.
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Secrets Of Scorpion Venom Revealed By Genetic Analysis
Transcriptomic tests have uncovered the protein composition of venom from the Scorpiops jendeki scorpion. Researchers writing in the open access journal BMC Genomics have carried out the first ever venom analysis in this arachnid, and discovered nine novel poison molecules, never before seen in any scorpion species.
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U.S. Doubles Annual Malawi HIV/AIDS Support To $45M

The U.S. government recently announced a commitment to double its support for Malawi"s efforts to fight HIV/AIDS to $45 million annually, Xinhua reports (Xinhua, 6/2). The "Partnership Framework" was established after U.S. Ambassador to Malawi Peter Bodde and Malawi"s Secretary to the Treasury Randson Mwadiwa signed a "landmark document" on May 18 that sets the foundation for a new framework for the U.S.-Malawi collaboration to combat HIV/AIDS, according to a statement from the U.S. Embassy in Malawi. The document calls for "increased focus on reducing new HIV infections, while maintaining ongoing activities aimed at improving the quality of treatment and care and mitigating the impacts on individuals and households," according to the release, which adds that objectives should be achieved within a context of "enhanced Malawian leadership and ownership of the overall response." At the signing of the partnership, Bodde said the framework with Malawi "will serve as the model for those that follow in other countries" (Embassy of the U.S., Lilongwe, Malawi release). Malawi is the first country to sign an agreement with the U.S. following the 2008 reauthorization of PEPFAR. According to Xinhua, about 200,000 HIV-positive people in Malawi are receiving free antiretroviral treatments. There are about one million people living with HIV/AIDS in the country (Xinhua, 6/2). This information was reprinted from globalhealth.kff.org with kind permission from the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation. You can view the entire Kaiser Daily Global Health Policy Report, search the archives and sign up for email delivery at globalhealth.kff.org. © Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation. All rights reserved.


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