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About 20% Of Surveyed Sex Workers Who Use Drugs In Irish Capital Living With HIV, Report Finds
About one-fifth of commercial sex workers surveyed in Dublin, Ireland, are HIV-positive, while 78% of the surveyed group is living with hepatitis C, according to a report released Tuesday by the National Advisory Committee on Drugs, the Irish Times reports. The report surveyed 35 drug users in the city who are or had been involved in the sex industry. The participants had an average age of 29. The report found that a majority of the sex workers surveyed, or 88%, were receiving methadone treatment but also using other drugs simultaneously. In addition, the report included surveys of health workers, who said that it is becoming increasingly difficult to reach sex workers as they are becoming less visible in the city due to the increased use of mobile technology, such as the Internet and cellular phones, to contact clients (Gartland, Irish Times, 5/13). The researchers made several recommendations to address issues surrounding sex workers, including that the government should continue funding services for the population, the PA/Google.com reports. Teresa Whitaker, a researcher who worked on the report, said, "A dominant theme to emerge from the field work was that drug-using sex workers are vulnerable people with complex and multiple needs that span health, social and legal issues." She added, "For the most part, participants grew up in communities associated with social and economic marginalization and high levels of unemployment. They move more or less continually through drug and alcohol services, homeless hostels, the judicial system and other social care agencies" (PA/Google.com, 5/12).
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Study Finds Many Newborns Of South Asian And East Asian Descent Misclassified As Underweight At Birth
Babies of East Asian and South Asian descent are between two and three times more likely to be misclassified as underweight at birth when compared to their Canadian counterparts, according to a study led by St. Michael"s Hospital physician Dr. Joel Ray. Dr. Ray and a team of researchers, who developed the first-ever sex-specific birth weight curves for these ethnic groups, suggest the need to consider differences across ethnic groups to reduce parental stress and use of health-care res associated with labelling an infant as underweight, or "small for gestational age" at birth.
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Scientists Use Climate Variables And Vegetation Indices To Predict And Mitigate Dengue Epidemics In The American Tropics
Dengue Fever (DF) and Dengue Hemorrhagic Fever (DHF) are the most important vector-borne viral diseases in the World. Around 50-100 million cases appear each year putting 2.5 billion people at risk of suffering this debilitating and sometimes fatal disease. Dengue Fever is prevalent in the Tropics. For that reason, an interdisciplinary team of researchers from the University of Miami (UM) and the University of Costa Rica have used global climatological data and vegetation indices from Costa Rica, to predict Dengue outbreaks in the region.
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Secretary Sebelius Announces Availability Of $40 Million In Grants To Help Insure More Children

HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius announced the availability of up to $40 million in grants to help reach families whose children qualify but are not yet enrolled in state Medicaid and Children"s Health Insurance Programs (CHIP). Sebelius was joined for the announcement by Colorado Governor Bill Ritter. Colorado has been a leader in the effort to provide health insurance coverage to more children. The grants will help support President Obama"s work to ensure millions of currently uninsured children across the country get the health care they need. The funds are part of the new Children"s Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act (CHIPRA) that President Obama signed as one of his first acts upon assuming office. "We know there are millions of children who are eligible for coverage but don"t utilize their state health care programs," said Secretary Sebelius. "These grants will help community organizations, tribal organizations, as well as states and local governments reach out to children and families to ensure more children get the health care they need and deserve." "We"ve made covering kids a top priority in Colorado. Working in partnership with community-based organizations like schools, childcare centers and faith-based groups, we have dramatically increased outreach and enrollment efforts and those efforts are paying off," said Governor Bill Ritter. "Since 2007, we"ve enrolled 67,000 more children in Medicaid and Colorado"s children"s health program -- a 27 percent increase. This grant opportunity will be a great help to states and communities that are working hard to ensure kids and families are getting the health care they need." Today"s solicitation is the first cycle of outreach funding under CHIPRA. The new law provides a total of $100 million for outreach campaigns aimed at reducing the number of low-income, uninsured children. The grants to states and organizations will ultimately total $80 million with the remaining funds going to other outreach efforts specified by the law. Today"s grants will be administered by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). "States have been effective in enrolling over 30 million children in Medicaid and more than 7 million children in CHIP, but there are still millions of uninsured, low-income children who are not enrolled in these programs even though they are eligible," said Cindy Mann, the director of the CMS Center for Medicaid and State Operations. "We are looking forward to innovative grant proposals ranging from grass roots efforts to reach eligible but uninsured children to technology-driven initiatives to modernize and streamline enrollment systems." Applications for the first cycle of funding are available here. Applications submitted electronically are due by Aug. 6, 2009. Applications submitted by mail are due by Aug. 10, 2009.Grants will be awarded by Sept. 30, 2009. To apply for the grants, applicants must be: - A state; - A local government; - An Indian tribe or tribal consortium or other tribal organization; - A federal health safety net organization; - A national, state, local, or community-based public or nonprofit private organization, including those that use community health workers; - A certified faith-based organization or consortium; - An elementary or secondary school; or - A consortium composed of two or more of these entities. HHS


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