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Working together to end the African AIDS pandemic
Many of the world’s top relief and aid organizations have united around an ambitious goal: ending the HIV-AIDS pandemic. In Africa, more than 25 million people are living with HIV—a clear sign that improving access to testing and treatment is a critical priority.

Yet in areas hit hardest by HIV—such as the vast sub-Saharan region—access to healthcare centres able to diagnose, treat and provide follow-up HIV patient care is extremely limited. Worldwide, many people living with HIV still do not know their status. Read more

Vaping appears to be making hundreds of people sick. Doctors have no idea why.
It was the stream of young, otherwise healthy patients landing in the intensive care unit with trouble breathing that made Utah pulmonologist Dr. Dixie Harris suspect something was up.

The first patient presented at the Salt Lake City hospital, where Harris works, on August 6. The man, in his 20s, was vomiting and had aches and pains. He also couldn’t breathe properly. So Harris tried to figure out if an infection may be causing the problems — and found nothing.

“It’s not typical [to see a young person] go to the ICU in that much distress without an obvious infection,” she told Vox. Within days, several more cases surfaced — and Harris and her colleagues at the Intermountain Healthcare hospital group started to suspect the cause may be vaping, or THC oils, since that’s the only thing the patients had in common. Read more

From our partners at Dianova International

49th General Assembly of the OAS
Dianova participates in the most important governmental meeting in Latin America to demand that drug policies respect human rights Read more

Drugs: Addressing the needs of vulnerable populations
Dianova attends the second WHO Forum on Alcohol, Drugs and Addictive Behaviours Read more

World Drug Report 2019
The World Drug Report reveals that prevention and treatment continue to fall short, with only 1 in 7 people with drug use disorders receiving treatment each year Read more

IN CASE YOU MISSED IT

Boom in overdose-reversing drug is tied to fewer opioid deaths
Prescriptions of the overdose-reversing drug naloxone are soaring, and experts say that could be a reason overdose deaths have stopped rising for the first time in nearly three decades. The number of naloxone prescriptions dispensed by U.S. retail pharmacies doubled from 2017 to last year, rising from 271,000 to 557,000, health officials reported Tuesday.

The United States is in the midst of the deadliest drug overdose epidemic in its history. About 68,000 people died of overdoses last year, according to preliminary government statistics reported last month, a drop from the more than 70,000 in 2017. Read more

Proyecto Hombre Observatory releases 2018 report on the profile of people with addiction problems in treatment
The objective of this study is to analyse and identify the psychological, epidemiological and sociodemographic characteristics of people with addiction problems attended to in the Proyecto Hombre Centres throughout Spain. It also incorporates the analysis of possible influential factors in the problem of addictions: personal aspects, risk behaviours, emotional circumstances and social relationships. With this initiative, Proyecto Hombre demonstrates the effort made, not only in the treatment and prevention of addictions, but also in their study and investigation. Read the report

6 September 2019

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