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Adding Nucleic Acid Testing to HIV Screening May Help Identify More People with HIV
Published : June 23, 2010 | Author : user_#a0b | Unrated |
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 Community-based HIV testing programs generally use only HIV antibody testing, but nucleic acid testing (NAT) can detect the presence of HIV earlier.
Researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine studied more than 3,000 patients who sought HIV testing in community-based clinics in or near San Diego to examine the yield of testing with a rapid test plus NAT and to see whether patients would be willing to access their results by phone or computer.
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Man confesses to burning Kasubu Tombs
Published : April 24, 2010 | Author : user_#a0b | Unrated |
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| A MAN yesterday walked to a Kampala Police station and allegedly confessed setting ablaze the Kasubi Tombs, a renowned world heritage site.
The March 16 inferno at the royal tombs, locally known as masiro, sparked an emotional outcry from the Baganda, the biggest ethnic group in Uganda.
Dressed in shorts and African garb, Joseph Musoke early in the morning went to the Central Police Station and reportedly told Police officers that he felt guilty.
He clutched a bible, a cross, a big rosary and pictures of the Virgin Mary.
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Video of UF Police Shooting Kofi Adu-Brempong released online
Published : April 20, 2010 | Author : user_#a0b | Unrated |
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| Adu-Brempong, a geography Ph.D. candidate from Ghana, was shot by UPD Officer Keith Smith in his Corry Village apartment.
Florida Department of Law Enforcement spokesman Mike Morrison couldn’t say whether the video had much of an impact on the final report, which was completed Thursday but not released.
UF spokeswoman Janine Sikes noted the tragic nature of the incident at Corry Village but added that conclusions about the shooting cannot be drawn without a full set of facts.
The State Attorney still needs to analyze the case and make decisions about the actions of the officers involved and the actions of Adu-Brempong, Sikes wrote in an e-mail.
"Our thoughts and concerns continue to be with everyone affected including Kofi Adu-Brempong, the residents of Corry Village and the police officers," Sikes wrote.
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Tourism and modern society threatening Jarawa Bushmen of African descent living in Andaman Island India
Published : March 28, 2010 | Author : user_#a0b | Unrated |
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| The Indian Supreme Court is currently considering whether a controversial tourist resort in the Andaman islands should close. The resort is near a forest reserve, which is home to the endangered Jarawa tribe. The BBC's Geeta Pandey, who has visited the area, reports from Delhi.
Jarawas
Jarawas resemble African bushmen in appearance (Photos: Survival International)
A handful of Jarawa tribesmen recently broke into a house in the village of Mathura in the Andaman islands. They left after taking away rice, sugar and coconut.
The first people to successfully migrate out of Africa, the Jarawas came to the Andaman islands 60,000 years ago.
Essentially hunter-gatherers, the tribespeople have traditionally survived on the raw meat of wild boar.
But in the 1970s, a road (the Andaman trunk road or ATR) was built, cutting through the 1,000 sq km forest reserve in which they live. It has brought momentous change to their lives.
"Till as late as the 1980s, the Jarawas would kill people if challenged or threatened. But in the 90s, they started to come out of the reserve and now they have developed a taste for cooked rice and sugar," says Govind Raju, editor of The Light of Andamans newspaper.
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