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euronews science – Thousands gather for AIDS conference

http://www.euronews.com/ Guy Jenkins-Bass, 31, has been managing his HIV condition for 13 years and feels that today he’s a healthy man.
He explains how he developed the condition:
“I was raped at 18 by someone I was dating at the time, and they were positive, and that was my first sexual experience and my first encounter.”
This combination of early and then long-term care is in part fuelling excitement within the AIDS community that a turning point has been reached regarding the disease.
The focus is now on trying to get people treated straight away.
Guy is also grateful for the care he’s received:
“I immediately went to find care in North Carolina, at the time at Duke University, but I don’t think I’ve ever been without it. It’s been an ongoing situation, I’m a strong advocate for it.”
The International AIDS Conference is running this week in Washington DC, with more than 21,000 delegates gathered to discuss infection rates, research and treatment.
Pioneering Iranian doctors Arash and Kamiar Alaei were honoured for their work in the field. Sharon Stone was on hand to hand over the tribute:
“This makes Kamiar and Arash Alaei deserving recipients of the first Elizabeth Taylor human rights award.”
They developed harm reduction programmes including needle exchanges and condom distribution at clinics but fell foul of Iranian authorities and were jailed for some three years.
As he received the award, Dr Arash Alaei said:
“As physicians, we are very pleased to see that today people from different backgrounds and social roles are involved in the field of HIV/AIDS and consider it a critical issue of our time that requires global cooperation. As a result, I do not believe that this award morally belongs to the Alaei brothers, rather I think this is an award to all who are working in this way.”
“Turning the Tide Together” is the theme of the conference, and AIDS expert Dr Anthony Fauci is cautiously optimistic that an AIDS-free generation is becoming a real possibility.
Dr Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases said:
“What is very, very clear now, what has happened over the past couple of years since the last international meeting is that we’re seeing that the combinations of treatments and prevention, if you do almost a common sense projection together with modelling – which has its own failings at times because you make assumptions in models – you can actually start realistically looking towards what Secretary Clinton said is the possibility, without any prediction when, of an AIDS-free generation. In other words, ending the AIDS pandemic as we know it.”
Despite improvements, new infections rose by 22% in Eastern Europe and Central Asia since 2005. In the US, heterosexual black women and gay and bisexual men account for most new cases, which arise mainly from poor, urban areas.
Dr Anthony Fauci explained the need to reach this demographic:
“That’s the group that we have failed to seek out aggressively enough to test voluntarily, to convince them to get tested, to link them to care because they’re already, not all, but predominantly in a situation where they don’t have the access to the kind of care that they would need.”
The US recently approved Truvada – a drug that lowers the risk of a healthy person contracting HIV sexually from a partner.
But this week, medical journal The Lancet published a study on drug-resistant HIV in parts of
sub-Saharan Africa.
Globally, 34 million people are infected with AIDS.
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EuroNews – EN – Europeans: Painful past still divides…
Germany wants to build a museum to document the history of Germans expelled from Polish territory at the end of World War II. Poland – invaded at great cost from the outset of the war – is against the project.
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Hundreds attend funeral for assassinated Russian blogger Vladlen Tatarsky
Hundreds of Muscovites came to the Troyekurovskoye Cemetery in the Russian capital on Saturday to pay their last respects to military blogger Vladlen Tatarsky.
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Angola sets its sights on the global coffee market
Discover two Angolan companies reviving the country’s coffee industry and making it their goal to restore the coffee sector back to its former glory days as one of the world’s largest producers of the black gold.
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euronews learning world – In business
http://www.euronews.com/ Running a company requires a variety of skills and abilities which increasing numbers of young business people are learning via management courses. But chosing the right one is not easy, and it is also important to remember ethics. Even the best business ideas can be sabotaged by bad practice.
*Spain: mastering management*
Richard Midikira from Kenya is studying in Madrid at the IE Business School, ranked in the World’s Top Ten by the Financial Times: “The MIM programme is very intense, it gives you knowledge in different areas of business from operations and supply management to finance to marketing and accounting. So it makes you understand business from a very broad perspective and it puts you in a better position to give solutions to businesses from a broader perspective.”
The ‘Master in Management’ or MIM course is an international business programme for graduates with up to two years of experience. 93% of graduates from the course are employment within three months, many with large companies like Mackenzie, Google and Facebook.
There are students of more than 40 nationalities currently enrolled on the course but this kind of education does not come cheap. The tuition fee is 30,000 euros.
*Ireland: kids in the boardroom*
In Tralee, in Ireland, they are experimenting with one of the country’s most ambitious educational schemes – the Junior Entrepreneur Programme. The idea is to talk about business with children aged between eight and 12 years old. Subjects include profits and investment and although no-one is actually making or losing money, the hands-on approach has the children interested.
A good idea is one thing, but the would-be entrepreneurs also have to describe how the company would be set up and financed. The teacher, Evelyn Dore, said: “They realise the value of money, they realise why we are learning fractions and percentages in school. They realise the value of team work.”
The project was set up by internet entrepreneur Jerry Kennelly, who says that business leaders should reach out to the next generation – however young. By 2015, nearly 4,500 children will have taken part in the programme.
*Switzerland: the business of ethics*
Bert Wolfs, one of the founders of the Swiss Business School, is convinced that business ethics are vital: “In 2001, Enron, a large energy company in the United States, went bankrupt and that also led to the bankruptcy of Arthur Andersen, which was the fourth largest auditing company in the world. This inspired us, due to the misbehaviour of senior management, to really organize an Ethical Business School. And to who could we teach better and where could we start for the change? It was with our students. Companies are doing well by doing good and they think they then apply all the aspects of ethics. But in real life you have to apply it in your business. So you have to be fair, you have not to accept bribery, you have to implement a code of ethics in your company. Now we’ve made it concrete and I think that helps to change the behaviour of managers and students.”
More than 300 students have taken this course at the Swiss Business School over the past 10 years, focusing on doing ethical buisiness rather than just on making money at all costs. Honesty and transparency are essential for economic survival.
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Future’s job: Redesigning more sustainable lithium-ion batteries
Aceleron claims to have designed the world’s “most sustainable” lithium-ion battery; one that is reusable, repairable, and recyclable.
Future’s job: Redesigning more sustainable lithium-ion batteries
Batteries are the foremost method of storing energy. But many companies producing batteries are focused on using today’s technology to make them for use today; little thought is put into what happens to them when they’ve reached the end of their lifespans.
That’s where Aceleron, a UK startup that claims to have designed the world’s “most sustainable” lithium-ion battery, comes in.
The company’s batteries are designed around circular economy principles, so they can be reused and upgraded over time.
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