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Federal Official Comments On HIV Travel Ban, Needle Exchange In U.S. At Conference
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Director Anthony Fauci told delegates at the 5th International AIDS Society (IAS) Conference on HIV Pathogenesis, Treatment and Prevention in Cape Town, South Africa "that a bill to lift the ban on funding needle exchange programmes was working its way through Congress, and restrictions on HIV-infected people entering the U.S. were also almost certain to be lifted in the near future," Plus News/IRIN reports. Fauci added, "With regard to science and policy, we will stay on the right path." Eric Goosby, the U.S. Global AIDS Coordinator, was also present at the conference and discussed U.S. policies related to global HIV/AIDS (7/20).
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Palliative Care Research To Benefit From $1.5 Million Award

of California, San Francisco - Alexander K. Smith, M.D., MPH, is an assistant professor of medicine. Dr. Smith will conduct a study using a nationally representative survey linked with Medicare Data to describe the characteristics of elderly patients seen in the emergency department in the last 6 months of life and will use direct observation and survey methodology to examine communication about goals of care among a diverse group of seriously ill elders, their family caregivers, and emergency department providers. "We are truly enthusiastic over the large number of qualified and promising investigators that have applied for the pilot project support grants and junior faculty career development awards over the past three years," said Dr. Diane E. Meier, Chair of the NPCRC"s Scientific Advisory Board, Director of the Center to Advance Palliative Care, and the Hertzberg Palliative Care Institute at Mount Sinai School of Medicine. "Based on the progress and achievements of the current NPCRC and American Cancer Society grantees, we now look forward to opening more doors for additional investigators to advance the scientific field of palliative care." Further details about the NPCRC and ACS 2009 Grantees and their research projects are available at http://www.npcrc.org/grantees/. David Sampson American Cancer Society

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