| Remarks of the First Lady of Rwanda Mrs Jeannette Kagame at HIV-TB Global Leaders' 9th June, 2008 | |
...It is important that we are gathered here, a day before the UN High Level Meeting on AIDS dedicating our time to take stock and respond to the dual threat that is HIV and Tuberculosis. I am honoured to be part of the first HIV-Tuberculosis Global Leaders Forum, because as you know, one cannot speak about the progress made in interventions against HIV and AIDS, without mentioning Tuberculosis. Two decades ago, tuberculosis was a disease that we expected to control. Today, it has reappeared as a global health threat due to HIV.As we prepare to take part in this forum, several questions stand out and it is my hope that we can reflect on them today... |
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| Remarks of the First Lady of Rwanda at the AAVP Roundtable, 11 June,2008, New York | |
...A few months ago, I accepted with humility the opportunity to serve the African AIDS Vaccine Program, as its High Representative. It is on their behalf, and on behalf of everybody affected by our generation’s greatest challenge, that I thank you all for accepting our invitation to this event. I will be honest with you: when I thought of what I could say to you about HIV and AIDS that you haven’t heard before, I was at a loss of words. Does the number of deaths caused by this epidemic still shock us anymore? The statistics have become cold facts in our heads, with the numbers hiding the faces of the victims whose story they tell... |
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| Rwandan First Lady Kagame Hosts HIV/AIDS Vaccine Roundtable | |
 Rwandan First Lady Jeannette Kagame on 11 june, 2008 at the United Nations in New York hosted a roundtable discussion about HIV/AIDS vaccine research and development. Kagame, who also serves as the high representative for the African AIDS vaccine programme, said that the "recent setbacks in HIV vaccine trials should not discourage our efforts." She added that a "preventive vaccine is the only long-term sustainable solution to combating HIV." |
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| A scoring scale based on readily available clinical information can help diagnose tuberculosis in HIV-positive children in rural areas | |
"As no specific gold standard exists for tuberculosis diagnosis, clinical score is helpful in contexts where expertise and exams are not available," noted Dr. K. Kayumba from the Treatment and Research AIDS Center, Kigali, Rwanda. In a retrospective study, Dr. Kayumba and his team applied their "Rwandan Pediatric Society" clinical score to 198 HIV-infected children who had been investigated and treated for tuberculosis, based on existing standards. GRAZ, Austria (Reuters Health) |
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