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Kenya Seeks Support From PEPFAR To Expand Blood Transfusion Centers
Kenya"s Medical Services Permanent Secretary James Ole Kiyiapi announced Thursday that the government is in negotiations with PEPFAR for support in building additional blood transfusion centers in the country, Capital News reports. In an opening address at the 5th International Africa Society for Blood Transfusion, Ole Kiyiapi said the government estimates it will cost about Sh230 million ($2.99 million) to build the new centers and train appropriate staff.
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New Study Helps Explain Why It Is Easy To Encode New Memories But Hard To Hold Onto Them
Memories aren"t made of actin filaments. But their assembly is crucial for long-term potentiation (LTP), an increase in synapse sensitivity that researchers think helps to lay down memories. In the July 13, 2009 issue of the Journal of Cell Biology, Rex et al. reveal that LTP"s actin reorganization occurs in two stages that are controlled by different pathways, a discovery that helps explain why it is easy to encode new memories but hard to hold onto them.
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Massachusetts Officials Issue Directive That Seeks To Streamline HIV Testing Consent Process
The Massachusetts Department of Public Health yesterday issued a directive recommending that health care providers include written consent for HIV testing in the general permission forms given to patients receiving medical care, the Boston Globe reports. State health care providers typically give patients separate consent forms for HIV testing, a practice health officials say poses as a barrier to HIV testing for patients and their providers. The new Massachusetts recommendation states that HIV testing should be explicitly mentioned on standard general consent forms. Reinforcing a provision in the CDC"s 2006 HIV testing guidelines, the directive also recommends routine HIV testing for all residents age 13 to 64 in health care settings. Patients in Massachusetts must still opt in to HIV testing, whereas the CDC recommends that HIV testing be performed unless a patient opts out, according to the Globe (Cooney, Boston Globe, 6/25).
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Senate Committee Approves FY 2010 Spending Bill Without Funding For Abstinence-Only Education

The Senate Appropriations Committee on Thursday approved its fiscal year 2010 spending bill (HR 3293) for health, education and labor programs, CQ Today reports. The bill does not include funding for abstinence-only sex education, instead providing $104.5 million for a comprehensive "Teen Pregnancy Prevention" program. The recently passed House version of the bill takes a similar approach, according to CQ Today.The committee voted 29-1 to approve the $730 billion bill, with abstinence-only advocate Sen. Sam Brownback (R-Kan.) being the sole opponent (Wolfe, CQ Today, 7/30).In related news, Sen. Arlen Specter (D-Pa.) in the FY 2010 spending bill did not request funding for abstinence-only sex education programs in his home state, despite routinely requesting such funds as a Republican, CQ Politics reports.When he was a Republican, Specter sponsored 22 earmarks totaling $550,000 for abstinence-only programs in the FY 2009 version of the bill. Specter"s aides said that he wanted to focus earmark requests on hospitals and universities in the FY 2010 version of the bill. However, the "likely" explanation for the absence of abstinence-only earmark requests is the senator"s 2009 switch to the Democratic Party, which often advocates for comprehensive sex education programs as a way to reduce teen pregnancy, CQ Politics reports (Clarke, CQ Politics, 7/29). Reprinted with kind permission from http://www.nationalpartnership.org. You can view the entire Daily Women"s Health Policy Report, search the archives, or sign up for email delivery here. The Daily Women"s Health Policy Report is a free service of the National Partnership for Women & Families, published by The Advisory Board Company. © 2009 The Advisory Board Company. All rights reserved.


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