conference in Hong Kong said that the region is facing a resurgence of HIV cases among men who have sex with men that will not subside without increased government efforts, the
reports (Freeda,
, 2/19). The conference was organized in partnership with Hong Kong’s
, the
and included about 50 government officials responsible for HIV/AIDS and MSM programs, as well as other experts.
According to officials at the conference, discriminatory laws, Read the rest of this entry »
Researchers are finding the first evidence that some Asian immigrant families are using U.S. medical technology to have sons instead of daughters, apparently acting on an age-old cultural prejudice that has led to high ratios of boys to girls in parts of China and India.
The new research, produced by independent teams of economists who arrived at similar conclusions, focused on Indian, Chinese and Korean families who first had girls and then used Read the rest of this entry »
Group Sex, Low Condom Use Spur Spread of HIV in Asian Gay Men
Feb. 18 (Bloomberg) — HIV is spreading rapidly among gay
and bisexual men in Asia, as group sex and low condom use make
male-to-male intimacies the region’s fastest-growing means of
transmitting the deadly human immunodeficiency virus, health
officials said.
New cases of HIV have surged in Asian cities such as
Bangkok, where more than 30 percent of gay and bisexual men now
have the Read the rest of this entry »
Researchers are finding the first evidence that some Asian immigrant families are using U.S. medical technology to have sons instead of daughters, apparently acting on an age-old cultural prejudice that has led to high ratios of boys to girls in parts of China and India.
The new research, produced by independent teams of economists who arrived at similar conclusions, focused on Indian, Chinese and Korean families who first had girls and then used Read the rest of this entry »
Last year’s death of six Chinese infants and sickening of 300,000 others from tainted baby formula has created a nightmare for Bay Area food importers, who say they won’t be able to get many of their products on local shelves in time for the lunar new year.
“Consumers are going to have less than half the usual choice this new year,” which begins Monday, said Taylor Chow of the Burlingame-based Oriental Food Association, which represents Northern Read the rest of this entry »
CHICAGO: One of the biggest concerns facing immigrant community and the under-privileged in the society in general is affordable health care. It is a gigantic task that defiles easy solution at national and local level.Asian Human Services (AHS) that has at its helm an India born woman community activist, Abha Pandya, took a small but a very admirable step five years ago in seeking to provide medical help to the needy and has expanded to a veritable Read the rest of this entry »
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A survey of Asian migrants in Christchurch has found that less than one in five is happy with the care they receive from their GPs.
For Asians migrants, being told by a doctor to take a paracetamol and wait and see, does not quite cut it. In Asia, a patient can expect – and get – a quick remedy.
“You don’t have to book, you wait your turn and when you see the doctor, the doctor will give you injection,” Simon Tam says. Read the rest of this entry »
The Director-General of National Agency for Food, Drugs and Administration and Control, Prof. Dora Akunyili, on Thursday said some foreign countries, especially Asians, operated discriminatory drug and food policies to the detriment of other countries, such as Nigeria.
She said while the drug and food industry in Nigeria was over-regulated, other countries only concentrated on regulating internally consumed drugs and foods, without bothering about Read the rest of this entry »
Researchers are finding the first evidence that some Asian immigrant families are using U.S. medical technology to have sons instead of daughters, apparently acting on an age-old cultural prejudice that has led to high ratios of boys to girls in parts of China and India.
The new research, produced by independent teams of economists who arrived at similar conclusions, focused on Indian, Chinese and Korean families who first had girls and then used Read the rest of this entry »
ROCKVILLE, Md., Oct. 14 — FDA testing found melamine in two milk products sold in Asian grocery stores in New York, the agency said.
The products, YILI Brand Sour Milk Drink and YILI Brand Pure Milk Drink have been recalled by distributor HUA XIA Food Trade USA of Flushing, N.Y.
The drinks are packaged in 250-ml flexible paperboard boxes.
The Sour Milk Drink container has blue, red, and green Chinese writing and a picture of an Asian man in Read the rest of this entry »