Philippine Health Department Issues Administrative Order To Address HIV/TB Coinfection

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Philippine Health Secretary Francisco Duque latterly signed an administrative order aimed at increasing efforts to fight HIV/tuberculosis coinfection, Asia Pulse/Individual.com reports.

The order focuses on policies and guidelines for a collaborative approach aimed at decreasing the TB burden among HIV-positive people and decreasing HIV prevalence among people with TB. According to the Philippine Department of Health, HIV/TB coinfection has hindered efforts to control the two diseases because TB is common among people living with HIV and one of the primary causes of AIDS-related deaths. In addition, TB significantly affects the calibre of life of HIV-positive people, the department said.

According to Asia Pulse/Individual.com, the Philippines has a high burden of TB just a low HIV preponderance. The wellness department in 2007 estimated that HIV prevalence was 0.168%, with 7,490 Filipino adults living with the virus. However, a survey found that 6.25% of one hundred sixty TB patients at San Lazaro Hospital tested confirming for HIV (Asia Pulse/Individual.com, 9/1).


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Lupe Fades To Black With New Clothing Line

Colourful knocker LUPE FIASCO is arrange to go all-black to launch a new fashion line.

All items in the rapper's upcoming Fall of Rome catalogue volition be black - and that's all the hitmaker will wear once the line hits the securities industry later this year (08).

He says, "When your game is to trade clothes and for people to believe in you your brand and to push your brand, you keep your game fare on."

And Fiasco, actual name Wasalu Jaco, tells Complex cartridge his new fashion line even has an historical origin: "The logo for it is this broken statue that was pushed down when Rome was invaded; it represents the decay of beauty. I give my clothing a story. I create a purpose for it."

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Copy of Beatles contract for sale in London

Brian Epstein's transcript of his management contract with The Beatles, a pact that
proved to be worth millions, is being offered for sale in London next month.

The four-page document, signed on 1 October 1962 by John Lennon, George
Harrison, Paul McCartney and Richard Starkey � Ringo Starr's veridical name �
carries an estimated damage of �250,000. The Fame Bureau auction family said
Tuesday it had scheduled the sale for 4 September at the Idea Generation
Gallery.

The contract, likewise signed by Harold Hargreaves Harrison and James McCartney on
behalf of their underage sons, gave Epstein a 25 per centime cut of the group's
earnings, provided that they made more than �200 each per week.

"The word is that he made more money than the Beatles did during his
menses of time," said Ted Owen, managing director of The Fame Bureau.

He said the contract was offered for sale by a northern England businessman
and Beatles collector wHO has asked to remain anonymous.

The contract marked the here and now when all the pieces were in place for a orbicular
outbreak of Beatlemania.

Epstein first heard of The Beatles when a customer went to his record store in
Liverpool request for "My Bonnie," in which the group backed singer
Tony Sheridan.

After arranging to hear the group perform at the Cavern Club in Liverpool,
Epstein was impressed.

"They were fresh, honest and had, what I thought, a sort of front and
lead quality, whatsoever that is," Epstein later recalled.

Epstein had been guiding the group since December 1961, and had secured a
recording contract with EMI. With a nudge from producer George Martin,
Epstein fired drummer Pete Best in August 1962 and brought Starr into the
group, and their low big strike, "Love Me Do," was ready for
release.

"Brian put us in suits and all that and we made it selfsame, very big,"
Lennon once said. "But we sold out, you know.

"We were in a daydream till he came along. We had no idea what we were
doing."

Epstein died from a drug o.d. in 1967, aged 32.

According to the Brian Epstein Web site, brianepstein.com,
a first, five-year contract was signed by the group on 24 January 1962, but
Epstein didn't sign it.

Epstein managed several other successful acts from Liverpool, including Gerry &
The Pacemakers, Billy J. Kramer & The Dakotas, and Cilla Black.

Also up for auction is a Bechstein grand pianissimo which can be heard on The
Beatles' "White Album" and "Hey Jude," and as well on David
Bowie's "Ziggy Stardust," "Space Oddity" and "Hunky
Dory," and Elton John's "Yellow Brick Road."

Owen estimated that the piano testament sell for �300,000 or more.

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New Book For Parents Of Children With Juvenile Arthritis

�The Arthritis Foundation announces the issue of a new account book for
parents of children with adolescent arthritis (JA). Released in conjunction with Juvenile Arthritis
Awareness Month in July, the all-new Raising a Child with Arthritis addresses many of the concerns
parents bear about JA - from diagnosis and treatments to family and financial issues.




From the editors of the Arthritis Foundation's Kids Get Arthritis Too award-winning national
newssheet, the book is scripted in easy to understand terms and offers solutions for the challenges
parents face when their tike has arthritis. Raising a Child with Arthritis provides facts about various
types of JA and information about new treatments such as biologic drugs, piece also providing
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Chris Conway

   
Artist: Chris Conway

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Tracks: 9

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Jamie Lynn Sigler: "It's Never Bad To Be Single In The Summer!"

It sounds like Jamie Lynn Sigler doesn't have too many regrets about splitting from her boyfriend!

The Sopranos star ended her two-year relationship with New York club owner Scott Sartiano back in April to move out to LA for her career.

Last night she told OK! that she's been getting over the break-up with a little help from her friends.

And the 27-year-old even said that she's enjoying being single for the summer.

At the premiere of Glamour magazine's Reel Docs movie in New York, we asked the actress, who's shooting a new movie Son of Mourning, how she liked single life.

"Well, I've been single before," she said, "and I have supportive friends and I'm enjoying my life.

"And, you know, it's never bad being single for the summer!"




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