WELLNESS IN AFRICA: AL Extends Business to South Africa, Announces Upcoming... -- HONG KONG and LOS ANGELES, April 14, 2011 /PRNewswire-Asia/ -

Artificial Life Extends Business to South Africa, Announces Upcoming... -- HONG KONG and LOS ANGELES, April 14, 2011 /PRNewswire-Asia/ --: "The Company currently already provides two mobile health monitoring apps: GluCoMo™, a diabetes monitoring app, and Opus-M Health: Neurodermatitis an app for monitoring the skin condition known as neurodermatitis. In the past, these two applications were targeted mainly to industrialized markets. However, GluCoMo™ as well as the upcoming patient monitoring app for HIV/AIDS will now also target the BRICS emerging markets of which South Africa is a new member. Featuring functions such as patient/medication monitoring, reminders, and education/health tips, the application will be built especially with the treatment of HIV/AIDS in mind. The Company will again be leveraging its Opus-M technology to power the backend system to ensure reliability and security of user-sensitive data.
According to AVERT, an estimated 5.6 million people are living with HIV and AIDS in South Africa in 2009 – more than any other country. It is estimated that in the same year, around 310,000 South Africans died of AIDS. The highest prevalence age group is 15-49, at 17.8 percent."

UN report: 1.6 mln HIV carriers in Latin America, Caribbean

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UN report: 1.6 mln HIV carriers in Latin America, Caribbean English.news.cn 2011-04-01 09:50:45 FeedbackPrintRSS PANAMA CITY, March 31 (Xinhua) -- Latin America and the Caribbean have about 1.6 million people carrying the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) that can cause the deadly disease AIDS, the Joint United Nations Program on HIV/Aids (UNAIDS) said on Thursday. Latin America has not registered any improvement in the fight against the spread of HIV/AIDS, said UNAIDS Regional Director Cesar Nunez, releasing the findings of a new report for the state of HIV/AIDS. Nunez, urging governments across Latin America and the Caribbean to increase efforts to combat the spread of HIV, suggested governments to focus their work on the prevention among younger people and at schools in order to avoid the spread of HIV in the region. "At this time of crisis, let us optimize the means and let us not fall into complacence," he said. But Nunez said that Latin America, however, is the region with the best coverage of medicine available to HIV carriers, as about 51 percent of those living with the virus have access to HIV/AIDS medicine. "In the South American countries we have a (medical) coverage of 70 percent which encourage us to believe we can increase the coverage level in Central America," he said. According to the report, there are now 33 million HIV carriers in the world. Editor: Xiong Tong