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CytRx Reports Favorable Progress Update For Its Pivotal Phase 2 Trial With Tamibarotene As A Third-Line Treatment For Acute Promyelocytic Leukemia
CytRx Corporation (NASDAQ: CYTR), a biopharmaceutical research and development company engaged in the development of high-value human therapeutics, provided a favorable progress update for its ongoing Phase 2 STAR-1 registration clinical trial to evaluate the efficacy and safety of orally administered tamibarotene as a third-line treatment for acute promyelocytic leukemia (APL).
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Preventable Maternal Deaths Should Be Recognized As Women's Rights Violations, Opinion Piece Says
"Human rights organizations around the world are starting to demand that governments recognize preventable maternal death as a violation of women"s rights," Mary Robinson and Alicia Yamin, both advisory council members of the International Initiative on Maternal Mortality and Human Rights, write in a Boston Globe opinion piece. They add that with the "United Nations Human Rights Council"s June session just around the corner, governments have a chance to prove that they value women"s lives by taking concrete action on this issue." According to Robinson and Yamin, "[m]ore than one woman dies every minute from preventable causes in childbirth, and for every woman who dies as many as 30 others are left with lifelong, debilitating complications."They continue, "Moreover, when mothers die, children are at greater risk of dropping out of school, becoming malnourished and simply not surviving," adding, "Not only is maternal mortality and morbidity a global health emergency, but it triggers and aggravates cycles of poverty that cause generations of suffering and despair." The authors write, "Asserting that these preventable deaths are an issue of human rights does not mean that poor governments are going to be blamed for not doing what they cannot do." Instead, "understanding the profound injustice of disparities in maternal deaths makes it all the more urgent that donor states honor their funding commitments and that effective monitoring and accountability mechanisms are put in place to ensure that aid is going to the interventions that evidence has shown will save women"s lives," they add.According to Robinson and Yamin, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton 14 years ago at the Fourth World Conference on Women, then U.S. first lady, "declared that "women"s rights are human rights."" They add that Clinton recently has "passionately and eloquently affirmed [the Obama] administration"s commitment to women"s reproductive health needs around the world, and the Obama administration has called for increased funding for global health." They conclude, "As a new member of the Human Rights Council, the United States has the chance to lead the way in promoting a woman"s right to go through pregnancy and childbirth in safety and, just as important, to back up that assertion with adequate funding commitments" (Robinson/Yamin, Boston Globe, 6/4).
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Continued International Investment, Decreased Discrimination Key To Fight Against HIV/AIDS, Says U.N. Secretary-General

U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon during a General Assembly meeting Tuesday urged governments not to cut aid for the international fight against HIV/AIDS, the AP/Washington Post reports. Even as Ban "called for "bold action" not only to increase funding but also to break down social barriers to achieve the goal set by world leaders in 2006 of universal access to comprehensive HIV prevention services, treatment, care and support by 2010," he and other speakers at the meeting "reviewing progress and challenges in the battle against AIDS indicated that it will be exceedingly difficult - if not impossible - to reach the goal" (Lederer, AP/Washington Post, 6/16). During the meeting, Ban presented a report (pdf) on the progress of HIV/AIDS commitments, that showed "achieving national universal access targets by 2010 will require an estimated annual outlay of $25 billion within two years," Xinhua reports. "Now is not the time to falter," Ban said. "The economic crisis should not be an excuse to abandon commitments - it should be an impetus to make the right investments that will yield benefits for generations to come" (Xinhua, 6/16). Ban highlighted positive indicators from his report, including the results of a survey of 14 African countries that showed a drop in the percentage of pregnant women who are HIV-positive (AP/Washington Post, 6/16); an increase in funding for HIV/AIDS programs in middle- and low-income countries, from $11.3 billion in 2007 to $13.7 billion in 2008 (UNAIDS release, 6/16); and that "the provision of antiretroviral drugs increased, contributing to the first decline in the number of annual AIDS deaths since the epidemic was first recognized nearly 30 years ago," according to the AP/Washington Post. "Yet, there are still nearly five new infections for every two people put on treatment," Ban said. The AP/Washington Post writes, "General Assembly President Miguel d"Escoto Brockmann cited other shortcomings: 29 million people who need HIV treatment still lack medication, roughly two out of three HIV-positive pregnant women don"t receive services to prevent mother-to-child transmission, and an estimated 370,000 children under the age of 15 became infected with HIV in 2007 and are less likely than adults to receive treatment." "Even as we see signs of cutbacks in AIDS funding in many countries, we must remind governments and the international community that the world has the res to mount the kind of AIDS response to which we have committed. If we allow cuts now, we will face increased costs and great human suffering in the future," d"Escoto said (Lederer, AP/Washington Post, 6/16). "The Secretary-General"s report also highlights that despite the many commitments made by member states to protect the rights of people living with HIV and people vulnerable to HIV infection, many countries have laws and policies that are inconsistent with the commitments and result in reduced access to essential HIV services and commodities," according to UNAIDS (UNAIDS release, 6/16). This information was reprinted from globalhealth.kff.org with kind permission from the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation. You can view the entire Kaiser Daily Global Health Policy Report, search the archives and sign up for email delivery at globalhealth.kff.org. © Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation. All rights reserved.


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