according to the world health organization 35 million people are infected with the virus. >> it's theord's leading infectious killer and claimed 36 million lives. joining us from norfolk, virginia is dr. john. dock tocdoctor thank you for beh us. >> thank you. >> we hear people toss around this term, aids free generation, are we there yet though? >> i would take exception if you don't mind with the report that you just had that still talks about the stereotypes of hiv, aids. what i'm talking about and the number of researchers are talking about is that young people, adolescents are now the fastest growing group at risk for hiv, aids. arounand i'm not talking about y youth or african-american youth. i'm talking about white youth. i'm talking about wealthy middle class and poor youth. and any that are having unprotected sex and what we are finding right now is that 50 percent of all teens begin sex by 16 an 16 and a lot of pas that are listening to this show understand what i'm talking about if their kids are out there having unprotected sex they are now at great risk for hiv. that is t

is no evidence that they cause cancer or any other problems, but a recent report by the world health organization concludes that cell phones could be cacinojenic. >> 17 years ago the standards were set. why on earth would we expect people to use cell phones in ways that they never imagined. >> reporter: in addition to pushing for better research, he wants people to know that there is one simple step they can take to avoid problems. >> just make sure you keep the cell phone off your body. distance is your friend. if you do that you won't end up with a brain tumor, probably. >>> bay area air quality officials have extended their share-the-air alert through saturday, and that means know fires, indoors, outdoors, the sixth day in a row. a new study it says san francisco's unhealthy unhealthiest air is in the mission district, the inner and outer, surrounded by freeways, a known health risk, and families living scoreses to industrial pollution. to understand the mystery, the researchers studied aerial photos. the secret turned out to be in the neighborhood's backyards. they're bigger and more likely t

the "world health organization" says since march of this year there has been a search for the bird flu in hong kong. >> when there is an infection. the infection is very serious. >> that's why hong kong has shut down it's poultry markets. while will is no evidence that the h 7 n 9 strain spreads from human to human. there are fears that i there isa potential for a pan democrat. >> okay. they're taking this very seriously. this strain of influenza of birds often does not make the birds sick. you can't follow the sick. >> i see the front lines of vaccine research for the strain over in china funded by the national institute of health there is a team of a dozen doctors and scientists working to find a real vaccine to treat people around the world. >> dr. katherine edwards joined that search. >> the chinese were very good about sharing the virus with the with who and with the cdc so we could begin to grow the virus. >> reporter: they infected 200 people with the varying levels. that led to the development of a successful vaccine. while china is 800 miles away, a global flu pandemic could b

according to the world health organization 35 million people are infectedded with th infecte. 30% of the global population live in sub is is a harr sahar. much has been done to fight the epidemic in the last 25 years. without question we have come a long way in the fight against aids we have gone from a disease that was virtually a death sentence to a disease for people to have treatment is a chronic illness. there is a great deal of research around a cure we believe that we will have a cure for this disease. in fact we'll have it in our lifetime. we have aways to go but we have the tools to get there and that is critically important. the progress that we have made knowing how to prevent this disease and new tools to prevent this disease. learning treating people with hiv is preventing new infections those are the tools we have. the question we have can we fully employ them if we find the political will and resources to employ the resources we can have a aid free generation. >> the star of one of movie franchises has died. paul walker was a passenger in a deadly car crash on saturday

the world health organization added that results were down to better funding and commitment. >> this is a proven investment. for a $5 bed net, a test and a malaerial treatment we saved 3.3 million lives. we can save more than that, we can save every life from malaria. this one is called egypt's white gold and has been cultivated in the country. international competition and a lack of investment caused a decline. factories have been forced to close. >> this woman has been at work since sunrise, picking the cotton all day, earning her less than $5. as she explains, this is all she knows. >> i have been doing this ever since i was a child. we spent all day picking cotton. >> cotton was the cash crop in the nile delta and elsewhere. now the area of lands devoted to it is less than a quarter of what it was 20 years ago. >> october is the month in which egypt's cotton is collected and processed. the product in this field represents around $1,000 in value. the farmer will only get half of that. cultivating the cotton requires good irrigation, fertilisers and pesticides to keep the soil heal

numbers is never a good idea and that's why united states has this low rank in the world health world health organization's list which is absurd we're not thirty seventh in the world. by any stretch of the imagination people come here from all over the world to get the excellent care that we provide so we do try to provide the best quality care that is not going to come through a standardized approach is going to come through individualized care with individual physicians sits down with a patient and in a relaxed manner in a consultation room tries to figure out number one what's wrong with them so and how we can make them better you know and i would i would agree with that i would agree that it's about the physician patient relationship and i absolutely agree with the good doctor about that but the other hand i also know that most of what makes us healthy occurs long before they go into the doctor's office so about you know walkable greeneville communities it's about safe housing it's about. not being in an environment that is toxic but having said that when you get sick there's no question this is the pl

. >> translation: according to the world health organization 88% of diseases linked to climate changeffect children under the age of five. and this way climate change has an enormous influence on the environment and across human life. it can't be solved by the efforts of one country. it's a task for all humanity. >> an anticorruption movement is looking to break years of dom nation by the ruling congress party in elections in deli. voters are taking part in local assembly elections. the political choices they make this week could have a significant long-term impact on the entire country. >> a huge crowd gathers to hear from the man who wants to shake up indian politics. the election campaign of the common man's party took on a festive feel as it made its way through new delhi. the man leading it promises to succeed where others failed. voters will have to choose between a new political alternative and some of the states longest serving politicians. because people across the call tall are wary. she was responsible for the 2010 commonwealth games, which faced allegations of corruption.

much a growing consensus among scientist especially those funding by national health, the world health organization, the research that doesn't have a particular agenda behind it but it's neutral and objective research about the effects of sugar and added sugar and particularly sugary beverages on human health. one of the newer set of findings, with tremendous amount of scientific consensus is the impact of heavy fructose consumption of sugar. fructose is one form of sugar but a very common form of sugar. it can have anywhere from 45-90 percent from when laboratories produce it. fructose is metabolized in the liver. that is where the difficulties start. the fact that fructose is metabolized in the liver. as christina gets from the health department alluded to. when it is metabolized in the liver, if it is in large quantities and in a very quick dose such as the kind of heavy dose you might get from having a sugar sweet and beverage on an empty stomach, the liver is bombarded by a large quantity of fructose and this particular substance within the liver is known to be toxin. it's what we call a hepat

funding is far below world health organization standards. the doctors say the government has shown little concern. for the majority of nigerians, this strike is worse things a bad situation. all the critical cases are being attended to here. for those who can't. medical workers here are struggling to cope with existing emergencies, they don't have the capt afty to deal with new ones. the emergency care and points that we are trying to see if arrangements can be made so patients get the necessary care at emergency points. >> this is a second major strike by doctors in nigeria. the doctors say it will last five days and it is a prelued to a strike in january. that manes more weight. with few proper facilities and few doctors at work, many people like david and his family make no other choice. >> traditional medicine in peru has been practised for centuries, it's developing a reputation among tourists looking for alternative methods for natural cures. we learn about plans used for spiritual healing. >> in search of a cure. they were about to st

the concentration of the most dangerous particles reaching 20 times what the world health organizations hazardous. "i don't think it's fit for humans to live in this kind of environment" says this man. hundreds of flights were canceled or delayed, schools closed, residents urged to stay indoors and factories ordered to cut off production. ships forced to navigate cautiously through the haze. experts blame the cold windless weather for a cloud of pollution from cars, factories and coal burning that has sat over eastern china for most of the week, and there's been record-breaking levels in other cities, including beijing earlier this year. the government has announced many plans to fight the pollution but with little apparent progress. the dense smog in eastern china is starting to lift today but here in beijing it's starting to approach hazardous levels. the east and north of china are particularly vulnerable in winter, and we're really just getting into the coldest month. ian williams, nbc news, beijing. >>> when we come back, the latest test for lindsey vonn as she puts her sights on

according to the world health organization diseases related to contaminate to hold to account for almost a cent more deaths in africa. we in the cabal a district in the remote south of the country where an invention designed to purify contaminated water is now being tested. a simple solution to a serious problem you can go and don't need while vitamin they built the boat is when one can hope they can listen to god that one pm and maybe my is it it's the brainchild of school siege from a competing engine and david knowles old who grew up in south africa and has retained a strong affinity to the consonants he built the present time being his carriage. though what a bitter idea. and it was a limo to the sexy him before they went to the washing and solidify among them a try every minute and then to dance. place a call for tuning in to fight iran will go through to choose initial cause it was cool but then that is more than two months to the table i sat in the design team misleading to invite you to kenya to try it with some locals. the jaunty is ingeniously simple meeting on the pump will fi

according to the world health organization 35 million people are infected were the virus. it's the world's leading infectious killer having claimed more than 36 million lives. there is more to come on al jazeera america, keep it here. ♪ >> welcome back, live pictures of the aftermath of the train derailment of the hudson line. in a half hour the ntsb will be at the scene of the deadly train derailment. >> the obama administration says healthcare.gov is encountering fewer problems. and it's working most of the time president obama set a saturday deadline for fixes to the site. they have a new feature that alerts people when traffic is low and enables you to navigate the site with fewer delays. >> if a consumer comes to the site and it's at capacity they will leave their e-mail and then they'll get a a an e-mail when o come back to the site. >> this morning the former senator santorum said the site still need a lot of work. >> the information coming out of the back end to the insurance companies is still garbage. it's undecipher and. and it's requiring them on a case by case

. >>> the world health organization issued a troubling report that says cancer is on the rise worldwide million people were diagnosed in 2012, that's up from 12.7 million in 2008. and the number of deaths also rose. bad lifestyle habits are to blame. poor diets, lack of exercise and smoking are the major contributors. ♪ >>> i'm meteorologist dave warren. we are looking at snow here. this is lake-effect snow. you see this on the radar here. it's a one streamer of snow and this is what it looks like when you are in it. the snow came across parts of western new york like buffalo. cars were buried, and that's what you deal with when you get this cold arctic air coming over the waters of the great lakes. it is starting to wind down a little bit, but this is just in a time for the next storm that is approaching. this is the area seeing the lake-effect snow in western new york. these wind chills are down well below zero in chicago. another cold day expected in the mid-atlantic states philadelphia all the way up through boston. the radar plus the clouds showing it is all quiet except for the la

according to the world health organization -- some 35 million people are infected with the virus. 69ercent of the global aids population lives in sub-saharan it's also the world's leading infectious killer -- havin >> black friday gets all of the attention. but for many retailers cyber monday is just as important. my guess is we are going to go short of 3 billion short of cyber monday. >> they are offering big door buster specials. but analysts are not expecting consolers to bust down doors rushing to get them. last year americans spent $2 billion on cyber monday which has seen double-digit sale increases since 2010. >> retilers will recognizing that consumers have a great deal of technology in their hand. so they can shop whether at work or through the internet or shop at home. >> it's not just happening on desk top computers. on the go consumers are using mobile devices for the best deals. and retailers are spending big money on building apps. >> they are offering consumers text messaging coupons when the clients goes into the store and immediately wants to get an instant coupon. t

the summit will also bring together officials from the world health organization and pharmaceutical companies british prime minister david cameron requested the meeting alzheimer's disease international estimates that more than forty four million people are living with dementia. the organization predicts this figure will triple to more than one hundred and thirty five million by twenty fifty. but this depends on to discuss global cooperation to dev as wl as effective support for patients and their families the us ambassador to japan has visited and nagasaki the us hit the city with an atomic bomb in nineteen forty five. caroline kennedy is expected to call for more efforts to rid the world of nuclear weapons. that is taking me a tummy sacked elway welcome kennedy at the city's atomic bomb museum in massive went for it or mention that the atomic bomb survivors she said that the sixty premium tap and she referred to her father the late president john f kennedy. president kennedy was very proud that he was able to start the process nuclear disarmament. he then went to p start to place the weeks

for example, according to the world health organization, 27% of 11-year-old european girls think they're fat that percentage rises to 40% for 15-year-olds b. a quarter of those girls say they're now dieting. so her report comes out and it contains 12 different recommendations for how to protect kids. it would prohibit companies from using children as their spokes models. it would create a website that would name and shame companies that don't go along. and it would create an educational program for parents and it proposed banning those childhood beauty pageants, saying they offer quote a degraded or tarnished image of girls. the senator, who is not only a senator, but a 12-time karate champion and a former national minister for sports says she's not against competitions for kids. she just objects to ones that put a premium on their looks. >> this was just one recommendation, to ban beauty pageants, so that the society will give a very clear message to medias, to companies, that our children are not object of beauty. and are not object of seduction. and that we agree on any other kind of

it's also more than seven times the level recommended by the world health organization which has a standard of twenty five michael grands prix cubic meter. in the southern district of coal dust levels reached nearly three hundred micrograms per cubic meter on wednesday forcing the city to show preliminary those warning for the first time this year. but there's good news on the rise those concentration levels are expected to decline gradually starting thursday the concentration may be high in the morning call into total because of the fine particle pollution coming from china. the daily average is expected to return to normal today. that does contain costs of pollutants including heavy metals and bacteria and health experts of us were that's what the gospel. that would be up for that goal. what does that or at their peak. have been i didn't it. in other news us vice president joe biden has just arrived in seoul on this thursday evening at the last leg of this east asia to biden is slated to meet with president aka name on friday and is hoping to ease tensions in a region that has been rattle

search for a way to communicate this better and understand it better but we found it from the world health organization to be helpful for us and we have modified that. and so it has allowed us to accurately examine the issue. food resource and access and consumption, the ability to have the resources to purpose the food. and this can come from your income oracle fresh or wic and other programs. access to nutritionally appropriate food convenient to you and either through the food retaylor the food meal programs. and then, the food consumption really refers to the ability to prepare healthy meals and then the knowledge basic of the nutrition and food safety and cooking and so this is where, the whole area around cooking nutritional education and comes into play as well as. through the rest of the presentation and through the report we have used this framework to present the data as well as present our challenges in each area and our recommendations and our what is working. and today, i am going to go through the challenges we don't have time and that is why you have the report. >> i want to note for the

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london on wednesday that ministers were accompanied by researchers and officials from the world health organization and pharmaceutical companies participants reported on its support programs for dementia patients and their families in order to promote discussion on ways to improve them. he also talked about how to finance the support research and involvement of drugs to control the disease japan senior vice minister of how a machine that quotes a chia said the country has been focusing on early diagnosis of the region's can continue to live in a comfortable time. south africans are singing dancing and crying as they say their last goodbyes to the man who dedicated his life to transforming their nation the body of nelson mandela is lying in state in the capital pretoria. police escorted the hearse carrying his company which was draped in a south african flag. they went from a military facility to the union buildings mandela was sworn in there in nineteen ninety four becoming the nation's first black president. thousands of people watched as the procession made its way along the routes that st about

the world health organization is calling a it potential cancer, but they don't commit to it. there are hints. this acrylamide comes from studies in sweden 10 years ago. they said if you make your french fries and potato chips, don't make them too brown. make them gold. that was a nice hint. 10 years go by and we forget about our french fries and it is off heating. you have amino acid and sugar and you over heat it to 250 degrees. the more you overcook, the more you overheat it you can cause the acryliamide. >> people want it anyway. >> you can't avoid it. 40% of the calories have acylamide. it is in the plastic and the water and everything. >> can we get rid of it? >> you decrease what you have. i am not going to point to any particular fast-food places that have them, but the more you do the unhealthy stuff. >> eric's point is well taken. you should call for it out of our diet. what the fda says don't store the potatoes in the refrigerator. that increase itself. wash it behalf hand. you can add it next to salt, sugar and trans fats as an enemy in our diet. >> it doesn't even

clean drinking water is a rare and precious commodity in uganda according to the world health organization diseases related to contaminate to hold to account for almost a cent old debts in africa. we can make a bomb a district in the remote south of the country where an invention designed to purify contaminated water is now being tested. a simple solution to a serious problem you can go and tell me why bottom of the job the boat is when one can hope they can license and got the car one pm and maybe my exhibit. it's the brainchild of school siege from a competing engine and david knowles old who grew up in south africa and has retained a strong affinity to the continent. he built the present time in his carriage. though. quite a bit dumb idea. and it was a limo to the sexy image for a walk to the washing and the firemen but by every minute of time. that's going to call for shooting and to fight iran will go through to choose initial cause it was cool but then that is more than two months to the table i sat in the design completed its tool bucket to kenya to try it with some locals. the jaun

the world health organization last month classified air pollution as a car carsinogen. and it is the hot spot because of the bph and in june we learned that in south market the kids go to the hospital, two and a half times more than the city average for asthma. >> get the department of public health involved, thank you. >> thank you very much. >> and next speaker please? >> 30-32 and i am in support of the project and specific to today's question at land, the scoping of the water front, transportation assessment and what i am requesting is that we look at this through the lens of public transit and too often when we are evaluating the transit options and we give a great rate to autos first. and i think that we can be successful and i think that we can solve some of the problems just addressed, by changing people's behavior. and we can do that by improving the public transit systems so long as we evaluate each and every one of these options. we give, we give priority to those, that are involved, public transit and non-auto and bikes and etc. and, have one of the greatest

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