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Baylor Health Care System Receives $8M From French Government To Develop HIV Treatment
The French government has awarded Baylor Health Care System with an $8 million grant to develop a therapeutic method of controlling HIV without medication, the Dallas Morning News reports. The funds will go toward establishing an HIV research unit at Baylor"s Institute of Immunology Research, which will focus on researching the immune system cells of people living with HIV (Roberson, Dallas Morning News, 6/17).

K-State Researchers Say After-School Programs Should Promote Activity, Healthy Nutrition
Children"s after-school activities often consist of sedentary behavior such as watching television, but after-school programs that offer physical activity and healthy snacks could be the best place for children"s health.
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Pioneering Research Benefits The West Midlands, UK
Top researchers from the West Midlands are working to improve the treatment of conditions that affect millions of people. Across the region research into areas such as osteoarthritis, joint pain and sciatica, stroke prevention and treatment, community care for people living with diabetes, and the treatment of liver disease have received a real boost over the last three years.
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Merseyside Nurse Jailed For 9 Months For Fraud

A nurse has been sentenced to 9 months" imprisonment at Liverpool Crown Court (15th June, 2009) for obtaining an NHS bursary and then employment in a private nursing home using forged documents, after overstaying his leave to remain in the UK. The conviction follows an investigation by NHS Counter Fraud. Roy Kudzai Mapfumo of Southport, Merseyside, defrauded over ÷£20,000 from the NHS and was sentenced to 9 months" imprisonment on two counts, to run concurrently. He pleaded guilty to two charges at North Sefton Magistrates Court on 1st May, 2009: one offence of False Accounting (in relation to the bursary) and one offence against Section Two of the Fraud Act 2006 (in relation to obtaining employment). In February 2001 Mapfumo was granted limited leave to remain as a student in the UK until the end of October the same year but then failed to contact the Home Office when his leave expired. He obtained a place on a three-year degree course in Adult Nursing at Buckinghamshire New University and was awarded an NHS student bursary of ÷£20,317.10 using a forged vignette in his passport, which falsely indicated he had indefinite leave to remain in the UK. He applied for his job at the nursing home using his Zimbabwean passport together with a forged Home Office letter indicating indefinite leave to remain with no restrictions on seeking employment. NHS Counter Fraud


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