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Senate Judiciary Committee Vote Clears Way For Confirmation Of Supreme Court Nominee Sotomayor
The Senate Judiciary Committee"s approval on Tuesday of Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor "cleared the way" for a vote next week in the full Senate, where she is expected to be confirmed, the New York Times reports. The committee"s 12 Democrats voted in favor of Sotomayor, with one Republican -- Sen. Lindsey Graham (S.C.) -- joining them in the 13-6 vote (Lewis, New York Times, 7/28). According to Roll Call, Sotomayor"s confirmation is not in doubt, as members of both parties have predicted as many as 70 votes in her favor. So far, five GOP senators have said they will support the nomination, including Graham, Susan Collins (Maine), Richard Lugar (Ind.), Mel Martinez (Fla.) and Olympia Snowe (Maine) (Stanton, Roll Call, 7/29). Strategists on both sides who have been following the nomination said that as many as five more Republicans could announce intentions to vote for Sotomayor, the AP/San Francisco Chronicle reports (Hirschfeld Davis, AP/San Francisco Chronicle, 7/29). According to the Chicago Tribune, other Republicans initially appeared open to supporting Sotomayor, but pressure from antiabortion-rights groups and gun-rights advocates has swayed them in the other direction (Savage/Simon, Chicago Tribune, 7/29).The Times reports that Tuesday"s partisan vote indicates that Senate Republicans are "determined to deny ... an easy path" for President Obama in his nominations to fill the dozens of open federal appeals courts seats and any future Supreme Court vacancies. Obama is expected to announce several appeals court nominees in the coming weeks. On some appeals courts, including the Richmond, Va.-based Fourth Circuit, Obama"s nominations could change the ideological balance on the bench (New York Times, 7/28).According to the Tribune, Republicans believe that their strategy in Sotomayor"s confirmation hearings "succeeded in setting a new, conservative standard for judging." Throughout the hearings, Democrats portrayed Sotomayor as a moderate, cautious jurist, while many Republican senators sought to portray her as an activist judge. Sen. Jeff Sessions (Ala.), the Senate Judiciary Committee"s ranking Republican, said that the confirmation process has been a "repudiation of activist legal thought" and that it "will now be harder to nominate activist judges" (Chicago Tribune, 7/29). Committee member John Cornyn (R-Texas), who serves as the chair of the National Republican Senatorial Committee, said he hopes Sotomayor"s hearings serve as an example for future judicial nomination debates. He added that the Republicans on the committee have "made clear that radical views on judging have no place on the federal bench. And we have set expectations for future nominees." Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) on Tuesday said that he intends to bring Sotomayor"s nomination to a full Senate vote prior to Congress" August recess. He has not said what day the debate is scheduled to begin or how many days are scheduled, although he noted that debate could take several days (Roll Call, 7/29).
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National Survey Looks At HIV/AIDS In South Africa

According to the results of a national survey conducted in 2008 and released Tuesday, HIV prevalence among South Africans between the ages of 15 and 24 dropped from "a high of 10.3 percent in 2005 to 8.7 percent last year, with the decreases most marked among teenagers," AFP/Google.com reports (AFP/Google.com, 6/9). The Telegraph writes, "HIV prevalence in children between 2 and 14 fell from 5.6 per cent in 2002 to 2.5 per cent last year, mainly thanks to the spread of drugs to prevent women passing on the virus to their children" (Telegraph, 6/10). The study also revealed that while youth are continuing to have multiple sex partners, "they are increasingly heeding advice to use a condom," according to the AP/Google.com (Nullis, AP/Google.com, 6/9). Rates of condom use among males between the ages of 15 and 24 rose from 57 percent in 2002 to 87 percent in 2008, and from 46 to 73 percent among females, according to Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC) Chief Executive Officer Olive Shisana, SAPA/The Times reports (SAPA/The Times, 6/9). "The survey showed that messages that young people should abstain, delay their first sexual encounter and have only one partner, were falling largely on deaf ears," the AP/Google.com writes (AP/Google.com, 6/9). "The good news is that the change in HIV prevalence in children is most likely attributable to the successful implementation of several HIV-prevention interventions," Shisana said (BBC, 6/9). "There is clearly light at the end of the tunnel," said South Africa"s Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi, adding, "I am hoping that in the next few years the results will be much more encouraging than this" (Telegraph, 6/10). South Africa"s overall HIV epidemic has stabilized at a prevalence rate of 10.9 percent for people aged two years and older (BBC, 6/9). IRIN reports, "The findings, based on interviews with about 21,000 individuals, 15,000 of whom agreed to anonymous HIV tests, give a fairly detailed picture of South Africa"s mixed success in fighting the largest HIV epidemic in the world" (IRIN, 6/9). AFP/Google.com writes that South Africa"s "situation remains grim" with 5.2 million people living with HIV/AIDS (AFP/Google.com, 6/9). According to VOA News, one in three women living in South Africa between the ages of 25 and 29 are HIV positive (VOA News, 6/9). According to SAPA/The Times, the survey looked at the reach of some HIV/AIDS programs in the country and found that the government program Khomanani "had the lowest reach compared to other programmes such as Soul City and loveLife" (SAPA/The Times, 6/9). The research was conduced by HSRC, Medical Research Council of South Africa, Centre for AIDS Development, Research and Evaluation, and National Institute for Communicable Diseases and funded by PEPFAR (HSRC press release, 6/9). 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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