Singer Ultra Naté's Grime, Silk & Thunder will be released May 22! Perhaps her most ambitious set in years, Grime features vocal backing by the likes of Quentin Harris, N'Dea Davenport of Brand New Heavies, Chris Willis and Dajae. On the production side, Eric Kupper, GoodandEvil, Mood II Swing and Morgan Page turn in appearances. The album is mixed by Stonebridge. You can pre-order Grime, Silk & Thunder at Amazon. You can preview the album here.

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About two million people in the world are receiving antiviral medications for the treatment of HIV – an increase of 700,000, the United Nations reported on Tuesday. This is one million less than the (optimistic) three million people the World Health Organization (WHO) hoped would be receiving treatment by the end of 2005.

Sub-saharan Africa saw the most dramatic increase, with the number of infected people receiving AIDS treatment increasing thirteenfold to 1.3 million at the end of 2006, compared with only 100,000 in 2003.

Survival rates in developing countries were shown in studies to be about 93 percent in people beginning antiretroviral therapies – a rate similar to those shown in the U.S. and other developing nations. The U.N. estimates that in Latin America and the Caribbean, 355,000 patients – or 72 percent of those in need of  life-saving AIDS drugs – are now receiving them. These are the highest treatment rates outside the industrialized world.