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ZIMBABWE: Food voucher scheme benefits HIV-positive people

Vulnerable people living with HIV in Zimbabwe are benefiting from an electronic voucher scheme being used to fight malnutrition among people on antiretroviral (ARV) therapy and their families by providing them with nutritious food. 

Published
20 October 2011
From
IRIN Plus News
Tuberculosis and HIV
TB smoking toll 'could reach 40m'

Forty million smokers around the world could die from TB by 2050, research suggests.

Published
05 October 2011
From
BBC Health
51% of HIV-affected households in Cambodia live in hunger: UNDP

Some 51 percent of the HIV/AIDS- infected households in Cambodia are living in hunger, said a new UN survey released here on Thursday, calling for more attention to the need for HIV-sensitive social protection mechanisms.

Published
25 August 2011
From
Xinhuanet.com
Activism
Ruth Brinker, Project Open Hand founder, dies

Ruth Brinker was a noted AIDS activist who founded Project Open Hand, which serves meals to seniors and those with AIDS and other diseases.

Published
18 August 2011
From
San Francisco Chronicle
Exercise
Exercise Guidelines Published for People with HIV Over 50

A combination of aerobic and resistance exercises, three times a week for at least six weeks, is recommended to improve cardiovascular, metabolic and muscle function in people living with HIV older than 50 years of age, according to suggested guidelines published ahead of print by the Journal of the Association of Nurses in AIDS Care.

Published
17 August 2011
From
AIDSMeds.com
Mental and emotional health and wellbeing
Yoga Helps HIV-Positive Rape Victims In Rwanda

"Women will tell you that before yoga, they were crippled with aches and pains; they felt old. Now they crave yoga because when they feel physically stronger, they feel more confident and optimistic," the instructor says.

Published
01 August 2011
From
Huffington Post
Nutrition
SWAZILAND: Desperate HIV-positive people eat cow dung to sustain treatment

Organizations fighting HIV/AIDS in Swaziland were at first incredulous at reports that hundreds of impoverished HIV-positive rural residents were eating cow dung to give their stomachs something to digest before taking their antiretrovirals (ARVs).

Published
28 July 2011
From
IRIN Plus News
Neurological and cognitive problems
Substance Use Doesn't Increase Risk of Neurocognitive Problems in HIV

Neurocognitive problems—notably HIV-associated neurocognitive disorder (HAND)—are no more likely to occur in illicit substance users compared with non-substance users, according to a report published ahead of print on the Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes website.

Published
12 July 2011
From
AIDSMeds
Smoking
Text messages 'help smokers quit'

Supportive text messages can double the chance of someone successfully quitting smoking, according to UK researchers.

Published
30 June 2011
From
BBC Health
Complementary therapies
UK: The faith healers who claim they can cure cancer and HIV

A group of faith healers who claim they have miracle cures for cancer and HIV have been condemned as "irresponsible, even criminal" by a professor of complementary medicine, following a BBC Newsnight investigation.

Published
29 June 2011
From
BBC Newsnight (video)
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Community Consensus Statement on Access to HIV Treatment and its Use for Prevention

Together, we can make it happen

We can end HIV soon if people have equal access to HIV drugs as treatment and as PrEP, and have free choice over whether to take them.

Launched today, the Community Consensus Statement is a basic set of principles aimed at making sure that happens.

The Community Consensus Statement is a joint initiative of AVAC, EATG, MSMGF, GNP+, HIV i-Base, the International HIV/AIDS Alliance, ITPC and NAM/aidsmap
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