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Eric Goosby Returns to UCSF Intent on Applying Lessons Learned as U.S. Global AIDS Ambassador

At UCSF’s Global Health Sciences, Goosby will lead a new center on implementation sciences, a hot, new field in public health and an emerging specialty at UCSF. It examines the practicalities of running public health programs, applying business-world efficiencies to improve them.

Published
26 November 2013
From
University of California San Francisco
Retention and linkage to care
Should ART provision be decentralized to health centres in low and middle income countries?

With the realization of the value of ART as a means of preventing HIV transmission, the question of how best to retain HIV-diagnosed in care becomes all the more pressing. 

Published
13 August 2013
From
BMJ Group blogs
Circumcision
Planning for non-surgical male circumcision

In May, the UN World Health Organization (WHO) announced the prequalification of PrePex, the first non-surgical device for adult male circumcision. A number of African countries are lagging behind on their circumcision targets, set as part of efforts to curb the transmission of HIV, and feel the PrePex device will give their programmes a much-needed boost, while others are more cautious.

Published
08 July 2013
From
IRIN Africa
Delivery of care
South Africa: Poor Services Undermine HIV Treatment Programme

The state of many public health facilities threatens the expansion of the country's antiretroviral treatment programme, particularly frequent ARV shortages and poor service delivery.

Published
04 April 2013
From
AllAfrica
Task shifting
ZIMBABWE: Nurses step up to initiate HIV treatment

HARARE, 16 October 2012 (PLUSNEWS) - Faced with the ambitious target of reaching 85 percent of people in need of HIV treatment by the end of 2012, the Zimbabwean government has announced that nurses will be trained to prescribe and manage antiretroviral (ARV) drug treatment.

Published
17 October 2012
From
IRIN Plus News
Task shifting
Zimbabwe: 'Nurses Now Allowed to Put Patients On ART'

NURSES can now put HIV-positive patients on antiretroviral drugs, a task that was previously reserved for doctors.

Published
16 August 2012
From
AllAfrica
Task shifting
Nurses As Effective As Doctors In Treatment Of HIV Patients

Nurse-centred care of HIV patients can be just as safe and effective as care delivered by doctors and has a number of specific health benefits, according to a new study led by the University of East Anglia (UEA) and the University of Cape Town (UCT).

Published
15 August 2012
From
HIV / AIDS News From Medical News Today
Health monitoring in resource-limited settings
PEPFAR Launches Labs For Life with Partners

The U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), led by the Office of the Global AIDS Coordinator in the U.S. Department of State, and Becton, Dickinson and Company (BD), a leading global medical technology company, today announced Labs for Life, a new collaboration to help strengthen healthcare and laboratory systems in the developing world along with U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

Published
27 July 2012
From
US State Department
Health services and systems
The Manchester Malawian medic myth

Are there more doctors from Malawi in the British city of Manchester than there are in Malawi itself? Many people have made this claim - including the authors of an international study of health workers, and the head of Malawi's main nursing union.

Published
15 January 2012
From
BBC Health
Circumcision
Agnes Binagwahois: Male circumcision and the path to an AIDS-free generation

Whereas a surgical circumcision can take 20 minutes per patient, the PrePex non-surgical device reduces procedure time to 3 minutes, meaning we can circumcise more men faster and without compromising their safety or the device’s effectiveness.

Published
13 December 2011
From
Washington Post
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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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