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Alere Pima CD4 test receives prequalification from the World Health Organization

The World Health Organization (WHO) has prequalified the Alere Pima™ CD4 Test as part of an effort to increase access to rapid and accurate HIV/AIDS monitoring tools.  The Alere Pima™ CD4 Test is the first and only point-of-care diagnostic designed for the measurement of absolute CD4 counts to receive such recognition from the WHO.

Published
15 December 2011
From
The Medical News
Health monitoring in resource-limited settings
Canadian team's portable device could ease HIV/AIDS monitoring

Canadian researchers have invented a device that could make it easier, faster and cheaper to track the progression of HIV in patients living in the developing world.

Published
12 December 2011
From
Vancouver Sun
Health monitoring in resource-limited settings
Treatment switches after CD4 count decline reduce risk of death by 75% in Zambia, Malawi

Mortality was reduced by about 75% among adults experiencing immunological failure according to the World Health Organization (WHO) criteria who switched to a second-line regimen compared to those

Published
09 December 2011
By
Carole Leach-Lemens
Health monitoring in resource-limited settings
Diagnostics: Crucial role hampered by high cost and poor access

The key to effective treatment is access to robust diagnostics systems, but in developing countries such access is often unavailable.

Published
01 December 2011
From
Financial Times
Starting treatment
Point-of-care CD4 test improves retention and treatment initiation in Mozambique

The use of a point-of-care CD4 cell count test dramatically reduced the rate of loss to follow-up among patients diagnosed with HIV at clinics in Mozambique and

Published
28 September 2011
By
Keith Alcorn
Health monitoring in resource-limited settings
Rapid CD4 Testing Sharply Cuts HIV Patient Dropout Rate

With the use of new rapid test kits -- which measure immune system health without having to send samples off site to laboratories and waiting for results -- researchers in Mozambique nearly doubled treatment enrollment and cut the number of patients lost almost in half.

Published
28 September 2011
From
PBS Newshour
TB diagnosis
Towards Lab-Free Tuberculosis Diagnosis

A report by TAG, the TB/HIV Working Group of the Stop TB Partnership, Imperial College and the MSF Access Campaign on the current state of reserach in TB diagnostics and key roadblocks to the development of a simple point-of-care test for TB suitable for peripheral health centres.

Published
23 August 2011
From
MSF
Health monitoring in resource-limited settings
Rapid, cheap HIV test finds success as first of its kind tested in the field

The first field trial for a “lab on a chip” accurately detected both HIV and syphilis among a Rwandan population, researchers reported Sunday.

Published
03 August 2011
From
Washington Post
Health monitoring in resource-limited settings
How best to deploy point-of-care CD4 cell testing in resource-limited settings?

Widespread introduction of point-of-care (POC) CD4 cell tests that don’t require a laboratory technician but can be performed onsite by a nurse, providing results in less than

Published
19 July 2011
By
Theo Smart
Health monitoring in resource-limited settings
Viral load monitoring of ART patients linked to lower death rate on treatment in southern Africa

After three years on ART patients enrolled in four scale-up programmes with routine viral load monitoring in South Africa had a fifty percent lower death rate than patients

Published
14 July 2011
By
Carole Leach-Lemens
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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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