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South Africa is moving towards an AIDS-free generation, and improving survival in children living with HIV

Reductions in vertical HIV transmission to infants and improvement in paediatric survival attributable to the scale of and quality improvement of prevention of parent-to-child transmission (PPTCT) and antiretroviral

Published
22 June 2011
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HIV & AIDS treatment in practice
Health monitoring in resource-limited settings
Tanzania: Crisis as HIV testing services halted

Thousands of HIV/Aids patients in various hospitals in the country have gone without HIV tests for months now following lack of re-agents.

Published
17 June 2011
From
IPP Media
Health monitoring in resource-limited settings
UNITAID Landmark Report on HIV Diagnostics Hails a New Decade of Innovation and Access for Developing World

UNITAID today releases a landmark report revealing that innovative technologies to test and monitor HIV/AIDS could soon be within reach of the world’s poorest regions.

Published
01 June 2011
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UNITAID
Health monitoring in resource-limited settings
Zimbabwe: Aids Council Donates to Army

The National Aids Council has donated diagnostic equipment worth over US$500 000 to the Zimbabwe Defence Forces, in a development aimed at making HIV services accessible to vulnerable groups.

Published
25 May 2011
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AllAfrica
Delivery of care
South Africa: HIV/Aids Patients Urged to Visit Clinics Early

The Gauteng Health and Social Development Department has reminded people infected with HIV and Aids about the importance of presenting themselves early to clinics and hospitals for treatment.

Published
23 May 2011
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AllAfrica
Health monitoring in resource-limited settings
Leading global health groups call on US to accelerate research

A coalition of 30 leading global health organizations that work on vaccines, drugs, and other tools and technologies that save lives today released a list of recommendations for US policymakers and regulators, calling for acceleration of scientific innovations and streamlining the approval of safe and affordable inventions in order to save more lives around the world.

Published
03 May 2011
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Eurekalert HIV
Neurological and cognitive problems
UCSF Researchers Develop Simple Tools to Detect Neurological HIV Complications

A team of researchers at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) has developed a simple screening tool – a question – to identify people with HIV who have neurological complications related to their infection.

Published
15 April 2011
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UCSF
Viral load
Treatment monitoring: no clear benefit to adding viral load to CD4 or clinical symptoms in Thailand and Africa

Viral load is probably not essential for determining when to switch to second-line treatment in low- and middle-income settings, two large randomised trials conducted in Thailand and Cameroon

Published
01 March 2011
By
Keith Alcorn
Cancer
Cervical cancer in women with HIV

Cervical cancer is one of the major causes of death and illness in women globally.Cervical cancer is

Published
17 February 2011
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HIV & AIDS treatment in practice
Viral load
Cepheid and FIND Announce Collaboration to Develop HIV Viral Load Test

The Xpert® HIV viral load test, which will run on Cepheid's GeneXpert® platform, is expected to complement the ground-breaking Xpert MTB/RIF test for tuberculosis (TB) and drug-resistance.

Published
03 February 2011
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PR Newswire
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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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