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Delivery of care
Nurse attitudes, clinic experience, key to improving care and retention in ARV programmes

People with HIV can receive excellent care and adhere well to antiretroviral treatment despite staff and resource shortages, but the attitudes and performance of nurses and patients’ experiences

Published
28 October 2010
By
Carole Leach-Lemens
Drug-resistant TB
Managing MDR-TB in the community: from presentation to cure or end-of-life care

Part of a series, this edition examines the sequence of care of a person with drug-resistant TB.

Published
18 October 2010
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HIV & AIDS treatment in practice
Drug-resistant TB
Decentralised, patient-centred models of delivering treatment and palliative care for people with M/XDR-TB

Part of a series on improving care of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis, this edition examines delivery of treatment and palliative care, focusing on decentralised patient-centred TB care.

Published
07 October 2010
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HIV & AIDS treatment in practice
Palliative care
Symptoms still common in patients with HIV, and associated with poor adherence and risky sex

Physical and psychological symptoms are highly prevalent in HIV-positive patients, investigators from the UK report in the online edition of Sexually Transmitted Infections. Unprotected sex with a

Published
06 October 2010
By
Michael Carter
Tuberculosis and HIV
More intensive screening for TB needed for HIV-positive patients in South Africa

Many cases of tuberculosis (TB) in patients starting HIV therapy will be missed if screening for the disease relies on 2006 World Health Organization (WHO) guidelines,

Published
09 September 2010
By
Michael Carter
Cancer
Recurrent pneumonia increases lung cancer risk for patients with AIDS

Recurrent bacterial pneumonia is associated with an increased risk of lung cancer in patients with AIDS, US investigators report in the online edition of the Journal of Acquired

Published
06 September 2010
By
Michael Carter
Kenyan study shows people with HIV can provide safe, effective community management of ART

Community-based care delivered to adults living with HIV by people living with HIV using mobile technologies provided care as safe and effective as clinic-based care, researchers report in

Published
02 September 2010
By
Carole Leach-Lemens
TB transmission and prevention
Prison overcrowding leading to TB spread in South Africa

Severe overcrowding in KwaZulu-Natal's prisons is contributing to the spread of HIV and tuberculosis and driving the high death toll in prisons.

Published
02 September 2010
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Mental and emotional health problems
Symptoms can predict increases in viral load for patients taking HIV treatment

Physical and psychological symptoms can predict increases in viral load in patients taking antiretroviral therapy who have an undetectable viral load, researchers from London report in the

Published
09 August 2010
By
Michael Carter
Delivery of care
Loss to follow-up: health system, not patients, to blame

Continuing high rates of loss to follow-up in antiretroviral treatment programmes among people already on treatment and those waiting to start treatment are a symptom of health

Published
29 July 2010
By
Rebecca Hodes
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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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