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• Community-based adherence clubs show high retention in HIV care and treatment adherence

  Retention and linkage to care
  Lesley Odendal | 10 July 2015

  People with HIV who were receiving their HIV treatment outside of health facilities in community-based ART adherence clubs close to or in a patient’s home demonstrated extremely high rates of retention in care ...

• Nurse-led palliative care can be successfully integrated into routine HIV services in Kenya

  Palliative care
  Michael Carter | 09 July 2015

  Integrating nurse-led palliative care into routine HIV services has positive effects for the psychological wellbeing of patients taking antiretroviral therapy (ART), investigators report in Lancet HIV. The study was conducted in Kenya between 2011 ...

• Prompt ART especially important for people with HIV aged 45 and over

  Starting treatment
  Michael Carter | 08 July 2015

  Delaying antiretroviral therapy (ART) may have especially serious consequences for middle-aged and elderly HIV-positive people, according to research published in Clinical Infectious Diseases. US investigators found that patients aged between 45 and 65 years ...

• Longer secondary education protects against HIV infection, Botswana study shows

  Structural factors
  Keith Alcorn | 07 July 2015

  Every additional year of schooling among young people in Botswana was associated with an 8% reduction in the risk of HIV infection in the years between 2004 and 2008, according to a ...

• Where next in PrEP and microbicides? Europeans discuss research pipeline

  Microbicides
  Gus Cairns | 07 July 2015

  Thursday 18 June saw the final research meeting in Brussels of CHAARM (Combined Highly Active Anti-Retroviral Microbicides), the EU-supported research consortium which for the last five and a half years has been researching ...

• ART roll-out in Uganda accompanied by increased rates of HIV disclosure to spouses

  Telling people you have HIV
  Michael Carter | 06 July 2015

  Roll-out of antiretroviral treatment (ART) has been accompanied by an increase in the proportion of people living with HIV disclosing their status to spouses, investigators from Uganda report in the 1 June edition ...

• Multiple strategies for safer conception need to incorporate couples' preferences

  Conception
  Lesley Odendal | 03 July 2015

  Misunderstandings about serodiscordance and limited understanding of female fertility and male insemination are barriers to couples in serodiscordant partnerships in attempting to practice safer conception methods, according to a qualitative study presented by Rebecca ...