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Self-testing and home treatment initiation triples uptake of HIV treatment in Malawi

Offering people the opportunity to self-test at home and then start antiretroviral therapy after counselling at home, together with home delivery of antiretroviral drugs, increased the number

Published
21 March 2013
By
Keith Alcorn
Infectiousness and treatment as prevention
Are we underestimating the proportion of virally-suppressed patients in the US?

Several presentations at the recent 20th Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections in Atlanta suggest that previous estimates of the proportion of people with HIV in the

Published
15 March 2013
By
Gus Cairns
Retention and linkage to care
Earlier treatment in South African cohort did not increase loss to follow-up

Implementation of South Africa’s 2011 expansion of treatment guidelines – starting antiretroviral therapy (ART) at or below 350 cells/mm3 – will not increase patient loss to follow-up, researchers

Published
21 February 2013
By
Carole Leach-Lemens
Treatment guidelines
AIDS-defining illnesses, especially TB, more frequent at high CD4 counts in Africa and Asia

Rates of death and illness remained 'substantial' even at higher CD4 cell counts among people receiving antiretroviral therapy in lower-income settings, and much greater efforts to get people

Published
07 February 2013
By
Carole Leach-Lemens
Retention and linkage to care
Support needed to prevent missed clinic visits becoming long-term disengagement from care

Missed clinic visits may be unintentional or intentional, with complex reasons that change over time, according to qualitative research conducted with people with HIV in three African

Published
28 January 2013
By
Roger Pebody
Retention and linkage to care
Even in well-treated populations, loss to follow-up limits community viral suppression

Several papers presented at the Eleventh International Congress on Drug Therapy in HIV Infection last week showed that even in populations with consistent access to care and

Published
23 November 2012
By
Gus Cairns
Outcomes and prognosis
Life expectancy in older people with HIV could exceed the average – as long as ART keeps working

The latest forecasts of life expectancy in people with HIV in the UK, based on mortality data from the UK Collaborative HIV Cohort (UK CHIC) study, show

Published
19 November 2012
By
Gus Cairns
Outcomes and prognosis
Huge differences in HIV mortality rates in US according to race, social and economic status

New US research has revealed enormous differences in HIV mortality rates between patients according to their race and social and economic status. Published in the online edition

Published
19 October 2012
By
Michael Carter
Delivery of care
US youth, heterosexual men and African Americans losing out on HIV treatment benefits

A new study presented at the 19th International AIDS Conference shows that young people, African Americans, and heterosexual men have particularly low rates of retention in care and

Published
08 August 2012
By
Gus Cairns
HIV prevention policy
Changing the way HIV prevention is delivered – a roadmap

In the last few years there has been a wealth of dramatic data on the efficacy of new HIV prevention methods, including male circumcision, pre-exposure prophylaxis and

Published
01 August 2012
By
Roger Pebody
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