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HIV Care In Resource-Limited Setting Significantly Improved By Computerized Reminders

A large randomized controlled study is among the first to rigorously demonstrate that health information technology can improve compliance with patient care guidelines by clinicians in resource-limited countries.

Published
11 March 2013
From
HIV / AIDS News From Medical News Today
GlaxoSmithKline unit joins patent pool for AIDS drugs

GlaxoSmithKline's HIV/AIDS drugs business is to share intellectual property rights on children's medicine in a patent pool designed to make treatments more widely available in poor countries. ViiV and the patent pool have also agreed to negotiate further licenses that will allow generics firms to manufacture low-cost versions of an experimental drug, dolutegravir, that is currently awaiting regulatory approval in Western markets.

Published
27 February 2013
From
Reuters
Malnutrition
Texas: Food availability linked with poor outcomes for HIV-positive children

An HIV-positive child whose family does not have enough good food available is more likely to have a poor clinical outcome, researchers reported. They found that children who did not always have enough to eat had lower CD4 counts as well as higher chances of incomplete viral suppression.

Published
12 February 2013
From
Baylor College of Medicine press release
HIV treatment in children
DNDi is awarded USD 17.3 million from UNITAID to spur development and delivery of child-adapted ARVs

The Drugs for Neglected Diseases initiative welcomes the announcement by UNITAID to grant up to USD 17.3 million to the organization for its pediatric HIV program.

Published
12 December 2012
From
Eurekalert Inf Dis
HIV treatment in children
UNITAID new grants total $120 million: Focus on childhood AIDS, TB and malaria

UNITAID has made new grants to allow hundreds of thousands of children in developing countries to access better and more affordable medicines for HIV/AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis (TB).

Published
10 December 2012
From
UNITAID
HIV treatment in children
Achieving an AIDS-free generation: Don't forget children living with HIV

Since 2005, the number of children living with HIV receiving lifesaving treatment has quadrupled. But still, only 28 percent of the nearly two million children in need of lifelong HIV treatment are getting it.

Published
10 December 2012
From
The Hill
HIV treatment in children
Childhood HIV Risks Becoming Neglected Disease As Fewer Children Born With HIV, Experts Warn

Because fewer children are born with the virus, drug companies no longer have an incentive to manufacture treatments - childhood HIV might become a neglected disease.

Published
06 December 2012
From
Kaiser Daily Global Health Policy Report
HIV in children
Atherosclerosis Found in HIV Children

Children with HIV have a 2.5 fold increased risk of atherosclerosis, according to research presented at EUROECHO and other Imaging Modalities 2012.

Published
06 December 2012
From
Science Daily (press release)
Global health initiatives
PEPFAR Blueprint: Creating an AIDS-Free Generation

Secretary Clinton commemorated World AIDS Day 2012 and unveiled the PEPFAR Blueprint: Creating an AIDS-free Generation that provides a roadmap for how the U.S. Government will work to help achieve an AIDS-free generation.

Published
29 November 2012
From
PEPFAR
HIV treatment in children
European Commission approves Viread ® for HIV-1 infection in children and adolescents and for chronic hepatitis B in adolescents

New oral granule formulation and lower-strength tablets available for new indications.

Published
28 November 2012
From
Gilead press release
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