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Health monitoring in resource-limited settings
MSF research points to ways to expand viral load testing in developing countries

At the 20th Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI) in Atlanta, the international medical humanitarian organization Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) presented data today on strategies to reduce the costs and complexity of rolling out routine viral load monitoring in developing countries.

Published
07 March 2013
From
Médecins Sans Frontières press release
Health monitoring in resource-limited settings
Alere to Develop Simple, Affordable Point-of-Care Nucleic Acid Test for Tuberculosis & Expand Manufacturing for POC HIV Viral Load Platform

Alere Inc. announced that it has been awarded a grant of up to $21.6 million and debt financing of up to $20.6 million from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to support development of a point-of-care nucleic acid test for tuberculosis and to expand production facilities for this test and for a point-of-care viral load test.

Published
02 March 2013
From
Alere
Health monitoring in resource-limited settings
UNITAID-financed project to increase access to new HIV monitoring technology

UNITAID and France Expertise Internationale (FEI) signed a US$ 2.4 million agreement to implement the “OPP-ERA” project which will stimulate the market entry of new manufacturers and suppliers of HIV Viral Load Test (VLT) technologies, bringing an innovative solution to meet the HIV monitoring and diagnostics needs in resource-limited settings.

Published
15 February 2013
From
UNITAID
HIV and criminal law
Top court decision on HIV disclosure will be major issue in Ottawa attempted murder trial, lawyer says

Ambiguities in a landmark Supreme Court ruling that found HIV-positive people do not need to disclose their status if they have low viral loads and wear condoms will have a “direct impact” on the Ottawa jury trial of a man accused of trying to kill people by spreading the disease, says his lawyer.

Published
10 October 2012
From
Ottowa Citizen
Health monitoring in resource-limited settings
PEPFAR Launches Labs For Life with Partners

The U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), led by the Office of the Global AIDS Coordinator in the U.S. Department of State, and Becton, Dickinson and Company (BD), a leading global medical technology company, today announced Labs for Life, a new collaboration to help strengthen healthcare and laboratory systems in the developing world along with U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

Published
27 July 2012
From
US State Department
Health monitoring in resource-limited settings
Second Edition of UNITAID Diagnostic Technology Landscape Report Published

The second edition of the UNITAID Diagnostic Technology Landscape is now available online. First published in June 2011, the report has proven a critical tool for those interested in understanding the pipeline for HIV point-of-care diagnostics, including global health institutions, health care providers, investors, and developers. The 2012 edition represents UNITAID’s continued effort to map the landscape of existing and pipeline products and provides updated information on progress in the development of these important technologies.

Published
26 June 2012
From
UNITAID
Outcomes and prognosis
HIV treatment outcomes poorer in adolescents and young adults

Adolescents and young adults appear less likely to benefit from antiretroviral therapy compared with adults.

Published
11 August 2011
From
AIDSmeds.com
Pharmaceutical industry
Supreme Court Rules for a Drug Firm in Patent Dispute

The Supreme Court on Monday sided with a drug company over Stanford University in a patent dispute concerning a test to measure the amount of HIV in a patient's blood.

Published
06 June 2011
From
New York Times
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
From
PR Newswire
Epidemiology
Supreme Court caution to Indian Govt on second line treatment

The Supreme Court today cautioned the government against abdicating its constitutional duty of providing treatment to HIV positive patients on grounds of financial constraint saying it involves the right to life.

Published
13 December 2010
From
Yahoo News India
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