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1. The case of the Mississippi baby means we’re close to curing AIDS.
2. AIDS is the leading killer of babies worldwide.
3. Mothers with HIV should never breast-feed.
4. Drugs are the key to preventing HIV’s spread.
5. AIDS can’t be defeated.
12 March 2013 | Washington Post
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There's great enthusiasm among some global health leaders about a bold – some say radical — strategy to prevent pregnant women from transmitting HIV to their newborns. But skeptics worry that the approach, dubbed Option B+, will pit pregnant women with HIV against others infected with the virus, diverting resources from the broader struggle against the pandemic.
04 March 2013 | NPR
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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.
12 February 2013 | Baylor College of Medicine press release
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Deon and his girlfriend, Caroline, are both being treated at San Francisco General Hospital's Ward 86 HIV/AIDS clinic, through a new program thought to be the first of its kind in the country that caters to straight men who are HIV positive and want to have a family. The program, called Positive Reproductive Outcomes for Men, offers reproductive counseling and care to heterosexual couples, and includes support groups for straight men who are HIV positive.
07 February 2013 | San Francisco Chronicle
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Men in Uganda have been asked to engage in the prevention of mother-to-child-transmission (PMTCT) initiatives in a bid to reduce the accelerating rates of HIV/AIDS infections in the country.
29 January 2013 | New Vision
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Swaziland, which has the world's highest incidence of HIV, is embarking on pilot projects to offer treatment to people who are HIV-positive, including pregnant women, irrespective of their CD4 count. Barbara Sibbald reports.
11 January 2013 | The Lancet
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A new study has shown increased HIV infection rates among pregnant women living in areas with high migrant labour in South Africa, the country with one of the world's highest caseloads.
13 December 2012 | Jamaica Observer
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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.
10 December 2012 | The Hill
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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.
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06 December 2012 | Kaiser Daily Global Health Policy Report
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“The problem is in the transition into adolescence and teenage years. You are dealing with young people who are at an age where they don’t communicate well. The needs of HIV positive teenagers are real and they are ignored just the same way the sexual and reproductive health needs of teens in general are ignored,” an activist said.
03 December 2012 | Inter Press Service
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