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Plasma and cervical viral load were discordant (one detectable, the other not) in almost half of 959 clinic visits made by HIV-positive US women. Because it reduces plasma HIV load, combination antiretroviral therapy (ART) proved the most reliable predictor of cervicovaginal shedding.
09 May 2012 | International AIDS Society
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For the AIDS response, couples testing and counselling should be one more turning point to expand options to strengthen the impact of HIV prevention and treatment.
08 May 2012 | Huffington Post
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On May 1st, the Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service (COPFS) published their Guidance for Scotland on 'Intentional or Reckless Sexual Transmission, of Exposure to, Infection'.
02 May 2012 | Criminal HIV Transmission
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The late breaker session at the 2nd International Treatment as Prevention Workshop in Vancouver Wednesday offered some interesting insights relevant to HIV treatment scale up. Home-based testing Nathan Ford from Medicines Sans Frontieres (MSF or Doctors Without Borders) offered findings from a meta-analysis of home-based testing studies.
30 April 2012 | Science Speaks
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Dr. Zunyou Wu, Director of the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), offered the audience at the 2nd International Treatment as Prevention Workshop in Vancouver new information about China’s response to new evidence on treatment as prevention.
25 April 2012 | Science Speaks
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Stephen Becker from The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation updated the participants of the International Treatment as Prevention conference in Vancouver about the Foundation’s treatment optimization activities on Tuesday.
25 April 2012 | Science Speaks
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If you have an undetectable viral load, is your semen undetectable too? Researchers say it may not be. But what’s the likelihood of actual HIV transmission? And how should we process that risk? Bob Leahy reports.
24 April 2012 | Positive Lite
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New WHO guidelines recommend offering HIV testing and counselling to couples, wherever HIV testing and counselling is available, including in antenatal clinics. For couples where only one partner is HIV positive, the guidelines recommend offering antiretroviral therapy to the HIV positive partner, regardless of his/her own immune status (CD4 count), to reduce the likelihood of HIV transmission to the HIV negative partner.
20 April 2012 | World Health Organization
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While studies exploring the effectiveness of antiretroviral (ARV) therapy for HIV prevention purposes have generally yielded encouraging results, Myron Cohen and colleagues suggest that the way forward is not yet clear and that additional research is needed, particularly in understanding the combined benefits of biomedical and behavioral interventions in specific at-risk communities.
19 April 2012 | AIDSMeds
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The World Health Organization released its new “Guidance on couples HIV testing and counselling, including antiretroviral therapy (ART) for treatment and prevention in serodiscordant couples: Recommendations for a public health approach” on Wednesday. Discordant couples are those where one partner is HIV-infected and the other is not, where a couple is defined as two persons in an ongoing relationship.
18 April 2012 | Science Speaks
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