Burkina Faso

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• Exclusive breastfeeding hampered by infant illnesses, follow up of mothers with HIV shows

  Infant feeding
  Carole Leach-Lemens | 07 December 2012

  Only one third of women counselled to exclusively breast feed for six months in the Kesho Bora study were able to sustain the practice for at least three months, indicating the challenges of ...

• Scale up of HIV testing in Africa isn't leading to breaches in consent or confidentiality

  HIV testing
  Michael Carter | 26 October 2012

  Efforts to scale up HIV testing in sub-Saharan Africa have not resulted in breaches of patient rights or the provision of poorer services, results of a study published in PLoS Medicine suggest. ...

• Young people's stories about condoms can help re-shape prevention messages

  Behaviour change interventions
  Roger Pebody | 17 February 2011

  The themes and preoccupations of stories submitted by young people in six African countries should be looked at to inform HIV prevention programmes, researchers write in the journal Social Science and Medicine. ...

• Kesho Bora study: Maternal ART during pregnancy and breastfeeding prevents more infections than short-course prophylaxis

  Keith Alcorn | 24 July 2009

  Antiretroviral treatment for mothers started during pregnancy and continued throughout the breastfeeding period resulted in a significantly lower rate of mother-to-child HIV transmission when compared with the standard short-course regimen, ...

• Herpes drug has direct anti-HIV effect, could offer cheap addition to antiretroviral therapy for developing world

  How HIV works
  Keith Alcorn | 11 September 2008

  Aciclovir, a drug commonly used in the treatment of genital herpes, also suppresses HIV activity in cells already infected with herpes viruses, researchers from the US National Institutes of Health ...

• Herpes simplex virus type 2 reactivations contribute to genital and plasma HIV-1 shedding

  Transmission and prevention
  Tom Egwang | 22 July 2008

  Burkinabe women with HIV-1 and HSV-2 coinfections had significantly elevated genital and plasma HIV-1 viral loads due to HSV-2 reactivations, according to the findings of a randomised placebo-controlled trial published ...

• Genital shedding of HIV in women with undetectable viral load: less of it, but still happening

  Transmission and prevention
  Michael Carter | 18 July 2008

  Antiretroviral treatment significantly reduced the frequency of genital shedding of HIV in women, according to a study conducted in Burkina Faso and published in the June edition of Sexually Transmitted ...

• CROI: Herpes virus suppression with valaciclovir lowers viral load in HIV positive women: could work for gay men too

  Transmission and prevention
  Gus Cairns | 07 February 2008

  A small study in Lima, Peru has found that giving the drug valaciclovir to women who are co-infected with HIV and genital herpes (HSV-2) significantly reduced the amount of HIV ...