Lesotho

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• False-negative confirmatory HIV tests in children are frequent after starting ART

  Diagnosing children
  Carole Leach-Lemens | 19 September 2012

  False-negative rapid antibody tests, in the absence of virologic testing at the age of 18 months, in children receiving antiretroviral treatment can result in interruption of treatment, and false-negative results occur with high frequency, ...

• Treatment as prevention: what are the next steps?

  Infectiousness and treatment as prevention
  Keith Alcorn | 20 July 2011

  Turning treatment into a prevention tool that can end the HIV pandemic will require not one, but a host of different improvements, in the delivery of health care to achieve its full ...

• South African gold mines a 'TB factory', activist claims

  Tuberculosis and HIV
  Lesley Odendal | 10 June 2010

  The gold-mining sector came under heavy criticism from clinicians, ex-miners, advocacy groups and the Minister of Health for the tuberculosis crisis it faces at the recent South African TB Conference, ...

• Global progress on maternal deaths slowed by HIV

  Keith Alcorn | 20 April 2010

  Maternal deaths worldwide could be reduced by 60,000 per year if women received appropriate HIV diagnosis and treatment, researchers report in an analysis of global progress towards Millenium Development Goal ...

• Partners in Health encourages better payment and training of community healthcare workers, reform of “clinical hierarchy”

  Task shifting
  Mara Kardas-Nelson | 07 January 2010

  Despite the now near-universal agreement within the global public health community that community healthcare workers (CHWs) can play an effective and often necessary role in delivering testing, treatment and care ...

• Nurse prescribing of ARVs: evidence of success in Rwanda and Lesotho

  HIV treatment
  Keith Alcorn | 28 October 2009

  Nurses in Rwanda and Lesotho are successfully prescribing antiretroviral drugs and managing HIV treatment, two studies published this month show. Both Rwanda and Lesotho face a serious shortage of doctors, ...

• Delays in starting treatment common in ART programmes

  Starting treatment
  Carole Leach-Lemens | 23 July 2009

  Late initiation of antiretroviral treatment following diagnosis is contributing to the continuing high death rate among people who present with low CD4 counts in eight sub-Saharan African countries. Data from ...

• ‘Treatment as prevention’ must not violate human rights, conference told

  Treatment as prevention
  Gus Cairns | 21 July 2009

  The expansion of HIV testing programmes and the advocacy of universal testing and treatment of those who test positive as a means of prevention must not violate the human rights ...