Namibia

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• High levels of unmet need for family planning in people with HIV - couples unaware of conception and contraception options

  Families and children
  Roger Pebody | 26 July 2011

  In Kenya, Tanzania and Namibia, just 46% of HIV-positive women and 28% of HIV-positive men have discussed family planning with a healthcare provider, delegates were told at the International AIDS Society conference (IAS ...

• 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. ...

• Many southern African MSM have concurrent sexual relationships with both men and women

  Transmission and prevention
  Michael Carter | 19 May 2010

  The majority of men who have sex with men in southern Africa are bisexual, and a significant proportion have concurrent sexual relationships with both men and women, investigators report in ...

• 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 ...

• WHO recommends earlier treatment and phase-out of d4T

  HIV treatment
  Keith Alcorn | 30 November 2009

  Everyone diagnosed with HIV infection should start treatment when their CD4 count falls below 350 cells/mm3, the World Health Organization announced in new recommendations published today. The recommendation replaces previous guidelines ...

• UNAIDS estimate that one infection will be avoided for every 5 to 15 men circumcised

  Transmission and prevention
  Roger Pebody | 10 September 2009

  In the high HIV prevalence countries of southern Africa, between five and fifteen men will need to be circumcised to prevent one HIV infection in the ten following years, at ...

• ‘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 ...

• Scale up of early infant diagnosis in rural Ethiopia successful

  HIV treatment
  Carole Leach-Lemens | 02 July 2009

  Establishing and scaling up early infant HIV diagnosis (EID) programmes is feasible in even the most remote parts of Ethiopia, reported Berhanu Gudetta and colleagues in a study at the ...