Nigeria

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• Support needed to prevent missed clinic visits becoming long-term disengagement from care

  Retention and linkage to care
  Roger Pebody | 28 January 2013

  Missed clinic visits may be unintentional or intentional, with complex reasons that change over time, according to qualitative research conducted with people with HIV in three African countries and published in PLOS ...

• Nigeria: Drug resistance data show merits of using tenofovir in first-line ART regimens

  Resistance
  Carole Leach-Lemens | 23 January 2013

  People living with HIV in Nigeria, at high risk for virological failure, on a tenofovir (TDF)-based first-line regimen, had fewer nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitor (NRTI) drug-resistant mutations and more fully active NRTI ...

• "Treatment partners" improve short-term virologic outcomes in those starting HIV therapy

  Adherence
  Michael Carter | 27 August 2012

  The use of “treatment partners” boosts the chances of achieving an early undetectable viral load, investigators in Nigeria report in the online edition of the Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes. However, the virologic ...

• Male partner involvement improves HIV testing during pregnancy

  Prevention of mother-to-child transmission
  Kelly Safreed-Harmon | 02 August 2012

  Studies presented at the Nineteenth International AIDS Conference (AIDS 2012) in Washington DC called attention to the benefits of increasing male involvement in prevention of mother-to-child transmission (PMTCT) efforts. Most notably, a Tanzanian study ...

• Taking steps to legal reform for men who have sex with men in Africa and the Caribbean

  Human rights
  Roger Pebody | 22 July 2012

  We are dealing with two epidemics, the Australian judge Michael Kirby said at a pre-conference meeting on issues for men who have sex with men (MSM) yesterday. The first is the epidemic ...

• Extended ART cost-effective for preventing mother-to-child HIV transmission in Nigeria

  Prevention of mother-to-child transmission
  Carole Leach-Lemens | 05 May 2011

  The World Health Organization’s (WHO) new recommendation for the extended use of triple drug antiretroviral prophylaxis for mother and infant is highly cost-effective compared to the current short-course two drug therapy for the prevention ...

• 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. ...

• Mass testing campaign unjustified if people fail to receive treatment, activist argues

  Testing policies and guidelines
  Roger Pebody | 27 July 2010

  South Africa’s campaign to test 15 million people for HIV in one year risks being implemented in a way that undermines people’s human rights, the activist Mark Heywood told the Eighteenth International AIDS ...