Rwanda

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• Non-surgical device provides safe and effective circumcision without need for anaesthetic or stitches

  Circumcision
  Michael Carter | 04 October 2011

  A device that provides non-surgical male circumcision without anaesthetic or the need for stitches is effective, safe and can be used in non-sterile environments, investigators from Rwanda report in the online edition of ...

• Pregnancy doubled risk of female-to-male HIV transmission in Partners in Prevention study

  Sexual transmission
  Carole Leach-Lemens | 05 August 2011

  Pregnancy increased the risks of female-to-male HIV transmission twofold among over 3300 serodiscordant couples from seven African countries, Nelly R Mugo and colleagues reported in a prospective study published in the advance online ...

• Hormonal contraceptive use increases women’s risk of acquiring and transmitting HIV

  Contraception
  Roger Pebody | 21 July 2011

  A two-year, seven-country study has concluded that women using hormonal contraceptives, particularly injectable forms, are at a greater risk both of acquiring HIV themselves and of passing it on to a male sexual ...

• 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 ...

• Immediate HIV treatment has biggest impact in TB patients with CD4 counts below 100

  Starting treatment
  Keith Alcorn | 30 November 2010

  Minimising the gap between the start of TB treatment and the start of antiretroviral treatment had the biggest impact on death rates in people with very low CD4 counts, but made much ...

• Mass rape and HIV in conflict-affected countries: despite relatively low incidence, researchers stress urgency of interventions for thousands of women in need

  Delivery of care
  Kelly Safreed-Harmon | 30 September 2010

  Mass rape during armed conflict may account for several thousand new cases of HIV per year in sub-Saharan Africa, according to an article in the journal AIDS. Researchers drew this conclusion after analysing data from ...

• Evidence of effective adherence interventions is still limited

  Adherence
  Roger Pebody | 27 May 2010

  Perhaps tellingly, the Fifth International Conference on HIV Treatment Adherence conference in Miami this week was not bursting with evaluations of adherence interventions which conclusively demonstrated that a given intervention ...

• Kenya leads on circumcision rollout

  Circumcision
  Gus Cairns | 24 February 2010

  Kenya is the leading country in Africa when it comes to expanding male circumcision as an HIV prevention tool, the 17th Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI) was told ...