Tanzania, United Republic Of

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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 ...

• Vitamin D deficiency increases risk of TB among people starting HIV therapy

  Tuberculosis and HIV
  Michael Carter | 19 December 2012

  Vitamin D deficiency is associated with an increased risk of pulmonary tuberculosis (TB), oral thrush and wasting among people starting HIV therapy in Tanzania, investigators report in the online edition of the Journal ...

• Risk of recurrence of active TB is high for people with HIV

  TB prevention
  Michael Carter | 22 October 2012

  People living with HIV who have a history of active tuberculosis (TB) have a significant risk of the recurrence of the disease, investigators report in the online edition of Clinical Infectious Diseases. ...

• High-dose multivitamins have no benefit for people starting HIV treatment but cause serious liver disturbances

  Nutrition
  Michael Carter | 17 October 2012

  Taking high-dose multivitamins has no health benefits for people starting antiretroviral therapy, but causes serious disturbances in liver function, according to the results of a large randomised trial published in the Journal of the ...

• Factors associated with improved access to treatment and care for children with HIV in Africa identified in 5-country study

  HIV treatment in children
  Carole Leach-Lemens | 05 October 2012

  Nutritional support, early infant diagnosis (EID), linkages with associations of people living with HIV and on-site prevention of mother-to-child transmission (PMTCT) services were associated with favourable paediatric enrolment and a high proportion of children ...

• 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 ...

• International AIDS Conference hears how drugs, sex and HIV interlock

  Injecting drug use
  Gus Cairns | 25 July 2012

  Two sessions at the 19th International AIDS Conference (AIDS 2012) in Washington looked at the way injecting drug use, recreational drug use and unsafe sex interlock to multiply HIV risk, and how ...

• Patient tracing and community dispensing of ARVs keep patients in care

  Lesley Odendal | 24 July 2012

  Physical tracing of patients in antiretroviral (ARV) programmes results in a decrease in loss to follow-up, but an increase in reported mortality, according to a systematic review of low- and middle-income country ARV ...