Uganda

News from aidsmap

• Slow progress in expansion of voluntary circumcision coverage

  Circumcision
  Gus Cairns | 07 March 2013

  Progress towards greater coverage of voluntary male circumcision (MC) in Africa remains slow, and is due as much to men’s fear of the operation as it is to resource constraints, despite low ...

• Continuing cotrimoxazole in children on ART reduces the risk of hospitalisation

  Opportunistic infections
  Carole Leach-Lemens | 06 March 2013

  Children on ART for more than two years who continued taking daily cotrimoxazole had significantly fewer hospitalisations for malaria as well as for non-malarial infections (notably pneumonia, sepsis and meningitis), compared to children ...

• HIV treatment for children is safe and highly effective without laboratory monitoring in large African trial

  Health monitoring in resource-limited settings
  Keith Alcorn | 05 March 2013

  Children did just as well on antiretroviral therapy without routine laboratory monitoring of CD4 cell counts or drug side-effects as those who received regular monitoring during four years of follow-up, researchers from Uganda ...

• VOICE trial's disappointing result poses big questions for PrEP

  PrEP
  Gus Cairns | 04 March 2013

  The failure of one of the largest trials yet conducted of HIV drug-based prevention methods poses questions for how to turn vaginal microbicides and oral pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) into methods people can actually ...

• Couples study in Uganda finds no HIV infections from partners on antiretroviral therapy

  Infectiousness and treatment as prevention
  Gus Cairns | 18 February 2013

  A longitudinal cohort study of heterosexual couples in Uganda has found more evidence of the efficacy of antiretroviral therapy (ART) in curbing HIV infection within the community. The study found 119 new HIV infections ...

• 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 ...

• Diet quality predicts HIV progression and death in resource-poor settings

  Nutrition
  Carole Leach-Lemens | 06 December 2012

  The more diverse and nutrient-rich the diet before starting antiretroviral treatment (ART), the less severe HIV disease progression is, and the less likely death occurs, researchers report in the advance online edition of ...

• Scale up of HIV testing in Africa isn't leading to breaches in consent or confidentiality

  HIV testing
  Michael Carter | 26 October 2012

  Efforts to scale up HIV testing in sub-Saharan Africa have not resulted in breaches of patient rights or the provision of poorer services, results of a study published in PLoS Medicine suggest. ...