Zambia

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• 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 ...

• Global evidence of lower adherence to ARVs after giving birth

  Adherence
  Carole Leach-Lemens | 25 September 2012

  Antiretroviral therapy (ART) adherence levels among pregnant women with HIV, in both high- and low-income countries, during pregnancy and especially after giving birth are significantly below what is recommended for viral suppression and ...

• Why Zambians don't test and treat

  Taking an HIV test
  Gus Cairns | 26 July 2012

  A study amongst 2443 people in Zambia, recruited from HIV clinics and community organisations, found that social ostracism, rejection by sexual partners and fear of not being able to handle antiretroviral therapy (ART) ...

• 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 ...

• When does viral load testing add value in sub-Saharan Africa?

  Health monitoring in resource-limited settings
  Keith Alcorn | 08 March 2012

  Routine viral load testing did not catch failure of first-line treatment earlier than discretionary viral load testing, but it did reduce the period on failing treatment by nearly a year in a ...

• Keeping mothers in care: the real-world challenge for PMTCT programmes

  Prevention of mother-to-child transmission
  Keith Alcorn | 07 March 2012

  Implementing new recommendations for prevention of mother-to-child transmission (PMTCT) using antiretroviral drugs has resulted in a significant reduction in new infant HIV infections in Zambia, a study of one district, presented at the ...

• Quarter of men resume sex before wounds from circumcision fully healed in Zambian study

  Circumcision
  Michael Carter | 31 January 2012

  Approximately a quarter of men undergoing circumcision resume sexual activity before their wounds have fully healed, Zambian research published in the online edition of AIDS shows. Most of the men reporting the early ...

• HIV and TB activist Winstone Zulu dead

  Tuberculosis and HIV
  Keith Alcorn | 12 October 2011

  The prominent HIV and TB activist Winstone Zulu has died at the age of 47 in hospital in Lusaka. Mr Zulu was diagnosed with HIV in 1990 and was the first person in ...