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  • Time to include pregnant women in drug trials, says Drug and Therapeutics Bulletin

    The lack of hard data on the safety and effectiveness of a wide range of drugs in pregnancy has hindered the treatment of pregnant women, contributing to a doubling of deaths amongst mums-to-be with an underlying health problem over the past 20 years, argues an editorial in the Drug and Therapeutics Bulletin (DTB). It's time to include pregnant women in drug trials so that they can get the medical treatment they need, says DTB.

    14 June 2013 | EurekAlert!

  • Uganda: Need To Address Stigma Among HIV Positive Mothers

    Many HIV-positive mothers are shunning PMTCT services for fear of revealing their serostatus. Ministry of Health statistics show that as of June 2012, only 68% pregnant women that tested HIV positive received anti-retroviral treatment (ARVs) for PMTCT and only 38% of their babies received ARVs prophylaxis after birth.

    31 May 2013 | AllAfrica

  • MALAYSIA: 99 Percent of Children Born to HIV-positive Mothers in Malaysia Uninfected

    Malaysia’s Women, Family, and Community Development Minister Daluk Rohani Abdul Karim reported that 99 percent of babies born to HIV-infected women in 2011 were uninfected by the virus. She attributed this to the success of Malaysia’s Prevention of Mother-to-Child Transmission program, which focuses on reaching pregnant women, their partners, and infants; and high-risk populations.

    30 May 2013 | CDC National Prevention Information Network

  • FLORIDA: HIV-Infected Newborns a Concern

    5 out of 457 babies exposed to the HIV virus in utero were born HIV-positive in the state of Florida last year although maternal transmission is preventable if doctors detect the infection early enough in pregnancy.

    29 May 2013 | CDC National Prevention Information Network

  • HPTN researchers: Don’t forget family planning in HIV prevention

    “Unless family planning is increased in Africa, eliminating mother-to-child transmission will not be met,” FHI 360 President Emeritus Ward Cates said.

    20 May 2013 | Science Speaks

  • Swazis in new HIV treatment trials

    Swaziland, with the world’s highest incidence of HIV, is embarking on pilot projects to offer treatment to all people who are HIV-positive, irrespective of their CD4 count. The studies will investigate if the use of ‘treatment for prevention’ could reduce new HIV infections among Swa-zis. The new approach is called ‘Treat All.’

    13 May 2013 | Times of Swaziland

  • Cambodia on track to eliminate HIV transmission by 2020

    The World Health Organisation says Cambodia is on track to become one of the few countries in the world to successfully reverse its HIV epidemic and may eliminate new infections by 2020. The Southeast Asian nation has reduced its HIV prevalence rate from a 1998 peak of 1.7 percent among people aged 15-49 to 0.7 percent in 2012 across the whole population

    13 May 2013 | Radio Australia

  • Colombian antenatal HIV testing rates reveal health insurance paradox

    The introduction of subsidized health insurance for poor people in Colombia resulted in decreased access to HIV tests in antenatal care, research shows. The study results also highlight that levels of antenatal HIV testing remain low in the country, despite it being introduced as standard into national insurance programs in 2000 as part of a strategy to prevent mother-to-child transmission of the virus.

    29 April 2013 | Medwire News

  • Strong impact of weaning on HIV levels in breastmilk: Lusaka study

    HIV RNA and DNA levels in breast milk rose more than 10-fold in response to changes in frequency of infant feeding around the time of weaning, according to results of a 958-woman trial in Lusaka, Zambia. The findings have implications for breastfeeding advice and for maternal antiretroviral therapy (ART) over the full duration of breastfeeding.

    22 April 2013 | International AIDS Society

  • Exclusive Breastfeeding For More Than 4 Months Lowers Mother-To-Infant HIV Risk

    HIV-infected mothers who exclusively breastfeed for more than the first four months of life have a lower risk of transmitting the virus to their babies through their milk. The finding came from scientists at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health and was published in the journal Science Translational Medicine.

    19 April 2013 | HIV / AIDS News From Medical News Today
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