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  • 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

  • Option B+: Understanding perspectives and experiences of women living with HIV

    Option B+ is a prevention of vertical transmission approach for expectant mothers living with HIV in which women are immediately offered treatment for life regardless of their CD4 count. This approach offers advantages such as protection of partner(s) and (unborn) child, as well as benefits to the woman's health, but also carries with it risks. In the attached publication, GNP+ and ICW report on the results of 8 different focus group discussions that discussed these issues in Uganda and Malawi.

    12 April 2013 | GNP+

  • Global Fund Reports Significant Progress on ART and PMTCT

    Significant progress has been achieved in providing antiretroviral therapy (ART) and preventing mother-to-child transmission of HIV (PMTCT), but low antenatal care coverage and other health systems and gender-related challenges are hampering further progress on these fronts.

    09 April 2013 | Global Fund Observer

  • New, intensive trials planned on heels of Mississippi HIV 'cure'

    A trial that involves drug cessation is fraught with ethical and medical difficulties, so the next steps going forward remain unclear. HIV specialists plan to meet over three days in May at a leadership retreat of the International Maternal Pediatric Adolescent AIDS Clinical Trials (IMPAACT) group to discuss how best to test if and when antiretroviral therapy can be halted for children born with HIV who achieve undetectable levels of the virus in their blood.

    08 April 2013 | Nature Medicine

  • Study: In Malawi lifelong antiretroviral treatment for expectant moms “translates into saving more than 250,000 maternal life years”

    A cost-effectiveness analysis of Option B+ in Malawi.

    27 March 2013 | Science Speaks
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