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Access to medicines and treatment
Stockout Risks of South Africa’s New ARV Programme

It is South Africa's shaky ARV supply track record that has treatment activists sounding alarm bells over the Apr. 1 introduction of fixed-dose ARVs (FDAs). “With the individual ARV drugs, if there is a shortage of one ARV then people can still take the other two drugs, though it’s not ideal. However, if there’s a stockout of the fixed-dose pill, then patients will have no recourse,” Mark Heywood, executive director of health and social justice advocacy group Section 27, tells IPS.

Published
07 May 2013
From
Inter Press Service
Adherence
Some barriers to adherence for black African people in London are culturally specific

Qualitative research suggests that some of the barriers to antiretroviral adherence for black African and black Caribbean people are culturally specific, while other barriers common to many

Published
23 April 2013
By
Roger Pebody
Adherence
Breaking the Silence on My Struggle With HIV Meds

Most days I forgot I even had HIV until it was time for me to take those pills. Then those days started to become more frequent. Then I started to resent those pills. For me those pills were a constant reminder that I AM LIVING WITH HIV.

Published
08 April 2013
From
The Body
Religion and faith
Over 2,000 People Have Stopped HIV Meds for Prayer in Ghana

A total of 2,248 people with HIV/AIDS on antiretroviral treatment in Ghana have stopped taking their medications to seek help at prayer camps and from traditional healers.

Published
15 March 2013
From
Poz magazine news
Adherence
CROI 2013: The VOICE Results—A Social Scientist’s Perspective

To social scientist Judith D. Auerbach, PhD, a consultant to the NIH Office of AIDS Research and San Francisco AIDS Foundation, the VOICE results raise a number of questions—but not the ones you might think.

Published
06 March 2013
From
BETA blog
Retention and linkage to care
Falling Through the Cracks

We can strengthen two of the weakest links in the U.S. health care chain for people with HIV/AIDS—linking people to care and retaining them in care—but doing so requires a collective approach.

Published
05 March 2013
From
Poz
Money, benefits and housing
Antiretroviral Drugs Sold for Food in Kenya’s Slums

Impoverished Kenyans living with HIV/AIDs are sometimes selling their antiretroviral drugs to buy food for themselves and their families. Medical professionals believe there has been a slight growth in the trend, saying that people are simply trying to survive.

Published
05 March 2013
From
Voice of America
PrEP
Statements on the VOICE results

Comments on the disappointing vaginal microbicide and PrEP results from AVAC, the Gates Foundation, the NIH, and others.

Published
05 March 2013
From
AVAC
Adherence
Counseling Helps HIV Patients Stick to Tx

(MedPage Today) -- HIV patients receiving a year-long counseling program on problem solving showed better adherence to drug therapy in a randomized study, researchers said.

Published
27 February 2013
From
MedPage Today HIV/AIDS
Hepatitis B
Combining tenofovir with FTC or 3TC boosts chances of HBV suppression for people co-infected with HIV

A study involving people co-infected with HIV and hepatitis B virus (HBV) shows that antiretroviral therapy that combines tenofovir with FTC or 3TC has the best chance

Published
19 February 2013
By
Michael Carter
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