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Infectiousness and treatment as prevention
Kenyan heterosexual couples want a choice of antiretroviral prevention methods

Approximately 40% of HIV-positive people in a stable relationship with an HIV-negative person in Kenya have reservations about starting antiretroviral therapy early for the purposes of prevention, investigators

Published
23 May 2012
By
Michael Carter
Health problems
HIV and TB in Practice for nurses: non-communicable diseases, HIV and TB

Conditions such as cancer, heart disease and diabetes in low- and middle-income countries, and awareness of these conditions in people living with HIV and/or TB.

Published
18 May 2012
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HIV & AIDS treatment in practice
TB diagnosis
Strengthening TB laboratory capacity to support active case finding

The role of new diagnostic tests for tuberculosis (TB) in supporting active case finding for TB.

Published
14 May 2012
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HIV & AIDS treatment in practice
Access to medicines and treatment
South Africa: Demand for Enquiry Into Drug Stockouts

HIV activists and health workers are demanding an enquiry into continuing drug shortages, specifically a number of critical antiretrovirals that are central to government's treatment programme.

Published
11 May 2012
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AllAfrica
Finance and funding
Study finds HIV/AIDS funding does not undermine health care services for other diseases

A six-year investigation of health clinics in Rwanda by researchers at Brandeis University infuses fresh evidence into a long-standing debate about whether the intensive focus on HIV/AIDS, which in 2010 alone killed 1.8 million people, is undermining other health services, particularly in African countries that are at the epicenter of the pandemic.

Published
03 May 2012
From
EurekAlert (press release)
Delivery of care
UGANDA: HIV services in western refugee camps overwhelmed

Health workers manning five health centres in two refugee camps in the southwestern Ugandan district of Isingiro say they are overwhelmed by the high number of refugees and local residents in need of HIV services.

Published
27 April 2012
From
IRIN Plus News
Prevention of mother-to-child transmission
DRC: End of mother-to-child HIV transmission still a long way off

Poorly integrated maternal health services, a lack of human resources and a serious shortage of money for treatment mean the Democratic Republic of Congo is unlikely to meet the global plan of eliminating mother-to-child transmission by 2015.

Published
25 April 2012
From
IRIN Plus News
TB services
HIV and TB in Practice for nurses: integration and decentralisation

The drive towards decentralisation and integration of HIV services from the point of view of those delivering those services, nurses and community health workers.

Published
17 April 2012
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HIV & AIDS treatment in practice
Delivery of care
Improved health, wish for normal life, main reason for loss to follow-up in Ugandan HIV patients

Wanting to return to a ‘normal’ life after having experienced an improvement in health on HIV treatment was the key reason for loss to follow-up of three-quarters

Published
17 April 2012
By
Carole Leach-Lemens
Outcomes and prognosis
30% decline in deaths after expansion of ART access in rural Kenya

Expansion of HIV programme services over a five year period in a high HIV prevalence area of rural Kenya resulted in close to a third of HIV-positive

Published
12 April 2012
By
Carole Leach-Lemens
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