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Integrating HIV care into community health workers' role is a good model for southern Africa

A community health worker model of home-based preventive care, the Philani Intervention Program (PIP), resulted in significantly enhanced maternal and infant wellbeing among pregnant women living with and

Published
18 April 2013
By
Carole Leach-Lemens
Prevention of mother-to-child transmission
South African clinics already achieving zero new HIV infections in children

Maternity clinics in South Africa have the potential to achieve zero transmission of HIV from mother to child, according to a review at Tygerberg Infectious Diseases Clinic

Published
17 April 2013
By
Carole Leach-Lemens
Treatment for women
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.

Published
12 April 2013
From
GNP+
Access to medicines and treatment
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.

Published
09 April 2013
From
Global Fund Observer
Reproductive health
One-in-four deaths in pregnancy due to HIV in worst-affected countries

One-in-four pregnancy-related deaths is due to HIV in countries with a high HIV prevalence, a meta-analysis of 23 studies shows.HIV-infected women have eight times the

Published
09 April 2013
By
Carole Leach-Lemens
Prevention of mother-to-child transmission
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.

Published
08 April 2013
From
Nature Medicine
Prevention of mother-to-child transmission
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.

Published
27 March 2013
From
Science Speaks
Tuberculosis and HIV
UNITAID and TB Alliance call for more action against childhood tuberculosis

In spite of an estimated 500,000 new annual cases of children with tuberculosis (TB), there are no appropriate medicines for them, UNITAID and the TB Alliance warn.

Published
20 March 2013
From
UNITAID
Women
U.N. body agrees on women's rights policy, skirting sexual politics

A U.N. policy-making body agreed upon a declaration Friday urging an end to violence against women and girls despite concerns from conservative Muslim countries and the Vatican about references to women's sexual and reproductive rights.

Published
17 March 2013
From
Reuters
HIV treatment in children
Lopinavir/ritonavir equivalent to nevirapine in Ugandan children

A ritonavir-boosted lopinavir (LPV/r)-based regimen achieved a comparable rate of virologic suppression when compared to a non-nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitor (NNRTI)-based regimen in HIV-infected Ugandan children at 48

Published
14 March 2013
By
Carole Leach-Lemens
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