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Treatment guidelines
Updated HIV Treatment Guidelines Include Stronger Recommendation for Acute Infection

Among the key changes are additional information about the most recently approved antiretroviral agents and a recommendation that newly infected people with HIV should be offered combination ART. The guidelines continue to recommend treatment for all people with HIV, both to reduce the risk of disease progressionand for the prevention of HIV transmission.

Published
15 February 2013
From
HIVandHepatitis.com
Treatment guidelines
Updated U.S. DHHS guidelines for the use of antiretroviral agents in HIV-1-infected adults and adolescents

New recommendations on drug-resistance testing, genotypic tropism assays, starting treatment, acute infection, pregnancy and interactions.

Published
15 February 2013
From
AIDSinfo
TB prevention
HIV and TB in Practice for nurses: Pregnancy and TB/HIV

This article explains how to prevent and treat TB in pregnant women to protect both mother and child.

Published
14 February 2013
From
HIV & AIDS treatment in practice
Malnutrition
Texas: Food availability linked with poor outcomes for HIV-positive children

An HIV-positive child whose family does not have enough good food available is more likely to have a poor clinical outcome, researchers reported. They found that children who did not always have enough to eat had lower CD4 counts as well as higher chances of incomplete viral suppression.

Published
12 February 2013
From
Baylor College of Medicine press release
Conception
San Francisco: How men with HIV can safely become dads

Deon and his girlfriend, Caroline, are both being treated at San Francisco General Hospital's Ward 86 HIV/AIDS clinic, through a new program thought to be the first of its kind in the country that caters to straight men who are HIV positive and want to have a family. The program, called Positive Reproductive Outcomes for Men, offers reproductive counseling and care to heterosexual couples, and includes support groups for straight men who are HIV positive.

Published
07 February 2013
From
San Francisco Chronicle
Prevention of mother-to-child transmission
Pregnancy does not increase risk of nevirapine side-effects

Pregnancy does not increase the risk of nevirapine (Viramune) associated side-effects, according to the results of a systematic review and meta-analysis published in the online edition of AIDS. Investigators

Published
07 February 2013
By
Michael Carter
Prevention of mother-to-child transmission
Uganda: Men Urged to Engage in HIV Fight

Men in Uganda have been asked to engage in the prevention of mother-to-child-transmission (PMTCT) initiatives in a bid to reduce the accelerating rates of HIV/AIDS infections in the country.

Published
29 January 2013
From
New Vision
Infant feeding
Bottle-Feeding Urged for US Moms with HIV

American women with HIV shouldn't breastfeed their babies, regardless of low levels of the virus and antiviral treatment, the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) cautioned.

Published
28 January 2013
From
MedPage Today
Prevention of mother-to-child transmission
Swaziland: U.S. Government Announces USAID and Mothers2mothers (m2m) Partnership to End Pediatric Aids

]In a response to the high rate of AIDS deaths and pediatric HIV in Southern and Eastern Africa, the United States Government through the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and mothers2mothers (m2m) launched a five-year regional partnership today at an event in Manzini, Swaziland.

Published
24 January 2013
From
AllAfrica
Child developmental issues
Bone mineral density below normal in children infected early with HIV

Bone mineral density was below the general population norm in US children perinatally infected with HIV and lower than in children perinatally exposed to HIV but uninfected.

Published
21 January 2013
From
International AIDS Society
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