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Prevention of mother-to-child transmission
Late start for ART in pregnancy increases HIV transmission risk during breastfeeding period

A high viral load at the time of starting treatment during pregnancy and a shorter time on antiretroviral therapy (ART) before delivery continued to place mothers

Published
27 September 2012
By
Carole Leach-Lemens
Health monitoring in resource-limited settings
Stamp-Sized Device Could Cut Liver Test Costs

A paper-based device about the size of a postage stamp could improve testing for drug-induced liver toxicity in the developing world, researchers reported.

Published
21 September 2012
From
MedPage Today HIV/AIDS
Promoting HIV testing
South Africa: Taking HIV Testing to Homes

Home-based HIV testing, which enables people to have an HIV test in the privacy of their own home without having to go to a health facility, is one of the newest efforts to be introduced in South Africa to get people to know their HIV status.

Published
20 September 2012
From
allAfrica.com
Ageing and HIV
Double trouble: daily function and the impact of old age and HIV

Older age exacerbates the deleterious effect of HIV on daily functioning, investigators from the US report in the online edition of the Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes.

Published
11 September 2012
By
Michael Carter
CD4 count
Cellphone HIV test studied

South African and South Korean researchers are working on making a smartphone capable of doing Aids tests in rural parts of Africa that are the worst hit by the disease.

Published
03 September 2012
From
iAfrica.com
Diabetes
Glucose metabolism worsens in HIV treatment-experienced taking NRTI-sparing regimens

Italian investigators have found evidence of worsening glucose tolerance in highly treatment-experienced HIV-positive patients treated with nucleoside-sparing regimens. The small study, which is published in the online edition

Published
24 August 2012
By
Michael Carter
Palliative care
Patients with pain have poorer engagement with HIV care

Pain in people with HIV is associated with an increased risk of missed appointments, investigators from the US report in the online edition of the Journal of Acquired

Published
22 August 2012
By
Michael Carter
TB diagnosis
Determine LAM urine antigen TB test is highly cost-effective for use in hospitalised people living with HIV

The lateral-flow urine LAM test for tuberculosis – a simple inexpensive strip test for tuberculosis – is a feasible point-of-care test in hospitalised South African adults living

Published
27 July 2012
By
Theo Smart
Health monitoring in resource-limited settings
PEPFAR Launches Labs For Life with Partners

The U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), led by the Office of the Global AIDS Coordinator in the U.S. Department of State, and Becton, Dickinson and Company (BD), a leading global medical technology company, today announced Labs for Life, a new collaboration to help strengthen healthcare and laboratory systems in the developing world along with U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

Published
27 July 2012
From
US State Department
Promoting HIV testing
Population viral load decreases in 'test and treat' study in Uganda

Positive changes in population-level HIV viral load distribution have been found one year after the implementation of key components of an HIV 'test-and-treat' strategy in rural Uganda. Population

Published
25 July 2012
By
Lesley Odendal
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