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Promoting HIV testing
US: HIV Awareness Rising Among Urban Gays

More gay and bisexual men infected with HIV are aware they have the virus, at least in 20 major urban areas, a researcher said here.

Published
07 March 2013
From
MedPage Today HIV/AIDS
Finance and funding
CROI 2013: Sequester Cuts Already Felt at Retrovirus Conference

The 20th Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections has officially ended, bringing to a close a four-day gathering of leading scientists whose work moves us closer to new tools for … Read More →

Published
07 March 2013
From
BETA blog
The search for a cure
Behind the miracle child a broken system lurks

While we celebrate this week’s story of an HIV-miracle cure, let’s not forget the story of injustice that made it possible. How is it possible for a pregnant woman in the world’s wealthiest country to not receive prenatal care? Why were the mother and child “lost to care” for over 6 months?

Published
07 March 2013
From
AIDS Foundation of Chicago
HIV and criminal law
UK healthcare workers need better information and guidance on HIV criminalisation

Support services for people living with HIV would benefit from better information and support around prosecutions for the sexual transmission of HIV, according to a report released

Published
07 March 2013
By
Roger Pebody
Opportunistic infections
Continuing cotrimoxazole in children on ART reduces the risk of hospitalisation

Children on ART for more than two years who continued taking daily cotrimoxazole had significantly fewer hospitalisations for malaria as well as for non-malarial infections (notably pneumonia, sepsis

Published
06 March 2013
By
Carole Leach-Lemens
Finance and funding
HIV 'cure' at risk from budget cuts

The automatic cuts in federal spending known as sequestration could take a bite out of crucial medical research, such as the recently unveiled study in which a toddler was cured of HIV.

Published
06 March 2013
From
CNN
Health monitoring in resource-limited settings
HIV treatment for children is safe and highly effective without laboratory monitoring in large African trial

Children did just as well on antiretroviral therapy without routine laboratory monitoring of CD4 cell counts or drug side-effects as those who received regular monitoring during four

Published
05 March 2013
By
Keith Alcorn
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
Access to medicines and treatment
U.S. “Stalling” Could Force Acceptance of Onerous TPP

Civil society opposition here has strengthened against a U.S.-proposed free trade zone that would include some dozen countries around the Pacific Rim. As negotiators head into a 16th round of talks this week in Singapore, around 400 organisations are urging the U.S. Congress to demand greater transparency in the proceedings.

Published
05 March 2013
From
Inter Press Service
Access to medicines and treatment
India board rules against Bayer in cancer drug patent case

An Indian patent appeals board upheld on Monday a decision to allow a domestic company to sell a generic version of Bayer AG's cancer drug Nexavar, in a blow for global drugmakers' efforts to hold on to monopolies on high-price medicines.

Published
05 March 2013
From
Chicago Tribune
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