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Delivery of care
Free cotrimoxazole improves retention in care among adults not yet eligible for ART

Providing free cotrimoxazole prophylaxis to adults not yet eligible for antiretroviral treatment in Nairobi, Kenya, improved retention in care by over 20% after one year when compared

Published
18 August 2011
By
Carole Leach-Lemens
Infectiousness and treatment as prevention
HPTN 052: early treatment reduces serious illness by 40%

Early treatment in the HPTN 052 study of treatment as prevention reduced serious illness by around 40%, delegates at the Sixth International AIDS Society conference (IAS 2011)

Published
18 July 2011
By
Keith Alcorn
South Africa: Crucial HIV drug in short supply

US pharmaceutical company Bristol Meyers Squibb confirmed doctors’ reports of a widespread shortage in South African public hospitals of its antifungal drug amphotericin B, branded as Fungizone.

Published
28 June 2011
From
Business Day
Opportunistic infections
Can a blood test show if an HIV-positive patient has PCP?

A blood test may be able to show if an HIV-positive patient has the AIDS-defining opportunistic infection, Pneumocystis jirovecii pneumonia, US investigators report in the July 15th

Published
28 June 2011
By
Michael Carter
Opportunistic infections
South Africa: HIV Breeds More Pneumonia

In the last 20 years there has been a steady increase of pneumonia cases in adults, mostly in people living with HIV. A significant proportion of those infected die.

Published
12 May 2011
From
AllAfrica
Injecting drug users
Drug use increasingly associated with microbial infections

Illicit drug users are at increased risk of being exposed to microbial pathogens and are more susceptible to serious infections, say physicians in a new report. The review, which aims to improve the microbiological diagnosis of drug use-related infections, assesses the role of drug-related practices in the spread of a range of bacterial, viral, fungal and protozoal infections.

Published
11 May 2011
From
Science Daily
Opportunistic infections
Tracking The Evolution And Spread Of Deadly Fungus, One Of The World's Major Killers

New research has shed light on the origins of a fungal infection which is one of the major causes of death from AIDS-related illnesses. The study, published in the journal PLoS Pathogens, funded by the Wellcome Trust and the BBSRC, shows how the more virulent forms of Cryptococcus neoformans evolved and spread out of Africa and into Asia...

Published
04 May 2011
From
HIV / AIDS News From Medical News Today
Resistance
The Ten-Year Timeline for Antibiotics Burnout

Though the World Health Organisation (WHO) has focused this year's World Health Day Apr. 7 on prioritising the struggle against the global spread of antimicrobial resistance (AMR), scores of international researchers and scientists fear this decision is coming too late, with 2011 already shadowed by the failure of pharmaceutical antibiotics to curb the proliferation of diseases.

Published
07 April 2011
From
IPS
Resistance
Superbug gene rife in Delhi water supply

A gene that causes a wide range of bacteria to become resistant to antibiotics has been found in the water supply in Delhi, with worrying implications for the rest of the globe.

Published
07 April 2011
From
The Guardian
Opportunistic infections
Fall in MRSA infection in HIV patients

Rates of community-acquired MRSA (methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus) infections in patients with HIV appear to be declining. A US study conducted between 2002 and 2009, and published in

Published
21 March 2011
By
Michael Carter
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