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Child developmental issues
Adolescents living with HIV face complex psychosocial concerns: require targeted, comprehensive services

As the number of young people living with HIV increases internationally, new and innovative ways to talk about sex, disclosure, and health need to be developed for

Published
20 July 2010
By
Mara Kardas-Nelson
Families and children
Child mortality falls after mothers receive HIV drugs

Children born to mothers with HIV in a rural district of KwaZulu Natal were 75% less likely to die before the age of five if their mothers

Published
20 July 2010
By
Keith Alcorn
TB prevention
Requiring tuberculin skin tests before implementing IPT leads to avoidable and substantial number of TB cases

Delaying a course of isoniazid preventive therapy (IPT) to prevent active tuberculosis (TB) because a person with HIV hasn’t yet had a tuberculin skin test (TST), or

Published
20 July 2010
By
Theo Smart
Testing policies and guidelines
Malaria symptoms should raise suspicion of HIV in sub-Saharan Africa

Screening for HIV in people who present with suspected malarial fever could identify large numbers of very recent HIV infections in countries with a high

Published
28 June 2010
By
Carole Leach-Lemens
Delivery of care
South African doctors report successful kidney transplants between people with HIV

South African doctors say they have safely carried out four kidney transplants from HIV-positive donors to patients with end-stage renal disease who have HIV infection,

Published
17 June 2010
By
Keith Alcorn
Nutrition
Nutritional supplementation has only modest benefits for patients with HIV

Two studies have cast doubt on the value of nutritional supplements for patients with HIV. The first study, published in the July 1st edition of

Published
09 June 2010
By
Michael Carter
Health problems
Symptoms still common in people with HIV, but rarely recognised by their doctors

HIV-positive patients have a high burden of symptoms, which are often unrecognised by their healthcare providers, US investigators report in the online edition of AIDS

Published
07 June 2010
By
Michael Carter
Eliminate bottlenecks to end mother-to-child HIV transmission

Making services for the prevention of mother-to-child HIV transmission (PMTCT) available without addressing the factors that keep mothers from accessing these services was an exercise

Published
28 May 2010
By
Reproduced from PLUS NEWS
Weight gain after starting ART predicts survival

Weight gain within six months of starting antiretroviral therapy resulted in better survival and improved clinical outcomes, in particular among the most severely malnourished, at

Published
19 March 2010
By
Carole Leach-Lemens
Health problems
Hospital admissions remain high amongst those with HIV

Hospital admissions remain high amongst patient with HIV, even in the era of modern antiretroviral therapy, investigators from the US military report in the online

Published
09 March 2010
By
Michael Carter
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