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Infectiousness and treatment as prevention
New report: evaluating HIV treatment as prevention in the European context

The report concludes that antiretroviral treatment has well-documented benefits for reducing the transmission of HIV, and has had a major impact on reducing HIV acquisition among children born to HIV positive mothers. However, the policy of treatment as prevention cannot be universally applied to all persons diagnosed with HIV without understanding whether there is a benefit for the individual’s health.

Published
07 June 2012
From
European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) press release
HIV in children
HIV prevalence beginning to fall in South African children

HIV prevalence fell sharply among children admitted to one of South Africa’s largest hospitals in 2009 and 2010, but remained high at 19.3%, researchers from Chris Hani

Published
29 May 2012
By
Carole Leach-Lemens
Prevention of mother-to-child transmission
Ministers Meet To Discuss Global Plan To Eliminate New HIV Infections Among Children

UNAIDS and PEPFAR recently brought together the ministers of health and representatives of the 22 countries with the most new HIV cases among children to discuss progress on the Global Plan towards the Elimination of New HIV Infections among Children by 2015 and Keeping Their Mothers Alive agreed to at the 2011 U.N. High-Level Meeting on AIDS, according to a UNAIDS press release.

Published
25 May 2012
From
Kaiser Daily Global Health Policy Report
Prevention of mother-to-child transmission
In HIV Prevention, Protect the Mothers: A Message to the World Health Assembly 2012

Women with HIV — more than anyone — want to ensure their babies are born free of HIV. However, we are concerned that talking about "saving babies" without putting equal emphasis on upholding women's rights to safety and good health care is a short-term, unsustainable approach to the issue.

Published
23 May 2012
From
RH Reality Check
Confidentiality, consent and medical ethics
Kenya: Doctors who played God

More than 35 HIV positive women are considering taking action against hospitals and their husbands or family members who participated in their sterilisation. They insist that they were sterilised through coercion, and sometimes without their knowledge, because they were HIV positive.

Published
21 May 2012
From
Daily Nation
Prevention of mother-to-child transmission
Treat the mother - save the baby

A new report suggests that paying more attention to their mothers’ health, and focusing on certain damaging but treatable diseases, could be one key to tackling neonatal mortality.

Published
21 May 2012
From
IRIN
Prevention of mother-to-child transmission
Michel Sidibé: Make Every Day Mother's Day

There are three simple things we can all do to ensure babies everywhere can be born free from HIV. Together we can go from 390,000 children becoming infected with HIV each year to zero.

Published
10 May 2012
From
Huffington Post
Treatment guidelines
British HIV Association launches new guidelines for treatment of people living with HIV in the UK

BHIVA (British HIV Association), the UK's leading association representing professionals in HIV care, has published final versions of guidelines for the treatment of people living with HIV in the UK and specific guidelines for treatment of pregnant women.

Published
09 May 2012
From
British HIV Association
Prevention of mother-to-child transmission
UNAIDS launches "Believe it. Do it." action campaign to help end new HIV infections among children by 2015

The Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) today launched a new campaign, "Believe it. Do it.", aimed at bringing attention and action to the global goal of ending new HIV infections among children by 2015 and ensuring mothers living with HIV remain healthy.

Published
09 May 2012
From
UNAIDS
Infant feeding
Flash-heating breastmilk to inactivate HIV is feasible for women in resource-poor countries

An international team led by UC Davis researchers has found that mothers in sub-Saharan Africa could successfully follow a protocol for flash-heating breastmilk to reduce transmission of human immunodeficiency virus -- the virus that causes AIDS -- to their infants.

Published
03 May 2012
From
Eurekalert Medicine & Health
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