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Case workers can re-engage a high proportion of HIV-positive people lost to long-term care

Caseworkers helped 50% of HIV-positive people in New York City who had dropped out of care re-engage with HIV medical care, investigators report in the online edition

Published
20 May 2013
By
Michael Carter
Retention and linkage to care
Engagement with health care leads to more prompt HIV diagnosis and higher rates of virological suppression among gay men

Pre-existing connection with primary health care is associated with more prompt diagnosis of HIV infection and an increased likelihood of virological suppression one year after diagnosis among

Published
16 May 2013
By
Michael Carter
Mental and emotional health
Lost and Found: Helping Patients Develop Emotional Resilience

With some luck, time and encouragement from providers, most patients can foster a degree of emotional resilience that will significantly contribute to their health and wellness.

Published
15 May 2013
From
TheBody.com
Promoting HIV testing
HPTN Annual Meeting: Is “PopART” research, or just good health practice?

It sounds obvious, urgent, and ambitious: Make HIV counseling and testing as well as links to subsequent care and prevention services universally available, and watch the numbers of new infections drop steeply.

Published
14 May 2013
From
Science Speaks
Retention and linkage to care
People more likely to keep HIV clinic appointments if they believe their care providers know them as a person

People who believe their care providers know them as a person are more likely to keep their HIV clinic appointments, research conducted in the United States and

Published
13 May 2013
By
Michael Carter
Retention and linkage to care
New Phone App to Facilitate HIV Screening, Counseling, and Linkage to Care

The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, in collaboration with the Institute for Johns Hopkins Nursing, the American Academy of HIV Medicine (AAHIVM), and DKBmed, LLC, has announced the creation of an application (app) that brings essential features of the SCALE HIV™ program to iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch devices. The app can be found at www.dkbmed.com/scale.

Published
23 April 2013
From
Yahoo! News
HIV testing
Review shows HIV self-testing to be acceptable, accurate and feasible, but finds little data on linkage to care for those testing HIV positive

Self-testing for HIV is highly acceptable to people in a variety of settings, investigators report in the open-access journal PLoS Medicine. The authors reviewed the results of 21

Published
04 April 2013
By
Michael Carter
Retention and linkage to care
Guidelines Issued for Health Departments to Aid in Linkage and Retention

A think tank has issued recommendations to health departments on how to work with health providers to keep people with HIV from dropping out of care.

Published
02 April 2013
From
AIDSMeds
Retention and linkage to care
Self-testing and home treatment initiation triples uptake of HIV treatment in Malawi

Offering people the opportunity to self-test at home and then start antiretroviral therapy after counselling at home, together with home delivery of antiretroviral drugs, increased the number

Published
21 March 2013
By
Keith Alcorn
Infectiousness and treatment as prevention
Are we underestimating the proportion of virally-suppressed patients in the US?

Several presentations at the recent 20th Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections in Atlanta suggest that previous estimates of the proportion of people with HIV in the

Published
15 March 2013
By
Gus Cairns
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