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Ward Cates: Cascade Helps Keep People Coming Back for HIV Treatment

A recent model known as the HIV treatment cascade helps identify the key opportunities to improve services to stop the spread of HIV. Getting into the treatment cascade begins with HIV testing, because knowing whether one is infected or not determines the next course of action.

Published
28 November 2012
From
Huffington Post
Retention and linkage to care
Even in well-treated populations, loss to follow-up limits community viral suppression

Several papers presented at the Eleventh International Congress on Drug Therapy in HIV Infection last week showed that even in populations with consistent access to care and

Published
23 November 2012
By
Gus Cairns
Outcomes and prognosis
Life expectancy in older people with HIV could exceed the average – as long as ART keeps working

The latest forecasts of life expectancy in people with HIV in the UK, based on mortality data from the UK Collaborative HIV Cohort (UK CHIC) study, show

Published
19 November 2012
By
Gus Cairns
UK health services
The bottom line in clinical care: The new BHIVA standards

Gus Cairns summarises this important new document.

Published
22 October 2012
From
HIV treatment update
Outcomes and prognosis
Huge differences in HIV mortality rates in US according to race, social and economic status

New US research has revealed enormous differences in HIV mortality rates between patients according to their race and social and economic status. Published in the online edition

Published
19 October 2012
By
Michael Carter
Retention and linkage to care
Tanzania: Campaign on to resume treatment of HIV/Aids

The American Ambassador to Tanzania will tomorrow launch an initiative to bring back treatment to all the people living with HIV (PLHIV) who were registered in various care and treatment clinics (CTC) but have abandoned the treatment.

Published
24 September 2012
From
IPPmedia
Adherence
Drug Adherence And Treatment Improved By Specialized HIV Community Pharmacies

Community pharmacies with specially trained staff to provide HIV services can help HIV-infected individuals be more compliant with their essential antiviral drug regimens and hence improve patient outcomes. Users of HIV-specialized Walgreen pharmacies across the U.S. had significantly greater adherence to and persistence with their therapeutic drug regimens, according to a study published in AIDS Patient Care and STDs,

Published
16 August 2012
From
Medical News Today
Delivery of care
US youth, heterosexual men and African Americans losing out on HIV treatment benefits

A new study presented at the 19th International AIDS Conference shows that young people, African Americans, and heterosexual men have particularly low rates of retention in care and

Published
08 August 2012
By
Gus Cairns
HIV prevention policy
Changing the way HIV prevention is delivered – a roadmap

In the last few years there has been a wealth of dramatic data on the efficacy of new HIV prevention methods, including male circumcision, pre-exposure prophylaxis and

Published
01 August 2012
By
Roger Pebody
Access to medicines and treatment
Entry, Retention and Treatment Success Rates Vary in Four U.S. Cities

Data from four large cities – San Francisco, Los Angeles, Philadelphia and Chicago – highlight discrepancies in progress towards universal HIV care and help identify cities where interventions may be successfully promoting access to care and treatment.

Published
27 July 2012
From
POZ
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