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Behaviour change interventions
Kenya condom advert pulled after religious complaints

A TV advertisement promoting condom use in Kenya has been withdrawn after an outcry by religious leaders, health official Peter Cherutich has said. Christian and Muslim clerics said the advert encouraged infidelity, rather than safe sex to curb HIV/Aids.

Published
9 hours ago
From
BBC
Young people
COLORADO: Abstinence Added to Sex-ed Legislation by State Senators: House Needs To Reconsider the Bill

The Colorado Senate sent House Bill 13-1081, a bill designed to update standards for sex education in Colorado schools, back to the state House of Representatives for additional consideration, after adding requirements that sex education programs emphasize abstinence.

Published
10 hours ago
From
CDC National Prevention Information Network
HIV and criminal law
Uganda assents to regional HIV/Aids Bill

Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni has assented to the HIV/Aids regional Bill, 2010, which seeks to prevent and manage the menace and also promote the rights of the infected. The East African Community HIV and Aids Prevention and Management Bill, 2010, was a private members’ initiative aimed at mandating partner states to play a key role in controlling and managing the deadly disease.

Published
10 hours ago
From
Africa Review
Finance and funding
Congress Cuts Funding For State ADAP Programs

The failure of a US Senate spending bill to include $35 million in funding for HIV medications will jeopardize the ability of state AIDS Drug Assistance Programs to offer prescription drugs to nearly 8,000 low-income people living with the virus, according to patient advocates.

Published
11 hours ago
From
Pharmalot
Malaria
Follow-up study describes declining efficacy of malaria vaccine candidate over 4 years

Long-term follow-up of a phase II study from KEMRI-Wellcome Trust Research Programme and Oxford University researchers in Kenya shows that the efficacy of a malaria vaccine candidate, RTS,S, wanes over time and varies with exposure to the malaria parasite.

Published
11 hours ago
From
Eurekalert Inf Dis
Tuberculosis and HIV
Advocates See Historic Chance to Turn Tide on TB

Patients, doctors and international aid groups are calling on donors and governments to support measures that would make treatment of drug-resistant tuberculosis more effective and accessible.

Published
11 hours ago
From
Inter Press Service
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
12 hours ago
By
Keith Alcorn
Sexually transmitted infections
Routine tests prompted by electronic patient records increase rates of STI diagnoses among HIV-positive people in London

The implementation of systematic, frequent and routine screening for sexually transmitted infections (STIs) led to a significant increase in the number of infections detected among HIV-positive people in

Published
13 hours ago
By
Michael Carter
UNAIDS calls for Zero parallel systems for HIV and TB

UNAIDS is calling for Zero parallel systems for HIV and TB. This means that HIV and TB systems should be fully integrated, every person living with HIV is tested for TB and that every person with TB is offered an HIV test, and people with TB who are HIV-positive are started on antiretroviral treatment immediately.

Published
20 March 2013
From
UNAIDS
HIV and criminal law
Greece: Last five HIV+ women arrested in police sweep operation released

The HIV-positive women who were imprisoned and exposed publicly in Greece in an unprecedented HIV criminalization case are now all free.

Published
20 March 2013
From
Union Solidarity International
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