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In the new NHS lawyers, not GPs, will be in the driving seat

With less than two weeks to go before clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) take responsibility for almost all our healthcare, they still don't know officially whether they will be free to go on commissioning work from NHS hospitals, or whether they will be forced to open it up to private providers.

Published
20 March 2013
From
The Guardian
Epidemiology and behaviour
Nearly one in ten S.African soldiers has HIV/AIDS: army

The South African army Tuesday said 8.5 percent of the country's 79,200 soldiers have HIV/AIDS, angrily dismissing claims of a higher prevalence rate.

Published
20 March 2013
From
Global Post
HIV prevention policy
US porn filmmaker sued over condom rule

AN AIDS support group has announced legal action against a US porn film company for allegedly failing to enforce a new Los Angeles law requiring actors to wear condoms while on set.

Published
20 March 2013
From
Herald Sun
TB diagnosis
Extrapulmonary tuberculosis - A challenging diagnosis

For World TB Day 2013, ECDC is launching a video documentary that focuses on extrapulmonary tuberculosis (TB). Two patient stories illustrate how difficult the diagnosis of extrapulmonary TB can be before proper treatment and care can start.

Published
20 March 2013
From
ECDC video
TB symptoms
New ECDC/WHO Euro report: One in five TB patients has extrapulmonary tuberculosis

In the European Union, one in five tuberculosis patients has extrapulmonary TB and unlike pulmonary TB, this form of the disease does not show a downward trend. Extrapulmonary TB is rarely infectious but contributes significantly to TB-related morbidity and can cause complications, lifelong sequelae and disabilities.

Published
20 March 2013
From
ECDC
Tuberculosis and HIV
UNITAID and TB Alliance call for more action against childhood tuberculosis

In spite of an estimated 500,000 new annual cases of children with tuberculosis (TB), there are no appropriate medicines for them, UNITAID and the TB Alliance warn.

Published
20 March 2013
From
UNITAID
Drug-resistant TB
Sluggish response risks squandering historic opportunity to tackle global drug-resistant tuberculosis

If measures to tackle multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) are not significantly stepped up, including addressing barriers that prevent both research into better drug combinations and treatment scale up, MDR-TB rates will continue to increase worldwide and a historic opportunity to improve abysmal cure rates will have been squandered, medical humanitarian organisation Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) warned today.

Published
20 March 2013
From
MSF
Drug-resistant TB
Tuberculosis: Europe’s Ticking Timebomb

On World Tuberculosis Day the TB Europe Coalition called on the European Commission to substantially increase funding to fight tuberculosis in Europe. Tuberculosis causes not only illness and death, according to estimates, it costs EU Member States €15 million every week and €750 million every year.

Published
20 March 2013
From
TB Europe Coalition
New and experimental hepatitis C treatment
Sofosbuvir plus ribavirin works well for hard-to-treat inner-city hepatitis C patients

A simple 24-week oral regimen consisting of sofosbuvir plus full-dose ribavirin cured nearly 70% of previously untreated people with genotype 1 hepatitis C, many of whom had

Published
20 March 2013
By
Liz Highleyman
New and experimental hepatitis C treatment
AbbVie interferon-free combinations cure most newly treated hepatitis C patients

All-oral regimens consisting of the HCV protease inhibitor ABT-450, a non-nucleoside polymerase inhibitor and ribavirin led to sustained response for more than 90% of previously untreated hepatitis 

Published
20 March 2013
By
Liz Highleyman
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