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Filters Content type: News, Editors' picks Country: Sub-Saharan Africa
PrEP

Women need more of the HIV drug Truvada than men to prevent infection

Editor's pick
Eurekalert Medicine & Health
4 March 2016
Drug-resistant TB

South Africa’s XDR-TB epidemic is due to transmission rather than evolution of resistant strains

News
4 March 2016
Transgender people

Report shows that transgender people are left behind in the fight against HIV 

Editor's pick
Global Fund Observer
3 March 2016
Combatting stigma

Survey: Africans are generally very tolerant, but just not of gay people

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Mamba Online
2 March 2016
Retention & linkage to care

Rate of entry into HIV care improved by personalised counselling

News
1 March 2016
Retention & linkage to care

Studies probe retention in HIV care for women who start antiretroviral treatment during pregnancy

News
1 March 2016
Vaginal rings & topical PrEP

Vaginal ring for HIV prevention: a few details would have elevated good coverage to great

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Health News Review
1 March 2016
Vaginal rings & topical PrEP

Why a new vaginal ring could be a game-changer in HIV prevention

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The Conversation
1 March 2016
Social & legal issues

Africans tolerant on religion, ethnicity, nationality, and HIV, but not homosexuality, survey finds

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The South African
1 March 2016
Improving HIV care

CROI 2016: HIV trial data raises the question of how to end an epidemic when men are “missing but in action...”

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Science Speaks
1 March 2016
PrEP science

‘On-demand’ rectal microbicide gel has reasonable tolerability and acceptability – daily less so

News
28 February 2016
Global health targets

Option B+ has enabled Malawi to make significant progress towards 90-90-90

News
27 February 2016
Finance & funding

Uganda risks losing Global Fund grants

Editor's pick
Key Correspondents
26 February 2016
TB treatment

Empirical TB treatment comes up short again

News
26 February 2016
TB diagnosis

Large-scale household TB screening shows feasibility in PopART trial

News
25 February 2016
Starting treatment

Removing clinic barriers to rapid initiation of ART in Uganda enables 70% to start on the same day

News
25 February 2016
Global health targets

PopART trial shows feasibility of reaching 90-90-90 targets for testing and treatment coverage in Zambia and South Africa

News
25 February 2016
Global health targets

Botswana close to reaching the 90-90-90 testing and treatment targets

News
25 February 2016
Pregnancy and vertical transmission

Cotrimoxazole prophylaxis provides no benefit for HIV-exposed uninfected children

News
25 February 2016
HIV testing programmes & uptake

Partner notification feasible and effective in African settings

News
25 February 2016
Pregnancy and vertical transmission

Option B+ cuts mother-to-child HIV transmission dramatically in Malawi

News
24 February 2016
Men who have sex with men (MSM)

Nigerian government must scale up fight against HIV

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Key Correspondents
24 February 2016
Human rights

HIV and TB link the Bronx and Tugela Ferry in a story of human rights and social justice

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Science Speaks
24 February 2016
Starting treatment

Starting HIV treatment at first clinic visit improves outcomes in African study

News
24 February 2016