More Human Trials Needed for HIV Vaccine Hunt(MedPage Today) -- HIV vaccine researchers are calling for more and better human trials as part of the quest for ways to block transmission of the virus.
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KENYA: Nomadic communities struggle to access PMTCTPhoto: Giulio M/Flickr Most Samburu women deliver their babies at home SAMBURU, 7 September 2010 (PlusNews) – Nomadic Kenyan women who test positive for HIV but live in remote areas far from the nearest health facility ...
World News : HIV/AIDS (PlusNews)
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SOUTH AFRICA: National HIV testing campaign disappointsPhoto: Kristy Siegfried/IRIN A “disconnect” between testing and treatment MANZINI, 7 September 2010 (PlusNews) – South Africa, home to the world’s largest HIV treatment programme, is trying to pull off the most extensive global HIV testing ...
World News : HIV/AIDS (PlusNews)
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Are White Homosexual Men Still Taking Too Many HIV Risks?Risky sexual behavior among members of a subset of the gay community is still adding to the spread of HIV. Research published in the open access journal BMC Infectious Diseases has found that young white homosexual men have an important contribution in the local spread of HIV...
HIV / AIDS News From Medical News Today
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Road-Map Agreed For Confirmatory Trials Of Promising MicrobicideTwo further clinical trials are planned to confirm a vaginal gel which has shown potential in reducing the risk of HIV. The results of the first trial of the gel, which were announced in July at the XVIII International AIDS Conference in Vienna, must be confirmed before the product can be made available for general...
HIV / AIDS News From Medical News Today
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Recent Releases In Global HealthLancet Editorial Makes Recommendations For Health-System Strengthening "There is strong consensus in the global health community, among donors, recipient countries, and policy makers, about the need for health system strengthening in low-income and middle-income countries," write the authors of a Lancet Comment...
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VOA News Examines U.S. Global Health InitiativeVOA News examines President Barack Obama's $63 billion Global Health Initiative (GHI), noting the initiative's emphasis on cost-effective strategies to improve child- and maternal-health as well as programs to fight HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis (TB) and malaria...
HIV / AIDS News From Medical News Today
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Swaziland: Task-shifting could improve HIV treatment and preventionMANZINI - Swaziland has yet to act on a 2006 World Health Organization (WHO) recommendation to alleviate health worker shortages through task-shifting and according to the Ministry of Health, the failure to do so is compromising scale-up of the antiretroviral (ARV) programme. Dr Velephi Okello, National Coordinator...
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Southern Africa: More sterilizations of HIV-positive women uncoveredJOHANNESBURG - Veronica* did not realize she had been sterilized while giving birth to her daughter until four years later when, after failing to conceive, she and her boyfriend consulted a doctor. "I was like 'Okay, fine', because there was nothing I could do by then, but I was angry. I hate [those nurses]," she...
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