News from category: Care/Treatment – PlusNews
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“How will we now put so many more people on ARVs?”
NAIROBI, 9 March 2010 (PlusNews) – Global funding shortfalls for fighting AIDS could make it impossible for developing countries to implement new …
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Patient-friendly but unapproved
JOHANNESBURG, 4 March 2010 (PlusNews) – Delays in registering antiretroviral (ARV) medication may keep cheaper, more patient-friendly drugs out of reach as South Africa prepares to launch the world’s largest tender …
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Floods are common in southern Africa but planning for the treatment disruptions they cause isn’t, according to a new report
JOHANNESBURG, 1 March 2010 (PlusNews) – When a crisis strikes, access to antiretroviral …
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As many as 130,000 Tanzanian women fall pregnant every year; many of these are unwanted pregnancies
DAR ES SALAAM, 1 March 2010 (PlusNews) – A Tanzanian project is integrating family planning and HIV …
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The new programme will help eliminate delays in initiating ART
KIGALI, 26 February 2010 (PlusNews) – Rwandan nurses will soon be authorized to start HIV-positive patients on life-prolonging antiretroviral treatment (ART), a …
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New guidelines target the most vulnerable living with HIV
JOHANNESBURG, 23 February 2010 (PlusNews) – New national treatment guidelines are set to make the world’s largest antiretroviral (ARV) programme even bigger as South …
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Test and treat – do models match reality?
JOHANNESBURG, 22 February 2010 (PlusNews) – New research could bolster arguments for a controversial approach that could eradicate HIV transmission in South Africa within five years, …
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The government intends to expand the programme across the country
DAR ES SALAAM/MOROGORO, 22 February 2010 (PlusNews) – Elias Sempindo, 72, thought he would spend his twilight years doting on his grandchildren; instead, …
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At Kigali Central Prison, an estimated 16.5 percent of female inmates and 15 percent of male prisoners are HIV-positive
KIGALI, 18 February 2010 (PlusNews) – Rwandan health authorities have embarked on a campaign …
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The associations help identify HIV-positive people in their communities who are in need of assistance
JUBA, 4 February 2010 (PlusNews) – Networks of people living with HIV in southern Sudan are trying to …
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“Military people share all the misunderstandings of wider society”
JOHANNESBURG, 26 January 2010 (PlusNews) – The announcement in late 2009 that the government had approved a new HIV/AIDS policy in the South African National …
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Is 300,000 people on treatment too ambitious?
HARARE, 22 January 2010 (PlusNews) – An ambitious state plan that will almost double the number of people on antiretroviral (ARV) treatment by the end of …
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The tribunal will handle legal cases relating to HIV
NAIROBI, 21 January 2010 (PlusNews) – The Kenyan government has created the first ever tribunal to handle legal issues relating to HIV, including discrimination …
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The AIDS levy could be expanded
HARARE, 21 January 2010 (PlusNews) – A plan to expand the three percent AIDS levy to include those in the informal sector could have a negative impact …
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Locked in the closet
NAIROBI, 19 January 2010 (PlusNews) – More than two-thirds of African countries have laws criminalizing homosexual acts, and despite accounting for a significant percentage of new infections in many countries, men …
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Many foreigners are still refused treatment at public health facilities
JOHANNESBURG, 14 January 2010 (PlusNews) – A study finding that foreigners are about half as likely to fail antiretroviral (ARV) treatment as South African …
