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The types of tests used to monitor health can be expensive. Alternative ways of assessing patient health and making decisions about treatment and care are an important aspect of health care in resource-limited settings. This can include taking a detailed patient history and performing a physical examination.

PrEP policies & guidelines

How do we treat the world? Experts discuss moving to universal HIV treatment

News
21 October 2015
Health monitoring in resource-limited settings

High rate of errors in CD4 testing

Editor's pick
Independent Online - South Africa
8 September 2015
Health monitoring in resource-limited settings

Retention in pre-ART care can be boosted by monthly visits from volunteer support workers

News
4 August 2015
Health monitoring in resource-limited settings

Vancouver delegates call for greater innovation in HIV diagnostics

Editor's pick
UNAIDS
22 July 2015
Health monitoring in resource-limited settings

New Approach on HIV Viral Load Testing

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Global Fund
17 June 2015
Hepatitis C symptoms & diagnosis

Cepheid announces European approval of Xpert HCV Viral Load

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Cepheid press release
16 April 2015
Undetectable viral load & treatment as prevention

Chinese study sheds light on how well treatment may work as prevention in the real world

News
1 April 2015
Undetectable viral load & treatment as prevention

Combining PrEP and ART could almost eliminate HIV infection, east African study finds

News
26 February 2015
Health monitoring in resource-limited settings

Smartphone, Finger Prick, 15 Minutes, Diagnosis—Done!

Editor's pick
Columbia University press release
9 February 2015
Health monitoring in resource-limited settings

Could a $34 smartphone device improve HIV diagnosis in Africa?

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Reuters
6 February 2015
Side effects

Zimbabwe finally switches away from stavudine

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AllAfrica
19 January 2015
Opportunistic infections

Pneumonia risk far higher for HIV-positive children, study shows

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Science Daily
7 January 2015
Improving HIV care

Different community HIV testing and counselling approaches reach different populations in rural Africa

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Medical News Today
17 December 2014
Health monitoring in resource-limited settings

Issue Brief: Achieving undetectable: what questions remain in scaling-up HIV virologic treatment monitoring?

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MSF
15 December 2014
Health monitoring in resource-limited settings

Sophisticated HIV diagnostics adapted for remote areas

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Science Daily
10 December 2014
Health monitoring in resource-limited settings

Sophisticated HIV diagnostics adapted for remote areas

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National Institutes of Health
2 December 2014
Global health initiatives

HIV epidemic will spring back without near-universal diagnosis and treatment, says UNAIDS

News
1 December 2014
Undetectable viral load & treatment as prevention

What are the barriers that could stop HIV treatment becoming HIV prevention?

News
12 November 2014
Retention & linkage to care

Targeted adherence measures and viral load monitoring needed to improve retention in South African ART programme

News
16 October 2014
Treatment outcomes & life expectancy

HIV treatment roll-out has had only a modest impact on mortality in Lusaka, Zambia

News
9 October 2014
Health monitoring in resource-limited settings

Landmark HIV diagnostic access program will save $150m and help achieve new global goals on HIV

Editor's pick
UNAIDs press release
29 September 2014
Access to healthcare

Roche launches Global Access Program for HIV viral load testing

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Roche press release
26 September 2014
Health monitoring in resource-limited settings

Treatment of worm infections leads to increases in CD4 counts and haemoglobin and fall in viral load for HIV-positive women taking ART

News
26 September 2014
Health monitoring in resource-limited settings

Point-of-care CD4 testing is economically feasible for HIV care in resource-limited areas

Editor's pick
Eurekalert Inf Dis
17 September 2014