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Global health initiatives

GLOBAL: Straight talk with Gottfried Hirnschall, WHO's new director of HIV

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IRIN Plus News
8 July 2010

BOTSWANA: HIV treatment for refugees, but for how long?

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IRIN Plus News
7 July 2010

EAST AFRICA: Community HIV drug distribution improves adherence

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IRIN Plus News
7 July 2010

ZAMBIA: Parent's Fears Slowing Uptake of Paediatric AIDS Treatment

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Inter Press Service
6 July 2010

AFRICA: Money no protection from HIV

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IRIN Plus News
6 July 2010
Nutrition

Good early increases in CD4 count reduce mortality risk for malnourished HIV patients

News
5 July 2010

KENYA: Muslim leaders champion HIV testing in marriage

Editor's pick
IRIN Plus News
2 July 2010
Behaviour change interventions

'No sex' months proposed as fire-break for HIV in worst-affected countries

News
30 June 2010
Transmission & prevention

Vienna declaration calls for science-based drug policies

News
30 June 2010
HIV testing policies & guidelines

Malaria symptoms should raise suspicion of HIV in sub-Saharan Africa

News
28 June 2010
Sexual transmission

HIV transmission risk during anal sex 18 times higher than during vaginal sex

News
28 June 2010
Epidemiology

South Africa: HIV infection rate slowing, study reports

News
22 June 2010
Organ transplants

South African doctors report successful kidney transplants between people with HIV

News
17 June 2010
TB treatment

Timing of ART initiation during TB treatment may not have significant impact on risk of death

News
15 June 2010
Behaviour change interventions

HIV counselling increases condom use in TB patients

News
10 June 2010
TB transmission & prevention

South African gold mines a 'TB factory', activist claims

News
10 June 2010
HIV testing policies & guidelines

Increasing testing for HIV in TB patients feasible without additional resources

News
10 June 2010
Nutrition

Nutritional supplementation has only modest benefits for patients with HIV

News
9 June 2010
Epidemiology

HIV fall in Zimbabwe due to deaths and behaviour change, not migration

News
4 June 2010
Health problems & ageing

HIV-positive South African patients with higher BMIs have reduced risk of death and TB

News
3 June 2010
Treatment for women

Meta-analysis suggests efavirenz does not increase risk of birth abnormalities

News
2 June 2010
Transmission & prevention

What happens to people who become HIV positive in prevention trials?

News
1 June 2010
Resistance

Treatment and PrEP could be on a ‘collision course’, warns resistance expert

News
1 June 2010
Pregnancy, children & young people

New WHO treatment criteria could prevent 90% of vertical transmission

News
31 May 2010