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Filters Content type: News, Editors' picks Country: Sub-Saharan Africa
Behaviour change interventions

US PEPFAR abstinence and faithfulness funding had no impact on sexual behaviour in Africa

News
26 February 2015
TB treatment

CROI 2015: Trial to evaluate the use of health navigators to link HIV/TB patients to care and treatment fails to show positive results

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Science Speaks
26 February 2015
New & experimental hepatitis C treatment

New hepatitis C treatments highly effective for HIV/HCV coinfected people

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HIVandHepatitis.com
26 February 2015
Hepatitis C transmission & prevention

Sexual Transmission of HCV in Gay Men Should Not Be a PrEP Deterrent, Say Advocates

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The Body
26 February 2015
Behaviour change interventions

What We Know About HIV Transmission Should Influence PrEP Messaging

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The Body
26 February 2015
Harm reduction

Auto-Disable Syringes Are Not For Needle Programmes

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National Needle Exchange Forum
26 February 2015
Starting treatment

Starting HIV treatment at CD4 count above 500 reduces the risk of serious illness and death by 44%, African Temprano trial shows

News
26 February 2015
Undetectable viral load & treatment as prevention

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

News
26 February 2015
Drug-resistant TB

XDR-TB in South Africa is largely spread person-to-person, not by failure of drug treatment

News
26 February 2015
Opportunistic infections

Stopping cotrimoxazole during antiretroviral therapy raises risk of bacterial illness, malaria, Ugandan trial shows

News
26 February 2015
Vaginal rings & topical PrEP

Disappointing result for tenofovir-gel microbicide shows that young women still lack HIV prevention methods they can use

News
25 February 2015
Pregnancy and vertical transmission

7-country study shows triple-drug combination superior for preventing infant HIV infection

News
25 February 2015
Pregnancy and vertical transmission

Breastfeeding mothers often undiagnosed in sub-Saharan Africa

News
25 February 2015
Access to healthcare

Merck places children's HIV drug in shared non-profit patent pool

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Reuters
24 February 2015
PrEP

Human Rights Campaign Launches #DailyBlue Campaign Combating PrEP-Related Stigma

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Human Rights Campaign
24 February 2015
PrEP

Health News Review analysis of Bloomberg's coverage of PrEP

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Health News Review
24 February 2015
Undetectable viral load & treatment as prevention

An HIV Doctor Tells You if Serodiscordant Couples Need to Use Condoms

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The Body
23 February 2015
Harm reduction

Africa: HIV Rises in Injecting Drug Users

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Voice of America
23 February 2015
HIV & criminal law

We need to rethink the relationship between forensic science and the law

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The Conversation
21 February 2015
Drug-resistant TB

UGA researchers discover potential treatment for drug-resistant tuberculosis

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University of Georgia press release
20 February 2015
The search for an HIV prevention vaccine

University of RochesterTests HIV Vaccine Pill

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University of Rochester press release
20 February 2015
Hepatitis C treatment

Cost-Effectiveness of Immediate Hepatitis C Treatment in Early Disease Analyzed

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HCP Live
20 February 2015
TB treatment

TB drug candidate starts Phase 1 trial — first in six years

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Science Speaks
20 February 2015
The search for an HIV prevention vaccine

NIH-sponsored HIV vaccine trial launches in South Africa

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Eurekalert Medicine & Health
19 February 2015