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Filters Content type: News, Editors' picks Country: Sub-Saharan Africa
Diagnosing infants & children

Malawi tests first unmanned aerial vehicle flights for HIV early infant diagnosis

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UNICEF
15 March 2016
Sex workers

UNAIDS welcomes South Africa's groundbreaking National Sex Worker HIV Plan

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UNAIDS (press release)
14 March 2016
TB diagnosis

Low cost, 25 min TB-test could help reduce tuberculosis death rate among patients with HIV in sub-Saharan Africa

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Science Daily
14 March 2016
Sex workers

South Africa rolls out ‘test and treat’ to sex workers

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Health-e
14 March 2016
Bone & joint problems

HIV-infected young males have higher rates of bone loss than females

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Eurekalert Medicine & Health
11 March 2016
Ageing & HIV

Last Men Standing: The Forgotten Survivors Of AIDS

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San Francisco Chronicle
11 March 2016
Tuberculosis & HIV

HIV patients in Africa with a specific genetic variant have much lower rate of TB

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Eurekalert Inf Dis
10 March 2016
Retention & linkage to care

UNAIDS to collaborate on new mobile technology platform to improve data collection and advance the response to HIV

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UNAIDS
9 March 2016
Hepatitis & HIV

More than 2 million people co-infected with HIV and hepatitis C

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Eurekalert Inf Dis
8 March 2016
PrEP

Updated Southern African guidelines on the safe use of pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) in persons at risk of acquiring HIV-1 infection

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Anova Health Institute
8 March 2016
Global health initiatives

Do US global AIDS dollars build stability, less violence? Hard to prove

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Politifact
8 March 2016
Bad science & bogus treatments

Mbeki still believes his own AIDS propaganda

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Health-e
7 March 2016
Finance & funding

HIV/AIDS long-term costs high -- and unaffordable to most-affected countries

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EurekAlert (press release)
7 March 2016
PrEP

Women need more of the HIV drug Truvada than men to prevent infection

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Eurekalert Medicine & Health
4 March 2016
Drug-resistant TB

South Africa’s XDR-TB epidemic is due to transmission rather than evolution of resistant strains

News
4 March 2016
Transgender people

Report shows that transgender people are left behind in the fight against HIV 

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Global Fund Observer
3 March 2016
Combatting stigma

Survey: Africans are generally very tolerant, but just not of gay people

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Mamba Online
2 March 2016
Retention & linkage to care

Rate of entry into HIV care improved by personalised counselling

News
1 March 2016
Retention & linkage to care

Studies probe retention in HIV care for women who start antiretroviral treatment during pregnancy

News
1 March 2016
Vaginal rings & topical PrEP

Vaginal ring for HIV prevention: a few details would have elevated good coverage to great

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Health News Review
1 March 2016
Vaginal rings & topical PrEP

Why a new vaginal ring could be a game-changer in HIV prevention

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The Conversation
1 March 2016
Social & legal issues

Africans tolerant on religion, ethnicity, nationality, and HIV, but not homosexuality, survey finds

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The South African
1 March 2016
Improving HIV care

CROI 2016: HIV trial data raises the question of how to end an epidemic when men are “missing but in action...”

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Science Speaks
1 March 2016
PrEP science

‘On-demand’ rectal microbicide gel has reasonable tolerability and acceptability – daily less so

News
28 February 2016