News tagged with hiv prevalence
Oral supervised HIV self-testing in Malawi is acceptable and accurate
In this week's PLoS Medicine, Augustine Choko of the Malawi-Liverpool Wellcome Trust Clinical Research Programme, Malawi and colleagues assess the uptake and accuracy of home-based supervised oral HIV self-testing in Mal ...
Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS
Oct 04, 2011 |
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Treating HIV sooner would save South African lives and money
If the South African government followed a recent recommendation by the World Health Organization to start antiretroviral therapy (ART) for HIV-infected residents earlier in the progress of the disease, the policy shift would ...
Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS
Jul 25, 2011 |
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Higher HIV risk in black gay men linked to partner choice, risk perception
Young black men who have sex with men (MSM) get infected with HIV nearly five times more often than MSM from other races, even though they don't have more unprotected sex.
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May 02, 2011 |
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Model for roll-out of comprehensive adult male circumcision services in South Africa
In research published this week in PLoS Medicine. Bertran Auvert (INSERM) and colleagues describe the large-scale roll-out of adult male circumcision (AMC) in Orange Farm, South Africa.
Jul 20, 2010 |
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Many pregnant women avoid HIV screening in Africa
'Prevention is the best cure' is a common expression, but what happens if preventative measures are not used? A large proportion of pregnant Ugandan women are going out of their way not to be HIV tested, increasing the risk ...
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Nov 19, 2009 |
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New map finds HIV rates are highest in the South
(AP) -- A new Internet data map offers a first-of-its-kind, county-level look at HIV cases in the U.S. and finds the infection rates tend to be highest in the South.
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Jun 22, 2009 |
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South African policy on adolescents' rights to access condoms is causing confusion
In 2007, South Africa's new Children's Act came into effect, granting children 12 years and older a host of rights relating to reproductive health, including the right to access condoms. But current policies allow individual ...
Jan 21, 2009 |
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