HIV and AIDS
From local meetings to advocacy campaigns, KCS document the way in which communities are currently responding to HIV and AIDS. KCs will also report announcements of new HIV testing and prevention schemes and highlight the successes and failures of existing programmes. The impact traditional healers, ARV stock-outs and expired medication have on the lives of those living with HIV is also reported, as are spikes and declines in HIV prevalence rates. KCs also document what life is like for people living with HIV and the impact culture and religion has on their choices around treatment and care. KC stories often examine the links between poverty and HIV, as well as the links between maternal health and HIV, told through the lenses of community campaigns and individual stories.
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Health workers in Western Uganda have expressed concern over the government’s failure to provide HIV testing kits, which they say is making a prevention of mother to child transmission (PMTCT) program fail, despite it being a priority.
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The Aids Support Organization’s (TASO) manager in Eastren Uganda’s Soroti district, Patrick Igulot, has urged everybody to do whatever they can to prevent the spread of HIV in their midst.
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The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria will transfer management of a US$28.77 million HIV/AIDS grant from Mali’s national AIDS council, the Haut Conseil de Lutte contre le Sida (HCLNS), to a new principal recipient at the end of the year.
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From allafrica.com
Once touted as a success story in the fight against HIV/Aids, but recent evidence is shows that Uganda’s response to the scourge is faltering.
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From www.aidstar-one.com
Co-trimoxazole is an antibiotic that reduces rates of opportunistic infections, such as malaria, diarrhoea, and pneumonia, and death among adults and children living with HIV. Access to this intervention, however, remains inconsistent. A key barrier to appropriate Co-trimoxazole use is limited awareness about the benefits of using the antibiotic as a prophylaxis.
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From www.unaids.org
WHO and UNAIDS hail results from the HPTN 052 trial that show antiretroviral therapy to be 96% effective in reducing HIV transmission in couples where one partner has HIV. Results announced by the United States National Institutes of Health show that if an HIV-positive person adheres to an effective antiretroviral therapy regimen, the risk of transmitting the virus to their uninfected sexual partner can be reduced by 96%.
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From www.aidsmap.com
In April’s HTU, AIDSMAP featured a news story, reporting that a group of patients had had their CD4 counts boosted by a form of gene therapy – and declared that this could be the first step to a cure for HIV infection. Matt Sharp wrote an article on lymphoma for that same issue. He was one of the six participants in the gene experiment and so far, he writes, it seems to be working just fine.
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From www.aidsmap.com
The prominent HIV and TB activist Winstone Zulu has died at the age of 47 in hospital in Lusaka. Mr Zulu was diagnosed with HIV in 1990 and was the first person in Zambia to make a public statement about his HIV status.
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