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Floods in West Africa raise major health risks
...HIV/AIDS in the region, whose health care is further compromised by the flooding. In Benin, the current flooding has displaced at least 150 000 people and raising fears of malaria, diarrhoeal diseases and respiratory infections, especially...
Public consultation ARM 43: Request to reclassify azithro...
...Centre for Infections, Terrence Higgins Trust, Centre for Sexual Health and HIV Research, Independent Healthcare Advisory Service....
Working better with Aboriginal clients: addressing sexual...
...infections among Aboriginal people,' he says. When: 10am to 3.30pm, Wednesday 20 August Where: Dockside Balcony level of Cockle Bay Wharf (city side of Darling Harbour) CONTACTS: Associate Professor Carla Treloar, National Centre in HIV Social...
Best drug for HIV and TB
Researchers have come down on the side of a more expensive antiretroviral drug as the most effective in the treatment of new tuberculosis infections in HIV patients. The drug efavirenz was recommended for TB patients who contract HIV while taking...
Online campaign targets HIV tests
...the message is limited to HIV, he added. Youth who have unprotected sex are also at risk of contracting more common sexually transmitted infections, such as chlamydia and HPV. STIs such as gonorrhea and syphilis have also seen a resurgence in...
AIDS 2008 - Science Examines HIV/AIDS Prevention, Treatme...
...one HIV-positive partner do not need to use condoms to prevent HIV transmission provided that the HIV-positive person is taking antiretrovirals, has had an undetectable viral load for six months and has no other sexually transmitted infections....
A failure to act on AIDS represents a crime against human...
...down from three million in 2001, but still this represents a huge number, an unacceptable number, of new infections. The number of children infected with HIV-AIDS fell to 370,000 in 2007 from 410,000 in 2005....
CDC understated number of new HIV infections
The disclosure followed a report that if Black Americans were ranked as a nation, they would be 16th in the world in the number of people living with HIV. Blacks account for half of HIV infections in the United States.
Scientists reveal 'most effective' drug for HIV/TB patients
...already on antiretroviral drugs when they subsequently developed TB were unaffected, highlighting the complexity of treating concurrent HIV and TB infections. Researchers from the Western Cape provincial health department, Médecins Sans...
Bajaj AIDS treatment centre
...where HIV positive individuals will be provided with anti retroviral therapy (ART). NACO will supply drugs for the first line of treatment free of charge, while YCMH will take care of laboratory tests and treat opportunistic infections for the...