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World AIDS Day 2011: Leading With Science, Uniting for Action
By Ambassador Jonathan S. Gration, Maj Gen, USAF (Ret) December 1, 2011 On World AIDS Day, we pay tribute to more than 34 million people living with HIV/AIDS worldwide. We…
Five Lives: Preventing transmission of HIV from mother to child
Source: Doctor s Without Borders 26 October 2011 “Lucky was born negative because I already knew my HIV status and I got the help from the clinic I needed.: Catherine…
Falsified medicines enter supply chain in Kenya
Source: MSF Nairobi, October 1, 2011 – On 5th and 7th September, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) missions in Kenya detected quality problems with one antiretroviral medicine (ARV) named Zidolam-N used…
Kenya: Despite free ARVs, delayed treatment often due to poverty
Source: Aidsmap Carole Leach-Lemens Published: 09 September 2011 Over a third of participants with an eligible CD4 cell count in a cohort of HIV sero discordant couples in Nairobi, Kenya…
Maternity wards turn off women
Source: The Standard Pregnant women are shunning giving birth in hospitals owing to mistreatment by health workers, writes KIUNDU WAWERU When Rosemary Awuor gave birth to her first born, it…
Early HIV Drug Therapy Protects Sex Partners From Virus
Source:http://health.usnews.com/ Posted: May 12, 2011 By Steven Reinberg HealthDay Reporter THURSDAY, May 12 (HealthDay News) — People with HIV can reduce the risk of infecting their sex partners by more…
Local Firms May Start Selling ARV Drugs
IRIN John Muchangi 10 May 2011 Three local drugs makers may begin selling antiretroviral drugs to the government if an assessment by the World Health Organisation is successful. WHO inspectors…
KENYA: PMTCT could cause drug resistance in positive infants
Source: IRIN KISUMU, 6 May 2011 (PlusNews) – Drug regimens used in the prevention of mother-to-child transmission (PMTCT) of HIV are effective, but infants should be monitored for drug resistance,…
UCSF Researchers Develop Simple Tools to Detect Neurological HIV Complications in Kenya
Source:University of California, San Francisco By Jason Bardi on April 15, 2011 A team of researchers at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) has developed a simple screening tool…
Kenya: Patients on ARVs hard hit by drought, high food prices
Press Release reliefweb Date: 07 Apr 2011 NAKURU/ISIOLO, 7 April 2011 (PLUSNEWS) – When IRIN/PlusNews recently visited Nuna Kahiro, 75, in Kenya’s Rift Valley town of Nakuru, she asked the…
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