Treatment and care
- Stigma, scale-up, and treatment governance: stumbling block or window of opportunity?
- This paper examines the problems and opportunities associated with the current expansion of access to anti-retroviral therapy (ART) for people living with HIV. The paper outlines a treatment governance approach to the development of ART services and draws on research from Vietnam to illustrate the importance of encouraging the participation of those living with HIV in the development of treatment policies.
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- Efforts to confront the deadly combination of TB and HIV need to be scaled up
- ( Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS , 2011)
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Tuberculosis (TB) is the main cause of death in people living with HIV. This report is a call that TB should not be a death sentence for a two million people living with HIV and expected to die of ...
- The implementation of collaborative TB/HIV activities in a Cameroonian district hospital
- ( H.A. Yumo;C. Kuaban;F. Neuhann / National Centre for Biotechnology Information, USA , 2011)
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In response to the need of integrating tuberculosis (TB)/HIV activities, the WHO in 2004 mapped out a number of key activities to be implemented by countries to ensure effective collaboration betwe...
- When should patients co-infected with TB and HIV start ART in Malawi?
- ( M.V. Lettow;A.K. Chan;A.S. Ginsburg / Ingenta , 2011)
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Malawian policy to invite patients co-infected with tuberculosis (TB) and HIV to start antiretroviral therapy (ART) 2 months after initiating TB treatment changed recently; the new policy shortened...
- Female sex workers use of sexual health services in Nepal
- ( L. Ghimire;W.C.S. Smith;E.R.V. Teijlingen / BioMed Central , 2011)
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Statistics indicate that more than half of the women with sexually transmitted infections in Nepal sought sexual health services. This study explores female sex workers (FSWs) use of sexual health ...
- HIV prevalence and associated risk factors among at-risk groups in Lebanon
- ( Z. Mahfoud;R. Afifi;S. Ramia / International AIDS Society , 2010)
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Preventing HIV among at-risk groups can help to curb the spread of HIV to the general population. The objectives of this paper is to measure HIV prevalence and associated risk factors among female ...
