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HIV Study in Malawi Shows Promise

Oral supervised HIV-self-testing to improve detection and early HIV/Aids treatment could prove to be a crucial and clever way to tackle the life threatening disease.

  • Malawi:  HIV Study Shows Promise

    ThinkAfricaPress, 7 August 2012

    Ground-breaking research on HIV-self-testing is underway in Malawi and with so far promising results. Researchers are investigating whether easy-to-use mouth swabs, which allow… Read more »

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Despite managing to reduce its HIV prevalence rate from around 26% to 10.6% since 1998, Malawi continues to be amongst the world's worst affected countries by the disease.

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