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Southern Africa: Major New Study Points Way to Cut HIV Infections
allAfrica, 5 March 2019
Visiting people in their homes to offer them HIV tests, and referring those who test positive to local clinics, can significantly reduce new infections in a community, according to… Read more »
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Africa: HPTN 071 Demonstrates Community-Wide HIV Prevention Strategy Can Reduce New Infections
HPTN, 5 March 2019
Researchers today presented results from the HPTN 071 (PopART) study at the annual Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI) in Seattle. The study examined the… Read more »
Stepping Up the Fight Against HIV Infections
With statistics showing that five people become infected with HIV for every two entering treatment, researchers are anxious to find ways of cutting the stubbornly high infection rates in many parts of Southern Africa. The message from the world's biggest study of the problem: take HIV testing and counselling into people's homes.
Community HIV care providers (CHiPS) go house to house, offering HIV counselling and testing, in a South African community.
A community HIV care provider, Akhona Kili, uses a device to locate a house in a South African community.
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Situated in Harare, the Edith Opperman clinic also known as Mbare Poly, offers adolescents with free counselling on topics like HIV prevention, treatment, care and support and as ... Read more »
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People forced to migrate as a result of drought may no longer have easy access to the support of family and friends or to HIV treatment and people who lose the stability of their ... Read more »
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December 1 is observed as World AIDS Day - a day set aside as a show of solidarity with people who are living with HIV/Aids, and those who have died from the disease. This year's ... Read more »
