News tagged with perinatal hiv
Combination antiretroviral therapy effective at reducing HIV resistance in mothers and babies
In a clinical trial investigating mother-to-child HIV transmission in South Africa published this week in PLoS Medicine, Neil Martinson (of the Perinatal HIV Research Unit, Soweto, South Africa) and colleagues find that a ...
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Oct 27, 2009 |
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Small investment could save 11 million African lives
In the next five years, 11 million African women and children could be saved by creating near-universal availability of key life-saving interventions, according to The Partnership for Maternal, Newborn & Child Health and ...
Jul 26, 2010 |
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Lack of access to evidence-based HIV prevention and care is a fundamental violation of human rights
The appalling lack of access to scientifically proven interventions for key populations at risk -- including sex workers, men who have sex with men and people who use drugs - and the lagging scale up of simple and inexpensive ...
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Jul 22, 2010 |
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Mother-to-child HIV transmission rate falling, but more can be done
Transmission of HIV to children before or at birth has dropped dramatically around the country in the last decade since the advent of powerful new therapies. That certainly is true for Florida, where each year, fewer than ...
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Jul 22, 2010 |
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AIDS drugs given to pregnant women block 99 percent of HIV transmission to breastfed babies
An international clinical trial led by researchers at the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) has found that AIDS-fighting antiretroviral drug combinations given to pregnant and breastfeeding women in Botswana, Africa, ...
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Jun 16, 2010 |
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Gene change raises odds of mother-to-child HIV transmission
A correlation has been discovered between specific variants of the gene that codes for a key immune system protein, TLR9, and the risk of mother-to-child, or vertical, transmission of HIV. Researchers writing in BioMed Central's ...
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May 25, 2010 |
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Improving female reproductive health and empowerment through control of NTDs
Controlling neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) in developing countries would help improve the reproductive health and rights of girls and women in the poorest countries of Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Caribbean, according ...
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Dec 01, 2009 |
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Landmark study defines benefits of early HIV testing and treatment for infected infants
Testing very young babies for HIV and giving antiretroviral therapy (ART) immediately to those found infected with the virus dramatically prevents illness and death, according to a report in the New England Journal of Me ...
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Nov 19, 2008 |
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Surgical conditions in Africa are given low priority despite causing death and disability
Two surgeons are calling on the international health community to recognize that surgical conditions account for a huge burden of disease in the developing world, and that the human right to health must include access to ...
Jun 03, 2008 |
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Treating HIV-infected infants early helps them live longer
Hundreds of thousands of babies around the world are born each year with HIV--more than half a million in 2006 alone. Caring for these children is complicated by the fact that their immune systems are not fully developed ...
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Jul 25, 2007 |
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Africa's first large-scale HIV vaccine study launches
The launch of the first large-scale study to evaluate a candidate HIV vaccine on the African continent was announced today by study collaborators in the United States and South Africa. The trial will involve up to 3,000 participants ...
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Feb 08, 2007 |
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