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HIV/AIDS: The HIV prevention agenda
Johannesburg :: South Africa | 6 months ago
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PlusNews breaks down the issues likely to top the HIV prevention agenda in the coming year...ARVs over the past decade, only about half of those who need ARVs are receiving them. Meanwhile, more health officials are starting to shift their focus away
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Top-five critical global priority actions on AIDS in 2013
Colombo :: Sri Lanka | 7 months ago
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Global Advocacy for HIV Prevention' outlines top-five list of critical global priority actions in 2013...Global Advocacy for HIV Prevention'. "Right now, the world isn't moving as fast as it should be to begin ending the epidemic. There is still time
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Africa: U.S. Moving Towards a-Pill-a-Day HIV Prevention
Washington :: NJ :: USA | 1 year ago
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Moving Towards a-Pill-a-Day HIV Prevention 12 May 2012 HIV prevention groups in the United States have hailed the recommendation by an FDA Advisory Committee that emtricitabine/tenofovir disoproxil fumarate (TDF/FTC or Truvada) be approved for use as
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Experts Unambiguously Opposed to Saying the Wrong Thing
[Pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) involves putting HIV negative people on antiretroviral drugs (ARV) with the aim of protecting them from HIV infection. This blog looks at some of the pros and cons of PrEP.]
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Saddle River, Allendale Ambulance Corps address reasons for split
Montclair :: NJ :: USA | 1 year ago
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Borough of Saddle River are speaking publically about what led to the split. Feb.1, the nonprofit organization stopped providing emergency services to its neighboring residents...This led the borough to address the changes by reevaluating its
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Tenofovir Products in Search of a Market
A few days ago, an article appeared on AidsMeds.com about the drug Tenofovir being associated with an increased risk of irreversible kidney disease, which
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Treatment As Prevention: Dream or Nightmare?
In the light of current enthusiasm for 'treatment as prevention (or 'is' prevention or some other permutation)', it's sobering to read an article from the US entitled 'Only 28% of
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Tenofovir Vaginal Gel Trial Stopped Because It's Ineffective
The Microbicide Trials Network (MTN) have announced that Tenofovir gel will no longer be used in the current VOICE trial (Vaginal and Oral Interventions to Control the Epidemic) shortly after the same
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Treatment is Not Prevention, but it is Far More Lucrative
It's a relief to hear that there are some people working with HIV who are willing to speak out against the apparent assumption that treatment is prevention, that all we need to do is substantially increase the number of people taking
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RETRACTION: 127 Zimbabwean Women Were Not Infected With HIV During Trial
Following an article in ZimEye.org, I mistakenly wrote that one arm of the Vaginal and Oral Interventions to Control the Epidemic (VOICE) trial, involving the antiretroviral drug Tenofovir, was stopped
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