Category Archives: HIV – AIDS – STI

AIDSFree Annual Report Project Year 3

Posted on May 29, 2018 by admin

Arlington, VA: AIDSFree Project, 2018 42 pp. 3.2 https://aidsfree.usaid.gov/sites/default/files/2018.4.28_py3-aidsfree-annual-report.pdf This annual report presents AIDSFree’s programmatic achievements at both central and country levels for October 1, 2016 to September 30, 2017. The Strengthening High Impact Interventions for an AIDS-free Generation (AIDSFree) … Continue reading →

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Focus on Global Health Security

Posted on May 20, 2018 by admin

The Global Fund, May 2018 4 pp. 1.1 MB https://www.theglobalfund.org/media/7318/publication_globalhealthsecurity_focuson_en.pdf Microbes do not stop at national borders, so an infectious disease threat anywhere is a threat everywhere. Making our world safer from epidemics means strengthening the capacity of countries to … Continue reading →

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Roles played by community cadres to support retention in PMTCT Option B+ in four African countries: a qualitative rapid appraisal

Posted on May 7, 2018 by admin

by Donela Besada, Ameena Goga, Emmanuelle Daviaud et al. BMJ Open, 2018 Mar 22;8(3):e020754 11 pp. 604 kB http://bmjopen.bmj.com/content/8/3/e020754.full.pdf The objective of the study was to explore the roles of community cadres in improving access to and retention in care … Continue reading →

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The role of community health workers in improving HIV treatment outcomes in children: lessons learned from the ZENITH trial in Zimbabwe

Posted on May 6, 2018 by admin

by Joanna Busza, Ethel Dauya, Tsitsi Bandason et al. Health Policy and Planning, 33, 2018, 328–334, January 2018 7 pp. 151 kB https://academic.oup.com/heapol/article-pdf/33/3/328/24268094/czx187.pdf Reliance on community health workers (CHWs) for HIV care continues to increase, particularly in resource-limited settings. CHWs … Continue reading →

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Targeting the right interventions to the right people and places: the role of geospatial analysis in HIV programme planning

Posted on May 4, 2018 by admin

by Gesinea Meyer-Rath, Jessica B McGillen,. Diego F. Cuadros et al. AIDS 2018, 32:957–963 7 pp. 528 kB https://gallery.mailchimp.com/c1c1344f9e4a033ef12fee54f/files/97a2a52f-94eb-4f3c- 9ddd-aa5d98caa045/AIDS_Geospatial_Analysis_article.pdf Geospatial epidemiology has a long history. Until recently, data limitations meant that intervention policies were designed under an assumption of … Continue reading →

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Latent TB Infection: Updated and consolidated guidelines for programmatic management

Posted on April 30, 2018 by admin

by Yohhei Hamada, Haileyesus Getahun, Mario Raviglione et al. World Health Organization, 2018 79 pp. 609 kB http://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/10665/260233/1/9789241550239-eng.pdf?ua=1 These new guidelines supersede previous WHO policy documents on the management of Latent TB Infection (LTBI) in people living with HIV, household … Continue reading →

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The Key Populations Atlas

Posted on April 26, 2018 by admin

UNAIDS, April 2018 http://www.hivsharespace.net/resource/key-populations-atlas UNAIDS has just relaunched its Key Populations Atlas, an online tool that provides a range of information about members of key populations worldwide, including sex workers, gay men and other men who have sex with men, … Continue reading →

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Sustainable Survival for adolescents living with HIV: do SDG‐aligned provisions reduce potential mortality risk?

Posted on March 26, 2018 by admin

by Lucie Cluver, Marija Pantelic, Mark Orkin et al. Journal of the International AIDS Society 2018, 21(S1):e25056 – First published: 27 February 2018 6 pp. 135 kB https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/jia2.25056 The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) present a groundbreaking global development agenda to … Continue reading →

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Southern Africa HIV and AIDS Regional Exchange (SHARE) Research Digest, December 2017 – January 2018

Posted on March 19, 2018 by admin

Southern Africa HIV and AIDS Regional Exchange (SHARE), 2018 116 pp. 754 kB http://www.hivsharespace.net/sites/default/files/SHARE-research-digest-march- 2018.pdf The SHARE project is pleased to provide a compilation of article abstracts from peer-reviewed literature related to HIV and AIDS in southern Africa. Abstracts are … Continue reading →

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The growing burden of noncommunicable disease among persons living with HIV in Zimbabwe

Posted on March 17, 2018 by admin

by Mikaela Smit, Jack Olney, Nathan P Ford et al. AIDS: March 27, 2018, Vol. 32, Issue 6, pp. 773–782 10 pp. 1.1 MB https://journals.lww.com/aidsonline/Fulltext/2018/03270/The_growing_burden_of_no ncommunicable_disease.11.aspx The authors aim to characterize the future noncommunicable disease (NCD) burden in Zimbabwe to … Continue reading →

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