`Test and treat` prevention approach may not require universal treatment to succeedby Keith Alcorn, 2010-03-18 01:00
Treating everyone to halt the HIV epidemic in thye worst-affected countries may not be the most cost-effective use of antiretroviral drugs as a prevention tool, according to mathematical modelling by London’s Imperial College Infectious Disease Epidemiology group. Nor would universal treatment and annual testing always be necessary to achieve profound reductions in new infections, they find.
Over a third of TB cases in UK prisons are drug-resistantby Michael Carter, 2010-03-18 01:00
Many UK prisoners with tuberculosis have a drug-resistant form of the disease, according to a study published in the
Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health.
High prevalence of drug-resistant TB amongst HIV patients in South Africaby Michael Carter, 2010-03-17 01:00
There is a high prevalence of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis amongst patients with HIV in South Africa, investigators report in the April 1
st edition of
Clinical Infectious Diseases.
Genital ulcers frequently associated with HIV shedding in menby Michael Carter, 2010-03-16 01:00
HIV was detected in the lesions of almost 50% of HIV-positive men with genital ulcer disease, investigators report in the April 1
st edition of
Clinical Infectious Diseases.
HIV biggest cause of adolescent death, hospitalisation in Zimbabweby Carole Leach-Lemens, 2010-03-15 01:00
Among adolescents in Harare, Zimbabwe, HIV is now the single most common cause of acute admission and in-hospital death, Rashida A. Ferrand and colleagues reported in a study published in the February online edition of
PLoS Medicine.
Visa refusal shines spotlight on China's HIV travel banby Michael Carter, 2010-03-12 01:00
A spotlight has fallen on China’s continued entry ban for HIV-positive foreigners after HIV-positive Australian novelist Robert Dessaix was refused entry to the country.