ARVs Decentralised
All Africa (Free subscription) | 12/03/2009
CHITUNGWIZA Central Hospital has decentralised the anti-retroviral programme to enable adults taking the life-prolonging drugs to collect prescriptions from clinics nearer to them.
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Uganda: 600 Register for ARVs in Karamoja
All Africa (Free subscription) | 12/02/2009
ABOUT 600 HIV-positive people in Kaabong district have registered with local non-governmental organisation to access antiretroviral drugs (ARVs).
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Opinions: ARV Access; Global Health Promotion; Climate Change; Under-Nutrition; Ethiopia
Medical News Today (Free subscription) | 15 hours ago
Column Examines How Trade Rules, Policy Directions May Improve Access To ARVs In an Intellectual Property Watch column, Daniele Dionisio, of the Italian Network for International Fight against AIDS, examines how trade rules and policy directions by governments and institutions may help to improve countries' access to antiretrovirals...
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HIV/AIDS Treatment Access Policies: Emerging Incentives for Pro-Poor Changes to IP?
Intellectual Property Watch (Free subscription) | yesterday
In low- and middle-income countries, about 4 million HIV-infected people are receiving the specified antiretroviral drugs (ARVs), while 5 million are still in need. Sub-Saharan Africa accounts for three-quarters of these figures. Are there reasonable signals from trade rules and policy directions by governments and leading institutions that this scenario might rapidly improve? Daniele Dionisio...
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Two Minutes of Your Time..
Soul Proxies (Free subscription) | 12/04/2009
'Evening chaps! So I know Ballad Soldier already came through with his World AIDS Day post, if you had 'read the rest' he talked about supporting some AIDS charities and stuff. This is just a little add on I guess... I don't know if many of you have ever heard of a patent pool , well basically its like an organization that's granted patents for Antiretroviral drugs (ARVs - they stem the effects...
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Aids policy: 'Systemic problems need to be addressed'
Mail & Guardian (Free subscription) | 12/03/2009
Revised guidelines for access to ARVs cast a wider net than before, but systemic change is needed to for the new protocol to have an impact.
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Zuma meets Microsoft boss Bill Gates over AIDS matters
Bush Radio 89.5 fm Newsroom (Free subscription) | 12/03/2009
... is a new initiative which proposes to test everyone and start all those that are positive on ARVs regardless of CD4 count,” added the statement. Deputy President Motlanthe later met Gates to discuss more specifically matters related to the country's HIV and AIDS programme. Motlanthe met Gates in his capacity as Chairperson of the South African National AIDS Council (SANAC). Bush Radio...
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In Mundri, southern Sudan, HIV/AIDS infection is 3 per cent
Sudan Watch (Free subscription) | 12/02/2009
... That person can still live like any other normal person if he or she takes their medication. The ARVs can make you live for even 15 to 20 years. The important thing is that people should go for an HIV test. After the test, you will be advised on what to do.” In Malakal, Angelo Michael Waan is the director-general of the Upper Nile AIDS Commission. [Angelo Michael Waan]: “In Upper...
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New HIV recommendations to improve health, reduce infections and save lives
Docuticker (Free subscription) | 12/03/2009
... (ART) for adults and adolescents, the delivery of more patient-friendly antiretroviral drugs (ARVs), and prolonged use of ARVs to reduce the risk of mother-to-child transmission of HIV. For the first time, WHO recommends that HIV-positive mothers or their infants take ARVs while breastfeeding to prevent HIV transmission. “These new recommendations are based on the most up to...
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Dark shadows loom over ‘facilitated’ talk
All 24 Hours News (Free subscription) | 12/02/2009
... Palate Be Healed Before Birth? Nearby Michigan counties post lower joblessness 600 Register for ARVs in Karamoja Aids Programmes Are Politicised – Nor-Ugor Big Bang atom smasher records first proton hits Work load overwhelms Kasoa health centre Depressed women can lose weight successfully Some gift items can promote nutrition, healthy lifestyle Holiday presents: Give a cookbook, slow-cooker,...