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Tag: AIDS Care

What’s pregnancy got to do with it? Late presentation to HIV/AIDS services in Northeastern Brazil

Posted on July 17, 2014August 21, 2018
Despite the known benefits of early treatment initiation for individual morbidity and mortality, as well as for reducing the risk of transmission, late presentation (LP) to HIV/AIDS services remains a major concern in many co... read more →

‘I did not feel like a mother’: The success and remaining challenges to exclusive formula feeding among HIV-positive women in Brazil

Posted on May 28, 2013August 21, 2018
Exclusive and safe formula feeding can eliminate the risk of vertical HIV transmission due to breastfeeding. Therefore many countries advise all HIV-positive women to avoid breastfeeding their infants. However, little researc... read more →

Missed opportunities to accessing HIV testing and antiretroviral therapy during routine patient-provider encounters in Sub-Saharan Africa: a systematic review of the evidence

Posted on October 1, 2011August 21, 2018
Background and Objective: The relative balance between Th1 and Th2 cytokines appears crucial in the outcome of infections . We assessed the levels of some proinflammatory Th1 cytokines, interleukin-2 (IL-2) and gamma... read more →

Missed opportunities to enrol women testing HIV-positive in antenatal and delivery services into long-term HIV care and treatment

Posted on May 1, 2011August 21, 2018
Prevention of Mother to Child Transmission of HIV (PMTCT) programmes have been scaled up substantially in recent years. In 2009, it was estimated that 50% of pregnant women in East and Southern Africa were tested for HIV, up ... read more →

AIDS Treatment In Brazil: Impacts And Challenges

Posted on July 1, 2009August 21, 2018
Brazil has one of the developing world’s largest, and arguably most successful, AIDS treatment programs. In this paper we review the treatment program, including controversial policies that Brazil has used to promote widesp... read more →

Estimating the Lost Benefits of Antiretroviral Drug Use in South Africa

Posted on December 1, 2008August 21, 2018
South Africa is one of the countries most severely affected by HIV/AIDS. At the peak of the epidemic, the government, going against consensus scientific opinion, argued that HIV was not the cause of AIDS and that antiretrovir... read more →

Emerging health disparities in Botswana: Examining the situation of orphans during the AIDS epidemic

Posted on June 1, 2007August 21, 2018
Botswana has the second highest HIV prevalence rate and highest rate of orphanhood in the world. Although child mortality rates have doubled in 15 years, the extent to which health disparities are connected to orphan status r... read more →

Orphan Care in Botswana’s Working Households: Growing Responsibilities in the Absence of Adequate Support

Posted on August 1, 2006August 21, 2018
Objectives: Botswana has one of the world’s highest HIV-prevalence rates and the world’s highest percentages of orphaned children among its population. We assessed the ability of income-earning households in Botswana to ... read more →

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