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‘Observational studies of pregnant women in sub-Saharan Africa have shown that low serum vitamin A levels are associated with an increased risk of mother-to-child transmission (MTCT) of HIV. Vitamin A is cheap and easily provided through existing health services in low-income settings. It is thus important to determine the effect of routine supplementation of HIV positive pregnant women with this vitamin on the risk of MTCT of HIV, which currently results in more than 1000 new HIV infections e more...
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Text to Change (TTC) , a Ugandan NGO that uses a bulk short message service (SMS) platform for HIV/AIDS education, recently partnered with the AIDS Information Centre in Uganda (AIC) and Celtel, a local mobile phone network, to pilot a project in western Uganda aimed at communicating knowledge about the disease and encouraging subscribers to volunteer for HIV testing.
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This series of briefing papers was produced by Medecins Sans Frontieres for the 2008 International AIDS Conference. The highlight MSF's experiences in providing care to people living with HIV and AIDS in resource limited settings.
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WHO, August 2008. Priority interventions: HIV/AIDS prevention, treatment and care in the health sector defines the essential interventions the health sector should deliver and provides key references as well as links to web-based resources. This initial version of the document
will be further adapted and finalized in coming weeks, and will be published in print format as well as electronically, to be then updated on a regular basis as a “living document”. The document provides WHO’s best more...
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United States Government Accountability Office, April 2008. This study was conducted by GAO in order to (1) evaluate the views of HIV and AIDS experts on the directives that guide allocation of PEPFAR funding, (2)describe an alternative approach to allocating funds and (3) describe potential challenges associated with this approach. For the study, GAO interviewed 22 experts, PEPFAR officials in the focus countries and reviewed relevant documentation. The report argues that, if the US congress re more...
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Published by the Center for Global Development, August 2008. Donors spend billions of dollars to fight HIV/AIDS in developing countries, but poor integration between donors and host country health systems risks undermining international efforts to prevent and treat AIDS. In this analysis, CGD’s HIV/AIDS Monitor argues that donors need to pay more attention to their overall effect on health systems.
They find that the U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), the Global Fun more...
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Black AIDS Institute, August 2008. This report suggests that American policy-makers behave as if AIDS exists “elsewhere”—as if the AIDS problem in the U.S. has effectively been solved. This false dichotomy between the global and domestic epidemics not only blinds decision-makers to the serious epidemic in Black America, but leads the federal government to pursue an approach to AIDS in Black America that is strikingly at odds with its successful PEPFAR initiative. The report urges immediate more...
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