Hiv Self Test Articles & Analysis
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Why HIV Testing is Important HIV Testing is critical to reducing its spread. ...
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Delayed test results often mean HIV patients in Mozambique fail to get timely treatment, but new technology is reducing the need to send tests to far away laboratories, and speeding up test results and HIV treatment. Mozambique's Ministry of Health has increasingly begun experimenting with new technology to make diagnosing and monitoring HIV patients quicker and easier. After a successful 2009 ...
Radio Soap Operas Teach Local Communities About Sexual Health By Sarah Grainger, BBC In a modest breeze-block house in a village in Guatemala’s chilly and damp Western highlands, Aura Garcia tunes her small radio every Saturday morning to 93.7FM Radio Arco Iris which broadcasts the soap opera ‘El Intruso’ (the Intruder). Aura is 17-years-old and a member of one of ...
Abbott and the Clinton Health Access Initiative (CHAI) have joined forces to provide HIV testing to infants in all countries working in partnership with the CHAI. A key focus of this cooperation will be sub-Saharan Africa, which the World Health Organization estimates to account for 90 percent of global HIV infections in children. Under terms of the agreement, Abbott will supply its RealTime ...
Today ViiV Healthcare awarded a total of £3.6m in grants to support 12 projects focused on preventing HIV transmission from mother-to-child, to improve the health and wellbeing of women, children and their families around the globe. These grants are the first of a series of grants that ViiV Healthcare will award as part of the £50 million Positive Action for Children Fund which was ...