HIV Transmission:
HIV Transmission
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Nov 21st, 2008
About 35% of women in India's Karnataka state know that condoms can prevent HIV transmission.
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Nov 14th, 2008
In hopes of developing a national policy on reproductive health to help curb the spread of HIV in the Philippines, the Girls, Women and HIV/AIDS Network recently called for the passage of a reproductive health bill.
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Nov 8th, 2008
A recent review of a clinical study comparing antiretroviral treatment regimens that contained either nevirapine or ritonavir-boosted lopinavir found that ritonavir/ lopinavir is more effective than nevirpaine among HIV-positive women who previously took a single-dose of nevirapine to prevent mother-to-child HIV transmission.
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Nov 5th, 2008
Despite ongoing efforts to educate the public about HIV, a new study has found that two-thirds of families with an HIV-infected parent experience fears about spreading HIV in the home.
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Oct 21st, 2008
Advocates for people living with HIV/AIDS recently criticized a proposed law in Uganda that would criminalize the deliberate spread of the virus.
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Oct 4th, 2008
An eight year study, published in scientific journal Nature, claims the HIV-1 virus that leads to AIDS could have infected humans around 1908 in Africa. Scientists found traces of the HIV-1 genome collected in 1960 from a woman who lived in Léopoldville.
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Aug 28th, 2008
Mother-to-child HIV transmission rates remain high in Uganda, despite services made available by the government to prevent MTCT.
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Aug 18th, 2008
India is home to the third-largest number of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) cases in the world and, as in the U.S. and many African nations, the rate of infection among women continues to rise faster than that among men.
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Aug 12th, 2008
Poverty and the movement of people displaced by war have contributed to an increase in the number of HIV/AIDS cases in Sudan, United Nations and Sudanese health officials said.
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Aug 9th, 2008
Medical circumcision of adult men continues to reduce the risk of acquiring HIV through heterosexual intercourse for at least 3.5 years.
