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  • Addressing Mental Health Issues In HIV Care

    23 May 2013 (MNT) - The integration of mental healthinterventions into HIV prevention and treatment platforms can reduce the opportunity costs of care and improve treatment outcomes, argues a new Policy Forum article published in this week's PLOS Medicine. Syvia Kaaya from the School of Medicine at the Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania and her international colleagues say that effective interventions exist for recognition and treatment…

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  • Expanded access to HIV treatment achieves big falls in mortality rates in China

    23 May 2013 (aidsmap) - Mortality rates fell sharply among people receiving antiretroviral therapy in China between 2003 and 2009, investigators report in the online edition of the Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes. Overall, people were about 30% less likely to die in the period 2008-09 compared to 2003-04. However, mortality rates were still well in excess of those seen in the general Chinese population. “The observed mortality rate in…

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  • AZT associated with poorer immunological recovery in people taking first-line HIV treatment in southern Africa

    22 May 2013 (aidsmap) - AZT-based antiretroviral therapy is associated with lower increases in CD4 cell counts than other HIV treatment regimens, according to a study published in the online edition of AIDS. Investigators analysed immunological outcomes in over 72,000 people starting first-line treatment in southern Africa. People taking AZT (zidovudine, Retrovir and various generic versions) had significantly lower increases in CD4 cell counts one and five years after initiating therapy,…

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  • AZT associated with poorer immunological recovery in people taking first-line HIV treatment in southern Africa

    22 May 2013 (aidsmap) - AZT-based antiretroviral therapy is associated with lower increases in CD4 cell counts than other HIV treatment regimens, according to a study published in the online edition of AIDS. Investigators analysed immunological outcomes in over 72,000 people starting first-line treatment in southern Africa. People taking AZT (zidovudine, Retrovir and various generic versions) had significantly lower increases in CD4 cell counts one and five years after initiating therapy,…

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  • Case workers can re-engage a high proportion of HIV-positive people lost to long-term care

    20 May 2013 (aidsmap) - Caseworkers helped 50% of HIV-positive people in New York City who had dropped out of care re-engage with HIV medical care, investigators report in the online edition of AIDS. Feeling well was the main reason why these people had initially disengaged from care. Named-based HIV surveillance data and clinical records were used to identify individuals diagnosed with HIV but who had not had immunological or virological…

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  • JHU.CCP Ethiopia Hosts Graduate Practicum Program
    Thursday, 16 May 2013 07:48
    Written by Meklit G.Michael

    JHU.CCP Ethiopia Hosts Graduate Practicum Program “I’ve learned that developing [health communication materials] is not a haphazard process [but something] that needs time, care, critical thinking and creativity” Kenzudin Assefa, practicum participant. Kenzudin is one of eleven Health Education & Behavioral Science graduate students from Jimma University who came to the JHU.CCP Ethiopia field office for a two-week practicum on strategic health communication materials’ development. The practicum is part of a long-term capacity building arrangement with Jimma University’s Department of Health Education & Behavioral Science designed to supplement the theoretical studies of graduating students with hands-on practical experience developing print and radio materials.  As part of the practicum the graduating students, were linked with various units at CCP to design, produce and pre-test radio and print materials to be used by the programs. Students were first given short presentations about CCP’s program areas and refresher trainings on the P-process, developing creative briefs, script writing for print and radio, principles of creative design, as well as interviewing and radio production skills. First day was filled with silence. The students were not actively participating in the training and attempts to engage them through…

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