[Viva] Fwd: aidsmap news: Expanding access to ART could prevent over 4 million children being orphaned in sub-Saharan Africa, 29 March 2011

Margarite Sanchez margaritesanchez at gmail.com
Wed Mar 30 21:43:46 PDT 2011 

A newsletter with some articles that might interest some of you.
M

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    Recent news headlines

*Expanded access to ART has the potential to avert millions of AIDS orphans
in Africa*

Universal adult access to antiretroviral therapy compared to current
roll-out could prevent over 4 million more children being orphaned because
of HIV in the sub-Saharan African countries hardest hit by AIDS, according
to published in the online journal *AIDS Research and Therapy*.

Read more >> <http://www.aidsmap.com/page/1719355/>

*European guidance published on the use of tropism tests in routine HIV care
*

Detailed European guidance about the use of tropism testing in routine HIV
care has been published in *The Lancet Infectious Diseases*.

Read more >> <http://www.aidsmap.com/page/1737426/>

*Test-and-treat not enough to control HIV epidemic in the US*

Only 19% of HIV-positive individuals in the US have an undetectable viral
load, and this means that a “test-and-treat” strategy by itself will not be
enough to control the country’s HIV epidemic, investigators argue in the
March 15th edition of *Clinical Infectious Diseases*.

Read more >> <http://www.aidsmap.com/page/1724334/>

*Significant failings in HIV care for some immigration detainees in the UK*

Many HIV-positive people held in immigration detention in the UK receive
substandard health care, involving forced treatment interruptions,
inadequate clinical investigation and breaches of confidentiality. Moreover,
people are removed from the UK with inadequate supplies of antiretroviral
medication or against medical advice.

Read more >> <http://www.aidsmap.com/page/1736015/>

*NICE supports expansion of HIV testing at GP's and in hospital settings*

In its first ever guidance related to HIV, the health watchdog NICE
recommends that health services not concerned with sexual health take a
greater role in offering HIV tests to black African people and to men who
have sex with men.

Read more >> <http://www.aidsmap.com/page/1735227/>

*High prevalence and incidence of anal pre-cancerous lesions in men with
HIV; HAART has little impact*

Prevalence and incidence of high-grade pre-cancerous anal lesions in
HIV-positive men who are taking antiretroviral therapy are high, Canadian
investigators report in the online edition of *Clinical Infectious Diseases*
.

Read more >> <http://www.aidsmap.com/page/1714517/>

*Fall in MRSA infection in HIV patients*

Rates of community-acquired MRSA (methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus
aureus) infections in patients with HIV appear to be declining. A US study
conducted between 2002 and 2009, and published in the online edition of *
AIDS*, showed that rates of MRSA increased steadily until 2007, but have
fallen sharply since.

Read more >> <http://www.aidsmap.com/page/1707764/>

*Poor lower-limb strength common in patients with long-term HIV infection,
French study finds*

Over half of middle-aged HIV-positive patients in a large French cohort had
poor lower-limb strength, French investigators report in the online edition
of *AIDS*.

Read more >> <http://www.aidsmap.com/page/1693447/>

*Nevirapine for breastfeeding infants: benefit of 6-week course still
evident after one year*

Use of six weeks of extended-dose nevirapine compared to single-dose
nevirapine accounted for a 62% reduction in infant mortality and a 46%
reduction of HIV transmission or death in breastfed, HIV-exposed infants,
according to the final 12-month analysis of the SWEN study.

Read more >> <http://www.aidsmap.com/page/1723348/>

*Transmissible gene therapy treatment proposed for HIV to curb epidemic*

Engineered, virus-like particles that would latch onto HIV, exploit its
genes, stop it from replicating and then get transmitted in the same way as
HIV are being proposed as a new way of stopping the epidemic.

Read more >> <http://www.aidsmap.com/page/1722172/>

*Uganda**: very late ART start increases risk of death by 60% *

Starting ART at CD4 cell counts below 50 cells/mm3 increased the relative
risk of death by approximately 60% compared to starting at 150-249
cells/mm3or more Edward J Mills and colleagues reported in an
observational study of
22,315 patients in ten clinics in Uganda over a ten year period published in
the advance online edition of *AIDS*.

Read more >> <http://www.aidsmap.com/page/1720758/>

*Wide variation in quality of sexual health screening across Europe;
countries with specialised clinics do better*

In the majority of European countries, most sexual health check-ups for men
who have sex with men (MSM) do not include basic physical examinations or
diagnostic procedures that would enable clinicians to diagnose rectal
gonorrhoea, chlamydia or warts, Axel J. Schmidt and Johanna Rankin told the
14th annual CHAPS conference in Manchester last week.

Read more >> <http://www.aidsmap.com/page/1719351/>

*Fracture rates higher in patients with HIV*

Fracture rates in patients with HIV are higher than those in the general US
population, investigators report in the online edition of *Clinical
Infectious Diseases*. Rates increased between 2000 and 2002, and then
remained broadly stable until the end of the study in 2008.

Read more >> <http://www.aidsmap.com/page/1719029/>

*Study shows importance of resistance testing before start of HIV treatment*

European research published in the February 28th edition of *The
Lancet*shows the importance of considering the results of tests for
transmitted
resistance when selecting a patient’s first combination of antiretroviral
drugs.

Read more >> <http://www.aidsmap.com/page/1690228/>

*Neuropathy still common in patients with HIV, older age a risk factor*

Peripheral neuropathy remains common in patients with HIV, US investigators
report in the online edition of *AIDS*.

Read more >> <http://www.aidsmap.com/page/1687910/>

*Good survival rates for HIV/HCV-coinfected patients with compensated
cirrhosis*

Medium-term survival rates in patients co-infected with HIV and hepatitis C
who have compensated cirrhosis are good and comparable to those seen in
hepatitis C-mono-infected individuals, Spanish investigators report in the
online edition of *AIDS*.

Read more >> <http://www.aidsmap.com/page/1688113/>
 Further news from the 18th Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic
Infections

*‘Near perfect’ adherence in early stages of Partners PrEP study*

Very high levels of adherence have been achieved in one of the ongoing
randomised controlled trials of oral pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP),
according to a poster presentation at last month’s Conference on
Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI).

Read more >> <http://www.aidsmap.com/page/1739479/>

*Gay men reduce their risk behaviour after HIV diagnosis, studies find, but
disagree on how much by*

Two studies presented at last month’s conference both found that gay men
diagnosed with HIV considerably reduce the amount of sex they have that
could pass on their infection.

Read more >> <http://www.aidsmap.com/page/1737771/>

*Catch up on the news from CROI 2011*

You can read all our coverage of CROI 2011 online. As well as our news
reporting, which includes links to the official videos of the presentations,
you can also find all our summary bulletins from the conference, which are
in English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Russian and Romanian.

www.aidsmap.com/CROI2011 >> <http://www.aidsmap.com/CROI2011>
    About NAM
 Do HIV drugs really mean you aren’t infectious?


Our regular publication *HIV Treatment Update* recently looked at research
on HIV treatment and infectiousness.

This article is now freely available on our
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.
 Community engagement in TB/HIV

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*

*HIV & AIDS Treatment in Practice *(HATIP) is our regular email newsletter
for healthcare workers and community-based organisations on HIV treatment in
resource-limited settings.

We recently reported on a meeting between the World Health Organization and
civil society organisation in southern Africa. They met in December 2010 to
examine ways of promoting greater community engagement to ensure the
implementation of the Three I's for TB/HIV in the region.

This meeting report is now freely available on our
website<http://www.aidsmap.com/Spurring-community-engagement-to-ensure-the-proper-implementation-of-the-Three-Is-for-TBHIV/page/1733423/>
.
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This booklet explores how having HIV can affect the way you feel about sex
and suggests ways to tackle problems.

The clear, factual information outlines the steps you can take to protect
your own health and that of other people.

Topics covered include:

   - Sex and transmission of HIV
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   - Relationships with an HIV-negative partner
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