HIV care and treatment
Feb 22, 2016 | News
Tuesday, February 23 Oral Session: Prevention and Treatment of Pediatric HIV Infections Room 210, Hynes Convention Center, 10:00 am – 12:00 pm Impact of Option B on ART Uptake and Retention in Swaziland: A Stepped-Wedge Trial+ Elaine J. Abrams, Nontokozo Langwenya,...
Feb 2, 2016 | News
Men who have sex with men (MSM) in sub-Saharan Africa, including in Mali, are highly stigmatized. They are widely perceived to be at high risk for HIV infection despite the paucity of data that accurately estimate this risk. Without such data, public health officials...
Oct 28, 2015 | News
In Kenya, there are over 1.5 million people living with HIV, and approximately 10 percent are adolescents from ages 10 to 19. Huge strides have been made in scaling up HIV services in Kenya, however, adolescents are not being served in the same way as other groups....
May 20, 2015 | Stories from the Field
In the early 1960’s, Malawi’s National School of Nursing operated a model teaching ward at Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital where nursing students developed critical clinical skills by working directly with patients supported by trained clinical supervisors. But with...
Mar 30, 2015 | Stories from the Field
With more than 1.5 million people living with HIV, Kenya has one of the largest HIVpopulations in the world and with more than 13,000 new infant HIV infections each year, Kenya accounts for more than four percent of new pediatric infections worldwide. Despite the...