Health workers promote exclusive breastfeeding to HIV positive mothers more than they do to mothers who are negative.
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A new study has found that employing lay health workers at clinics can improve the way patients receive treatment.
Teenagers with HIV in childcare facilities have to deal with the challenges of adolescence
while living with the disease.
An increase in condomless sex in PrEP users is predictable as preventing HIV is the key motivator for condom use among gay and bisexual men.
In many parts of sub-Saharan Africa men who have sex with men encounter stigma and prejudice when accessing health services.
From Dundee to Dublin, horror spectaculars are springing up like zombies from the dead.
Cases like Daryll Rowe’s are very rare, but they have the power to transform both the law and public opinion.
Sharing data about users’ HIV statuses is bad enough. But why collect it in the first place?
Women with AIDS were excluded from the US definition of the syndrome until 1993. What’s changed?
Numerous traditional African medicines are undeniably beneficial in treating disease or maintaining good health.
Remarkable progress is being made on HIV treatment. But African countries need to work on sustainable ways to ensure the treatment programmes are not entirely dependent on foreign aid.
Mental health care is neglected across Africa. But there are several reasons why countries should pay attention.
The placenta could hold the answers to why HIV positive women report higher rates of premature deliveries.
Zimbabwe’s new president, Emmerson Mnagagwga has offered a glimmer of hope to LGBT people in the country.
Diagnosing babies with HIV as early as possible is critical to ensuring that they get onto treatment.
HIV self-testing is a potential strategy to overcome access to testing. However, there are emerging concerns on the lack of counselling, possible user error and accuracy of the kits.
The death toll from HIV/AIDS continues to decline, but more than 36 million people are still living with HIV. A researcher explains why the work for a cure is painstaking.
Stigma often obstructs rights protection for children with HIV/AIDS in Indonesia.
South Africa’s data rollout of its pre-exposure prophylaxis shows that there is a relatively slow, but increasing, uptake. However, more needs to be done to target young women.
World AIDS Day is an opportunity to discuss how current medical inadmissibility rules for newcomers are out of touch with Canadian values and need to be reformed.
Top contributors
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Professor of medicine and deputy director of the Desmond Tutu HIV Centre at the Institute of Infectious Disease and Molecular Medicine, University of Cape Town
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Principal Research Fellow, Australian Research Centre in Sex, Health and Society, La Trobe University
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Distinguished Professor, Infectious Disease and Oncology Research Institute, Faculty of Heath Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Executive Director Perinatal HIV Research Unit, Chief Scientific Officer, South African Medical Research Council
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Associate Professor, Public Health Ethics, School of Population Health, UNSW
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Melbourne Laureate Professor, University of Melbourne; Director, The Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity
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Professor of Epidemiology and Public Health, University of Malawi
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Research Director at The Health Economics and HIV and AIDS Research Division (HEARD), University of KwaZulu-Natal
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Assistant Professor of Nursing, University of Michigan
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Assistant Professor of Public Health, University of Iowa
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Professor of Anthropology, American University
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Senior Research Fellow, Monash University
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Behavioural Scientist, Human Sciences Research Council
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Professor of Global Health and Director, O'Neill Institute, Georgetown University
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Professor, School of Health Sciences, University of Northern British Columbia; University of Victoria
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Associate Professor and Head of the Surveillance and Evaluation Program for Public Health at the Kirby Institute, UNSW