Women who were found to have lied in a clinical trial testing anti-HIV drugs were heavily criticised. But there are several factors that drove them to lie.
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Scientists are developing various products that can provide contraception and protection from sexually transmitted infections and HIV at the same time.
Although men make up two-thirds of HIV-related deaths, there are not enough services geared towards helping them.
Thanks to treatment advances, people with HIV can and do live long and full lives. And that has led to a challenge that doctors and patients may not have imagined 35 years ago: the aging HIV patient.
For pregnant HIV-positive women taking anti-retrovirals is critical for their babies’ health. Intimate partner violence affects adherence, and must be addressed as part of women’s HIV treatment.
With nearly one-fifth of the globe’s HIV positive population, South Africa has the largest anti-retroviral program in the world. But HIV prevention still presents a big challenge for the country.
Two major clinical trials will be conducted in South Africa in 2016 to test ways of preventing new HIV infections.
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Honorary Senior Lecturer, School of Public Health, University of Cape Town
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Associate professor, University of Johannesburg
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Director of Implementation Science, Wits Reproductive Health & HIV Institute, University of the Witwatersrand
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Ezintsha, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, University of the Witwatersrand
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Associate Professor and Director: Research at the Wits Reproductive Health and HIV Institute I, University of the Witwatersrand
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Research Professor and DST/NRF SARChI Chair of Virus-Host Dynamics, National Institute for Communicable Diseases, CAPRISA Research Associate, University of the Witwatersrand
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Medical Scientist, National Institute for Communicable Diseases
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Executive Director of the Wits Reproductive Health and HIV Institute, University of the Witwatersrand
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Assistant Professor of Nursing, University of Michigan
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Medical Scientist at the National Institute for Communicable Diseases; Research Associate at CAPRISA; Research Professor in the School of Pathology, University of the Witwatersrand
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Medical Scientist, National Institute for Communicable Diseases
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Honorary Associate Professor, University of the Witwatersrand