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By Agencies One stop health care model transforms treatment Providing HIV care at local health clinics in South Africa has led to a massive increase in the number of people there receiving vital HIV treatment, according to research. Indeed, the number of patients receiving HIV therapy in these clinics soared …

By Flavia Nassaka Trioday is a single-pill combination of three drugs Cipla Quality Chemicals Ltd, the Ugandan drug manufacturer, has launched a new drug which combines three different HIV drugs – Efavirenz, Lamivudine and Tenofavir. The new drug, Trioday, is good news for patients as it taken once a day …

By Nicole Namubiru Doctors explain why it’s best to use protection in a discordant relationship If a couple is in a long term sexual relationship and one of them is HIV-positive and the other is negative, scientists refer to them as a `discordant couple’. Dr Raymond Mwebaze, a general physician …

Could this be the HIV cure we have been waiting for? Danish scientists are hoping for results that will show that “finding a mass-distributable and affordable cure to HIV is possible”, according to an article in The Telegraph of the UK. The article says the scientists are conducting a clinical …

By Agencies WHO released its first adolescent-specific care guidelines ahead of World AIDS Day on Dec. 1 The number of adolescents infected by the HIV virus has jumped by one third over the past decade, the UN’s health agency said Monday, blaming gaps in care programmes.  “More than 2 million …

By Julius Businge Five reasons why taking that HIV test is long overdue On Nov. 8, President Yoweri Museveni took an HIV test at Kiswa Health Center IV in Bugolobi before the glare of cameras in gesture he believes would re-energize the fight against the disease by curbing new infections.  …

By Agencies HIV/Aids experts says American recommendation is `immoral’ Activists in Uganda, where some 400 people are infected with HIV every day, have called on the government to rethink its dismissal of an emerging prevention protocol demonstrated to be effective in a trial conducted partly in Uganda, and which has …

By Ronald Musoke As stakeholders gathered on the morning of Sept. 19 in Kampala to engage with the government in regard to the annual national review of the AIDS response – now in its sixth year – a group of over 20 civil society organizations at the forefront of the …

New research boosts search for cure for HIV/AIDS Fresh data from several small trials presented at an AIDS conference on July 3 provides encouraging news in the quest for a cure for HIV, scientists said. Giving an update in an eagerly-followed trial, researchers said an HIV-positive infant in Mississippi who …

By Agengella Abushedde But can caregivers raise the new money needed to implement them? News that the World Health Organization (WHO) has recommended that antiretroviral therapy (ART) be given to HIV patients earlier has been welcomed by patients, medical personnel, and HIV/Aids activists. WHO based its recommendation on evidence that …