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HARARE, 15 March 2012 (PlusNews Global) - Zimbabwe's ambitious plan to offer an HIV test to every household in the country is not yet under way but is already being met with scepticism by activists who feel this is not a priority for the country, especially with global HIV/AIDS funding on the decline. full report
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JOHANNESBURG, 13 March 2012 (PlusNews Global) - Even though the world's largest study of preventative tuberculosis therapy indicated that community-wide isoniazid preventative TB therapy (IPT) failed to lower community TB levels among 27,000 South African gold miners, that was not Thibela’s only result. We review some of the others over its seven years:
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JOHANNESBURG, 9 March 2012 (PlusNews Global) - After seven years of research, the world's largest study of preventative tuberculosis (TB) therapy has found that untargeted, community-wide distribution of TB prevention drugs did not improve TB control on South African gold mines.
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DAR ES SALAAM, 6 March 2012 (PlusNews Global) - Commercial production of Tanzania's first locally manufactured antiretroviral drugs will start in the next few months; it is hoped the country will eventually provide medicines for half of all HIV-positive Tanzanians.
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JOHANNESBURG, 1 March 2012 (PlusNews Global) - The World Health Organization (WHO) has advised women on injectable hormonal birth control to use condoms to prevent HIV infection in light of possible HIV risks associated with "the shot", but HIV organizations and activists say this has not been effectively communicated to women.
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NAIROBI, 28 February 2012 (PlusNews Global) - The Kenyan government's recent failure to adequately treat a patient with extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis (XDR-TB) has some civil society organizations questioning whether the country's TB programme is equipped to diagnose and treat such patients.
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JOHANNESBURG, 27 February 2012 (PlusNews Global) - Mothers, babies and newly diagnosed HIV patients are receiving more of the services they need but progress comes at a cost, according to a new report that predicts a funding shortfall for HIV treatment in South Africa.
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BANGKOK/YANGON, 24 February 2012 (PlusNews Global) - Lack of access to anti-retroviral therapy (ARV) to treat HIV has left thousands of patients in Myanmar with deteriorating immunity and increased vulnerability to tuberculosis (TB), say health workers.
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CAPE TOWN, 22 February 2012 (PlusNews Global) - More than seven months overdue, the Global Fund to fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria grant will finally be released to key South African AIDS organizations that have been struggling to survive. Some were on the verge of shutting down.
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JOHANNESBURG, 14 February 2012 (PlusNews Global) - No one said love was easy. This Valentine's Day, IRIN/PlusNews brings you tips for making love and HIV work, from a couple who've been there, done that and stayed together.
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