Tag Archives: The Lancet

Measures of HIV treatment progress highlight lagging investments

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Greater investment, established goals needed to realize antiretroviral treatment benefits of reducing new infections, improving health, and lengthening life expectancy, pieces say While the proven transmission-preventing, health-improving, life-saving benefits of antiretroviral treatment for HIV, along with rising numbers of infected people receiving the medicine have inspired talk in recent years of an “AIDS-free generation,” efforts […]

Want to change the course of HIV epidemics? Decriminalizing sex work could have greatest impact, researchers say

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Infections could be averted through combined impacts on violence, police harrassment, workplace dangers, as well as improved condom access, peer outreach, modelling indicates Of the different factors that can increase the likelihood of a person who is involved in sex work getting infected with HIV, the least examined type have been those stemming from the […]

AIDS 2014: The Lancet launches special issue on HIV and sex work

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Science Speaks is live-blogging from AIDS 2014 in Melbourne, Australia through the week, with updates on research, policy and insights from the 20th International AIDS Conference. MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA –  A remarkable and unprecedented collaboration between scientists and community leaders, the special issue of The Lancet on HIV and sex workers was launched at a symposium […]

Childhood tuberculosis: Study finds larger global hidden epidemic

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Indications of a  “huge undiagnosed reservoir” of pediatric tuberculosis, with actual incidence much higher than the number of cases reported highlight the need for additional study of the disease in children, and an opportunity for improved prevention through household screening, a study released in The Lancet today says. Authors of the study, produced by researchers […]

HIV’s impact on men who have sex with men “can no longer be ignored”

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More than 30 years into the epidemic that was first documented among gay men in America, a disturbing trend is being noted globally: Where rates of new HIV infections are going down among other populations, they are rising among men who have sex with men. “The epidemics are going in different directions,” said Chris Beyrer […]

South Africa's Health Problems Put Under the Lancet's Microscope

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When it comes to health-related news, South Africa is usually a source of grim tales and bleak statistics, from the declining life expectancy rates to the escalating threat of HIV/TB co-infection. A just-published series of articles in The Lancet documents, in relentless detail, the health challenges that South Africa currently faces. But the Lancet articles […]