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Rapid Testing Sharply Cuts HIV Patient Dropout Rate By: Talea Miller HIV clinic in Mozambique. Photo by Talea Miller. Every time an HIV clinic tells a patient to come back for more testing or for laboratory results there is a risk the patient will never return. This happens so frequently in sub-Saharan Africa, where more than 50 percent of HIV-positive patients drop out of programs before starting treatment, it has it's own terminology: lost to follow-up. With the use of new rapid test kits -- which measure immune system health without having to send samples off site to laboratories and waiting for results -- researchers in Mozambique nearly doubled treatment enrollment and cut the number of patients lost almost in half. Total patient drop out rates before beginning treatment fell from 64 percent to 33 percent, according to results published this week on the La...

By On Top Magazine Staff Published: September 01, 2011 Sam Pee Yalley, former deputy minister under Ghana's Jerry Rawlings administration, has called for gay people to be charged with genocide. In an interview broadcast Wednesday on Citi FM's Eyewitness News, Yalley denied Attorney General Martin Amidu's recent claim that sex between consenting adults of the same gender in the privacy of their own home is not illegal in the African nation. “There is another section of the criminal code which people are not taking a look at, it is about genocide,” said Yalley, a public interest lawyer. “Genocide results in the extermination of the human race and if you expand the meaning of homosexuality to mean that a man cannot have a child with another man, then it means that [the] practice would lead to the extermination of mankind and therefore for me if I am to charge anybody apart from having unnatural carnal knowledge, I would also charge him with genocide and see how he can get out ...

PRESS RELEASE Following the briefing note published by the collective, dated August 29, 2011 about the case of the four persons arrested and detained for homosexuality in Yaoundé, which had been brought to his knowledge (see HYPERLINK "http://sidado.org/latest/nouveau-cas-darrestation-pour-homosexualite.html" http://sidado.org/latest/nouveau-cas-darrestation-pour-homosexualite.html) the collective of organizations ADEFHO (Association for the defense of homosexuals), SID’ADO (teenagers against HIV/AIDS), COFENHO ( group of families with homosexual children) After collecting the details surrounding the arrest, wish to inform the national and international Community about the following facts: Ombwa Joseph Magloire 46 years old, painter receives at his home for his work, visits of tourists. Something noticed by his neighbors who on August 10 2011 decided to alert the Gendarmerie Brigade of the Lake in Yaoundé which came to arrest him on the...

"Shocking new details of US STD experiments in Guatemala Fresh revelations about 1940s medical tests come to light, including deliberately exposing people to sexually transmitted diseases guardian.co.uk , Tuesday 30 August 2011 08.12 BST

Treatment as prevention for HIV The Lancet Infectious Diseases June 5, 2011, was the 30th anniversary of the first reports of five patients with an immune disorder in the US Centers for Diseases Control and Prevention publication Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. In the past three decades, HIV/AIDS has become a global pandemic that has defined an age and has affected almost every group of people irrespective of socioeconomic background, race, geography, or personal history, killing more than 33 million people worldwide. Leaps and bounds made in our understanding of HIV and its progression to AIDS and how the virus and syndrome spread and develop have led to great progress in the ability to manage the disease, reflected by a 20% fall in annual incidence in the past 10 years. Nonetheless, almost 2 million people continue to die each year from AIDS, disproportionately affecting sub-Saharan Africa. Furthermore, incidence continues to rise in specific risk groups such as me...

http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/hiv-experts-create-the-roadmap-for-providing-prep-to-uninfected-individuals-to-reduce-the-risk-of-hiv-infection-128328973.html HIV Experts Create the Roadmap for Providing PrEP to Uninfected Individuals to Reduce the Risk of HIV Infection WASHINGTON , Aug. 24, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- To stem the estimated 2.6 million new HIV infections that occur worldwide each year, more than 200 representatives from the scientific and HIV/AIDS communities took an important step in assessing the safety and public health implications of providing antiretroviral drugs to uninfected men and women exposed to HIV through sexual contact – a strategy called pre-exposure prophylaxis, or PrEP. Assembling August 19 at an open public meeting and interactive webcast convened by the Forum for Collaborative HIV Research, these researchers, HIV/AIDS advocates, members of industry and representatives from National Institutes of Health, the Centers for Disease Co...

August 29th 2011 Information note The collective constituted of the associations SID'ADO (the youth against AIDS), ADEFHO (Association for the defence of homosexuals) and COFENHO (collective of families with homosexual children), informs the national and international community of a new case of arrest for homosexuality in Cameroon, brought to its attention last weekend. About the facts : Later in August 10, 2011, the named OMGBWA Joseph Magloire (34 years old), NTAMACK Nicolas (18 years old), TIOMELA LONTSI Emma (17 years old) and NTSAMA Séraphin Sylvain (34 years) were arrested at the home of the first by the gendarmes of the Brigade of research of the Lake (Yaoundé). After more than two weeks of custody, they have been brought before an investigating judge on August 26, 2011. For now, the collective has very little information on the exact circumstances o...