The contribution of mammary epithelial cells (MEC) to human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) in breast milk remains largely unknown. While breast milk contains CD4+ cells throughout the breast-feeding period, it is not known whether MEC directly support HIV-1 infection or facilitate infection of CD4+ cells in the breast compartment. Read More
The health education nurse faced with an African HIV-infected patient
[The health education nurse faced with an African HIV-infected patient]
Soins. 2010 Jul-Aug;(747):31-2
Authors: Tocheport P
The health education nurse faced with an African HIV-infected patient. Disease and death are represented in a completely different manner in Sub-Saharan Africa than in the West. The role of the health education nurse working with African HIV-infected patients requires a socio-ethnological understanding of this cultural context in order to provide a global, personalised and adapted treatment.
PMID: 20799487 [PubMed - in process]
Antihistamines are superior to topical steroids in managing human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-associated papular pruritic eruption.
Antihistamines are superior to topical steroids in managing human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-associated papular pruritic eruption.
Int J Dermatol. 2010 Jan;49(1):83-6
Authors: Navarini AA, Stoeckle M, Navarini S, Mossdorf E, Jullu BS, Mchomvu R, Mbata M, Kibatala P, Tanner M, Hatz C, Schmid-Grendelmeier P
Papular pruritic eruption (PPE) is a frequent HIV-comorbidity in tropical countries. Because of constant itching and social stigma, effective treatment is highly valued. In our HIV cohort in rural Tanzania with 12% prevalence of PPE, we have retrospectively analyzed responses to available treatments. Oral promethazine improved itching (P < 0.0058) and clinical scores (P < 0.032) significantly more than topical steroids. Disease activity did not correlate with CD4+ and CD8+ T cell counts and was independent of anti-retroviral medication. Therefore, oral antihistamines are an effective first-line treatment for PPE.
PMID: 20465620 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]
Liberia: Roch Conducts HIV/Aids Awareness for Over 334 Young People in Maryland
A group of trained coaches and leaders under the umbrella Restoring Our Children’s Hope (ROCH) has conducted a one day sensitization and awareness campaign on HIV/AIDS for over 334 young people in Gbamlesiewlor. Gbamlesiewlor is one of the biggest communities in Hoffman Station Township near Harper, Maryland County.
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KENYA: Government changes tack on HIV prevention, treatment for drug users
NAIROBI, 24 August 2010 (PLUSNEWS) – Intravenous drug users have been largely ignored by the government’s HIV programmes on the basis that drug-taking is illegal, but a new policy is being drafted with the aim of reducing HIV transmission among this high-risk group.
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The social determinants of HIV serostatus in sub-Saharan Africa: an inverse relationship between poverty and HIV?
The social determinants of HIV serostatus in sub-Saharan Africa: an inverse relationship between poverty and HIV?
Public Health Rep. 2010 Jul-Aug;125 Suppl 4:16-24
Authors: Fox AM
Contrary to theories that poverty acts as an underlying driver of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), an increasing body of evidence at the national and individual levels indicates that wealthier countries, and wealthier individuals within countries, are at heightened risk for HIV.
This article reviews the literature on what has increasingly become known as the positive-wealth gradient in HIV infection in SSA, or the counterintuitive finding that the poor do not have higher rates of HIV. This article also discusses the programmatic and theoretical implications of the positive HIV-wealth gradient for traditional behavioral interventions and the social determinants of health literature, and concludes by proposing that economic and social policies be leveraged as structural interventions to prevent HIV in SSA.
PMID: 20629252 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]
BURUNDI: HIV-positive people struggling for treatment of opportunistic infections
BUJUMBURA, 11 August 2010 (PLUSNEWS) – Thousands of Burundians living with HIV are failing to obtain drugs to treat opportunistic infections since a system to provide them with free medical care has come to an end.
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A cure for HIV could be all in the ‘mix’
Current HIV treatments do not eradicate HIV from host cells but rather inhibit virus replication and delay the onset of AIDS. However, a new research published in BioMed Central’s open access journal, AIDS Research & Therapy describes an innovative approach to eliminate HIV in host by targeted killing of only HIV infected cells. This approach if successful could lead into an anti-HIV therapy that will eradicate the virus. Read More
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