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UNAIDS: More than 7 Million Africans on HIV Treatment, Deaths Continue to Fall
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- Category: HIV Treatment
- Published on Wednesday, 22 May 2013 00:00
- Written by UNAIDS
The number of people in Africa receiving antiretroviral medications increased from less than 1 million in 2005 to an estimated 7.1 million in 2012, according to a new report from UNAIDS. The report also notes that AIDS-related deaths and new HIV infections have both fallen by about 30% over the past decade. 
CROI 2013: HIV Treatment for Children Safe and Highly Effective without Laboratory Monitoring
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- Category: HIV Treatment
- Published on Thursday, 07 March 2013 00:00
- Written by Keith Alcorn
Children did just as well on antiretroviral therapy (ART) without routine laboratory monitoring of CD4 cell counts or drug side effects as those who received regular monitoring during 4 years of follow-up, researchers from Uganda and Zimbabwe reported at March 6 the 20th Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI 2013) in Atlanta.
AIDS 2012: HIV Drugs Cheaper than Thought, Clinton Report Says
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- Category: HIV Treatment
- Published on Friday, 03 August 2012 00:00
- Written by Press Release
Antiretroviral therapy and related care for people with HIV worldwide would likely cost about 4 times less than previously estimated, meaning that wider global scale-up of treatment is possible, according to a new report by the Clinton Health Access Initiative released ahead of the XIX International AIDS Conference (AIDS 2012) last week in Washington, DC. 
AIDS 2012: Expanded Access to HIV Treatment Lowered AIDS Deaths Worldwide
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- Category: HIV Policy & Advocacy
- Published on Friday, 10 August 2012 00:00
- Written by Press Release
Many low- and middle-income countries have begun to devote significant resources towards HIV/AIDS treatment, matching wealthy international donor countries, according to a new report release by the United Nations Joint Programme on AIDS (UNAIDS) in advance of the recent XIX International AIDS Conference (AIDS 2012) in Washington, DC. This increased funding has enabled an expansion of antiretroviral treatment that has helped reduced AIDS-related deaths by 100,000 over the past year. 
Death Rates Decline in African Countries Receiving PEPFAR Funding
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- Category: HIV Policy & Advocacy
- Published on Friday, 18 May 2012 00:00
- Written by Liz Highleyman
More than 740,000 deaths may have been prevented in African countries that received intensive aid through the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, better known as PEPFAR, according to a new analysis of more than 1.5 million people published in the May 16, 2012, Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA).
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