Providing Clear HIV Treatment Information to African Communities
Aims & Objectives
- to promote and protect the physical and mental health of sufferers of HIV and other chronic illnesses in Africa, the United Kingdom and worldwide through the provision of financial assistance, support, education and practical advice
- to advance the education of the general public in all areas relating to HIV and other chronic illnesses.”
Latest news from aidsmap.com
- One in five Kenyan patients suffers major interactions with HIV drugs
- HIV treatment safe and effective in South African patients with hepatitis B co-infection, but co-infection frequent
- South African resistance survey confirms that clade C is more likely to develop multi-drug resistance mutation
- Almost half of Africans with HIV in UK are diagnosed late
- HIV prevalence stable among UK injecting drug users
- Third of patients in Botswana have a gene that slows efavirenz clearance and increases risk of CNS side-effects
- Migrants with MDR-TB in southern Africa being dumped off at borders without referrals to care
- More delays in the fight against TB in South Africa
- South Africa’s lop-sided TB response: more attention to prevention of drug resistance required
- Superinfection seen frequently in heterosexual couples in Zambia