http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. Cambodia is on track to become one of the few countries in the world to successfully reverse its HIV epidemic and may eliminate new infections by 2020, the World Health Organization said Friday. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-05-cambodia-hiv-infections.html HIV & AIDS Fri, 10 May 2013 07:34:46 EST news287390079 In Kenya, women face a cervical cancer mortality rate that is approximately 10 times as high as in the United States. A study by researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill suggests that training women to self-collect genital samples to test for human papillomavirus (HPV), the causative agent of cervical cancer, can increase the coverage rates of cervical cancer screening. Higher screening coverage helps increase rates of detection of cervical lesions and ultimately treatment of the disease. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-05-self-collection-samples-hpv-cervical-cancer.html Cancer Wed, 01 May 2013 15:24:56 EST news286640574 Giving inmates drug substitution treatment, needles and condoms are key ways to help curb addiction and HIV infection in European jails, experts say, calling on authorities to change their approach to prison health care. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-03-needles-condoms-inmates-curb-hiv.html HIV & AIDS Fri, 01 Mar 2013 07:00:03 EST news281343597 A new study on Monday showed increased HIV infection rates among pregnant women living in areas with high migrant labour in South Africa, the country with one of the world's highest caseloads. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-12-safrican-pregnant-women-hiv.html HIV & AIDS Mon, 10 Dec 2012 13:20:34 EST news274368024 (Medical Xpress)—More than nine million people are admitted into U.S. jails every year, disrupting access to health care for the tens of thousands who are HIV positive. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-hivaids-benefits-links-primary.html HIV & AIDS Wed, 28 Nov 2012 09:27:59 EST news273317267 HIV-positive people in Guinea Bissau have been without access to treatment since the Global Fund to fight AIDS suspended funding over an April military coup, the west African nation's AIDS boss said Wednesday. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-gbissau-aids-patients-treatment-coup.html HIV & AIDS Wed, 21 Nov 2012 15:14:11 EST news272733245 Less than half of community-based substance abuse treatment programs in the United States currently make HIV testing available on-site or through referral. A new study led by researchers at Weill Cornell Medical College shows the cost-effectiveness of integrating on-site rapid HIV testing into drug treatment programs. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-09-cost-effectiveness-hiv-drug-abuse-treatment.html HIV & AIDS Sun, 09 Sep 2012 14:43:17 EST news266420590 (HealthDay) -- The global prevalence of tuberculosis, hepatitis C virus infection, and HIV is high among homeless people, although significant heterogeneity is seen in prevalence estimates, according to a study published online Aug. 20 in The Lancet Infectious Diseases. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-08-prevalence-tb-hepatitis-hiv-high.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Mon, 20 Aug 2012 13:43:46 EST news264689016 A new economic analysis, conducted by Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and featured in the current issue of Springer's journal AIDS and Behavior, showed that the DC Female Condom program, a public-private partnership to provide and promote female condoms, prevented enough HIV infections in the first year alone to save over $8 million in future medical care costs (over and above the cost of the program). This means that for every dollar spent on the program, there was a cost savings of nearly $20. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-03-dc-female-condom-highly-effective.html HIV & AIDS Mon, 26 Mar 2012 12:00:03 EST news251980668 Female sex workers in low- and middle-income countries are nearly 14 times more likely to be infected by HIV compared to the rest of country's population, according to an analysis by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. The findings suggest an urgent need to scale up access to quality HIV prevention programs in these countries. The study was published online in The Lancet Infectious Diseases. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-03-countries-female-sex-workers-infected.html HIV & AIDS Wed, 14 Mar 2012 19:00:25 EST news250955267 The first findings from a nationally representative HIV survey were presented today at the 19th Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI 2012) in Seattle, WA. The Swaziland HIV Incidence Measurement Survey (SHIMS) found that overall HIV prevalence, or percentage of the population living with HIV infection, is 31% among adults ages 18-49. This figure matches the 2006 Demographic Health Survey findings for the same age group, indicating that the HIV epidemic in Swaziland has stabilized over the past five years. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-03-swaziland-hiv-incidence-survey-croi.html HIV & AIDS Thu, 08 Mar 2012 16:23:18 EST news250446188 In this week's PLoS Medicine, Augustine Choko of the Malawi-Liverpool Wellcome Trust Clinical Research Programme, Malawi and colleagues assess the uptake and accuracy of home-based supervised oral HIV self-testing in Malawi, demonstrating the feasibility of this approach in a high-prevalence, low-income setting. Their findings indicate that there is strong community readiness to adopt self-testing alongside other HIV counseling and testing strategies in high HIV prevalence settings in urban Africa. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-10-oral-hiv-self-testing-malawi-accurate.html HIV & AIDS Tue, 04 Oct 2011 17:25:33 EST news236967926 If the South African government followed a recent recommendation by the World Health Organization to start antiretroviral therapy (ART) for HIV-infected residents earlier in the progress of the disease, the policy shift would start saving the country money after 16 years and would extend thousands of lives for dozens of years, according to a new study. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-07-hiv-sooner-south-african-money.html HIV & AIDS Mon, 25 Jul 2011 11:07:24 EST news230810834 Young black men who have sex with men (MSM) get infected with HIV nearly five times more often than MSM from other races, even though they don't have more unprotected sex. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-05-higher-hiv-black-gay-men.html HIV & AIDS Mon, 02 May 2011 04:34:53 EST news223529657