http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. 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 In this week's PLoS Medicine, Lawrence Gostin from Georgetown University, Washington DC, and colleagues argue that a global health agreement—such as a Framework Convention on Global Health—is needed and would inform post-Millennium Development Goal (MDG) global health commitments. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-05-framework-convention-global-health.html Health Wed, 11 May 2011 03:55:56 EST news224304947