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Developing countries need support to ethically conduct unlinked anonymous HIV testing

Posted on 21. Jan, 2009 by admin.

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Data collected from HIV surveillance are crucial to guide public health interventions, planning, and prevention efforts. But developing countries face several challenges to implementing surveillance programs says a team of researchers from the US and the Democratic Republic of Congo in this week’s PLoS Medicine.

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Kidney transplant survival can be long-term for people with HIV

Posted on 19. Jan, 2009 by admin.

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A Johns Hopkins study finds that HIV-positive kidney transplant recipients could have the same one-year survival rates for themselves and their donor organs as those without HIV, provided certain risk factors for transplant failure are recognized and tightly managed.

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