| GLOBAL: New two-hour TB test |
 JOHANNESBURG, 3 September 2010 (PlusNews) - A new, accurate, easy-to-use test can diagnose tuberculosis (TB) - including drug-resistant strains of the disease - in less than two hours. It has the potential to save thousands of lives in developing countries, where current tests are often unreliable, take weeks to process, or are simply unavailable.
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| SOUTHERN AFRICA: More sterilizations of HIV-positive women uncovered |
 JOHANNESBURG, 30 August 2010 (PlusNews) - Veronica* did not realize she had been sterilized while giving birth to her daughter until four years later when, after failing to conceive, she and her boyfriend consulted a doctor.
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| SOUTHERN AFRICA: No single formula for HIV risk |
 JOHANNESBURG, 16 August 2010 (PlusNews) - In southern Africa, prevention campaigns highlighting the HIV risks of having more than one partner at the same time have largely targeted heterosexuals and ignored the fact that men who have sex with men also have multiple partners.
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| GLOBAL: Straight Talk with Dr Zeda Rosenberg, CEO of the International Partnership for Microbicides |
 JOHANNESBURG, 12 August 2010 (PlusNews) - There were cheers and some tears at the International AIDS Conference in Vienna in July when delegates heard the news that a clinical trial in South Africa, had found a vaginal gel containing the antiretroviral drug, tenofovir, was 39 percent effective at reducing women's risk of contracting HIV during sex.
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| Analysis: HIV generics under threat from tighter patenting rules |
 VIENNA, 2 August 2010 (PlusNews) - Most of the estimated 5.2 million people worldwide on antiretroviral (ARV) treatment are taking generic versions manufactured primarily in India, but tighter global intellectual property rights and trade rules could shut down "the pharmacy of the developing world".
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| ZIMBABWE: Low breastfeeding rates threaten PMTCT efforts |
 HARARE, 30 July 2010 (PlusNews) - Health and nutrition experts in Zimbabwe are worried that one of the lowest exclusive breastfeeding rates in the region could have a negative impact on the country's prevention of mother-to-child HIV transmission (PMTCT) programme.
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| GLOBAL: "Seek, test, treat and retain" to stem HIV among drug users |
 VIENNA, 28 July 2010 (PlusNews) - Activists and scientists at the International AIDS Conference in Vienna called on governments to stop criminalizing drug users and instead to provide them with addiction and HIV treatment.
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| GLOBAL: Survey reveals gaps in doctor-patient dialogue |
 JOHANNESBURG, 26 July 2010 (PlusNews) - A new, global survey has revealed the conversations healthcare providers aren’t having with their HIV-positive patients with potentially negative consequences for their treatment and health.
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| GLOBAL: Straight Talk with Eric Goosby, head of PEPFAR |
 VIENNA, 26 July 2010 (PlusNews) - The US president's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief has committed about US$32 billion to the global fight against HIV since its launch in 2003, making it the largest donor for HIV/AIDS globally. Following annual increases in contributions, however, PEPFAR has effectively flat-lined funding from 2009.
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| GLOBAL: Criminalization of HIV on trial |
 VIENNA, 23 July 2010 (PlusNews) - There is a tug-of-war going on with governments trying to criminalize the transmission of HIV on one side, and activists who say such laws are not only ineffective as a deterrent but are also harming the fight against AIDS, on the other.
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