CIENCIASMEDICASNEWS: CDC Around the World: HIV in Malawi

jueves, 29 de enero de 2015

CDC Around the World: HIV in Malawi

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CDC and partners are working with Malawi to gain control over HIV. View full-sized photo

Spotlighted Topic of the Week: HIV in Malawi

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Spotlighted Topic of the Week: HIV in Malawi

Blog of the Week

2014: A PIVOTAL YEAR FOR THE HIV RESPONSE IN MALAWI

The appointment of Dr. Deborah Birx as the new Global AIDS Coordinator

in May 2014 heralded an enormous change in the PEPFAR world: Within the span of a few weeks, the focus changed from the newly-cemented PEPFAR vocabulary around ‘sustainability’ and ‘country ownership’ to language more targeted at maximizing resources for ‘epidemic control’. As Dr. Birx said at the PEPFAR Annual meeting in Durban in June 2014, “We cannot sustain an uncontrolled epidemic”...read blog

Infographic of the Week

ANTIRETROVIRAL DRUGS

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Video of the Week

MEDICAL MOTORBIKE COURIERS BATTLE HIV

Almost a million people in Malawi live with HIV; AIDS is the leading cause of death amongst adults in the country. watch video
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Story of the Week

ELIZABETH GLASER PEDIATRIC AIDS FOUNDATION (EGPAF)

EGPAF has been working in Malawi to reduce the rising number of HIV infections—using motorcycle couriers. Malawi currently has no national laboratory sample transportation network, and it is up to districts to organize the transportation of samples…read story

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