“After ten years of model programs through the African Comprehensive HIV and AIDS Partnership established in 2000, Botswana is now hailed as the champion and an example for the rest of Africa and beyond, in the fight against the HIV epidemic,” said Dr. Michael Rosenblatt, Executive Vice President and Chief Medical Officer, Merck Company Foundation [...]
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A nagging smell wakes Aquarnetta Porter from shallow sleep.
She inhales, imagining filth somewhere outside her apartment’s walls. The scent must have crept under the crack in the door, she thinks, or through the air vent overnight.
Scratching her skin, she mumbles to herself about the neighborhood, this building, the dodgy characters she often sees skulking in [...]
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Home-based voluntary HIV counselling and testing (HCT) provided an opportunity to identify 60 new paediatric HIV cases among 1300 high-risk children between the ages of 18 months and 13 years of age in a single community in rural western Kenya between June 2008 and June 2009, researchers reported in a retrospective analysis published in the [...]
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