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FIOCRUZ Receives Regulatory Approval to Market Chembio DPP(R) HIV 1/2 Confirmatory Test in Brazil 1

MEDFORD, NY, Sep 23, 2010 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) — Chembio Diagnostics, Inc. (CEMI 0.24, -0.01, -4.08%) , which develops, manufactures, markets and licenses point-of-care diagnostic tests, has been notified that Bio-Manguinhos, a division of the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation of Brazil (”FIOCRUZ”), has received regulatory approval from Brazil’s National Health Surveillance Agency (”ANVISA”) to market Chembio’s [...]

KENYA: Home HIV testing helps early diagnosis of high-risk children 1

NAIROBI, 21 September 2010 (PlusNews) – Home-based voluntary counselling and testing (HCT) can help to diagnose HIV early among high-risk children, new research in western Kenya has found.
“Through home-based counselling and testing, you are able to get children and parents who might not go to health facilities for these services,” said Samson Ndege, one [...]

Loss to follow-up high in South African public sector ARV programmes 0

Almost thirty per cent of patients who started antiretroviral treatment in eight South African public sector programmes were lost to follow-up within three years, according to a cohort analysis published in the online edition of the journal AIDS.
LTFU accounted for an increasing proportion of overall programme attrition: from 9% at six months to 29% at [...]