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The Spotlight Newsletter provides news of HAI's people, events, and research. Our latest issue, Fall 2011, includes: AIDS@30; Deeda Blair and Maurice Temepelsman received Volunteer Leadership Award; profiles of Drs. Kate Powis and Oscar Kashala; Max Essex receives Lifetime Achievement Award from the Institute of Human Virology; KITSO trains it's 8000 participant.

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From the Ground Up is a three-volume collection of best practices and lessons learned contributed by over 320 distinguished HIV/AIDS professionals from around the globe, with a special focus on sub-Saharan Africa. Learn more and order the publication.

 

Plan to treat 'super-carriers' offers new hope

"One in four people infected with the Aids virus in Southern Africa are hyper-infectious super-carriers, scientists at Harvard University have discovered. By targeting these individuals for treatment, the scientists hope it may be possible to counter the rising number of new HIV infections in the worst-affected parts of the world in what could be a major breakthrough in the fight against the spread of Aids." Read more....

 

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Dr. Hermann Bussman was lead author on the paper, Five-year outcomes of initial patients treated in Botswana's National Antiretroviral Treatment Program, published Nov. 12, 2008 in AIDS. Response to antiretroviral (ARV) therapy is described for the first HIV-1C-infected adults enrolled in the Botswana Antiretroviral Treatment Program in 2002. Data analysis was conducted on available longitudinal data up to April 1, 2007. This initial group of adults on ART in Botswana had excellent sustained immunologic, virologic, and clinical outcomes for up to five years of follow-up with low mortality among those surviving into the second year of ART.

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