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Nathan Ford and Philipp du Cros: Gathering the evidence to improve healthcare in developing countries

October 16, 2012

A couple of sample dilemmas faced recently in the clinical programmes of the medical humanitarian organisation Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF). “This HIV positive woman in her first trimester of pregnancy […]

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MSFantiretrovirals, evidence base, hepatitis C virus, HIV, MSF, resource poor settings0 Comments

Anya Sarang and Tim Rhodes: “The last way” clinic: why tuberculosis remains an incurable disease in Russia

April 12, 2012

          Yekaterinburg city tuberculosis (TB) clinic on Kamskaya Street specialises in the treatment of TB/HIV co-infection. We first visited in November 2009, as part of an […]

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Guest writersHIV, Russia, tuberculosis0 Comments

Leslie Shanks: False positive HIV tests: the problem no one wants to talk about (and how to solve it)

January 6, 2012

“Finally, someone is talking about this.” I heard this refrain frequently at the recent International Conference on HIV/AIDS and Sexually Transmitted Infections in Africa (ICASA) in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, after […]

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Seye Abimbola: David Cameron, homosexuality, and HIV/AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa

December 8, 2011

“All truth passes through three stages: First, it is ridiculed; Second, it is violently opposed; and Third, it is accepted as self-evident.” — Arthur Schopenhauer Last week, the Nigerian senate […]

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Global health, Guest writersAfrica, gay rights, HIV0 Comments

Research highlights – 8 March 2011

April 8, 2011

“Research highlights” is a weekly round-up of research papers appearing in the print BMJ. We start off with this week’s research questions, before providing more detail on some individual research […]

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Uncategorizedbronchiolitis, HIV, malaria, pneumonia, statins0 Comments

Richard Smith: Adding treatment of hypertension to HIV programmes in rural Kenya

March 17, 2011

The biggest problem with treating hypertension in rural Kenya is lack of drugs. Health workers are plentiful, and there is an impressive health system—but drugs are scarce. I learnt this […]

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Richard Feinmann on volunteering after retirement

March 17, 2009

What to do when you are a sexagenarian physician who has retired from hospital practice with 40 years in the NHS under your belt and golf/Sudoku not really appealing? Well, […]

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Guest writersAIDS, developiong countries, HIV, retirment, TB, VSO9 Comments

Siddharta Yadav on changing perceptions of HIV/AIDS

January 26, 2009

There is a famous proverb in Nepali which says we learn something either by reading about it or by facing it. I prefer the latter because of the everlasting impression […]

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Siddhartha Yadav, StudentsAIDS, Asia Pacitific, EAMSC, HIV, Nepal8 Comments

Richard Smith on why diabetes envies cancer

December 11, 2008

Those who campaign on diabetes envy those who campaign on cancer because cancer gets so much more attention than diabetes. Indeed, the diabetes campaigners are very frustrated that diabetes is […]

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Michael Adler and colleagues on HIV today

November 28, 2008

It has been 25 years since HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, was isolated. Since that time, 25 million people have died of HIV related illnesses. In 2007 there were […]

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Guest writersAIDS, developing countries, HIV, UNAIDS, World AIDS Day0 Comments

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