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Study Reveals Low Adherence to Antimicrobial Treatment Guidelines in Sub-Saharan Africa

I am happy to share a new study that i took part of it: The background for this study is that healthcare providers are expected to follow specific treatment guidelines to ensure patients receive the right diagnosis and treatment. This is particularly important when prescribing antimicrobials (like antibiotics) to prevent antimicrobial resistance – a big problem in sub-Saharan Africa. A recent study reviewed how well healthcare providers in this region are following these guidelines. In this project we have used a comprehensive method (JBI methodology) to review data from various medical databases. Then we looked at numerous studies without any restrictions on language or when they were published. Advanced statistical methods were used to analyze the data, ensuring the results were reliable and unbiased. So overall, the paper has included 22 studies involving 17,017 participants across 14 countries in sub-Saharan Africa. It was found that only 45% of the time healthcare providers fol
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Viremia and drug resistance among HIV-1 patients on antiretroviral treatment: a cross-sectional study in Soweto, South Africa

http://journals.lww.com/aidsonline/Abstract/2010/07170/Viremia_and_drug_resistance_among_HIV_1_patients.8.aspx
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Quality of life in people living with HIV/AIDS in Lebanon

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20461571?dopt=Abstract
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HIV/TB services

It is still a debate how, when and where to integrate these two programs... http://www.plusnews.org/Report.aspx?ReportId=89358
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Are we losing the battle against AIDS, article by New York Times

Describing the current financial situation for ART programs. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/10/world/africa/10aids.html?pagewanted=1 Additional information can be found under http://www.msfaccess.org/
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HIV epidemic in Washington DC vs. other middle-income countries

The HIV prevalence rate in US is <1%, i.e. the average rate in the country. But when looking into different parts of the country, the HIV prevalence rate in DC is around 3% which is considered high. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/03/14/AR2009031402176.html
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Low-&middle-income countries are doing much better with controlling HIV epidemic in comapre to high-income countries!

My landlady, in Providence, is a high-school teacher and asked me to give a presentation about HIV while I am here... Thought to use Gapminder and HIV because I have worked on both of them. I compared USA, South Africa, Zimbabwe, India, Canada and Sweden. The prevalence in USA in 1985 was 0.3% which was similar to South Africa in 1988, India in 1996 but in Zimbabwe that made an interesting jump in prevalence >1% (1.3%) in 1980. Today HIV prevalence rate in high-income countries is <1%, however, you can see that it is increasing in all of them, where USA has the highest rate, followed by Canada then Sweden. The interesting part is between Canada and Sweden, that both provide access to health care, but Canada social model is built on in-migration, although they screen their applicants for HIV. So does it mean it is an internal epidemic? Around 2004, I think, there was study in Sweden that have looked into why HIV patients come late to seek care, and most probably was due to lack of
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