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Mashup Score: 13Predicted resistance to broadly neutralizing antibodies (bnAbs) and associated HIV-1 envelope characteristics among seroconverting adults in Botswana - 6 month(s) ago
Scientific Reports – Predicted resistance to broadly neutralizing antibodies (bnAbs) and associated HIV-1 envelope characteristics among seroconverting adults in Botswana
Source: www.nature.comCategories: General Medicine News, HIV/AIDSTweet
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A recent study from Botswana argues that gossip is both a driver and a manifestation of stigma: gossip stigmatises people living with HIV, and the fact that people are gossiping about people living with HIV reflects the presence of HIV stigma in that community. The authors also argue that the gossip/stigma combination can be more damaging to the community than the actual threat of HIV. This is…
Source: aidsmap.comCategories: HIV/AIDS, Latest HeadlinesTweet-
New research from #Botswana 🇧🇼 highlighted in @aidsmap shows that "gossip about #HIV status drives stigma and limits uptake of HIV care". https://t.co/45i90ab8sq
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Mashup Score: 3Botswana Introduces Injectable Antiretrovirals for HIV Treatment - 1 year(s) ago
Minister of Health Edwin Dikoloti says injections, given every two months, are more convenient than daily pills, which patients sometimes skip
Source: VOACategories: HIV/AIDS, Latest HeadlinesTweet-
In a new development, #Botswana 🇧🇼 has approved injectable anti-retroviral drugs for #HIV treatment! https://t.co/ZAsHD4jRTu
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Mashup Score: 35Botswana Cuts HIV Transmission Rates to Children from 40% to 1% in ‘Groundbreaking Achievement’ - 2 year(s) ago
Over 23 years of work, the country, which still struggles to contain the HIV epidemic, has nevertheless eliminated it among children.
Source: Good News NetworkCategories: HIV/AIDS, Latest HeadlinesTweet-
RT @Winnie_Byanyima: Good news! #Botswana 🇧🇼 is aiming to have an HIV-AIDS-free generation by 2030. #endAIDS https://t.co/P9s5nlxSSD
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Introduction The study aim was to determine if rapid enteric diagnostics followed by the provision of targeted antibiotic therapy (‘test-and-treat’) and/or Lactobacillus reuteri DSM 17938 would improve outcomes in children hospitalised in Botswana with acute gastroenteritis. Methods This was a multicentre, randomised, factorial, controlled, trial. Children aged 2–60 months admitted for acute…
Source: BMJ Global HealthCategories: General Medicine Journals and Societies, Latest HeadlinesTweet-
New RCT from #Botswana for children hospitalized with diarrhea: Neither a ‘test-and-treat’ nor a probiotic intervention improved height-for-age outcomes, but the authors write they cannot exclude potential benefits from treating specific pathogens 🦠 ➡️ https://t.co/G6AJFl4ESW https://t.co/kC0YQBQgB6
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Mashup Score: 4How a national intervention in Botswana improved same-day ART initiation for people newly diagnosed with HIV - 2 year(s) ago
Fifty-nine percent of adults started ART on the same day as HIV diagnosis, and 78% within seven days following a national intervention to improve rapid ART initiation in Botswana, researchers from the Botswana-University of Maryland School of Medicine reported in the journal AIDS. Strategies deployed during the programme included recruiting, training, and assigning facility health workers and…
Source: aidsmap.comCategories: HIV/AIDS, Latest HeadlinesTweet-
A new study highlighted in @aidsmap examines how a national multi-component intervention in #Botswana 🇧🇼 yielded a significant increase in same-day ART initiation for people who recently acquired #HIV: https://t.co/LLzLRZBTUC
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Mashup Score: 2Cancer control in Botswana - 2 year(s) ago
To decrease the mortality, morbidity, and social and economic effects associated with cancer, Botswana needs to boost cancer prevention and strengthen its health infrastructure to tackle malignant diseases, according to the country’s Minister of Health and Wellness Edwin Dikoloti. On Feb 19, 2022, during his address at the inauguration of a cervical cancer screening campaign in Kopong (a village…
Source: The Lancet OncologyCategories: Hem/Onc News and Journals, Latest HeadlinesTweet-
News: #Cancer control in #Botswana https://t.co/JuSMxyYqL9
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JOHANNESBURG (AP) — The Botswana scientist who may well have discovered the omicron variant of the coronavirus says he has been on a “rollercoaster of emotions,” with the pride of accomplishment followed by dismay over the travel bans immediately slapped on southern African countries.
Source: AP NEWSCategories: Latest Headlines, Oncologists1Tweet-
“Moyo was doing genomic sequencing of #COVID19 samples at his lab in #Botswana 2w ago & noticed 3 cases that seemed dramatically different.” They would become #Omicron. He is quick to point out that science is teamwork & viruses don’t care about borders. https://t.co/MdhT6IaFTj
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Mashup Score: 74Botswana’s leader says foreign diplomats who traveled from Europe were among the first known Omicron cases. - 2 year(s) ago
Botswana and South Africa were the first countries to identify cases involving the Omicron variant, and an official in Botswana asserted that most of the initial 19 were “imported.”
Source: www.nytimes.comCategories: Infectious Disease, Latest HeadlinesTweet-
Oh how the tables have turned. Some of Botswana's first cases of Omicron were travellers from...Europe. Perhaps the issue was never South Africa all along... https://t.co/enlJjtfFfB
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Confirmation of what we now know - although first cases of #Omicron were detected in #Botswana, it originated elsewhere-foreign diplomats among the first to test positive for it. We are so lucky #Botswana and #SouthAfrica have such wonderful scientists https://t.co/5D6nqz7YrK
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Mashup Score: 3Botswana is first country with severe HIV epidemic to reach key milestone in the elimination of mother-to-child HIV transmission - 2 year(s) ago
Botswana has become the first high-burden country to be certified for achieving an important milestone on the path to eliminating mother-to-child transmission of HIV by the World Health Organization (WHO).
Source: www.unaids.orgCategories: HIV/AIDS, Latest HeadlinesTweet-
Correction: #Botswana has become the first high-burden #HIV to reach a key milestone in eliminating mother-to-child HIV transmission, according to a new press release from @UNAIDS https://t.co/l71EeX4dCL
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A recent study analysed HIV-1C sequences in adults in #Botswana to predict resistance to bnAbs and evaluate HIV-1 envelope characteristics affecting virus neutralization. Read the full study in @nature: https://t.co/KMtOqAtkRK https://t.co/CZKlF9GGE0