HIV/AIDS Prevention, Treatment Efforts Should Include Care For Other Diseases, Experts Say
"Global HIV/AIDS prevention and treatment efforts are missing a major opportunity to significantly improve health conditions in poor countries by simply adding low-cost care for the many other chronic and disabling diseases routinely afflicting and often killing these same patients, according to a panel of disease experts who spoke at the annual meeting of the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (ASTMH)," an ASTMH press release states (12/9). The "ASTMH Blog" features several entries from journalist John Donnelly, who covered the conference and interviewed key players (12/7).
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