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Practicum on Monitoring and Evaluation of Health Communication programs
Increasingly, health communication programs are requested to provide evidence of the contribution of communication to not only health behaviors such as HIV testing or family planning adoption but also to population-based health outcomes such as HIV or malaria incidence.
Call for entries for the 2014 Annual Awards for Excellence in Health Communication in Africa
AfriComNet is calling for entries to the 2014 Annual Awards for Excellence in Health Communication in Africa.
The awards have now been expanded to recognize outstanding communication initiatives from all other health programs including HIV, family planning/reproductive health, malaria, maternal and child health, water and sanitation, nutrition and non communicable diseases.
High rate of new infections with HPV types associated with a high risk of anal cancer among gay men living with HIV
Incidence of anal infection with cancer-associated strains of human papillomavirus (HPV) is high among gay men living with HIV, US investigators report in the online edition of AIDS. Researchers followed a cohort of 369 men for at least two years. There was a 13% annual incidence of anal infection with high-risk HPV types.
Monitoring may be an option for people living with HIV diagnosed with high-grade pre-cancerous anal lesions
Up to 62% of people living with HIV who have high-grade pre-cancerous cell changes may experience an improvement in their condition over two years without any treatment, according to the results of a modelling study presented to the recent Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI) in Boston earlier this month.
Stanford study: South Africa could save millions of lives through HIV prevention
South Africa could save the lives of some 4.5 million people over the next 20 years by using a double-barreled approach to HIV prevention.
KwaZulu-Natal has highest HIV infection
KwaZulu-Natal continues to have one of the highest HIV infection rates in the world, according to NGO Doctors without Borders (MSF). About 25.2% of the province’s adult population is living with the virus, compared to a national average of 17.9%.
Gentlemen, let's talk about HIV
In some ways, Phumzile Nywagi is remarkably average: a married middle-aged father focused on work and family who, like millions of other South African men, is HIV positive.
But in 2001 he started his own male-only support group in Gugulethu, Cape Town, to bring together men to speak about their experience with the virus.
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