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Covid London: Just half of carers vaccinated in Lambeth care home with South Africa variant outbreak

Revealed: Just 50% of care home staff have been vaccinated in London borough where nursing home is at centre of South African Covid variant outbreak Ten residents and 13 staff infected with the South Africa variant at a single care home in Lambeth, London  Outbreak is thought to have been triggered by someone who travelled… Read More »

Resistance testing does not improve viral suppression after first-line failure in South Africa and Uganda

Resistance testing to trigger switching to a second-line HIV treatment regimen did not improve virological suppression nine months later in a large randomised study carried out in South Africa and Uganda, Dr Mark Siedner of Massachusetts General Hospital reported to the 2021 virtual Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI) on Monday. The study findings… Read More »

South Africans continued to receive ART during COVID-19 lockdown, but HIV testing and starting ART were impeded

The worst predictions of modelling studies concerning the impact of the 2020 COVID-19 lockdown on HIV care appear not to have come true in South Africa. A study in The Lancet HIV shows that in the province of KwaZulu-Natal, antiretroviral therapy (ART) provision was maintained throughout. However, the lockdown negatively impacted HIV testing and the… Read More »

South beach diet for pescatarians

Black Beans with Cilantro for vegetable stock for vegetarian version all phases. He’s gained so much diet and motivation from the weight loss he’s made other changes in his life — including running for Congress. How to Follow pescatarians Protein Power Diet. You can use orange tags about the recipe title to see if each… Read More »