AHF Spotlight: Widespread Testing, Accessible Treatment, and Passionate Advocacy in Mexico

Since its inception in 2004 as the first AHF partner country in Latin America, AHF Mexico has had a lasting impact on the fight against HIV and AIDS in the region through mass testing events, passionate advocacy and open discussions with government and nongovernmental agencies, and accessible treatment and care through supported clinics in Mexico City, Oaxaca, Merida, Cancun, Pachuca, and Coatzacoalcos.

Diseases like HIV rife in Peruvian jails

Squalid, cramped conditions in Peruvian prisons see inmates forced to sleep in toilets and at risk of contracting diseases like HIV, campaigners have claimed.

As two young women arrested in Peru on suspicion of cocaine trafficking face a potential three years in prison awaiting trial, Prisoners Abroad warned overcrowding is at such critical levels inmates' face serious health dangers.

Preventive antibiotics for tuberculosis reduce deaths among people with HIV disease

As part of the largest international research effort ever made to combat tuberculosis, a team of Johns Hopkins and Brazilian experts has found that preventive antibiotic therapy for people with HIV lowers this group's chances of developing TB or dying. Specifically, they found in men and women already infected with HIV that taking isoniazid reduced deaths and new cases of active TB disease by 31 percent, while new cases of TB alone decline by 13 percent.

HIV/AIDS Infection in Cuba Is Stable

Havana, Aug 15 (Prensa Latina) HIV infection in Cuba is stable regarding the number of cases reported in the last three years, an expert said.

Dr. Jorge Perez Avila, director of the "Pedro Kouri" Institute of Tropical Medicine (IPK) in Havana, told Prensa Latina that however, educational strategies, information and prevention in the population should maintain. In addition, a healthy and responsible sexual behavior is needed to avoid the transmission of the disease, he said.