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May 14, 2017

Governance in the focus

MMS/aidsfocus.ch at the Global Fund Board Meeting, Kigali, 3 – 4 May 2017 - At the beginning of May the board of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (GFATM) met in Kigali. Martin Leschhorn Strebel, civil society representative in the Swiss delegation reports.

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May 16, 2017

DOCUMENTATION MMS/aidsfocus.ch conference

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May 13, 2017

High Prevalence and Incidence of Hypertension among Africans Living with HIV

About 12% of people living with HIV in rural Tanzania have hypertension at the moment of HIV diagnosis. An additional 10% will develop hypertension during the first months of antiretroviral therapy. This represents an incidence 1.5 times higher than that found in Europe or the United States. The findings, published today in the open-access journal PLOS ONE, come from the Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute (Swiss TPH) in collaboration with partner institutions in Tanzania, Switzerland and Spain. (by Sabina Beatrice-Matter)

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