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| Antiretroviral therapy linked to pregnancy increase in sub-Saharan ... - New Kerala Posted: 08 Feb 2010 10:13 PM PST Message from fivefilters.org: If you can, please donate to the full-text RSS service so we can continue developing it. Washington, Feb 9 : A research conducted in a multi-country HIV treatment program in sub-Saharan Africa has found that after starting antiretroviral therapy (ART), pregnancy rates in HIV-infected women started increasing.
The study has been published in PLoS Medicine. In sub-Saharan Africa childbirth plays an important role in spreading HIV from mother to child. By the end of 2007 there were almost 3 million HIV-infected people receiving antiretroviral care in poor countries. ART reduces, but does not remove, the chances of a mother passing HIV to her child during birth. To reach the conclusion, Landon Myer of the University of Cape Town, South Africa, and colleagues analyzed data from the Mother-to-Child Transmission-Plus initiative (MTCT-Plus) to see how ART impacted on pregnancy rates amongst HIV-infected woman. In seven African countries the MTCT-Plus initiative offers family-centred treatment, including check-ups, blood tests, counselling and ART when appropriate. Over a four year period, the researchers found that nearly a third of the women starting antiretroviral therapy experienced a pregnancy. The researchers found that the chance of pregnancy increased over time in women who had started to receive ART, whilst pregnancy rates remained low and constant in women who were not yet receiving ART. As expected, other factors, such as age, lower educational status, and less reliable forms of contraception also affected pregnancy rates. The study cannot explain why women receiving ART are more likely to become pregnant – the authors offer behavioural explanations, such as the fact that women receiving ART are more likely to feel motivated to have children as their health improves. --ANI
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| MINOGUE DENIES PREGNANCY SERIES - Daily Star Posted: 08 Feb 2010 08:40 PM PST Message from fivefilters.org: If you can, please donate to the full-text RSS service so we can continue developing it. DANNII MINOGUE has denied reports she is planning a new TV show documenting her pregnancy.
The Australian singer is expecting her first child with her rugby player boyfriend Kris Smith in July (10), and is said to have invited a camera crew to follow her after she discovered the happy news last year (09). But the All I Wanna Do hitmaker has moved quickly to silence the reports. In a post on micro-blogging website Twitter.com, she displays a link to the story and writes, "Not true!" Five Filters featured article: Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction. This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Wulan has spa treatments despite pregnancy - Jakarta Post Posted: 08 Feb 2010 09:16 PM PST Message from fivefilters.org: If you can, please donate to the full-text RSS service so we can continue developing it. The Jakarta Post | Tue, 02/09/2010 12:06 PM | People
JAKARTA: Being pregnant hasn't prevented actress Wulan Guritno from pampering herself in a spa. Entering her fifth month of pregnancy, Wulan said she wanted to get a leg wax before delivering her baby. "Treatments are fine during pregnancy because they allow us to relax. Before giving birth, I'd like to have a wax so I can feel clean," she said as quoted by kompas.com. Wulan, who recently opened her own spa called Poetre Wax, Spa and Salon in Ciputat, Tangerang, said she now took advantage of the fact that she worked in the spa business to get treatments. "Before consumers try the treatments [offered in my spa], I'll try them first," she said. Wulan, wife of film director Adilla Dimitri, added that she was allowed to get short massages while pregnant. "Reflexology is not allowed because there are several parts [of the body] that should not be massaged [while pregnant]," she said. "I can't lie on my stomach anymore, I am already five months pregnant, so if I put pressure on my stomach, it hurts," she said. Wulan said she usually booked two-hour spa treatments. "But foot spa treatments only take half an hour. [I have] manicure and pedicure once in two weeks. Body scrubs, once a week," she said. Being healthy and clean is the key to being beautiful, she said. "If one looks pretty, but has a messy hairstyle and long leg hair, can one truly be beautiful? So, being beautiful starts with smooth legs. If we take care of our hair, and leg hair, our face, we are bound to look beautiful," she said. — JP Five Filters featured article: Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction. |
| Antiretroviral therapy associated with increase in pregnancy in sub ... - Genetic Engineering News Posted: 08 Feb 2010 05:34 PM PST Message from fivefilters.org: If you can, please donate to the full-text RSS service so we can continue developing it. Feb 8 2010, 8:40 PM EST Antiretroviral therapy associated with increase in pregnancy in sub-Saharan AfricaEUREKALERT Contact: Andrew Hydepress@plos.org 44-122-346-3330 Public Library of Science In PLoS Medicine this week a study conducted in a multi-country HIV treatment program in sub-Saharan Africa has found that pregnancy rates increase in HIV-infected women after they start antiretroviral therapy (ART). In sub-Saharan Africa childbirth plays an important role in spreading HIV from mother to child. By the end of 2007 there were almost 3 million HIV-infected people receiving antiretroviral care in poor countries. ART reduces, but does not remove, the chances of a mother passing HIV to her child during birth. In this study Landon Myer of the University of Cape Town, South Africa, and colleagues analyzed data from the Mother-to-Child Transmission-Plus initiative (MTCT-Plus) to see how ART impacted on pregnancy rates amongst HIV-infected woman. In seven African countries the MTCT-Plus initiative offers family-centred treatment, including check-ups, blood tests, counselling and ART when appropriate. Over a four year period, the researchers found that nearly a third of the women starting antiretroviral therapy experienced a pregnancy. The researchers found that the chance of pregnancy increased over time in women who had started to receive ART, whilst pregnancy rates remained low and constant in women who were not yet receiving ART. As expected, other factors, such as age, lower educational status, and less reliable forms of contraception also affected pregnancy rates. The study cannot explain why women receiving ART are more likely to become pregnant the authors offer behavioural explanations, such as the fact that women receiving ART are more likely to feel motivated to have children as their health improves. The authors acknowledge limitations of their study, including the fact that they were relying on women self-reporting pregnancy which may mean that some pregnancies were not detected. The results of this study indicate that HIV treatment programs have "an important opportunity to address women's fertility intentions and to shape their services to address the needs of women and their families over time." Funding: The MTCT-Plus Initiative is funded through grants from the following philanthropic foundations: Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, David and Lucile Packard Foundation, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation, John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, Rockefeller Foundation, and Starr Foundation. Additional support is provided by the United States Agency for International Development. The funding agencies played no role in the design and conduct of the study; the collection, management, analysis, and interpretation of the data; and the preparation, review, or approval of the manuscript. Competing Interests: The authors have declared that no competing interests exist. Citation: Myer L, Carter RJ, Katyal M, Toro P, El-Sadr WM, et al. (2010) Impact of Antiretroviral Therapy on Incidence of Pregnancy among HIV-Infected Women in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Cohort Study. PLoS Med 7(2): e1000229. doi:10.1371/journal.pmed.1000229 IN YOUR COVERAGE PLEASE USE THIS URL TO PROVIDE ACCESS TO THE FREELY AVAILABLE PAPER: http://www.plosmedicine.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pmed.1000229 PRESS-ONLY PREVIEW OF THE ARTICLE: www.plos.org/press/plme-07-02-myer.pdf CONTACT: Developing global maps of the dominant Anopheles vectors of human malaria Simon Hay (University of Oxford, UK) and colleagues describe how the Malaria Atlas Project has collated data on the occurrence of Anopheles mosquitoes to map the geographic distributions of the dominant mosquito vectors of human malaria. Funding: SIH is funded by a Senior Research Fellowship from the Wellcome Trust (#079091) which also supports PWG, APP, and WHT. MES, CWK, PMM, CCT, and REH are funded by a Wellcome Trust project grant (#083534) to SIH. RMO is funded by a Wellcome Trust Masters Training Fellowship (#083124). This work forms part of the output of the Malaria Atlas Project (MAP, http://www.map.ox.ac.uk), principally funded by the Wellcome Trust, UK. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript. Competing Interests: The authors have declared that no competing interests exist. Citation: Hay SI, Sinka ME, Okara RM, Kabaria CW, Mbithi PM, et al. (2010) Developing Global Maps of the Dominant Anopheles Vectors of Human Malaria. PLoS Med 7(2): e1000209. doi:10.1371/journal.pmed.1000209. IN YOUR COVERAGE PLEASE USE THIS URL TO PROVIDE ACCESS TO THE FREELY AVAILABLE PAPER: http://www.plosmedicine.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pmed.1000209 PRESS-ONLY PREVIEW OF THE ARTICLE: www.plos.org/press/plme-07-02-hay.pdf CONTACT: Five Filters featured article: Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction. |
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