TREAT Asia News
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Improving Care for Thai Youth Living with HIV
Dr. Teeraananchai is the latest TREAT Asia investigator to receive a prestigious Collaborative Initiative for Paediatric HIV Education and Research (CIPHER) grant.
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PERSPECTIVES: How can we improve mental health services for people living with HIV in the Asia-Pacific?
People living with HIV are known to have higher rates of mental health issues than their uninfected peers, which can worsen their quality of life and affect adherence to HIV treatment.
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Managing a Critical Transition
TREAT Asia Conducts Training on Transitioning From Pediatric to Adult HIV Care
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TREAT Asia, Civil Society Groups, and WHO Coordinate Efforts to Attack Viral Hepatitis
In November and December 2017, TREAT Asia/amfAR organized two trainings on viral hepatitis B and C (HBV and HCV) and the importance of addressing these diseases in the context of HIV co-infection.
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A Partnership to Improve Hepatitis C Diagnosis and Treatment Access in Asia
TREAT Asia and Coalition PLUS, an international association of organizations fighting AIDS and hepatitis,
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Evaluating Depression and Anxiety in Thai Adolescents with HIV
U.S. studies have estimated that as many as 60% of HIV-infected adolescents suffer from depression, anxiety, or attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.
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Youth Advocates Graduate with Important New Knowledge and Skills
TREAT Asia’s Youth ACATA—Asia Community for AIDS Treatment and Advocacy—program aims to build the capacity of young people living with HIV.
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New Initiative Addresses Adolescent Mental Health
People living with HIV who also have a mental illness face pervasive double stigma, which exacerbates the effects of both conditions.
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The Tangerine Clinic: Leading the Way on Transgender Health Care
HIV/AIDS organizations consider identifying and treating HIV in key populations such as transgender people to be essential to ending the HIV/AIDS epidemic.
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New NIH Grant for TREAT Asia and University of Cape Town Partnership on Adolescents Living With HIV
NICHD of NIH has awarded amfAR a new Developmental Research Grant to improve how clinical and program data on adolescents living with HIV are organized and studied in resource-limited settings.
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TREAT Asia Investigators Selected in Three Rounds of IAS CIPHER Grant Program
Three TREAT Asia investigators from Thailand have been awarded these highly competitive CIPHER grants in the past three years.
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A Driving Force in HIV Research
Dr. Nittaya Phanuphak is chief of the Prevention Department and chief of SEARCH (South East Asia Research Collaboration on HIV) at the Thai Red Cross AIDS Research Centre in Bangkok.
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TREAT Asia Conducts Physician Training on HIV and Hepatitis C Co-infection Treatment
TREAT Asia conducted the training in collaboration with the International Network for Hepatitis in Substance Users (INHSU) and the Australasian Society for HIV, Viral Hepatitis and Sexual Health Medicine (ASHM).
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TREAT Asia’s New Program to Help Build Regional Youth HIV Advocacy Capacity
According to the World Health Organization, adolescents are the only group of people living with HIV with a rising mortality rate.
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TREAT Asia Launches a New Hepatitis C Education Campaign and Screening and Treatment Study
In January, TREAT Asia launched a new clinical study investigating how to better diagnose and treat hepatitis C in individuals co-infected with HIV in resource-limited settings.