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The Spotlight Newsletter provides news of HAI's people, events, and research. Our latest issue, Fall 09, focuses on the Mochudi Project, a comprehensive community-based approach to AIDS prevention now underway in Mochudi, a village of about 40,000 people in southern Botswana.

Social Obligation Among Africans Hikes Adherence to HIV Therapy
New work from Norma Ware and David Bangsberg explains why people in sub-Saharan Africa with HIV/AIDS are exceptionally diligent about taking their antiretroviral therapy.

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Dr. Hermann Bussman was lead author on the paper, Five-year outcomes of initial patients treated in Botswana's National Antiretroviral Treatment Program, published Nov. 12, 2008 in AIDS. Response to antiretroviral (ARV) therapy is described for the first HIV-1C-infected adults enrolled in the Botswana Antiretroviral Treatment Program in 2002. Data analysis was conducted on available longitudinal data up to April 1, 2007. This initial group of adults on ART in Botswana had excellent sustained immunologic, virologic, and clinical outcomes for up to five years of follow-up with low mortality among those surviving into the second year of ART.

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