13 April 2018, Paris, France: Two nationwide programmes in Georgia and Iceland, which were designed to eliminate hepatitis C virus (HCV) at the population level, have reported encouraging results, suggesting that these countries could be on target to achieve their elimination goals. Although both programmes have adopted slightly different approaches, both have reported high levels […]
The app helped revolutionise the community’s approach to HIV. Sharing that data undoes all its good work Gay men have always needed safe spaces, somewhere they could congregate without fear of stigma and judgment or, even more essentially, persecution and violence. Over the past several decades, those spaces were more often than not gay bars
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Sexually transmitted disease (STD) prevention is HIV prevention, but the inverse doesn’t necessarily hold true, and we must clear up any lingering confusion about that. Three-site STD testing, also known as extragenital testing, entails appropriate screening of the throat, penis, and rectum. Simply put, wherever you sex it is where you should test it. This
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People all over the world are receiving effective HIV treatments and more treatment options are in the pipeline. Now, global health organisations want to end the AIDS epidemic IN 2015, the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) launched an ambitious target: to end the AIDS epidemic by 2030. The aim is that no child
New research from BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS (BC-CfE), Simon Fraser University (SFU) and Hawassa University in Ethiopia, found high rates HIV of drug resistance in Ethiopian children failing their first-line HIV treatment.
When celebrated author and alternative medicine advocate Deepak Chopra visited Palm Springs in early February, he had an epiphany. Invited to be a featured speaker in the Palm Springs Speaks lecture series, he visited Desert AIDS Project before his event that evening. While touring the campus Chopra realized he was seeing the real-life manifestation of
When Health and Human Services Secretary Margaret Heckler announced that scientists had discovered the virus that caused AIDS at a press conference in 1984, the disease was still mysterious and invariably fatal. Perhaps with a vaccine, AIDS could be ended like smallpox or contained like polio, two scourges that yielded to intense public health interventions.
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Hepatitis C is not a visible virus. It disproportionately affects disadvantaged and marginalised communities, with almost half of people who attend hospital for hepatitis C coming from the poorest fifth of society. People living with hepatitis C often experience few obvious symptoms, and 40-50% of the estimated 160,000 with hepatitis C in England are unaware
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A perspective in PLOS Medicine suggests that people with HIV who achieve viral suppression with antiretroviral therapy can avoid sexual transmission of HIV without using condoms, a significant study that lends hope that the “treatment as prevention” method can stop the spread of the HIV infection. “This research embodies the idea that what is undetectable
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No one disputes that the ideal outcome is for people to stop using drugs. But that can’t happen instantly To those uninitiated in the global fight against the opioid crisis, the idea of delivering safe opioids through vending machines might sound ridiculous, counterintuitive and even dangerous. The idea was raised late last year by Dr.
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