Treatment as Prevention¨

New breakthrough medicines for Hepatitis C present an important choice about setting goals and taking systemic action to achieve public health advances in the United States. Despite appearing to offer cure rates greater than 90 percent, high-priced Hepatitis C drugs have driven treatment rationing since their approval over two years ago. Gaps in the screening, […]

Thirty-five years ago this month, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention published a report on five cases of a mysterious lung infection in previously healthy men in Los Angeles. No one could imagine the devastating loss of human life that would follow that first article. The doctor who took care of the patients and

In June 2014, a team of HIV/AIDS activists from New York teamed up with Atlanta activists to call out the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on their strategies and sense of urgency regarding the fight against HIV/AIDS. They also met with the CDC’s HIV prevention personnel to discuss their concerns and present them with

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The Edmonton doctor and infectious disease specialist is seeing more people with more severe sexually transmitted infections – young men with chlamydia and hemorrhagic proctitis who say they’ve had 30-odd partners in the past six months and didn’t use condoms half the time; seemingly healthy people who’ve been on intensive HIV treatment for ages and

Very high diagnosis, treatment and viral suppression rates needed, say researchers A study by the University of California, Los Angeles, and Copenhagen University Hospital provides the first unambiguous evidence of a link between high rates of viral suppression in gay men and falling HIV incidence (the proportion of men who catch HIV each year). The

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In hopes to control the spread of HIV, World Health Organization and the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS are shifting their attention to an approach called “treatment as prevention” to eliminate the global pandemic. The “treatment as prevention” approach has been used in Denmark since its introduction in 1996. According to a new study

An HIV-infected T-cell. Researchers found that the number of infections in Denmark has decreased since 1996, when effective HIV treatments were introduced. Worldwide, about 35 million people are living with HIV. The World Health Organization and the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS plan to use an approach called “treatment as prevention” to eliminate the