Activism

Activism features

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  PrEP wars: debating pre-exposure prophylaxis in the gay community

  Pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) was approved in the US in July, following trials showing its efficacy in preventing sexual transmission of HIV. But, as Gus Cairns finds out, it...

  From:  HIV treatment update

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  Will the world pay up to end HIV? Global AIDS funding

  We are at a critical point in the history of the HIV epidemic. We potentially have the tools to end it but, asks guest writer Laura...

  From:  HIV treatment update

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  Overhauling health: NHS reform, HIV and patient power

  The HTU guide to the NHS reforms, how they’ll affect you and how you can make the most of them. By Gus Cairns....

  From:  HIV treatment update

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  Supporting patient power: the role of patient advocates and advocacy groups

  Chris Sandford is sitting in his office at the Bloomsbury Clinic, one of the UK’s busiest HIV clinics, a step away from the computer-and-sofa-shop Mecca that is...

  From:  HIV treatment update

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  Taking charge of our future

  “No Decision About Me without Me” was the strapline for the first conference of people living with HIV in the UK since Positive Action in 2008. One hundred and thirty...

  From:  HIV treatment update

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  Talking to the Lords

  Keith Alcorn, NAM’s Senior Editor, recently testified to the House of Lords Select Committee on HIV and AIDS in the UK. He hopes their Lordships can exert some...

  From:  HIV treatment update

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  There is still much work to do

  Positively UK’s Silvia Petretti speaks up at the United Nations. The UN High Level Meeting on AIDS (HLM) took place in New York in June, to coincide...

  From:  HIV treatment update

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  South African AIDS Conference: Special Issue

  The 5th South African AIDS Conference, held from 7-10 June, 2011 in Durban, showcased the recent remarkable achievements of the country’s HIV/AIDS response. Consequently, the conference was...

  From:  HIV & AIDS treatment in practice

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  HIV - the recession bites

  On 15th September, a man dressed as a bear was being tugged around Red Square in Moscow on a leash by three blonde ‘naughty nurses’. Promoting a...

  From:  HIV treatment update

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  Finding our global voice

  Jack Beck of the Global Forum on MSM & HIV (MSMGF) reviews what has now become a regular event preceding the biennial International AIDS Conferences – the...

  From:  HIV treatment update

Activism in your own words

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  A life full of laughs and love

  I was 24, in my final year at college and was planning to go to university when I was diagnosed HIV positive in a small...

  From:In your own words

Activism news from aidsmap

• Low-dose stavudine study debated between South African researchers and activists

  A proposed trial of low-dose stavudine (also known as d4T) sparked a heated debate between South African researchers and activists at the opening of the first Southern African HIV Clinicians' Society Conference held in Cape Town last month. Professor ...

  11 December 2012 | Lesley Odendal

• HIV and TB activist Winstone Zulu dead

  The prominent HIV and TB activist Winstone Zulu has died at the age of 47 in hospital in Lusaka. Mr Zulu was diagnosed with HIV in 1990 and was the first person in Zambia to make a public statement about ...

  12 October 2011 | Keith Alcorn

• 30 years of AIDS: remembering how it began - from those who were there

  Sunday June 5 sees the 30th anniversary of the first reports of the disease that later came to be known as AIDS. At the time no one could have anticipated the scale of the epidemic that was about to ...

  03 June 2011 | Keith Alcorn

• The future of AIDS activism: looking for sustained energy and new tactics 10 years after Durban

  The AIDS movement is at a “crossroads”, according to two panels of activists and policymakers speaking this week at the Eighteenth International AIDS Conference in Vienna, Austria. A satellite session hosted by the Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) and a session ...

  22 July 2010 | Mara Kardas-Nelson

• Governments in southern Africa need to work harder at treatment scale-up, say activists

  Governments in southern Africa are still failing to honour their own commitments to scale up access to antiretroviral therapy despite the growing availability of international donor support to do so, according to a new report from ...

  11 December 2008 | Keith Alcorn

• Activists arrested during attempt to highlight Uganda's neglect of HIV prevention for men who have sex with men

  Three gay, lesbian and transgender individuals have been arrested in Uganda after peacefully protesting about an announcement from the Ugandan AIDS Commission that no resources would be directed to HIV programmes targeting gay men and other ...

  06 June 2008 | Michael Carter

• US activists 'applaud' darunavir (Prezista, TMC114) pricing

  Community treatment advocates from the United States have "applauded" Tibotec's pricing of its newly-approved next-generation protease inhibitor, darunavir (Prezista, formerly known as TMC114). The company announced last week that the drug will cost less than tipranavir ...

  29 June 2006 | Edwin J. Bernard

• European activists claim Pfizer's CCR5 antagonist trial unnecessarily putting most vulnerable at risk; US activists disagree

  European HIV treatment activists, the European AIDS Treatment Group (EATG), are demanding that a worldwide trial of Pfizer’s investigational CCR5 antagonist, maraviroc (UK-427,857) in HIV-positive treatment-naïve individuals “be changed or stopped” since it is unnecessarily putting ...

  19 April 2005 | Edwin J. Bernard

• South African HIV treatment activists start civil disobedience programme

  HIV treatment activists in South Africa are using the civil disobedience tactics employed by the governing ANC to bring down the apartheid regime to highlight the refusal of the ruling party to provide anti-HIV drugs. A programme ...

  25 March 2003 | Michael Carter

• AIDS dissident appointment `last straw` in battle of activists and South African Health Minister

  The Treatment Action Campaign has called for the removal of South African Health Minister Manto Tshabalala-Msimang for inviting an infamous AIDS dissident, Robert Giraldo, to become an adviser to her government on nutrition for people with ...

  11 March 2003 | Theo Smart

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Activism news selected from other sources

• Advocates See Historic Chance to Turn Tide on TB

  Patients, doctors and international aid groups are calling on donors and governments to support measures that would make treatment of drug-resistant tuberculosis more effective and accessible.

  10 hours ago | Inter Press Service

• Sluggish response risks squandering historic opportunity to tackle global drug-resistant tuberculosis

  If measures to tackle multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) are not significantly stepped up, including addressing barriers that prevent both research into better drug combinations and treatment scale up, MDR-TB rates will continue to increase worldwide and a historic opportunity to improve abysmal cure rates will have been squandered, medical humanitarian organisation Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) warned today.

  20 March 2013 | MSF

• The Battle for Needle Exchange, as AIDS Raged

  In the '80s, HIV was killing tens of thousands of heroin addicts. Yet swapping clean needles for dirty ones remained illegal—until a ragtag group of AIDS activists put their bodies on the line.

  14 March 2013 | The Fix

• An Activist’s Guide to Bedaquiline (Sirturo)

  Bedaquiline (also known by its trade name, Sirturo, or as TMC207) is the first new drug from a new drug class to treat TB to be approved by the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in over 40 years. This guide highlights important safety and efficacy data reported thus far and offers advocacy recommendations for activists to take forward. .

  12 March 2013 | Treatment Action Group

• The Plague Years, in Film and Memory

  What it's like when the worst years of your life get rolled up into an Oscar-nominated documentary.

  26 February 2013 | The Atlantic

• Activists pressure Kenya's presidential candidates to act on HIV

  A small team of HIV/AIDS activists is trailing Kenyan presidential candidates as they crisscross the country, pressing them to increase their commitment to the care and treatment of people living with HIV.

  26 February 2013 | IRIN Plus News

• A Letter to HIV on the 16th Anniversary of My Diagnosis

  I know that thanks to you I had to take a very good look at myself, and the world. I had to look straight in the eyes of death and illness. Thanks to you I stopped taking my life for granted. I had to ask difficult questions to myself. Recognise my fragilities, and my responsibilities. What was most painful: I had to question the possibility of love and intimacy.

  04 February 2013 | Speaking Up! blog

• Peter Staley: Grief Is A Sword: A Eulogy For Spencer Cox

  This death hit us hard. We have grappled to make sense of it. Why did he stop his meds? What role did his struggle with crystal meth play? Was this a failure of community? Are there lessons we can learn? These aren't just nosy questions by idle bystanders.

  25 January 2013 | Huffington Post

• HIV/AIDS Activist Fighting for Care and Justice in Indonesia

  Baby Rivona is a 45-year-old mother of two who lives in Jakarta. She is a busy woman. As well as caring for her 3-year-old son, her role as the head of a nationwide advocacy group requires her to communicate with members from around Indonesia, meet with government departments and travel around the world to consult with international organizations such as the United Nations.

  13 January 2013 | Google Alerts HIV

• Somaliland: Poverty and Discrimination Causes New HIV/Aids Infections

  Hargeisa (THT) - Proper Welfare to people living with HIV/Aids is the best way of deterring new infections in the country. Women living with HIV/Aids have asked the government to enhance the support of those infected and affected by the virus as prelude to reducing the growing rate of new infections reported which stands at around 58 on a monthly basis.

  13 January 2013 | Google Alerts HIV

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