Activism

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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

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Activism news from aidsmap

• 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

• Chinese activist reported released from detention

  Dr Wan Yan Hai, who was detained last month in Beijing as reported here, is reported to have been released and has spoken to his wife, Su Zhaosheng, from his apartment in the city. Dr Wan ...

  20 September 2002 | Julian Meldrum

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Activism news selected from other sources

• Criminal Injustice: HIV criminalization survivors speak up

  HIV criminalization laws do little to stem the epidemic or protect public health. Instead, they often backfire and discourage people from being tested. Here, three courageous advocates share their stories of HIV criminalization and their crusade for health, welfare and justice.

  14 May 2012 | Poz

• Members of the HIV/AIDS Community Sound Off About PrEP and the FDA Hearing

  The issue of PrEP leaves the HIV/AIDS community divided.

  14 May 2012 | The Body

• Africa: Global Fund Vows to Stay Committed to Civil Society Involvement After Restructuring

  Under the new structure at the Secretariat, civil society has many entry points to the Global Fund despite the breakup of the Civil Society Team, says Christoph Benn, Director of Resource Mobilisation and Donor Relations. Civil society organisations have expressed concerns about the restructuring.

  11 May 2012 | AllAfrica

• Why are so many abstracts being rejected at the International AIDS Conference?

  The Global Forum on Men Who Have Sex With Men and HIV (MSMGF) has brought to light a phenomenon that is already common knowledge: the high rejection rate of abstracts on issues and programs aimed at gay men and men who have sex with men for the International AIDS Conference, reports Javier Hourcade Bellocq.

  04 May 2012 | Corresponales Clave

• Leading AIDS Advocates Support FDA Approval of Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP)

  In public comments submitted this week, a group of 14 leading HIV/AIDS and health organizations stated their support for Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval of emtricitabine/ tenofovir disoproxil fumarate (TDF/FTC or Truvada®) as pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) to prevent HIV infection in adult men and women.

  02 May 2012 | MarketWatch (press release)

• Truvada PrEP, Gilead, AHF's Bizarre Attack: Our Statement to the FDA

  John S. James comments on AIDS Healthcare Foundation's opposition to the approval of Truvada for use as PrEP, and asks whether Gilead could paradoxically benefit from a negative decision at May's FDA approval hearing.

  30 April 2012 | AIDS Treatment News

• New Zealand AIDS Memorial Quilt to Become National Treasure

  On June 29, the New Zealand AIDS Memorial Quilt will be ceremonially turned over to Te Papa Tongarewa, New Zealand's national museum, as a taonga—a cultural treasure—Yahoo! News reports.

  27 April 2012 | Poz magazine news

• Chained AIDS protesters arrested in Wall St. area

  Protesters advocating for HIV and AIDS patients and the Occupy Wall Street movement have been arrested at a rally and march through lower Manhattan.

  26 April 2012 | The Associated Press

• How Has Activism Changed Since the Early Years of ACT UP?

  We asked community members -- some of them past members of ACT UP themselves -- how they believe activism has changed since ACT UP first stormed onto the world stage.

  26 April 2012 | The Body

• TAG at 20: Early Campaigns

  On January 22, 2012, the Treatment Action Group marked its twentieth anniversary. Over the past two decades, we have helped to accelerate a historically unprecedented therapeutic revolution: the introduction of highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) in 1995–96, followed by its rollout to nearly seven million people worldwide.

  24 April 2012 | TAG

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