Epidemiology

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  The whether forecast: HIV services in the cutback era

  Some HIV experts are wondering not what our services will look like in the future but in some areas, whether there will be any HIV-specific services at all....

  From:HIV treatment update

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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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  How can we afford to treat HIV?

  One of the dominant themes at the recent International AIDS Conference in Vienna was how to maintain the momentum towards universal HIV treatment access in the context...

  From:HIV treatment update

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  HIV prevalence among South African MSM twice as high as general population

  Prevalence among MSM in South Africa....

  From:HIV & AIDS treatment in practice

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  Will the money drain out of AIDS?

  Earlier this year, on 25 February, the government of Botswana announced that if the global recession continued, it would have to freeze the provision of treatment for its...

  From:HIV treatment update

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  The consequences of fear

  How the myth of ‘health tourism’ is harming people with HIV, by Edwin J Bernard ...

  From:HIV treatment update

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  Lowering the threshold — Is there a case for re-evaluating eligibility criteria for ART?

  Review of the evidence for and against earlier antiretroviral treatment in resource-limited settings....

  From:HIV & AIDS treatment in practice

Epidemiology news from aidsmap

• Treatment as prevention is starting to work in parts of Africa

  A longitudinal study from KwaZulu Natal province in South Africa is the first study from the global south to relate an increase in the proportion of adults on HIV treatment to a fall in HIV incidence, the 19th Conference on ...

  18 March 2012 | Gus Cairns

• Life expectancy for people with HIV in Africa may be comparable to general population if they are on treatment

  Life expectancy for HIV-positive adults starting antiretroviral treatment (ART) in Uganda is comparable to life expectancy for all Ugandan adults. This was reported by Edward J Mills and colleagues in a prospective cohort study of over 22,000 adults who started ...

  18 July 2011 | Carole Leach-Lemens

• Rome IAS conference is 'landmark moment' for HIV science, say experts

  The Sixth International AIDS Society Conference on HIV Pathogenesis, Treatment and Prevention (IAS 2011) opened on Sunday night in Rome amid great excitement, with scientific leaders proclaiming that the conference will be a landmark moment in ...

  17 July 2011 | Keith Alcorn

• UNAIDS: Treat 15 million by 2015

  Global funding for AIDS needs to increase by one-third in the short term and by 20% in the longer term in order to achieve a radical reduction in new infections within a  decade, according to projections issued on June ...

  06 June 2011 | Keith Alcorn

• UK government issues global HIV spending statement

  The United Kingdom government has issued a new policy statement on global  HIV spending, saying it will target HIV funding up to 2015 towards prevention, with its main focus on countries with a high burden of HIV in ...

  01 June 2011 | Keith Alcorn

• Further cuts in drug prices make tenofovir more affordable for low-income countries

  UNITAID, the international drug purchase fund, and the Clinton Health Access Initiative have announced further price reductions for key antiretroviral drug regimens, including a 14% reduction in the price of tenofovir-based triple combination therapy, to $159 a year. The reduced ...

  17 May 2011 | Keith Alcorn

• Treatment as prevention works: randomised study shuts 3 years early after showing 96% reduction in risk of transmission

  A large randomised study of treatment as prevention has closed more than three years early after interim analysis of the data showed that antiretroviral treatment reduced the risk of HIV transmission from treated partner to uninfected partner by 96%. The ...

  12 May 2011 | Keith Alcorn

• Progress on HIV treatment 'fragile', says MSF report

  Although major strides have been made in achieving access to antiretroviral treatment in low- and middle-income countries, progress is fragile and highly vulnerable to diminishing attention from donors, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) says in a new report published ahead ...

  12 May 2011 | Keith Alcorn

• Extended ART cost-effective for preventing mother-to-child HIV transmission in Nigeria

  The World Health Organization’s (WHO) new recommendation for the extended use of triple drug antiretroviral prophylaxis for mother and infant is highly cost-effective compared to the current short-course two drug therapy for the prevention of mother-to-child transmission (PMTCT) in Nigeria, ...

  05 May 2011 | Carole Leach-Lemens

• Some London clinics may have difficulty meeting drug prescription targets

  Some HIV clinics in London may have difficulty conforming to the new targets set for the proportion of patients who are prescribed cost-saving regimens, according to a poster presentation at this month’s BHIVA conference. The poster, from Guy’s and St ...

  20 April 2011 | Gus Cairns

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Epidemiology news selected from other sources

• HIV/AIDS among African immigrants in Minnesota

  Our African Story is a series of community-pertinent topics whose intention is to give an African voice and ownership to some of the most riveting issues of the day. I have decided to kick off the series with the issue of HIV/AIDs and the effects of the epidemic on the African immigrant community in Minnesota.

  11 May 2012 | Mshale African Community Newspaper

• UN Secretary-General issues recommendations to bolster AIDS response in order to meet 2015 targets

  The United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has issued his first report on HIV to the UN General Assembly since the 2011 High Level Meeting on AIDS.

  01 May 2012 | UNAIDS

• UN chief: World falling behind in goal of reducing HIV/AIDS infection, improving treatments

  The world is falling behind in its pledge to reduce HIV/AIDS infections and improve treatment, especially in sub-Saharan Africa, according to a U.N. report released Monday.

  01 May 2012 | Washington Post

• Most HIV/AIDS patients in Serbia are Belgraders

  There are 1,611 HIV positive persons in Serbia - over 70 percent of them are registered in Belgrade, the international PLHIV Conference Serbia has heard.

  23 April 2012 | B92

• South Africa: HIV Infection Rate in Babies Drops in Gauteng

  The HIV infection rate in newborn babies has decreased by more than half in Gauteng, says the provincial Department of Health and Social Development.

  02 April 2012 | AllAfrica

• Transmitted HIV Drug Resistance on the Rise in U.S.

  New surveillance data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) suggest that about two in 10 individuals diagnosed with HIV in recent years were infected with HIV strains harboing mutations conferring at least partial resistance to one ore more available antiretroviral (ARV). The report was presented Wednesday, March 7, at the 19th Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections in Seattle.

  21 March 2012 | AIDSMeds

• UGANDA: Higher HIV rate cause for concern

  Uganda's HIV/AIDS prevalence rate has risen from 6.4 percent to 6.7 percent, according to a recently released national AIDS Indicator Survey.

  21 March 2012 | IRIN Plus News

• Russia HIV infections rise 5% in 2011

   Russia in 2011 saw a rise of five percent in the number of new HIV infections to 62000 cases amid worrying signs that heterosexuals and women are increasingly at risk, its chief doctor said Monday. 

  12 March 2012 | AFP

• New tool tracks AIDS and the global burden of disease

  At a plenary session Thursday at the 19th Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections, Christopher Murray, MD, PhD, presented preliminary data from the 2010 revision of the Global Burden of Disease. 

  08 March 2012 | Science Speaks

• Eye on Rwanda – successes and challenges in HIV testing and treatment

  In many ways, Rwanda is a success story in terms of provision of services to people with HIV — just 18 years after 800,000 people were massacred in the country’s 1994 genocide. Anita Asiimwe, MD, MPH, of the Rwanda Biomedica Center in Kigali, drew a picture of what is seen on the ground for an audience at the 19th Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections Tuesday afternoon in Seattle.

  07 March 2012 | Science Speaks

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