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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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  The implications of ZAMSTAR for research and policy

  So what was the primary take-home message of this complex study, the one that policy makers and funders need to take to heart? Sending out counsellors to repeatedly make...

  From:  HIV & AIDS treatment in practice

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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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  Treatment as prevention works!

  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...

  From:  HIV & AIDS treatment in practice

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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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  Bridging the divide: HIV and health systems

  This edition reports on the debate over how HIV programmes can contribute to health system strengthening and in particular, how better integration can be achieved....

  From:  HIV & AIDS treatment in practice

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  New WHO treatment guidelines

  This issues covers new WHO guidelines on when to start treatment, the phase out of stavudine, PMTCTand infant feeding and the policy change in South Africa. ...

  From:  HIV & AIDS treatment in practice

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  Scaling up HIV testing and counselling towards universal access: what works in resource-limited settings?

  This issue looks at the diverse possibilities and challenges for expanding HIV testing and counselling as well as policy and practice in resource-poor settings. ...

  From:  HIV & AIDS treatment in practice

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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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  The consequences of fear

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

  From:  HIV treatment update

Policy news from aidsmap

• Lukewarm reaction to government’s sexual health framework for England

  Just two weeks before local authorities take over the commissioning of sexual health services – and twelve years since a sexual health strategy was last published – the Department of Health has released a “framework” which outlines the government’s ...

  19 March 2013 | Roger Pebody

• Tentative evidence of treatment-as-prevention efficacy in northern France

  Physicians at seven HIV clinics in north-eastern France have provided evidence of an association between a decrease in the so-called 'community viral load' (CVL) in diagnosed patients between 2005 and 2010 and the number of new diagnoses of HIV. However, ...

  04 September 2012 | Gus Cairns

• How is HIV prevention policy made in Tanzania and why do structural interventions lose out?

  Far from being primarily driven by scientific evidence, decisions about spending priorities for HIV prevention programmes emerge from an imperfect, politicised process, Moritz Hunsmann argues in an article published online ahead of print in Social Science and Medicine. Drawing on ...

  28 March 2012 | Roger Pebody

• World Health Organization issues new policy to step up TB/HIV efforts

  Around 910,000 lives were saved between 2005 and 2010 as a result of closer working relationships between HIV and TB programmes, according to estimates released today by the World Health Organization. However, further progress is still needed: around 40% ...

  02 March 2012 | Keith Alcorn

• HIV treatment to be free for undocumented migrants and non-UK citizens

  The United Kingdom Department of Health has announced that it will soon make HIV treatment free for all who need it, regardless of citizenship or immigration status. While the change may be politically controversial, ministers are justifying it on ...

  28 February 2012 | Roger Pebody

• US embraces treatment as prevention policy to achieve global 'AIDS-free generation'

  The United States is now committed to a policy of creating the first AIDS-free generation by using antiretroviral treatment as the central tool in a strategy to radically reduce new infections, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said today. “HIV ...

  08 November 2011 | Keith Alcorn

• Expert panel picks 'best buys' for HIV prevention

  If $10 billion of new money can be spent on HIV prevention over the next five years, the priorities should be more investment in vaccine research, mass infant circumcision, preventing mother to child transmission, safer blood supplies and a ...

  29 September 2011 | Keith Alcorn

• House of Lords says UK needs new national HIV prevention campaign, bigger push for testing

  The United Kingdom government must give much greater priority to HIV prevention, and consider a new national campaign to inform the general public of the risks of HIV infection, according to a report issued today by the House of ...

  01 September 2011 | Keith Alcorn

• From 'what if' to 'what now': implementing the new prevention technologies

  Two consecutive sessions at the sixth International AIDS Society conference (IAS 2011) in Rome yesterday were devoted, now we have convincing scientific data on the benefits of treatment as prevention and PrEP, to putting these new prevention methods into ...

  20 July 2011 | Gus Cairns

• The research agenda for antiretroviral prevention – now it gets complex

  We now know that starting antiretroviral therapy early, pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) and vaginal microbicides can all have an impact on HIV transmission, Victor de Gruttola told a satellite session at the International AIDS Society conference (IAS 2011) in Rome on Sunday. ...

  18 July 2011 | Roger Pebody

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• Uganda assents to regional HIV/Aids Bill

  Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni has assented to the HIV/Aids regional Bill, 2010, which seeks to prevent and manage the menace and also promote the rights of the infected. The East African Community HIV and Aids Prevention and Management Bill, 2010, was a private members’ initiative aimed at mandating partner states to play a key role in controlling and managing the deadly disease.

  9 hours ago | Africa Review

• 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

• In the new NHS lawyers, not GPs, will be in the driving seat

  With less than two weeks to go before clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) take responsibility for almost all our healthcare, they still don't know officially whether they will be free to go on commissioning work from NHS hospitals, or whether they will be forced to open it up to private providers.

  20 March 2013 | The Guardian

• England: Sexual health improvement framework published

  ‘A Framework for Sexual Health Improvement in England’ sets out the government’s ambitions for improving sexual health. These are designed to be used by local organisations when they are looking at how best to provide sexual health services in their area.

  15 March 2013 | Department of Health

• HIV high on the agenda at the fifty-sixth session of the Commission on Narcotic Drugs

  At the fifty-sixth session of the Commission on Narcotic Drugs, which is running from 11-15 March, drug use and HIV will be addressed through a number of channels, including a draft resolution calling for the intensification of efforts to reduce HIV to attain the targets of the 2011 Political Declaration on HIV and AIDS.

  13 March 2013 | UNAIDS

• Craig Timberg and Daniel Halperin: Five myths about AIDS

  1. The case of the Mississippi baby means we’re close to curing AIDS. 2. AIDS is the leading killer of babies worldwide. 3. Mothers with HIV should never breast-feed. 4. Drugs are the key to preventing HIV’s spread. 5. AIDS can’t be defeated.

  12 March 2013 | Washington Post

• Viet Nam: HIV/AIDS fight faces cash crunch

  Viet Nam faces two major hurdles in combating HIV/AIDS: namely unsustainable achievements and the reduction of international financial support, says Minister of Health Nguyen Thi Kim Tien.

  11 March 2013 | VietNamNet Bridge

• Why Proposed NHS Reforms May Damage HIV Care

  On 13th February, the government introduced the secondary legislation known as 'Section 75' of the Health and Social Care Act 2012, proposing a compulsory competitive market in the NHS. I've written elsewhere about the potential consequences of privatisation of HIV and sexual health services. In this light, section 75 is very frightening, and should be fought.

  01 March 2013 | Huffington Post UK

• Ask a Policy Wonk: What Do the Sequester Cuts Mean for You?

  Last month Congress failed to agree on ways to reduce the federal budget deficit, which triggered “sequestration of funds”—an automatic 5.1% cut to virtually every line item in the federal budget.

  01 March 2013 | BETA blog

• Who Should Pay for Global Health, and How Much?

  Mirroring global carbon permit markets to mitigate climate change, we propose a cap-and-trade system consisting of a global cost-effectiveness criterion and a disability-adjusted life year (DALY) global credit market.

  28 February 2013 | PLoS Medicine

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