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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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• Zimbabwe Response to HIV Impresses UNAIDS

  UNAIDS deputy executive director Ms Jan Beagle said she was impressed by Zimbabwe's progress in the response to HIV. Commenting on the feasibility of increasing the initiation of ARVs to people living with HIV from a CD4 count of 350 to 500 under the proposed new World Health Organisation guidelines Ms Beagle said it was a process that might take time.

  13 May 2013 | AllAfrica

• Call for an EU Strategy and Action Plan on HIVAIDS after 2013

  On 10 May, 199 stakeholders, including national, international NGOs, researchers, doctors, professional associations, medical society, national parliamentarians and members of the European Parliament called on the European Commission and EU leaders to re-affirm leadership and Ccmitment on HIV/AIDS, both inside and outside of the European Union as the current policy documents.

  13 May 2013 | EATG

• Lack Of Data On Gay Men Impedes HIV Fight In Central Asia

  In recent years, the countries of Central Asia have experienced some of the fastest growing rates of HIV infection in the world. One of the key populations at risk is men who have sex with men (MSM). However, an acute lack of data on the health of that population -- due in large part to intense stigmatization of homosexuality – may be obscuring the region's HIV epidemic.

  07 May 2013 | RadioFreeEurope / RadioLiberty

• The Global Fund Should Take Transparency to Another Level

  Apart from experts in donor governments and a handful of technical partners, Aidspan and the likes, very few local organisations or people take advantage of Global Fund transparency to trigger open and well-informed discussions on aid effectiveness. How can this be when all the data and documents are “just a mouse click away”?

  18 April 2013 | Global Fund Observer

• Clinical Trials Regulation: Protect public health: Choose transparency!

  EATG joined 10 European and International Organisations representing researchers, doctors, scientists, patients and other civil society actors in a call for the inclusion of strong transparency provisions in the Clinical Trials Regulation that is under discussion at the European Parliament and Council.

  12 April 2013 | EATG

• Development goals: Activists fear less focus on HIV after 2015

  As a UN high-level panel completes worldwide consultations [ http://www.post2015hlp.org/ ] to pick development goals for 2015 and beyond, PlusNews consulted experts to see how HIV/AIDS might fit into this new agenda.

  02 April 2013 | IRIN Plus News

• Boost for healthcare in DRC

  The British government has announced a major new programme aimed at providing essential healthcare to six million people in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). The five-year, US$270.7 million project will focus on rebuilding health facilities, training health workers, and supplying drugs and equipment. IRIN has put together a list of five health issues in DRC that require urgent attention.

  02 April 2013 | IRIN

• 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.

  21 March 2013 | 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.

  21 March 2013 | 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

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