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New and experimental treatments
Gilead press release | 23 hours ago
Gilead Sciences, Inc. announced today that the Marketing Authorisation Application (MAA) for cobicistat, submitted on April 26, 2012, has been validated by the European Medicines Agency (EMA).
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Drug-resistant TB
UNITAID | 23 hours ago
At the 65th World Health Assembly, UNITAID held a technical briefing to propose a new paradigm for middle-income countries to drive multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) markets for greater public health good
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Pharmaceutical industry
pharmabiz.com | 23 hours ago
Mylan Inc's subsidiary Mylan Pharmaceuticals Inc. has received final approval from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for its Abbreviated New Drug Application (ANDA) for Nevirapine tablets USP, 200 mg. This product is the generic version of Boehringer Ingelheim's Viramune and is indicated for combination antiretroviral (ARV) treatment of HIV-1 infection.
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Transmission and prevention
Science Speaks | 23 hours ago
Looking back over three decades of AIDS, it’s hard to point to a better investment than research. Over the past three years, a string of HIV prevention research breakthroughs has put the ambitious goal of even talking about an end of AIDS within sight for the first time. With more strategic use of the tools we have today, we can bend the curve of new infections.
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History of HIV and AIDS
The Independent | 23 hours ago
The human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is now widely believed to have originated in chimps. Apes are known to host other potentially deadly viruses, such as ebola, anthrax, yellow fever and other potential viruses yet to be discovered. Deep in Cameroon's rainforests, poachers are killing primates for food. Evan Williams reports from Yokadouma on a practice that could create a pandemic
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TB transmission
IRIN Plus News | 23 hours ago
Good hygiene practices are an important component of TB infection control and prevention, but maintaining them is not easy in an informal settlement, where houses are crammed together and sanitation facilities hard to come by.
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Prevention of mother-to-child transmission
Kaiser Daily Global Health Policy Report | 23 hours ago
UNAIDS and PEPFAR recently brought together the ministers of health and representatives of the 22 countries with the most new HIV cases among children to discuss progress on the Global Plan towards the Elimination of New HIV Infections among Children by 2015 and Keeping Their Mothers Alive agreed to at the 2011 U.N. High-Level Meeting on AIDS, according to a UNAIDS press release.
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Mental and emotional health
British Humanist Association | 24 May 2012
Lesley Pilkington, a psychotherapist who was found guilty of ‘professional malpractice’ for using the techniques of ‘conversion therapy’ (a bogus form of treatment which is supposed to make gay people become straight) has lost her appeal against the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP). Mrs Pilkington was found guilty of malpractice last year after trying to convert a gay client to heterosexuality, with the BACP describing her practice as ‘negligent’, ‘dogmatic’ and ‘unprofessional’.
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PrEP
Poz blogs | 24 May 2012
HIV-positive and HIV-negative activists have partnered hand-in-hand for nearly thirty years to advocate for both care and treatment for people with HIV and prevention services for those not living with the virus. I hope when it comes to PrEP we can overcome fear, suspicion and rancor and ensure that this partnership stays strong.
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HIV and criminal law
BMJ Group blogs | 24 May 2012
The BMJ Group journals Sexually Transmitted Infections (impact factor 3.029) and the Journal of Medical Ethics (impact factor 1.391), in conjunction with academics at the Centre for Social Ethics and Policy (University of Manchester) and the Health Ethics and Law Network (University of Southampton), would like to publish a collection of articles on the criminalization of disease and sexually transmitted infections.
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