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  • Human rights
    Tanzania: Police Abuse, Torture, Impede HIV Services
    Human Rights Watch Health | 19 hours ago

    Tanzanians who are most at risk of HIV face widespread police abuse and often can’t get help when they are victims of crime, Human Rights Watch and the Wake Up and Step Forward Coalition (WASO) said in a report released today.

  • Types of HIV tests
    Chembio's SURE CHECK(R) HIV 1/2 Assay for Rapid Point-of-Care Detection of HIV Receives CE Mark Approval
    Nasdaq | 19 hours ago

    The SURE CHECK® HIV 1/2 Assay is now cleared for commercialization within the European Union (EU) for rapid, point-of-care detection of HIV.

  • Infant feeding
    HIV+ mothers without ART: when and how should they wean?
    BMJ Group blogs | 22 hours ago

    Without antiretrovirals, breastfeeding contributes 28% to the risk of mother-to-child HIV transmission (MTCT). Antiretroviral drugs make achieving he WHO goal of near elimination of MTCT imaginable. But, in the meantime, what advice should be given to HIV+ mothers in those low-resource settings where antiretrovirals are still not available?

  • Promoting HIV testing
    Using Social Networking to Promote HIV Testing
    AIDS.gov blog (blog) | 22 hours ago

    For National HIV Testing Day (NHTD), June 27, I have gathered a few examples of organizations that have used online social networking strategies to extend the reach of their HIV testing and prevention programs.

  • Injecting drug use
    Drugs policymakers of the 1980s knew the score
    The Guardian | 18 June 2013

    This is not the time to undermine harm reduction strategies such as the needle exchange programme, bravely, and surprisingly, initiated by Thatcher and her Tory government.

  • History of HIV and AIDS
    Diseased Pariah News
    Positive Lite | 18 June 2013

    Bob Leahy on the irreverent magazine by and for people living with HIV which brought black humour to the forefront of activism in the 1990s.

  • The search for a cure
    'I don't want to be only person cured of HIV'
    The Seattle Times | 18 June 2013

    Timothy Ray Brown, a native of Seattle who was the first person cured of the AIDS virus, is joining with scientists at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center to help extend the cure to others.

  • Health services and systems
    Austerity cuts to Spanish healthcare system are 'putting lives at risk'
    Eurekalert Medicine & Health | 18 June 2013

    A series of austerity reforms made by the Spanish government could lead to the effective dismantling of large parts of the country's healthcare system, with potentially detrimental effects on the health of the Spanish people, according to new research from the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine.

  • Prisoners
    South Africa: HIV convicts freed to die
    Times Live | 18 June 2013

    HIV-positive inmates released from prison are handed a virtual death sentence - there is no obligation on the Department of Correctional Services to ensure that they continue to receive, and take, medication.

  • Treatment guidelines
    Early Treatment May Do More Harm Than Good in Poor Regions
    AIDSMeds | 18 June 2013

    While U.S. treatment guidelines recommend universal HIV treatment, the benefits of such a policy may not outweigh the costs in resource-poor global areas. Three researchers from Johns Hopkins University published a paper in Clinical Infectious Diseases, arguing that the limited scope and inconsistent availability of antiretrovirals (ARVs), as well as diminished laboratory monitoring capacity, prompt ethical considerations about applying U.S. treatment standards to impoverished countries at this time.

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