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Men who have sex with men (MSM)
Global Forum on MSM & HIV | 21 May 2013
New website will provide access to advocacy toolkits, trainings, and technical assistance in English, French, Spanish, and Vietnamese.
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Access to medicines and treatment
Huffington Post | 21 May 2013
The Obama administration is seeking to curb efforts to exempt the world's poorest countries from expansive trade rules that would substantially increase the price of life-saving medicine and other products.
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Hepatitis C treatment
Medscape (requires registration) | 21 May 2013
A scenario may develop where hepatitis C is largely eradicated from the developing world but exits in large pockets in developing countries.
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Finance and funding
AllAfrica | 21 May 2013
The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria agreed to participate in a new partnership to leverage private sector funding to speed delivery and expand access to health supplies such as contraceptives, bed nets, and medicines.
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Hepatitis and HIV
Web MD | 21 May 2013
Liver transplants to treat a common type of liver cancer are a viable option for people infected with HIV, according to new research. The Italian study, published in The Oncologist, found that HIV doesn't affect survival rates and cancer recurrence after transplants among HIV patients with hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC).
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Epidemiology and behaviour
New York Times | 21 May 2013
A surge in H.I.V. infections on the Navajo reservation in New Mexico has doctors and public health workers increasingly alarmed that the virus that causes AIDS has resurfaced with renewed intensity in this impoverished region. The challenges of prevention are amplified in a place where sex is still rarely discussed publicly and infection is often hidden from loved ones.
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Global health initiatives
Washington Post | 21 May 2013
The President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) is at a crossroads. The dream of future generations freed from epidemic is running up against an era of economic recovery and harsh budget cuts.
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Epidemiology
Public Health England | 20 May 2013
New publication: In 2011 there were over 2,600 new HIV diagnoses made in London clinics. Despite a decline in new HIV diagnoses since 2004, which may reflect changing patterns in migration, the number of new HIV diagnoses reported in 2011 was 11% higher than in 2000.
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Sexually transmitted infections
New York Times | 20 May 2013
A new, casually transmittable infection — a unique strain of bacterial meningitis — has cast a pall over the gay night life and dating scene, with men wondering whether this is AIDS, circa 1981, all over again. Seven men have died in New York City, about a third of diagnosed cases, since 2010. And in the last few months, the contagion seemed to be accelerating. It has targeted gay and bisexual men, and nobody knows exactly why.
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Epidemiology and behaviour
BETA blog | 20 May 2013
Consider the underlying assumption of serosorting: that, for negative guys, choosing to have condomless sex with other negative guys is less risky than having condomless sex with poz guys. In an era of treatment as prevention, at some point doesn’t that assumption become untenable? Especially in cities with low testing rates and high levels of HIV stigma?
Get set for HIV treatmentA tool to help you decide whether you are ready to start taking HIV treatment.
HIV, GPs & other primary careThis booklet explains the services GPs offer, how this fits with HIV specialist care, and how to make the most of primary care services.
New resources to support shared decision making in HIV care 21 May 2013There’s been lots of interest
recently in the concept of shared...
Pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) – free webinar 18 April 2013As part of its European HIV prevention work, NAM is
collaborating...
Learning the basics about hepatitis C 05 April 2013If you are familiar with NAM’s
patient information materials, hopefully you...