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Tenofovir Alafenamide Fumarate (TAF) Sign-On Letter to Gilead

With a phase II clinical trial of tenofovir alafenamide fumarate (TAF) yielding encouraging preliminary results and regulatory planning for TAF-inclusive fixed-dose combinations (FDCs) under way, we are compelled to reach out to you regarding the need for a stand-alone formulation of the drug.

Published
19 hours ago
From
Treatment Action Group
Advances Worldwide in Advocacy Against HIV Criminalization

A new report shows that significant advances have been made worldwide against inappropriate criminal laws and prosecutions for HIV nondisclosure, according to a statement by the Global Network of People Living with HIV (GNP+) and the HIV Justice Network, which coauthored the report.

Published
10 June 2013
From
Poz magazine news
Out of the Shadows: Paul Semugoma

During the XIX International AIDS Conference last year, Paul Semugoma, MD, gave a passionate speech on behalf of both LGBT and HIV-positive people. Coming out as gay during the speech made it even more memorable. As a private physician in Kampala, he specialized in researching HIV/AIDS among vulnerable communities in Uganda, including LGBTs. He shares why he came out, the aftermath of his speech and his hope for change.

Published
07 June 2013
From
Poz
Tell the European Commission to recommit itself to fighting against HIV/AIDS, TB, Hepatitis and other STDs

The AIDS Healthcare Foundation Europe is distributing an online sign-on petition - "EU - no retreat on AIDS!" - urging the European Commission to renew its commitment to funding for HIV.

Published
24 May 2013
From
AHF Europe
Honouring Shivananda Duncan George Khan OBE

APCOM, one on the many organisations he helped to found, honours pioneering HIV and MSM activist Shivananda Khan, who died on 20 May.

Published
21 May 2013
From
APCOM (Asia Pacific Coalition on Male Sexual Health)
New AIDS group debuts as NAPWA successor

A newly created national coalition called Pozitively Healthy will advocate for people with HIV and AIDS following the closing in February of the 30-year-old National Association of People With AIDS (NAPWA), according to the coalition’s organizers.

Published
17 May 2013
From
Washington Blade
Peter Staley: Is This My Beautiful Life?

Many of us AIDS-generation survivors in some way have unprocessed grief, or guilt, or an overwhelming sense of abandonment from a gay community that turned its back on us and increasingly stigmatizes us, all in an attempt to pretend that AIDS isn't its problem anymore.

Published
15 May 2013
From
Huffington Post
Michelangelo Signorile: The First AIDS Generation: Grappling With Why We're Alive and What It Means

I was escaping the epidemic by immersing myself in the politics and urgency of it, which seems paradoxical but really does make a lot of sense .I gave myself a special dispensation on grief and heartbreak. There was no time for grief, especially when anger and indignation was so much more empowering. Of course, what I'm painfully learning 25 years later is that you can put grief off, but you can't ever escape it.

Published
10 May 2013
From
Huffington Post
Patients in Control: Protest action in Russia - the lives of HIV-positive children are not profitable for distributors

A protest action organized by activists of "Patients in Control" took place in Moscow in front of the office of the largest distributor of ARV medications in Russia ("R-Pharm"). The activists were outraged about the fact that around 20 auctions for antiretrovirals in different regions did not take place because no bids were submitted; half of those tenders were for paediatric formulations.

Published
03 May 2013
From
EATG
Communities should rely on themselves to tackle HIV/AIDS

People don't need to just wait for governments to help them overcome problems in their own communities. Many communities in various countries, including Thailand, have proved successful in combating HIV/AIDS, a recent meeting of international partners dealing with HIV/AIDS was told.

Published
22 April 2013
From
The Nation
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