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Tuberculosis and HIV
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.

Published
17 hours ago
From
Inter Press Service
Drug-resistant TB
Sluggish response risks squandering historic opportunity to tackle global drug-resistant tuberculosis

If measures to tackle multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) are not significantly stepped up, including addressing barriers that prevent both research into better drug combinations and treatment scale up, MDR-TB rates will continue to increase worldwide and a historic opportunity to improve abysmal cure rates will have been squandered, medical humanitarian organisation Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) warned today.

Published
20 March 2013
From
MSF
History of HIV and AIDS
The Battle for Needle Exchange, as AIDS Raged

In the '80s, HIV was killing tens of thousands of heroin addicts. Yet swapping clean needles for dirty ones remained illegal—until a ragtag group of AIDS activists put their bodies on the line.

Published
14 March 2013
From
The Fix
Drug-resistant TB
An Activist’s Guide to Bedaquiline (Sirturo)

Bedaquiline (also known by its trade name, Sirturo, or as TMC207) is the first new drug from a new drug class to treat TB to be approved by the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in over 40 years. This guide highlights important safety and efficacy data reported thus far and offers advocacy recommendations for activists to take forward. .

Published
12 March 2013
From
Treatment Action Group
History of HIV and AIDS
The Plague Years, in Film and Memory

What it's like when the worst years of your life get rolled up into an Oscar-nominated documentary.

Published
26 February 2013
From
The Atlantic
Activism
Activists pressure Kenya's presidential candidates to act on HIV

A small team of HIV/AIDS activists is trailing Kenyan presidential candidates as they crisscross the country, pressing them to increase their commitment to the care and treatment of people living with HIV.

Published
26 February 2013
From
IRIN Plus News
PrEP
PrEP wars: debating pre-exposure prophylaxis in the gay community

Pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) was approved in the US in July, following trials showing its efficacy in preventing sexual transmission of HIV. But, as Gus Cairns finds out, it

Published
14 February 2013
From
HIV treatment update
Activism
A Letter to HIV on the 16th Anniversary of My Diagnosis

I know that thanks to you I had to take a very good look at myself, and the world. I had to look straight in the eyes of death and illness. Thanks to you I stopped taking my life for granted. I had to ask difficult questions to myself. Recognise my fragilities, and my responsibilities. What was most painful: I had to question the possibility of love and intimacy.

Published
04 February 2013
From
Speaking Up! blog
History of HIV and AIDS
Peter Staley: Grief Is A Sword: A Eulogy For Spencer Cox

This death hit us hard. We have grappled to make sense of it. Why did he stop his meds? What role did his struggle with crystal meth play? Was this a failure of community? Are there lessons we can learn? These aren't just nosy questions by idle bystanders.

Published
25 January 2013
From
Huffington Post
Activism
Oscar nominations: AIDS film How to Survive a Plague gets nod for best documentary

The movie, directed by David France, tells the story of AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power (ACT UP) and gives viewers a front-row seat to the epic day-to-day battles that ultimately resulted in AIDS no longer being a death sentence.

Published
10 January 2013
From
Gay Star News
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