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Access to medicines and treatment
Rwandan health minister hits back at critics of drug company deal

Adam Green's piece voiced concerns about Merck's HPV programme serving as "market priming to create the conditions for adoption". From Rwanda's view, the jury is in: with more women dying of cervical cancer than in childbirth worldwide, the market is quite primed and demand readily apparent. Supply of the HPV vaccine and many other tools of modern medicine, on the other hand, remains in doubt for those who need them most.

Published
17 hours ago
From
The Guardian
Hepatitis and HIV
HIV No Barrier to Getting Liver Transplant

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).

Published
21 May 2013
From
Web MD
Cancer
Cancer Vaccines Get a Price Cut in Poor Nations

The two companies that make vaccines against cervical cancer announced Thursday that they would cut their prices to the world’s poorest countries below $5 per dose, eventually making it possible for millions of girls to be protected against a major deadly cancer.

Published
14 May 2013
From
New York Times
Cancer
Cancer linked to oral sex increasing; Milwaukee seeks to educate, promote vaccines

As a head and neck cancer surgeon, Michael Stadler never thought he'd have to ask his patients about their sexual practices. Thirty years ago, most cancers he treated were linked to smoking. Today, 60% to 80% of oropharyngeal (tonsil and back of the tongue) cancers are linked to oral sex and genital human papillomavirus, or HPV.

Published
10 May 2013
From
Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel
Men who have sex with men (MSM)
High prevalence of oral HPV infection in Dutch gay men

Oral infection with human papillomavirus (HPV) is common among gay men, Dutch investigators report in the online edition of AIDS. Prevalence was especially high among HIV-positive gay men,

Published
07 May 2013
By
Michael Carter
Sexually transmitted infections
Self-collection of samples for HPV testing shows promise in detection of cervical cancer in Kenya

A study by researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill suggests that training women to self-collect genital samples to test for human papillomavirus, the causative agent of cervical cancer, can increase the coverage rates of cervical cancer screening.

Published
02 May 2013
From
Eurekalert Medicine & Health
Cancer
CROI 2013: Random Anal Biopsies Improve Detection of Pre-cancerous Lesions

Performing random anal biopsies increases the rate of diagnosis of high-grade squamous intraepithelial lesions (HSIL) during high-resolution anoscopy, researchers from Mt. Sinai School of Medicine in New York City reported at the recent 20th Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI 2013).

Published
11 April 2013
From
HIVandhepatitis.com
Cancer
Current HPV vaccine may not help some women with immune problems

Women with HIV acquire cancer-causing forms of the human papillomavirus that are not included in the current HPV vaccines Gardasil and Cervarix, according to new research from Fox Chase Cancer Center being presented at the AACR Annual Meeting 2013 on Sunday, April 7.

Published
08 April 2013
From
Eurekalert Medicine & Health
Cancer
KS-associated IRIS common among people starting HIV therapy in Africa

Over 13% of people with HIV-related Kaposi’s sarcoma experience a worsening of disease after starting antiretroviral therapy, an international team of investigators report in the online edition of

Published
04 April 2013
By
Michael Carter
Cancer
Drinking coffee halves the risk of liver cancer

Coffee consumption reduces the risk of liver cancer by approximately 50%, the results of a meta-analysis published in the online journal BMC Gastroenterology show. A total of 16

Published
02 April 2013
By
Michael Carter
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