"'Ending AIDS' is heard by some activists living with HIV as a post-apocalyptic vision. Of course it is imperative to imagine a future where far fewer people acquire HIV, but we must hold that vision alongside the realities of hundreds of thousands of people living with HIV as long term survivors and having their rights and needs met."
Robin Gorna, director of AIDS Strategy, Advocacy, and Policy (ASAP), a consultancy of associates working globally to deliver a better response to AIDS, women’s health, and global health more broadly, warns that predicitions of "The End of AIDS" must not result in HIV+ people, and especialy women, being ignored.
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- 01 December 2012
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BMJ
The world can control the AIDS epidemic in four or five years and set it on a trajectory to become a small, if permanent, problem, according to a State Department document made public Thursday. An “AIDS-free generation” — a goal that Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton touted a year ago — could be reached by starting more infected people on AIDS drugs, circumcising men in high-prevalence countries and making sure that every HIV-positive pregnant woman is treated.
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- 30 November 2012
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Washington Post
Obama's 'PEPFAR Blueprint: Creating an AIDS-free Generation,' is more talk and spin, says AIDS Healthcare Foundation, noting that not enough US money is spent on lifesaving HIV/AIDS medicines.
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- 30 November 2012
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Aids Healthcare Foundation
The results show an increase of 900,000 in the number of people receiving antiretroviral therapy since the end of 2011, taking the total now getting treatment under programs supported by the Global Fund to 4.2 million.
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- 29 November 2012
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EATG
"In selecting Malaysia as the host country, we expect IAS 2013 to be an opportunity to highlight the state of the HIV epidemic and the progress being made in HIV research and prevention in the Asian region,” said IAS President and Nobel Laureate Prof. Françoise Barré-Sinoussi, Director of the Regulation of Retroviral Infections Unit at the Institute Pasteur in Paris and International Conference Chair for IAS 2013
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- 29 November 2012
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International AIDS Society
Secretary Clinton commemorated World AIDS Day 2012 and unveiled the PEPFAR Blueprint: Creating an AIDS-free Generation that provides a roadmap for how the U.S. Government will work to help achieve an AIDS-free generation.
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- 29 November 2012
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The newly released 2012 Access to Medicines Index has called on companies to join Medicines Patent Pool, “considered to be the best hope for ensuring sustained access to new first-line treatments” for HIV.
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- 29 November 2012
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Medicines Patent Pool
The agreement – between the Joint UN Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) and the Stop TB Partnership – will seek to achieve the 2015 goal of reducing deaths from TB among HIV patients by 50 per cent, or the equivalent of 600,000 lives.
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- 28 November 2012
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UNAIDS
The world has lost momentum in the fight against the AIDS epidemic, with millions of new people infected last year, the ONE foundation said in a report given on Tuesday.
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- 28 November 2012
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Reuters
When the history of HIV/AIDS is at last written, what will the final chapter look like? With contributions from: Timothy Ray Brown, Jeanne White Ginder, Cleve Jones, Barbara Lee, Mark Dybul, Paul Farmer, Robert Gallo, Mervyn Silverman, Diane Havlir, Scott Wiener, LZ Granderson, Hank Plante, Eduardo Xol, and Neil Giuliano.
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- 28 November 2012
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San Francisco AIDS Foundation
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