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Infectiousness and treatment as prevention
The ethical implications of “treatment as prevention” in the United States

This article discusses the human rights and ethical implications of treatment as prevention; its authors focus on the United States of America, where the health departments of New York City and San Francisco recommended immediate commencement of antiretroviral therapy for every person who tested HIV-positive, regardless of the state of his or her infection.

Published
31 May 2012
From
HIV/AIDS Policy & Law Review
Palliative care
NICE releases new pain relief guidelines

Many patients with advanced cancer and other debilitating conditions are being "under-treated" for their pain, new guidance from the health watchdog says.

Published
23 May 2012
From
BBC
Conception
NICE says sperm washing is no safer than effective treatment and timed intercourse

Draft UK guidance on fertility treatment says that sperm washing may no longer be necessary for couples where the man has HIV and the woman does not.

Published
22 May 2012
By
Roger Pebody
Treatment guidelines
British HIV Association launches new guidelines for treatment of people living with HIV in the UK

BHIVA (British HIV Association), the UK's leading association representing professionals in HIV care, has published final versions of guidelines for the treatment of people living with HIV in the UK and specific guidelines for treatment of pregnant women.

Published
09 May 2012
From
British HIV Association
Infectiousness and treatment as prevention
Michel Sidibé: Giving Power to Couples to End the AIDS Epidemic

For the AIDS response, couples testing and counselling should be one more turning point to expand options to strengthen the impact of HIV prevention and treatment.

Published
08 May 2012
From
Huffington Post
Infectiousness and treatment as prevention
Guidance on couples HIV testing and counselling, including antiretroviral therapy for treatment and prevention in serodiscordant couples

New WHO guidelines recommend offering HIV testing and counselling to couples, wherever HIV testing and counselling is available, including in antenatal clinics. For couples where only one partner is HIV positive, the guidelines recommend offering antiretroviral therapy to the HIV positive partner, regardless of his/her own immune status (CD4 count), to reduce the likelihood of HIV transmission to the HIV negative partner.

Published
20 April 2012
From
World Health Organization
Infectiousness and treatment as prevention
Breaking: WHO issues new guidance for discordant couples

The World Health Organization released its new “Guidance on couples HIV testing and counselling, including antiretroviral therapy (ART) for treatment and prevention in serodiscordant couples: Recommendations for a public health approach” on Wednesday. Discordant couples are those where one partner is HIV-infected and the other is not, where a couple is defined as two persons in an ongoing relationship.

Published
18 April 2012
From
Science Speaks
Prevention of mother-to-child transmission
WHO updates HIV treatment guidance for pregnant women and preventing HIV infection in babies

With little fanfare, the World Health Organization (WHO) recently published a “Programmatic Update” on the use of antiretrovirals (ARVs) to treat pregnant women and prevent mother-to-child transmission of HIV (PMTCT) that identifies Option B and Option B plus as preferable to Option A. 

Published
10 April 2012
From
Science Speaks
Treatment guidelines
Q and A: Why are US and UK treatment guidelines different?

I am very concerned about the discordant guidelines that have been recently updated in the UK and the USA regarding when to start treatment in treatment-naive individuals, like myself.

Published
05 April 2012
From
HIV i-Base
New and experimental hepatitis C treatment
Revised U.S. Guidelines Make Key HIV and Hep C Treatment Recommendations

Important preliminary recommendations involving the use of hepatitis C protease inhibitors among people living with HIV are provided by U.S. Department of Health and Human Services panelists in the March 27 update to the Guidelines for the Use of Antiretroviral Agents in HIV-1-Infected Adults and Adolescents.

Published
03 April 2012
From
AIDSMeds
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