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Infectiousness and treatment as prevention
The 'Undetectable' Paradox

To combat the spread of HIV, we need a way to talk honestly about what it means to be 'undetectable.'

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19 hours ago
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Advocate.com
Infectiousness and treatment as prevention
Webinar - Antiretrovirals for Treatment and Prevention of HIV: What do we know and what does it mean?

This Webinar will focus on the latest research and practice on the use of antiretrovirals for treatment and the prevention of HIV infections. A panel of experts will explore what we currently know and don’t know about the science, how antiretrovirals can benefit individuals and the wider community, and the opportunities and challenges of implementing TasP at a programmatic level.

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19 hours ago
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International AIDS Society
Global health initiatives
Vancouver selected to host the 8 th IAS Conference on HIV Pathogenesis, Treatment and Prevention (IAS 2015)

The world’s largest international open scientific conference on HIV/AIDS will be held in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada from 19 to 22 July 2015

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19 hours ago
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International AIDS Society
Finance and funding
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
19 hours ago
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AHF Europe
Behaviour change interventions
Comedians enlisted to spread key sexual health messages with dirty jokes

Family Planning Queensland is working with 11 Brisbane comedians to make short videos that address sexual health. "Sexual health information is traditionally presented in ways your mother would approve of - and young men simply don't respond to that," Professor McKee said. "But they are online and they are responsive to dirty jokes."

Published
22 hours ago
From
Radio Australia
TB services
US: TB programs affected by isoniazid shortage

A shortage of isoniazid interfered with patient care and may contribute to the spread of tuberculosis in the United States, according to a report by the CDC. “Interruptions in the supply of second-line anti-TB medications have been ongoing in the United States for several years,” the researchers wrote in Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. “But since November 2012, TB control programs have experienced the first sustained generalized supply interruption of a first-line anti-TB medication.”

Published
22 hours ago
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Healio
HIV and criminal law
Lawyer: NY man at center of HIV scare not positive

Nushawn Williams, a New York drug dealer imprisoned amid accusations he infected 13 young women with HIV in the 1990s, does not have the virus that causes AIDS, according to his attorney, who said he arranged for a new blood test as part of efforts to get him released from prison. But state officials have questioned the validity of the testing procedure used.

Published
22 hours ago
From
Wall Street Journal
Confidentiality, consent and medical ethics
US: Blue Cross To Allow HIV/AIDS Patients to "Opt-Out" of Mandatory Mail-Order Rx Drug Program

Anthem Blue Cross patients with HIV/AIDS may "opt-out" of a program that would have required them to obtain their medications by mail order under a settlement announced today by Consumer Watchdog and Whatley Kallas LLC. Blue Cross members who opt-out can continue purchasing such medications at a retail pharmacy.

Published
22 hours ago
From
PR Newswire (press release)
Global health initiatives
The Big Push to Defeat HIV & AIDS in Ghana

An opinion piece by John Dramani Mahama, President of Ghana

Published
22 hours ago
From
Huffington Post
Prisoners
Zimbabwe: HIV Test Case Heard By Zimbabwe's New Constitutional Court

A rights activist, who is living with HIV, filed a test case in the newly constituted Constitutional Court on Thursday to highlight the challenges and ill treatment facing people living with the virus in the country's prisons.

Published
22 hours ago
From
AllAfrica
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