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PrEP
HIV drug discovery puts licensing pressure on govt

A breakthrough joint medical study on an anti-Aids drug by the US and Bangkok City Hall has highlighted the need to address again the problem with health costs and, more importantly, the politically toxic issue of compulsory licensing.

Published
17 June 2013
From
Bangkok Post
PrEP
Beyond the Hype: PrEP for People Who Inject Drugs

While the results of the Bangkok Tenofovir Study are striking, so is the difficulty of assessing the relevance of these clinical trial results for most of the world.

Published
17 June 2013
From
Huffington Post
New and experimental HIV treatments
Tenofovir Alafenamide Fumarate (TAF) Sign-On Letter to Gilead

With a phase II clinical trial of tenofovir alafenamide fumarate (TAF) yielding encouraging preliminary results and regulatory planning for TAF-inclusive fixed-dose combinations (FDCs) under way, we are compelled to reach out to you regarding the need for a stand-alone formulation of the drug.

Published
17 June 2013
From
Treatment Action Group
Sex workers
HIV Prevention For Female Sex Workers Dramatically Reduces Sexually Transmitted Infections In India

Thirteen years of peer-based, HIV prevention programs for female sex workers reduced both HIV and syphilis in young pregnant women from southern India.

Published
17 June 2013
From
Medical Daily
Health services and systems
Mozambicans feel pain as medical strike grinds on

A Mozambique medical strike now in its third week has paralysed all but essential services at some of the country's busiest hospitals, which are being forced to turn away desperate patients.

Published
17 June 2013
From
Times Live
Injecting drug users
Investing in harm reduction––sound economic sense

Spending money on harm reduction programmes for people who use drugs not only is a good investment but it also saves lives. This was the conclusion drawn at a meeting entitled Economics and financing of effective harm reduction strategies in the context of HIV which took place on the side-lines of the International Harm Reduction Conference held in Vilnius, Lithuania from 9-12 June.

Published
17 June 2013
From
UNAIDS
HIV and criminal law
Is this the end of HIV-criminalization in the military?

A bipartisan amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act would require the Department of Defense to conduct an internal review of policies and prosecutions related to military members living with HIV.

Published
17 June 2013
From
Salon
Hepatitis and HIV
Hyaluronic acid levels can predict risk of serious liver events in people living with HIV and hepatitis B or C co-infection

A simple blood test can predict the risk of liver-related death or hepatic encephalopathy for people living with HIV who have hepatitis B or hepatitis C

Published
17 June 2013
By
Michael Carter
Clinical trials
Time to include pregnant women in drug trials, says Drug and Therapeutics Bulletin

The lack of hard data on the safety and effectiveness of a wide range of drugs in pregnancy has hindered the treatment of pregnant women, contributing to a doubling of deaths amongst mums-to-be with an underlying health problem over the past 20 years, argues an editorial in the Drug and Therapeutics Bulletin (DTB). It's time to include pregnant women in drug trials so that they can get the medical treatment they need, says DTB.

Published
14 June 2013
From
EurekAlert!
TB treatment
Directly Observed Therapy for Tuberculosis No Better than Self-Administration

People who self-administered drugs to treat tuberculosis (TB) and those receiving directly observed therapy (DOT) had similar outcomes, according to a meta-analysis of 10 studies described in the July 2013 issue of Clinical Infectious Diseases.

Published
14 June 2013
From
HIVandHepatitis.com
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