Looking ahead to AIDS-free generation
2012 was a year when political leaders and top health officials freely spoke of attaining an AIDS-free generation.
December 28, 2012 — Voice of America
Science put at heart of US global AIDS strategy
Science is at the centre of efforts to design and implement more effective preventative and care programmes for HIV/AIDS set out in a blueprint published by a US government initiative that fights the disease.
December 7, 2012 — SciDev.Net
Confessions of an HIV vaccine trial participant
Matthew Rose is an HIV advocate and a strong voice for young black gay men in the United States. Based in Washington D.C., Matthew does independent consulting on HIV/AIDS policy.
December 4, 2012 — The Body Pro
Interview: Beginning of the end? Major advances in battle against AIDS
Mitchell Warren, the executive director of the AVAC global advocacy group for HIV prevention, says the world has begun to talk about something that would have been unimaginable even two years ago — an end to the global AIDS epidemic.
December 2, 2012 — Radio Free Europe
The POZ 100
The 13 people below are some of the leaders in the biomedical prevention field who have helped usher in a new era of safer-sex tools and continue to advance the science and policy needed to reduce the number of new HIV cases.
December 1, 2012 — POZ
Without more money, it’s the end of the beginning of the end of AIDS
Tomorrow is World AIDS Day and most organizations that had something to say about this have already said it.
November 30, 2012 — KPLU
Global AIDS crisis eases, but not in former Soviet Union
In the past decade, post-Soviet countries have seen the rate of HIV infections rise steadily, from 130,000 a year in 2001 to 140,000 in 2011.
November 30, 2012 — Radio Free Europe
In AIDS fight, is it the beginning of the end?
Over the last year, something big changed in the fight against AIDS. The world started talking about the beginning of the end of the disease on a global scale.
November 30, 2012 — Global Post
Biggest obstacle is human behaviour
As Elton John’s band played on during the latest International Aids Society conference in July in Washington, President Barack Obama kept his distance, hosting a select political gathering a short distance away in the White House.
November 29, 2012 — Financial Times
Adult circumcision drive to fight AIDS faces resistance
Ambitious plans to curtail the spread of AIDS by promoting male circumcision have fallen far short of organizers’ hopes, particularly in Africa.
November 29, 2012 — Washington Times
CDC: US AIDS epidemic fresh in risk-taking youth
AIDS is alive and well in a new generation of teenagers and young adults, most of them young men, who are having risky sex, often fueled by drugs or alcohol, US officials said Tuesday.
November 27, 2012 — NBC News
New report outlines strategy for HIV/AIDS
The AIDS advocacy group AVAC says 2013 will be a critical year for ending the epidemic. The group has released its annual report that calls for an ambitious pace of funding, implementation and research.
November 27, 2012 — Voice of America
Let’s step up the pace
With this year’s AVAC report—Achieving the End: One Year and Counting—we’re setting the clock on the global drive to end the AIDS epidemic.
November 27, 2012 — POZ
AIDS response paying off but more needs to be done
A new report on the global AIDS epidemic shows a more than 50% drop in new HIV infections across 25 countries over the last 10 years.
November 21, 2012 — Mail & Guardian (South Africa)
New HIV cases falling in some poor nations, but treatment still lags
New infections with HIV have dropped by half in the past decade in 25 poor and middle-income countries, many of them in Africa, the continent hardest hit by AIDS, the United Nations said Tuesday.
November 20, 2012 — New York Times
Risky sexual behaviour threatens to derail AIDS progress, UN report says
Risky sexual behaviour is continuing around the globe and even increasing in some countries, threatening to derail efforts to stop or slow transmission of the HIV virus and end the AIDS epidemic, according to an authoritative UN report.
November 20, 2012 — Guardian
Quicker progress seen in HIV/AIDS fight
Progress in the fight against the HIV/AIDS pandemic is “quickening,” according to the United Nations agency charged with the battle.
November 20, 2012 — MedPage Today
Despite progress, HIV efforts fall short
Record progress in reducing the number of new HIV infections and lowering the numbers of people dying from AIDS-related causes indicate that the end of AIDS is “entirely feasible”. But the epidemic is not over in any part of the world, and is gaining pace in some.
November 20, 2012 — IRIN
UNAIDS: Sharp drop in new infections
The latest Global Report on HIV/AIDS says the number of new infections continues to fall, with the sharpest declines in the Caribbean and sub-Saharan Africa.
November 20, 2012 — Voice of America
Good Participatory Practice TB drug trial guidelines lay groundwork for research, use of new treatments
If you consider all the years that time stood still in the world of tuberculosis drug research, the most compelling aspect of the Good Participatory Practice Guidelines for TB Drug Trials just released by a Critical Paths to TB Drug Regimens working group is that occasions exist for them to be used.
October 10, 2012 — Science Speaks
An invisible issue: The presidential campaign and HIV/AIDS
This campaign season, the fight against HIV/AIDS has been absent from the press materials released by both President Obama and Governor Romney — as well as from the conversation.
October 8, 2012 — Global Post
Male circumcision benefits women too
The benefits of medical male circumcision have been proven to also extend to women. It has been shown that female partners of men who are circumcised have a less risk of contracting the Human Papilloma Virus (HPV), a sexually transmitted virus that causes cervical cancer.
October 8, 2012 — health-e
Are we on the verge of an AIDS breakthrough?
Tremendous progress has been made against HIV/AIDS in the developing world. But where does the fight now stand and are we on the verge of a breakthrough?
September 27, 2012 — HuffPost Live
Light shines at the end of the HIV tunnel
We are at a time of great promise in the fight against AIDS. A few weeks ago at the International AIDS Conference in Washington, in the United States, the buzz was all about “ending AIDS”. And it was not just hype.
September 14, 2012 — Mail & Guardian (South Africa)
Gilead pill can prevent HIV in heterosexuals, CDC guidelines say
Gilead Sciences’ anti-AIDS pill Truvada safely and effectively reduces the risk of HIV for healthy people having sexual intercourse, according to the first US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention guidelines on using the drugs for prevention in heterosexuals.
August 9, 2012 — Bloomberg News
Renew commitment to male circumcision
We have made great strides in the fight against HIV in the past decade. HIV treatment has saved millions of lives around the world and fewer people are becoming infected with HIV. But to continue to reduce new infections, we must use every option available.
August 6, 2012 — New Vision
PrEP approved, insurance coverage unclear
Weeks after federal approval of the first drug for HIV prevention, health advocates are divided over what the next step should be and it is unclear whether access to the expensive pills will be paid for by government programs and private insurers.
August 1, 2012 — Gay City News
Circumcision advocate tackles the cringe factor to fight AIDS
The studies are clear: Circumcising heterosexual men reduces their infection rate by at least 60 percent and some studies show it’s by 65 percent or more.
July 26, 2012 — NBC News
Circumcision decreases AIDS risk, but procedure hasn’t been fully embraced
Circumcision substantially decreases a man’s risk of becoming infected with the AIDS virus by a woman, but acceptance of the procedure has been slow in Africa, where it would do the most good.
July 25, 2012 — Washington Post
Male circumcision drive falls short in Africa – AIDS campaigners
Male circumcision is failing to make the cut in many African countries where instances of HIV/AIDS are high, despite a push by international agencies over the past five years to promote the surgery as an important method for lowering the risk of HIV transmission from women to men.
July 25, 2012 — Alternet
Investing in the end of the pandemic: A new era for HIV prevention research & development
Now more than ever we can see the path that leads to the end of the AIDS pandemic.
July 23, 2012 — Science Speaks
Follow the science to the end of the AIDS epidemic
This week, we witnessed a watershed in the global AIDS response: the US Food and Drug Administration approved the first-ever drug to reduce the risk of sexually acquired HIV infection in adults.
July 20, 2012 — Huffington Post
Voluntary ‘snip’ tops HIV agenda at AIDS conference
HIV activists from Africa and the US have called for a rapid increase in voluntary medical male circumcision in Africa to reduce new infections.
July 20, 2012 — Mail & Guardian (South Africa)
AIDS deaths drop as global access to HIV drugs expand
Deaths from AIDS continued to decline last year as the number of people on HIV drugs worldwide surged 21 percent from 2010, according to a report that found poor and middle income countries spent more on treatment.
July 18, 2012 — Bloomberg News
Approval of HIV-prevention pill lauded
In a landmark advancement against AIDS, federal authorities Monday made a drug from Gilead Sciences, a California company, the world’s first approved medication to help prevent the spread of HIV.
July 17, 2012 — San Jose Mercury News
Trial vaccine made some more vulnerable to HIV, study confirms
A follow-up study on an AIDS vaccine trial that had to be stopped early has confirmed the worst fears of researchers: The vaccine made it more likely, not less, that some men would become infected with HIV.
May 18, 2012 — New York Times
The ‘best hope’ for AIDS vaccine advocacy
Just last week, an advisory committee to the US Food and Drug Administration recommended approval of the antiretroviral TDF/FTC for pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) in HIV-negative adults. A final decision from the FDA is expected in June — and approval would provide another powerful option for HIV prevention.
May 17, 2012 — Huffington Post
Casi listo el fármaco que previene el contagio de VIH
Truvada combina dos medicamentos antirretrovirales que pueden reducir el riesgo de contagio de la enfermedad en un 73%.
May 11, 2012 — Peru21
HIV prevention pill gives new hope
Could we be one step closer to a world without HIV AIDS?Hopes are rising after a panel of US health experts has, for the first time, backed a drug to prevent HIV infection in healthy people.
May 11, 2012 — ABC Radio Australia
US regulators vote for approval of PrEP by large majority
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) took a decisive step yesterday towards approving the use of the combination pill Truvada (tenofovir/FTC) as a prevention method for HIV-negative people.
May 11, 2012 — aidsmap
Risk of unprotected sex debated in Gilead HIV pill review
Truvada is safe and effective enough as a preventative medicine, Food and Drug Administration staff concluded in a report yesterday.
May 9, 2012 — Bloomberg News
New studies on HIV treatment as prevention
Recent studies have shown that antiretroviral drugs can be used not only to treat HIV, but also to prevent infection in the first place.
April 25, 2012 — Voice of America
HIV prevention studies present tangled web
The story of pre-exposure prophylaxis for HIV — using medications to prevent infection — was anything but easy to understand at the CROI.
March 12, 2012 — MedPage Today
Setback on AIDS drugs is re-evaluated
The failure of a daily pill to protect healthy African women against AIDS may not have been the pill’s fault but the women’s reluctance to take it, scientists at an important AIDS conference in Seattle were told this week.
March 12, 2012 — New York Times
Fight over use of HIV drugs
Scientists are scrutinizing a new approach to preventing the spread of HIV that involves healthy people taking drugs to keep them from being infected by partners with the virus that causes AIDS.
March 7, 2012 — Wall Street Journal
AIDS prevention inspires ways to make circumcisions easier
The day of the assembly-line circumcision is drawing closer.
January 30, 2012 — New York Times
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