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  • Pharmacies Grapple With Red Tape as States Try to Allow Pharmacists to Prescribe PrEP

    The California law allowing pharmacists to prescribe HIV prevention medication has encouraged lawmakers around the country to pass similar measures to reduce hurdles and expand access to pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP). With the passage of Senate Bill 159, California became the first state in the nation to allow pharmacists to provide PrEP and post-exposure prophylaxis (PEP).

    September 10, 2020
    PrEP
    The BodyPro

  • Ten Minutes with Maureen Luba, Africa Region Advocacy Advisor at AVAC, Lilongwe, Malawi

    Maureen Luba is the Africa Region Advocacy Advisor at AIDS Vaccine Advocacy Coalition (AVAC) where she helps lead capacity building efforts around strategy development, data analytics and use for advocacy for Civil Society Organizations in Zimbabwe, Tanzania and Malawi to effectively engage in Global Fund, PEPFAR and national policy decision-making processes. She graduated from the University of Malawi with a Bachelor’s Degree in Public Administration.

    September 10, 2020
    General
    BMJ Leader

  • AVAC Webinar With Barney Graham: COVID-19 Vacines Targets, Timelines, Efficacy and Ethical Issues

    An excellent webinar from AVAC on deleopments in COVID-19 vaccine research is now online featuring a talk by Barney Graham, Director of US NIH Vaccine Research Centre (VRC). The talk reviews the rapid development timeline for COVID-19 vaccines, including the role played by HIV researchers and trial networks, and covers some of the recent research developments.

    August 27, 2020
    General
    i-base

  • A Vaginal Ring to Prevent HIV Was Given a Positive Opinion by a European Drug Regulator. Here’s What You Need to Know About It

    On July 24, the European Medicines Agency (EMA) adopted a positive opinion on the dapivirine vaginal ring for use by cisgender women ages 18 and older in developing countries to reduce the risk of HIV. The ring is an important user-controlled option for women who choose not to, or are unable to, use pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP).

    August 18, 2020
    Microbicides
    The BodyPro

  • Scientists Are Working to Fast-Forward COVID-19 Research, but Not at the Expense of Ethics

    Typically, it can take at least a decade to develop a new vaccine, with the shortest timeline in history being four years to develop one for mumps. As part of this process, potential vaccines go through stages of research, from preclinical work in animals to phase one clinical trials that test the safety of potential vaccines in healthy volunteers. From there, vaccine candidates move onto larger phase two and three studies that see if the vaccines are effective at preventing a given disease.

    August 5, 2020
    General
    Bhekisisa

  • AVAC Launches Dynamic Global PrEP Data Tool

    Five years into tracking global pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) data, the HIV advocacy organization AVAC has launched a new interactive site that allows users to visualize worldwide country-level information about PrEP use.

    August 5, 2020
    PrEP
    POZ

  • COVID-19 Vaccine Trials Worry US Minority Communities

    The US government has stepped up efforts to persuade members of minority communities to participate in clinical trials for COVID-19 vaccines, fearing that their historical suspicion of public health authorities will limit the number of volunteers.

    August 4, 2020
    General
    Financial Times

  • UPDATED: Will People With HIV Be Excluded From COVID-19 Vaccine Trials?

    As the world waits with baited breath for a safe and effective vaccine to prevent SARS-CoV-2, the new coronavirus that causes COVID-19, people living with HIV are concerned that they may be excluded from clinical trials testing these vaccines.

    July 30, 2020
    General
    POZ

  • Dapivirine Vaginal Ring Gets Nod for HIV Prevention Among Women

    A vaginal ring that has been undergoing trials has been given approval by the European Medicines Agency to be used as an HIV prevention method among women who have tested negative.

    July 25, 2020
    Microbicides
    The Independent

  • Decades of Research on an HIV Vaccine Boost the Bid for One Against Coronavirus

    In 1984, scientists discovered the virus at the root of an alarming epidemic that was sickening otherwise healthy young men with aggressive cancers and rare, life-threatening pneumonias. Thirty-six years later, there still is no HIV vaccine. But instead of being a cautionary tale of scientific hubris, that unsuccessful effort is leading to even greater confidence in the search for a coronavirus vaccine, from some of the same researchers who have spent their careers seeking a cure for AIDS.

    July 14, 2020
    HIV Vaccine, General
    Washington Post

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