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  • New Vision Lauded for Good Science Reporting at International Conference

    The panel called for responsible media reporting about the HIV cure research and advised that all articles about HIV cure research results should include perspectives and quotes from independent scientists not involved in the study or studies being reported, be skeptical about any articles making claims about timelines, always cite the original science paper, avoid inflating research results and avoid speaking about “HIV cure” by itself—always include the word “research”.

    July 29, 2016
    New Vision

  • Barriers to PrEP: Rollout of This HIV Prevention Tool is Hitting Bumps

    Last year, South Africa’s Medicines Control Council approved PrEP and in June this year the government began rolling it out among selected sex worker programs around the country. There are hopes it will be rolled out in the public sector by the end of the year.

    July 22, 2016
    PrEP
    Devex

  • AIDS Activists Wonder If Black Gay Lives Matter

    “When we say 'Black Lives Matter,'” said Michael Ighodaro, “Where are 'Black Gay Lives' in that?” A young, gay Nigerian refugee living with HIV in New York City, Ighodaro posed this question during a talk leading up to the International AIDS Conference (AIDS 2016).

    July 22, 2016
    Charleston Chronicle

  • Data Gaps Hide Pockets of HIV

    Large pockets of HIV infection are not acknowledged, due to a lack of data on HIV occurrence and prevention efforts around the globe, a study has found.

    July 20, 2016
    Sci Dev

  • Experts Say AIDS Vaccine Development is Necessary to End the Epidemic

    Modeling data published recently by IAVI, AVAC and Avenir Health shows that a vaccine is needed to conclusively end the AIDS epidemic. These findings are particularly timely as the most recent statistics from UNAIDS show that major investments in current treatment and prevention programs have not reduced new annual HIV infections in recent years.

    July 20, 2016
    HIV Vaccine
    The Health Site

  • Africa: Hope vs Hype in Cure Reporting - Getting Our Soundbites Right

    Most of the delegates at AIDS 2016 will have heard this. "Towards an HIV Cure" sessions have clearly outlined how complex the science is and how long it will take before we get there. Moreover, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) Director, Dr Anthony Fauci, has told POZ he believes that success on the cure front is a matter of "if" rather than "when."

    July 20, 2016
    Cure
    What's Up HIV

  • Prevention Must be at the Forefront to Meet Global HIV Goals

    Today’s HIV goals are even more ambitious, and rightly so. Thanks to a spate of scientific advances, this decade could be the beginning of the end of the HIV/AIDS epidemic. But it won’t be if the focus stays only on scaling up treatment.

    July 18, 2016
    STAT

  • Authorities Launch HIV Tests on Bodies in Mortuaries

    The research leading to the report sought to find the link between HIV infection and deaths in two of Nairobi's largest morgues.

    July 18, 2016
    Standard Media

  • Vaccine Development Necessary to End the AIDS Epidemic

    A team from International AIDS Vaccine Initiative (IAVI), led by President and CEO, Mark Feinberg, will be encouraging the global response to end HIV at the 21st International AIDS Conference, in Durban, South Africa.

    July 17, 2016
    HIV Vaccine
    Times of India

  • HIV Cure Takes a Centre Stage at AIDS Conference

    The Co-chair of the 21st International AIDS Society (AIS) Nobel Laureate Françoise Barré-Sinoussi said the search for curative strategy of HIV is a goal of paramount importance and a priority for the future of HIV research.

    July 17, 2016
    Cure
    New Vision

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