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  • AIDS — Stepping up the Pace

    Thirty-five million people worldwide carry the potentially deadly virus and some 20,000 children a month are newly infected. But with treatment and research making progress, some scientists are beginning to ask – is an AIDS-free generation within reach?

    July 25, 2014
    General
    Channel NewsAsia

  • The Missing Link

    In 2013, 57 percent of people living with HIV were women. So why has the media frenzy around Truvada, a drug regime that could help prevent infection, excluded them?

    July 23, 2014
    PrEP
    Foreign Policy

  • HIV Pill Truvada Shows More Promise Against Infection

    Several concerns about a prescription drug used to prevent HIV infection in people at high risk are being put to rest by the results of new research. Follow-up from a landmark study showed the drug does not encourage risky sex and is effective even if people skip some doses.

    July 22, 2014
    PrEP
    CBS News

  • Credibility Among Gay Men Gives Leverage to New York City's New Chief of HIV Prevention

    In his new role in charge of the Bureau of HIV/AIDS Prevention and Control, Demetre Daskalakis hopes that he will be able to leverage his acceptance among gay people to reach a population that has not always trusted authority. 

    July 21, 2014
    General
    New York Times

  • AIDS Fight Among Casualties of Attack on Jetliner

    A prominent AIDS researcher and five others headed to a medical meeting in Australia were confirmed killed in the crash of a Malaysia Airlines flight.

    July 19, 2014
    Bloomberg BusinessWeek

  • Obama Praises AIDS Experts Killed in Malaysian Air Disaster

    AIDS researchers and activists were stunned and horrified Friday to learn that prominent AIDS expert Dr. Joep Lange was among those killed aboard a Malaysian Airlines flight shot down over Ukraine on Thursday. 

    July 18, 2014
    General
    NBC News

  • New Momentum on PrEP, But Needs are Overlooked

    If the rest of the world follows America's lead, PrEP could become an important global health success story. To realize PrEP's potential, several specific things need to happen now.

    July 17, 2014
    PrEP
    Huffington Post

  • Sex Without Fear

    This expansive cover story examines the debate within the gay community over PrEP. There is excitement at the prospect of reduced fear of HIV transmission but some worry about a perceived potential for increased unprotected sex and its associated risks.

    July 14, 2014
    PrEP
    New York Magazine

  • World Health Organization recommends men who have sex with men take PrEP to prevent HIV

    The World Health Organization (WHO) has made a bold new recommendation that could have significant implications for the fight against HIV. All men who have sex with men (MSM), the guidelines suggest, should consider taking PrEP to help prevent HIV infection.

    July 14, 2014
    PrEP
    Think Progress

  • With AIDS Vaccines, It's Not "If" But "How"

    Earlier this year, two global leaders in HIV prevention posed a provocative question: "Is an HIV vaccine necessary?" With so many other advances in HIV prevention occurring in the last few years, must we really keep heading down the long and difficult road to an effective vaccine?

    May 19, 2014
    HIV Vaccine
    Huffington Post

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