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10 APRIL 2020 VOLUME 22 ISSUE 14

Media Coverage

  • For HIV Survivors, a Feeling of Weary Déjà Vu

    Some of them are now senior citizens: vulnerable again, mistrustful of government directives about coronavirus and unable to organize.

    April 10, 2020
    General
    New York Times

  • Ending the HIV Epidemic Initiative: A Snapshot From the Trenches, One Year Later

    In March 2018, US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Director Robert Redfield, MD, said the United States could end its HIV epidemic “in 3 to 7 years if we put our minds to it,” and the 2019 State of the Union address promised to end the epidemic by 2030. Subsequently, the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced Ending the HIV Epidemic (EHE): A Plan for America, an initiative that built on the Obama administration’s groundbreaking 2010 and 2015 National HIV/AIDS Strategy.

    April 10, 2020
    General
    Contagion Live

  • Helen Rees: The Prof Leading SA’s COVID-19 Vaccine Trial

    If one were to list all the titles and positions held by Prof. Helen Rees, who is leading the SA part of a global trial to identify treatments for COVID-19, there would be no space to write anything else.

    April 9, 2020
    General
    finacialmail

  • Lessons From the HIV Epidemic for the COVID-19 Pandemic

    From a mostly quiet hospital, Karen Joynt-Maddox, MD, from Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, is watching COVID-19 cases spread from Boston to New York City to nearby Illinois with grim certainty.

    April 8, 2020
    General
    Medscape

  • ‘There Is No Magic Bullet’: The Town That Turned the Tide Against HIV

    In the visitors’ books of Eshowe’s many guesthouses and hotels, tourists inspired by verdant sugar cane fields and blossoming trees write about “a corner of Eden”.

    April 7, 2020
    General
    The Guardian

  • South Africa Hopes Its Battle With HIV and TB Helped Prepare It for COVID-19

    As the COVID-19 pandemic sweeps into South Africa, the decades the country has spent fighting the world’s worst combined epidemic of tuberculosis (TB) and HIV could give it an advantage. But those infections could also worsen the pandemic’s impact.

    April 7, 2020
    General
    Science

  • How Has the COVID-19 Pandemic Affected HIV Vaccine Trials?

    The HIV Vaccine Trials Network (HVTN) has issued an update on the status of the major HIV vaccines trials in the face of the coronavirus pandemic. The extreme disruptions to and restrictions on everyday life that the new pandemic has caused have interrupted the clinical trials process around the world.

    April 7, 2020
    HIV Vaccine
    POZ

  • Us Emergency Department Testing Finds a Lot of People With New – and Returning – HIV Infections

    Two poster presentations at last month’s Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI 2020) from southern California show that the routine testing of people who present to hospital emergency departments is continuing to find significant numbers of previously undiagnosed people with HIV.

    April 7, 2020
    aidsmap

  • Deborah Birx: The US Colonel at War With Coronavirus

    The image on the slide deck was stark — a chart in the form of a towering blue mountain that showed the US facing a potential 2.2m deaths from coronavirus, were certain measures not taken. But the voice delivering the message was calm, almost soothing.

    April 6, 2020
    General
    Financial Times

  • COVID-19: The HIV Research Advocacy Movement Offers Lessons

    In biomedical research, there is a “before HIV” era, and the world we live in now. Before HIV, most responses to public health crises were dictated top-down by government authorities and medical officials. Research was designed and conducted with little or no community input. Innovation was shunned, collaboration between research institutions avoided, and progress was slow.

    April 6, 2020
    General
    Science Speaks

  • HIV Civil Society Organisations Appeal to Museveni

    They stated that they were also writing to the President on behalf of their communities to express what they termed as “deep dismay” at the alarming difficult situations that women and children are currently going through as they try to access health care services during this period of the lock-down.

    April 6, 2020
    Treatment
    New Vision

  • No Increased Coronavirus Risk for People With Well-Controlled HIV Says Who, but How Will Health Systems Cope?

    The first data from Wuhan, China suggest that people living with HIV suffered no worse a coronavirus epidemic than other people in the city, confirming the World Health Organization’s position that people with well-controlled HIV do not appear to be at elevated risk of coronavirus infection or severe disease.

    April 4, 2020
    General
    aidsmap

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