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10 MARCH 2023 VOLUME 25 ISSUE 10

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  • Devex CheckUp: Another Vaccine Initiative? Hold On, Says Africa CDC

    There’s huge interest in building vaccine manufacturing capacity on the African continent, especially in the wake of the acute phase of the COVID-19 pandemic, when many African countries struggled to secure vaccine doses after high-income countries hoarded them. But several health leaders are now expressing concern the vaccine manufacturing sector could become too crowded.

    March 10, 2023
    General
    Devex

  • The PEPFAR Legacy: Lessons for Global Health Planning From 20 Years of AIDS Work

    During the 2022 US Global Leadership Summit, former President George W. Bush asked an audience of American changemakers to consider the following: “What’s the role of a great country in the world? Is it to look inward? Is it to think about how to solve big problems?” Bush was speaking about the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) — landmark legislation crafted under his leadership by an unlikely coalition of partisans and idealists who believed the US could change the face of global health. I was among them.

    March 10, 2023
    General
    STAT

  • These Morning-After Pills May Prevent STI’s, Researchers Say

    Sexually transmitted infections have soared in recent years in the United States, prompting an urgent search for solutions. New research suggests that a widely available antibiotic, taken after sex, may help stem the tide. A single dose of doxycycline taken within 72 hours of unprotected sex dramatically cuts the risk of a bacterial STI, studies have found. The approach seems most effective for preventing chlamydia and syphilis, and slightly less so for preventing gonorrhea.

    March 9, 2023
    General
    New York Times

  • We Faith-Based Leaders Want To Know Why Tennessee Is Declining HIV/AIDS Funds | Opinion

    Last fall, I was inspired by Bono’s new memoir, Surrender, and his performance at the Ryman auditorium to write a retrospective opinion piece on the past 20 years and his influence on the evangelical community and its leadership in the HIV/AIDS movement. Little did we know in 2002, when Bono met with Christian music artists and pastors in Nashville to rally evangelicals to fight HIV/AIDS, that more than 50 million lives would be saved worldwide because of the combined efforts and funding of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB, and Malaria, PEPFAR, and other partners.

    March 9, 2023
    General
    The Tennessean

  • Novelist Thomas Mallon Looks Back on the Early Years of the AIDS Epidemic

    The New Yorker recently published Mallon's diary excepts detailing life in Manhattan in the '80s. His new novel, Up With the Sun, is based on the life of a little-known actor who was gay and closeted.

    March 9, 2023
    General
    NPR

  • How STI and HIV Testing at Sex Parties Promotes Sexual Health

    Amid the glamorous skyscrapers of the Tribeca neighborhood in Manhattan is an unassuming, generic city building. When the address is found on Wednesday afternoons, men who have sex with men of all ages, ethnicities, and types enter and take an elevator to the sixth floor. Music is pumping in the dimly lit space as guests saunter in to pay a reasonable entrance fee (cash only). The fee includes a clothes check since the dress code for the event is underwear or less. Attendees meander around the loft space and hallways, seeking their own little taste of anonymous afternoon delight.

    March 9, 2023
    General
    TheBody

  • The CDC Now Says All Adults Should Be Screened For Hepatitis B Virus At Least Once

    All adults should have their blood tested for hepatitis B — a vaccine-preventable virus that harms the liver — at least once in their life, regardless of their risk factors for the infection, according to new CDC recommendations released Thursday. This is the first time the CDC has updated its guidance for HBV testing since 2008.

    March 9, 2023
    General
    Buzzfeed News

  • Top 5 Stories on Sexual Health From CROI 2023

    One of the most important HIV conferences of the year, the Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI 2023), took place in February. Here are the highlights from sexual health research presented at CROI.

    March 9, 2023
    General
    aidsmap

  • Living and Loving With HIV: Are Young Zimbabweans Unprepared?

    Susan Moyo was expected to die before her fifth birthday, but she is one of the few to have defied a prognosis of HIV in the 90s. Now she is 24 and healthy. However, after overcoming the initial odds of being born with the virus and the sickness it often brought, Moyo is grappling with a new challenge: finding love.

    March 8, 2023
    General
    Devex

  • Amid Rising Crisis, Georgia Denies Medicaid Expansion to HIV Patients

    A Georgia bill to expand Medicaid coverage to people living with HIV did not pass out of the House, another setback to low-income communities across the state. Georgia has the highest incidence of new HIV cases in the country, as well as among the highest number of uninsured residents.

    March 8, 2023
    General
    Filter Mag

  • For Women’s History Month: 15 Amazing Women Activists With HIV/AIDS Whom We’ve Lost

    March is Women’s History Month! That’s why we’re highlighting 15 extraordinary American women who lived with HIV/AIDS and have since died either from the complications of the virus or later on from something else. Our commemoration ranges from those who were diagnosed in prison and became activists behind bars to those born into wealth who used their privilege to help others and bravely speak truth to power.

    March 8, 2023
    General
    TheBody

  • Clinical Overview: Cabotegravir Offers Innovation in HIV Prevention

    The treatment and prevention of HIV has continued to evolve with innovative long-acting injectable medications that improve medication adherence. In January of 2021, the first long-acting injectable HIV treatment, cabotegravir/rilpivirine (Cabenuva), was approved by the FDA. In December 2021, the FDA approved cabotegravir (Apretude), a long-acting injectable for HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP).

    March 7, 2023
    PrEP
    Pharmacy Times

  • You Should Be an STI Escort

    For many people, getting tested for a sexually transmitted infection (STI) can be a frightening experience. On the one hand, they may fear that they will be judged or receive zero compassion during their procedure (or after learning their results). But that's not the only testing-related agitata I've heard of. Some people are afraid of being recognized at a clinic and asked, "What are you doing here, Slutty-McSkanky-Pants?" There is also the possibility that one will test positive.

    March 7, 2023
    General
    TheBody

  • People With HIV Nearly 50 Percent More Likely To Receive Flu Vaccine

    People with HIV were nearly 50 percent more likely to receive influenza vaccination than people without, although patients with more complex health care needs had reduced uptake, according to a study from Kaiser Permanente Northern California. “We know that people with HIV were especially vulnerable to complications relating to flu and other viral infections,” Michael Silverberg, PhD, MPH, an HIV epidemiologist and research scientist with the Kaiser Permanente Division of Research, told Healio.

    March 7, 2023
    General
    Healio

  • HPV Vaccination Rate Improves but Many Parents Remain Hesitant

    The rate of teenagers vaccinated against HPV is improving but a significant number of parents remain hesitant about their children receiving the vaccine, a study found. From 2011 to 2020, the rate of female teens receiving the HPV vaccine increased by around 22 percentage points and coverage among male teens increased by 57 percentage points, according to a study published in The Journal of Infectious Diseases.

    March 7, 2023
    HPV Vaccines
    Healio

  • Rapid Adherence Testing Sheds Light on Viral Suppression and Resistance

    For people taking tenofovir-based HIV treatment, a urine test could be used at the point of care to indicate adherence and predict viral suppression. Research presented last week at the 30th Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI 2023) in Seattle by Dr Kelly Johnson of University of California San Francisco investigated whether the test is good for TAF (tenofovir alafenamide) as well as TDF (tenofovir disoproxil fumarate).

    March 6, 2023
    Treatment
    aidsmap

  • Ministry of Health Launches HIV Self Test Kit

    The Ministry of Health has launched a new HIV blood self-testing kit, which has been piloted and found effective for use among university students. The Health Minister, Dr. Jane Ruth Aceng, says that the test kit dubbed “Check Now” was developed by global medical device company Abbott and tested for effectiveness by the Uganda Virus Research Institute (UVRI). She says that the kit is recommended for use as a screening tool not just for young people but other groups, which are more at risk of HIV infection compared to the rest of the population.

    March 6, 2023
    General
    The Independent

  • Syphilis Cases Are on the Rise in Virginia

    There is an uptick of people diagnosed with syphilis in Virginia, according to the Blue Ridge Health District. “We’re seeing a large number of diagnoses compared to the early 2000s,” Oana Vasiliu said. Vasiliu is the director of STD prevention and surveillance with the Virginia Department of Health. She says the syphilis rate among women has increased 406 percent, and 721percent in men.

    March 5, 2023
    General
    NBC29

  • We Can Overcome Vaccine Hesitancy. Just Look at the HPV Shot.

    Vaccines save lives like no other single health intervention, preventing millions of deaths every year. And that makes it all the more confounding that vaccine hesitancy, with all of its negative public health repercussions, has moved to the forefront of American society over the last three years. About a quarter of American adults say they won’t get the COVID-19 vaccine, according to one recent study, and experts fear that COVID vaccine skepticism could spread to other shots.

    March 4, 2023
    HPV Vaccines
    Vox

  • Former President Bush Urges Lawmakers to Reauthorize AIDS Relief Plan

    Former President George W. Bush last week urged Washington lawmakers to continue to support the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), an initiative he launched two decades ago against one of deadliest diseases at the time. Bush made his initial plea before Congress at his State of the Union address in 2003, when nearly 30 million people in Africa had the AIDS virus, including 3 million children under age 15.

    March 3, 2023
    General
    VOA

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