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14 MAY 2021 VOLUME 23 ISSUE 19

Media Coverage

  • Culturally Tailored Intervention Results in Fewer STIs and Less Condomless Sex Among Black Women in Criminal Justice System

    A randomised clinical trial found that Black justice-involved women who took part in an intervention to prevent STIs and HIV were 54 percent less likely to be diagnosed with an STI and reported 38 percent fewer acts of condomless anal and vaginal sex compared to the control group over one year of follow-up.

    May 14, 2021
    Male and Female Condoms
    aidsmap

  • How Dr. Wafaa El-Sadr, Epidemiology Professor, Spends Her Sundays

    Even though she is a lauded epidemiologist, COVID’s severity took Dr. Wafaa El-Sadr, a professor at Columbia University, by surprise. “People in my world always felt there was a possibility of a pandemic by a new virus,” she said, “but the magnitude and speed at which it happened, and the profound impact on the world, was beyond what I imagined.”

    May 14, 2021
    General
    New York Times

  • One in Five Children on ART Still Lost To Follow-Up, While Disparities Between Low- and Middle-Income Countries in Sub-Saharan Africa Persist

    The proportion of children under three months of age starting antiretroviral therapy (ART) doubled from 5 percent to 10 percent between 2006 and 2017, while death rates were halved, according to findings from over 32,000 children living with HIV from 16 countries in sub-Saharan Africa. However, one in five children were still lost to follow-up and the study highlighted persisting disparities between low- and middle-income countries in sub-Saharan Africa.

    May 13, 2021
    Treatment
    aidsmap

  • HIV Survivors’ Stories Show the Loss, Resilience and Activism of the Early Years of AIDS Pandemic

    It has been 40 years since the onset of the HIV/AIDS pandemic. The International AIDS Candlelight Memorial is a time not only to remember the many lives lost to AIDS, but also to reflect on the stories of long-term survivors and caregivers.

    May 13, 2021
    General
    The Conversation

  • Getting People Out of the Clinic Can Support HIV Treatment Adherence

    The growing crisis in many of South Africa’s clinics has reached a point where patient care is being compromised and there is a deepening worry that people living with HIV are being pushed out of treatment, argues Anele Yawa and Lotti Rutter. In this op-ed, they ask whether repeat prescription collection strategies are simpler and quicker than waiting in long clinic queues.

    May 12, 2021
    Treatment
    Daily Maverick

  • The Unequal Impact of Anti-LGBTQ Policies: Researchers Call for ‘All Hands on Deck’ to Protect Black Men

    There’s a growing body of research showing that Black gay, bisexual, and other sexual-minority men experience vast health inequities compared with their white counterparts. But much of that research looks at outcomes through the lens of individual drivers rather than structural ones.

    May 12, 2021
    General
    The BodyPro

  • Five Lessons on Health Equity From the Fight Against HIV/AIDS in Africa

    How are the HIV/AIDS epidemic and the push for health equity related? The past offers several lessons to health care and policy leaders who aspire to reduce health disparities today.

    May 12, 2021
    General
    AJMC

  • We Can’t Beat HIV, Hepatitis and Overdoses If We Close Syringe Services

    Given the proven effectiveness of syringe service programs to reduce infectious disease and improve drug user health, the recent uptick in attacks on these programs are disturbing. What’s worse is that they have been cropping up in parts of the United States that need them most.

    May 11, 2021
    General
    POZ

  • Survival Needs Overshadow PrEP Adherence Among Women Who Inject Drugs

    A qualitative study among women who inject drugs in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, sought to understand how the daily lives of women who inject drugs impact their ability to adhere to daily PrEP. As reported here, participants were interested in and receptive to PrEP, but the new study shows that they had a hard time staying adherent.

    May 11, 2021
    PrEP
    aidsmap

  • Therapeutic Vaccines May Help Control HIV Off Treatment

    A set of therapeutic vaccines that help the immune system control HIV may contribute to prolonged viral suppression after interrupting antiretroviral treatment, researchers reported at the recent Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI). Although this work is still in its early stages, HTI vaccines might one day become part of a combination strategy for achieving a functional cure.

    May 10, 2021
    Therapeutic Vaccines
    POZ

  • RV144: The Largest HIV Vaccine Trial in History

    In a little under a year, scientists developed several vaccines against COVID-19. But as we line up for our shots, we are still living in the shadow of another pandemic. The search for a vaccine against HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, has been ongoing for nearly four decades. To this day, only one large-scale trial has demonstrated even marginal efficacy at preventing infection from the virus: the RV144 trial in Thailand—the largest HIV vaccine trial in history.

    May 8, 2021
    HIV Vaccine
    JSTOR Daily

  • Gates Foundation Reverses Course on COVID-19 Vaccine Patents

    Mark Suzman, CEO at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, announced Thursday that the foundation is supportive of temporarily lifting coronavirus vaccine patent protections. “No barriers should stand in the way of equitable access to vaccines, including intellectual property, which is why we are supportive of a narrow waiver during the pandemic,” he wrote in a statement, which was an about-face for the world’s largest private foundation.

    May 7, 2021
    General
    Devex

  • Why South Africa Stopped Making Vaccines

    South Africa is one of only a handful of African countries — the others are Egypt, Ethiopia, Morocco, Senegal and Tunisia — with at least some capability to make vaccines.

    May 6, 2021
    General
    Bhekisisa

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