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15 MAY 2020 VOLUME 22 ISSUE 19

Media Coverage

  • Pandemic Could Add Noise to Clinical Trial Data

    Myron Cohen has run clinical trials through hurricanes and civil unrest. Now, the infectious disease researcher at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, who co-leads a network of HIV prevention trials, is trying to persevere through coronavirus lockdowns. Some trials are continuing, he says, because “stopping would be of grave consequence” to participants. Study teams have shipped protective equipment to clinical trial sites, secured permits where necessary for participants to leave home, and arranged private transportation to avoid public buses.

    May 15, 2020
    General
    Science Magazine

  • 30 Percent Increase in Medical Circumcisions in the Western Cape

    The Western Cape Health department reported a 30 percent increase in the number of medical male circumcisions in the province in 2019. These statistics were revealed during a briefing of the legislature’s standing committee on health about the department’s quarterly performance reports for October to December, and January to March.

    May 14, 2020
    Voluntary Medical Male Circumcision
    IOL

  • Unveiling ‘Warp Speed,’ the White House’s America-First Push for a Coronavirus Vaccine

    Conventional wisdom is that a vaccine for COVID-19 is at least 1 year away, but the organizers of a US government push called Operation Warp Speed have little use for conventional wisdom. The project, vaguely described to date but likely to be formally announced by the White House in the coming days, will pick a diverse set of vaccine candidates and pour essentially limitless resources into unprecedented comparative studies in animals, fast-tracked human trials, and manufacturing.

    May 12, 2020
    General
    Science Magazine

  • How COVID-19 Could Cause an Extra 673,000 AIDS Deaths

    HIV service disruptions resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic could result in as many as 673,000 extra AIDS-related deaths in sub-Saharan Africa by the end of next year, according to the projections of experts assembled by the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS).

    May 12, 2020
    General
    POZ

  • Multi-Month Supplies of HIV Medications – Recommended During Lockdowns – Are Not Authorised in Many Countries

    During the coronavirus pandemic, allowing people who are stable on their HIV treatment to collect enough medication to cover three or six months – therefore minimising unnecessary visits to healthcare facilities – is recommended by the World Health Organization (WHO), UNAIDS, the International AIDS Society, the Global Fund and PEPFAR. However, a third of countries do not permit prescriptions of three months or longer, according to a rapid analysis published by the O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law at Georgetown University.

    May 12, 2020
    Treatment
    aidsmap

  • CDC: HIV Transmission Rates Held Essentially Stable From 2014 to 2018

    The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has estimated that the annual rate of new HIV transmissions held essentially steady in the United States between 2014 and 2018.

    May 12, 2020
    General
    POZ

  • Monkey Trials Offer New Hope for HIV Vaccine

    An experimental vaccine seems to give monkeys extended protection from an HIV-like infection -- by "waking up" an arm of the immune system that vaccines normally do not. Experts cautioned that animal research often does not pan out in humans. The decades of work toward an HIV vaccine has been a clear example. But, researchers said, this vaccine works differently, targeting two "arms" of the immune system.

    May 11, 2020
    HIV Vaccine
    US News & World Report

  • A Pioneer in the Fight Against HIV/AIDS, Star Quebec Researcher Turns to Quest for COVID-19 Immunity

    When Catherine Hankins first arrived in Montreal in 1986, she never expected she'd get into a spat with the provincial health minister. But eight months into a job in Montreal's public health department she made headlines for doing just that. The Alberta-born community medicine specialist had moved to Montreal just as a mysterious and little-understood new disease was terrorizing the gay community.

    May 11, 2020
    General
    CBC

  • HIV Preexposure Prophylaxis Underused by US Adolescents

    Greater education and attention are needed to address the underuse of HIV preexposure prophylaxis (PrEP) by US adolescents, according to a review.

    May 11, 2020
    PrEP
    Reuters

  • ‘Finally, a Virus Got Me.’ Scientist Who Fought Ebola and HIV Reflects on Facing Death From COVID-19

    Virologist Peter Piot, director of the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, fell ill with COVID-19 in mid-March. He spent a week in a hospital and has been recovering at his home in London since. Climbing a flight of stairs still leaves him breathless.

    May 8, 2020
    General
    Science Magazine

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