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17 JULY 2020 VOLUME 22 ISSUE 28

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  • Anti-Prostitution Loyalty Oath Undermines HIV Fight

    When it comes to sex workers in the US and around the globe, many of whom are Black, Brown and transgender, discrimination and criminalization of sex work have put them at a high risk of violence, contracting preventable diseases like COVID-19 and HIV, and have exposed them to police brutality. Yet the US continues to weaponize life-saving global AIDS assistance programs against sex workers by demanding recipients of PEPFAR funding to officially adopt a position opposing prostitution and acquiesce to the US conflation of sex work and trafficking.

    July 17, 2020
    General
    Washington Blade

  • For Trans People to Access PrEP, Systemic Barriers Have to Go

    As a community, transgender people are at heightened risk for HIV. Why that is varies between the many different genders that exist underneath the transgender umbrella. But, as we know, transgender people face various barriers, to differing degrees based on their gender identity, that cisgender people don’t face. These barriers include stigma and discrimination in health care settings, as well as educational, work, and social settings. They also include socioeconomic factors, like lack of access to proper jobs and, up until recently, a lack of federal job protection. These socioeconomic and other structural factors, not to mention the additional factors of systemic racism that many trans people of color face, all put a series of barriers between trans people and HIV prevention, especially pre-exposure prophylaxis, or PrEP.

    July 16, 2020
    PrEP
    The Body

  • The International Community Must Guarantee Equal Global Access to a COVID-19 Vaccine

    “None of us is safe until all of us are safe.” This statement by United Nations Secretary General António Guterres sums up the momentous challenge ahead. As the world is still in the midst of the deadliest pandemic of the 21st century, with the number of cases still rising at the global level, immunization is our best chance of ending the pandemic at home and across the world — but only if all countries get access to the vaccine.

    July 15, 2020
    General
    Washington Post

  • Tanzania: Why Finding Condoms in Zanzibar Shops Is Still a Challenge

    Zanzibar has the lowest HIV epidemic in sub-Sahara Africa with prevalence rate at below 0.4 per cent, according to Zanzibar AIDS Commission (ZAC) data but a rising number of people belonging to the vulnerable group and key population is posing new challenges.

    July 15, 2020
    Male and Female Condoms
    AllAfrica

  • High Levels of HIV, Low Levels of Treatment in Gay Men and Trans Woman in Johannesburg

    A study involving 300 transgender women and men who have sex with men, which was carried out in Johannesburg in 2017, found 37 percent were living with HIV but only around a third of those living with HIV were on treatment.

    July 15, 2020
    Treatment
    Avert

  • Can U=U Be Used to Reshape HIV Programmes Globally?

    Research presented to the 23rd International AIDS Conference (AIDS 2020: Virtual) last week on Undetectable = Untransmittable (U=U) indicates varying levels of awareness and acceptance of this powerful message, despite the conclusive finding that people living with HIV who have an undetectable viral cannot infect others.

    July 15, 2020
    Treatment
    aidsmap

  • HIV: Nigeria Needs National PrEP Roadmap to Ensure Equitable Access

    Durueke Florita, Executive Director of the New HIV Vaccine and Microbicides Advocacy Society (NHVMAS), has many years’ experience in the field of HIV/AIDS, particularly biomedical HIV prevention. In this interview, she speaks on why Nigeria should invest in vaccine research, the status of the use of microbicides and Pre-exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) as well as HIV prevention research.

    July 14, 2020
    Microbicides, PrEP
    Daily Trust

  • What Happens When A Pandemic And An Epidemic Collide

    Anton Besenko is worried. He fears all the hard-won progress made in fighting the AIDS epidemic is on a collision course with the urgent needs of the coronavirus pandemic.

    July 14, 2020
    General
    NPR

  • Decades of Research on an HIV Vaccine Boost the Bid for One Against Coronavirus

    In 1984, scientists discovered the virus at the root of an alarming epidemic that was sickening otherwise healthy young men with aggressive cancers and rare, life-threatening pneumonias. Thirty-six years later, there still is no HIV vaccine. But instead of being a cautionary tale of scientific hubris, that unsuccessful effort is leading to even greater confidence in the search for a coronavirus vaccine, from some of the same researchers who have spent their careers seeking a cure for AIDS.

    July 14, 2020
    HIV Vaccine, General
    Washington Post

  • Novel Vaccine That Induces Cells to Make Particles That Look Like HIV Shows Promising Efficacy in Monkey Study

    There was relatively little news of HIV vaccine research at the 23rd International AIDS Conference (AIDS 2020: Virtual); a number of new designs and ideas were presented and showed signs of immunogenicity, but few have progressed as far as challenge studies, where they are actually tested against HIV infection, even in animals.

    July 14, 2020
    HIV Vaccine
    aidsmap

  • Where Does the HIV/AIDS Movement Go From Here?

    COVID-19 has disrupted the HIV/AIDS response, as it has done for so many other global health priorities. But the HIV/AIDS community wasn’t on track to hit its targets for 2020 even before the pandemic hit.

    July 13, 2020
    General
    Devex

  • Kenya’s Faith Leaders Preach Knowledge About HIV

    Kenya’s faith sector has a mixed track record when it comes to dealing openly with issues related to sexuality and HIV, but with nearly half of the country’s health care provided by faith-based organizations, religious leaders occupy a pivotal role as conduits of information and influence.

    July 9, 2020
    Male and Female Condoms, PrEP
    Devex

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