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21 FEBRUARY 2020 VOLUME 21 ISSUE 7

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  • It’s Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad Race

    Before we begin the real story, a little bit of fiction. There is a cluster of houses of complex architecture. Unfortunately, they are in a neighbourhood teeming with the dangerous and cunning criminals. The houses are protec­ted by sophisticated security systems to fight off intruders. They have multiple layers of response mechanisms from the moment any intrusion is detected. They are engineered so that they can assess the threat perception and neutralize the intruder through a series of autonomous actions at different levels.

    February 22, 2020
    HIV Vaccine
    Outlook

  • OPINION: The Opportunity to End the HIV Epidemic Is in Our Grasp – But No One Knows About It

    Did you know that the government has committed to ending HIV diagnoses in England by 2030? Well, if you didn’t, you are not alone as research has shown that just 7 percent of people in England are clued up – despite that crucial goal being less than a decade away.

    February 21, 2020
    General
    Reuters

  • Women Living With HIV in Kenya Twice As Many as Men – Survey

    About 1.3 million adults in Kenya are living with HIV/AIDS, an estimated 4.9 percent of those aged between 15 to 64 years old, according to a new survey. The HIV prevalence was found to be highest among women, at 6.6 percent, compared to men at 3.1 percent.

    February 21, 2020
    General
    The East African

  • Gilead Loses Another Challenge to a Pair of US Patents for an HIV Prevention Pill

    For the second time this month, Gilead Sciences (GILD) has lost a bid to invalidate patents owned by the US government for using the Truvada pill to prevent HIV, which has been at the center of controversy over its cost and the extent to which taxpayer dollars funded key research.

    February 20, 2020
    PrEP
    STAT News

  • The US Government’s Role in Addressing Global Women’s Health

    While the United States remains the largest donor to women’s health in the world, US funding has been mostly flat in recent years even as the population in need of services has grown. A pull back of any sort would have significant implications for the health of women in low- and middle-income countries. Such issues were discussed at a recent hearing on Capitol Hill, where the House Foreign Affairs Committee examined the US role in addressing global women’s health, the first such hearing focused on these issues in more than a decade.

    February 20, 2020
    General
    Think Global Health

  • Online HIV Self-Testing in Thailand Struggles to Link Trans Women and Gay Men to Treatment

    Trans women and men who have sex with men who opt for online supervised HIV-self testing are more likely to test positive but are less likely to seek treatment than those testing offline.

    February 19, 2020
    General
    Avert

  • China HIV Patients Risk Running Out of AIDS Drugs in Days: UNAIDS

    HIV patients in China risk running out of life-saving AIDS drugs because quarantines and lockdowns aimed at containing the coronavirus disease outbreak mean they cannot replenish vital medicine stocks, United Nations AIDS agency said on Wednesday.

    February 19, 2020
    Reuters

  • HIV Funding From Private Sources in 2018 Remained “Relatively Flat”

    Private philanthropic funding for HIV-related causes increased $13 million between 2017 and 2018. At first glance, this might seem like good news. But a deeper dive into the global data reveals a troubling trend: Funding to fight the epidemic has “remained relatively flat.” Or worse: The numbers illustrate “the reality of the steady retreat from HIV by broader philanthropy.”

    February 19, 2020
    General
    POZ

  • For African Women at Risk of HIV, a Woke World Is Still Sound Asleep

    The arrival in 2012 of a daily pill to prevent HIV infection was widely hailed as a breakthrough that could drive new infections worldwide to very low levels. Eight years later, it is having a strong impact in some places and little or none in others.

    February 17, 2020
    PrEP
    STAT News

  • Trial Will Assess HIV-Preventing Vaginal Ring and PrEP in Pregnant Women

    A clinical trial funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) will assess the safety of the HIV-preventing monthly vaginal ring as well as daily oral Truvada as pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) among pregnant women in sub-Saharan Africa. The study will also examine how well the women accept these proven prevention methods.

    February 17, 2020
    Microbicides, PrEP
    POZ

  • A Drug Can Stop HIV Infection – So Why Isn’t It Available on the NHS in England?

    In August 2017, George was living in Glasgow when he received a call from his partner in South America. They had remained together despite the distance, a physical rather than emotional separation. George answered, and the voice on the other end of the phone dissolved into tears.

    February 16, 2020
    PrEP
    The Guardian

  • Five Years After Indiana's Historic HIV Outbreak, Many Rural Places Remain At Risk

    Ethan Howard cradled his prized Martin-brand guitar, strumming gently as he sang of happiness he thought he'd never find. With support from his family and community, the 26-year-old is making his way as a musician after emerging from the hell of addiction, disease and stigma. The former intravenous drug user was among the first of 235 people in the southern Indiana community of Austin, Ind., to be diagnosed in the worst drug-fueled HIV outbreak ever to hit rural America.

    February 16, 2020
    General
    NPR

  • Glasgow Faces ‘Perfect Storm’ With HIV Spike

    When someone in Glasgow complains about a nearby needle-exchange program, John Campbell is the man sent in to explain why it's necessary. Now, as Scotland’s largest city struggles with a resurgent HIV epidemic, he finds himself explaining why these exchanges aren’t enough.

    February 16, 2020
    General
    Politico

  • Antenatal Clinics in Kenya Can Effectively Provide PrEP to At-Risk Women

    The initiative made pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) available for women attending maternal and child health clinics in Kisumu County, Kenya. The area has the second highest HIV incidence in the country, and HIV prevalence is around 3.5 times higher than the national average at 21 percent among women and 18 percent among men.

    February 14, 2020
    PrEP
    Avert

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