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24 March 2017 VOLUME 18 ISSUE 12

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  • UNAIDS tasks Nigeria, others to cut HIV-associated TB deaths by 75% in 2020

    The Joint UN Programme on HIV and AIDS (UNAIDS), has urged Nigeria and seven other countries to scale up action to reduce the number of tuberculosis (TB) deaths among HIV patients by year 2020.

    March 24, 2017
    Naija 247 News

  • Frame PrEP as part of a 'healthy sex life' for better adherence

    Brief, empowering messaging around pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) can lead to better medication adherence, new research has found. When PrEP counselors framed PrEP as part of a healthy sex life, new PrEP clients were significantly more likely to have high levels of adherence to the medication. This was true even among demographics that typically struggle with adherence including young people and people of color.

    March 24, 2017
    PrEP
    BodyPro

  • How congress could bring back HIV/AIDS

    The American Health Care Act would drastically decrease health coverage options, increase costs and make it harder, if not impossible, for many people to get lifesaving HIV prevention and treatment services.

    March 23, 2017
    NY Daily News

  • Proponents argue for HIV criminalization reform

    A bill before the California Senate would change laws that make it a felony to expose someone to HIV, recognizing advances in the science of HIV treatment and prevention. The proposed legislation received strong support at a recent hearing at the state Capitol.

    March 23, 2017
    Bay Area Reporter

  • GOP health care: make sure you're healthy and wealthy

    PrEP under the American Health “Care” Act would be harder to get for two reasons: 1. Premiums will go up for marketplace insurance, and subsidies will decrease, making it astronomically harder for people to afford insurance, so they won't get it. 2. The federal government will cap funding for Medicaid at rates that will force states to cut eligibility and benefits, meaning low-income people won't get coverage at all.

    March 22, 2017
    PrEP
    Advocate

  • Access to PrEP still excludes trans women

    The truth is that many trans women of color face extremely high levels of violence and harassment in their everyday lives. Access to consistent preventative health care from a competent provider who is well-versed in their specific needs and concerns is a luxury many of these women simply do not enjoy.

    March 22, 2017
    PrEP
    Philadelphia Gay News

  • One in five people diagnosed with HIV not linking to care in Botswana

    Almost one in five people newly diagnosed with HIV in a study employing active methods to link people to care and treatment had still not linked to care a year after diagnosis, a large study in Botswana has found.

    March 22, 2017
    Treatment
    Medical Brief

  • Cure for AIDS? Researchers find ‘clear potential’ to end epidemic with anti-HIV infection drug

    Researchers have made tremendous strides toward creating a cure for HIV and AIDS in recent months, but a Welsh-government commissioned report published Wednesday revealed the best existing chance of eradicating the global epidemic could be anti-HIV infection drugs like pre-exposure prophylaxis, otherwise known as PrEP.

    March 22, 2017
    Cure
    True Viral News

  • AIDS, Ebola, now Zika: What's Next for Anthony Fauci, MD

    Anthony “Tony” Fauci, MD has been the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID).....In recent years, Fauci has personally treated a patient afflicted with the Ebola virus. Fauci believes emerging infectious diseases will stay re-emerging, and plans to remain at the forefront of immunodeficiency research.

    March 22, 2017
    MD Mag

  • Welsh report confirms PrEP drug ‘highly effective’

    A review by the independent HIV Expert Group established by Public Health Wales has concluded that anti-HIV infection drug, pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) has ‘clear potential to prevent people catching the virus.

    March 22, 2017
    PrEP
    Health Business UK

  • CROI 2017: higher than expected HCV prevalence among HIV- gay men in Amsterdam PrEP Program

    An unexpectedly high number of HIV-negative gay and bisexual men taking pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) in Amsterdam were found to have hepatitis C virus (HCV) coinfection, suggesting HCV is being transmitted sexually between men with and without HIV, according to a presentation last month at the Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections in Seattle.

    March 22, 2017
    PrEP
    HIV Hepatitis

  • Africa aid officials concerned at proposed US aid cuts

    That word -- catastrophe -- has come up often in global reactions to the proposed U.S. budget, which seeks a nearly 30 percent reduction in international programs, like the US Agency for International Development.

    March 21, 2017
    VOA

  • Numerous steps required for at-risk gays to get on PrEP limit its impact

    A study of gay and bi men in late 2015 found that two thirds were PrEP candidates but less than 1 in 10 of those men were taking it.

    March 21, 2017
    PrEP
    POZ

  • HIV vaccine and UNAIDS targets could cut new cases from 49 million to just 17.3 by 2035

    Over the next 20 years, there will be 49 million new cases of HIV, a mathematical model has indicated. This number, however, could be drastically reduced if current interventions are acted upon and a vaccine is introduced in the next four years.

    March 21, 2017
    HIV Vaccine
    International Business Times

  • Depo-Provera linked to HIV risk? Women need to know

    A recent review of evidence on hormonal contraceptives and the risk of HIV acquisition motivated the World Health Organization to change its safety rating of progestogen-only injectables. It remains to be seen what that change will mean, if anything, for conversations between family planning providers and patients.

    March 21, 2017
    Hormonal Contraceptives and HIV
    ReWire News

  • When the US funds global health, other countries do too

    Public health experts say that cuts to US global health funding — which makes up less than 1 percent of the federal budget — threaten the health of US citizens, since pathogens such as Zika, influenza and Ebola can cross borders. For other policymakers and advocates, it is morally unjustifiable to cut health programs that save millions of lives.

    March 21, 2017
    Washington Post

  • Kenya to roll out drug to curb HIV infection

    The new program seeks to lower the country's HIV transmission rate to individuals who face a substantial risk of contracting HIV, such as rape victims and HIV-negative drug users. The head of the National AIDS and STI Control Program (NASCOP), Martin Sirengo, said the measure will be rolled out in April and will involve the use of Pre-exposure Prophylaxis, or PrEP.

    March 20, 2017
    PrEP
    Lanka Information

  • Q&A with Ambassador Deborah Birx: 'This White House is very responsive to data'

    Devex sat down with Ambassador Deborah Birx, the U.S. global aids coordinator, before the budget was released, to discuss the impacts of the reinstated global gag rule (also called the Mexico City policy), what PEPFAR implementers need to know about future priorities and the agency’s focus on prevention among girls. The interview has been edited for length and clarity.

    March 20, 2017
    Devex

  • Africa needs to define its own postcolonial civilisation

    We shouldn’t be surprised that we have Helen Zille types to troll us about colonial gifts to civilisation. We have done demonstrably little to define a postcolonial civilisation worthy of its characterisation.

    March 20, 2017
    Daily Maverick

  • Bill Gates is right: USAID is not just foreign aid, it aids the US

    Which would make you safer and healthier: Being the neighborhood hermit, locking and bolting your doors, not helping your neighbors but instead threatening them and allowing trash, sewage, rats and cockroaches to accumulate around your house? Or actually caring about your neighborhood and neighbors and pitching in to keep your surroundings clean and safe?

    March 18, 2017
    Forbes

  • Bill Gates: cutting foreign aid makes america less safe

    The United States government, one of the world’s most influential donors, is considering dramatic cuts to health and development programs around the world. I understand why some Americans watch their tax dollars going overseas and wonder why we’re not spending them at home. Here’s my answer: These projects keep Americans safe. And by promoting health, security and economic opportunity, they stabilize vulnerable parts of the world.

    March 17, 2017
    TIME

  • Penis bacteria linked to HIV acquisition

    The theory is as follows: Men that are uncircumcised tend to have more colonies of bacteria that produce inflammation. Men who are circumcised are less likely to have these types of anaerobic bacteria colonizing the penis. Inflammation, caused by anaerobic bacteria, causes CD4 T-cells to be recruited to the site of inflammation, which then become vulnerable to HIV infection when the virus is present.

    March 16, 2017
    Voluntary Medical Male Circumcision
    BetaBlog

  • People with HIV are panicking due to Tanzania's crackdown on gays

    Last August, the justice minister suspended HIV prevention programs, funded by the US, that were aimed at gay men — and warned that any nonprofit that supports homosexuality would be suspended. Since then, there has been a continued effort to wind back or stop such programs.

    March 15, 2017
    NPR

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