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27 AUGUST 2021 VOLUME 23 ISSUE 34

Media Coverage

  • Reactions to the Dismissal of Black AIDS Institute’s CEO

    Business is not proceeding as usual at the Black AIDS Institute (BAI), a national nonprofit headquartered in Los Angeles and focused on HIV education, prevention and treatment among African Americans. “Raniyah Copeland no longer serves as our chief executive officer,” reads an August 20 letter addressed to the BAI community and signed by Grazell R. Howard, the chair of the board of directors at BAI. Meanwhile, a group of four HIV activists—all current or former board members—launched a petition on Change.org urging the BAI board to resign and make way for a new board to govern the organization.

    August 27, 2021
    General
    POZ

  • Study: More Than Half of People Taking HIV PrEP Discontinue Use

    More than half of individuals who started HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) in a large Northern California care management organization discontinued PrEP in a 6½-year study period, researchers report. African American and Latinx individuals, women, and participants with substance use disorder were more likely to experience gaps in the PrEP care continuum, from initial contact with a provider to adherence over time.

    August 26, 2021
    PrEP
    Medscape

  • Half of Americans Say They’d Avoid an HIV-Positive Doctor

    Just days after Moderna announced it was starting Phase 1 trials of an HIV vaccine, a new report reveals that stigma and misinformation about the virus continue 40 years after the first articles were published about a mysterious cancer killing “active homosexuals.”

    August 26, 2021
    General
    NBC News

  • 1st Black Trans Woman On Presidential HIV/AIDS Panel Seeks To Focus On Equality

    Tori Cooper recently became the first Black transgender woman to serve on the Presidential Advisory Council on HIV/AIDS and she hopes her historic appointment helps shine a light on the disparities in health care for the Black trans community.

    August 26, 2021
    General
    NPR

  • Gay Guys Are Taking an Antibiotic to Prevent STIs—and Data Thus Far Suggests That’s OK

    Last week, I was vacationing at a well-known gay beach getaway with a friend who was making the most of our stint in paradise to, shall we say, make as many “new friends” as possible. Something on the order of two or three a day. Both awed by his stamina and jealous of his high yield, I joked that he would certainly be bringing some of those “new friends” home with him—in the form of gonorrhea, syphilis, or chlamydia. (He’s already on PrEP to prevent HIV.)

    August 24, 2021
    General
    The Body

  • COVID-19 And HIV: Overlapping Pandemics For Criminal Justice-Involved Individuals

    Over the course of the COVID-19 pandemic, policy makers have looked to the lessons learned from the HIV pandemic. Both the COVID-19 and the HIV pandemics have demonstrated disparate effects due to structural inequities. The burden of both COVID-19 and HIV has been placed on vulnerable groups living in social conditions that make prevention of these diseases difficult to impossible. A population acutely affected by inequities in both COVID-19 and HIV is those with criminal justice (CJ) involvement. HIV prevalence among CJ-involved adults is three times higher than in the general population.

    August 24, 2021
    General, PrEP, Treatment
    Health Affairs

  • A Hamburger Recipe, Vaccine Science Edition

    Consider the hamburger. The perfect union of otherwise ordinary ingredients – bread, ground beef, basting and lettuce. Hamburger toppings abound (cheese, avocado, onions), but you’ve got to get the basics right or the whole thing becomes a bit hard to swallow. Scientific research is a lot like a hamburger.

    August 24, 2021
    General
    Bhekisisa

  • The Sputnik Vaccine Case Study (Part Two): How Fast Is Too Fast?

    In June, Bhekisisa started doing research for an article that would explain how well Russia’s Sputnik V vaccine works and to gauge whether it would be suitable for use in South Africa’s COVID-19 vaccine roll-out. Soon enough, it was realised Sputnik V had flouted the rules of every part of the system that produces scientific research.

    August 24, 2021
    General
    Daily Maverick

  • Researchers Seek Ways To Boost Uptake of HIV Prevention Drug

    Medical experts are mulling over new ways to increase the uptake of Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) to reduce HIV infections in Nyanza. They say the drug is one of the interventions transforming the fight against HIV and AIDS. But the experts now claim the COVID-19 pandemic has affected the uptake of the drug by high-risk populations.

    August 23, 2021
    PrEP, Voluntary Medical Male Circumcision
    The Standard

  • Kenya to Tap Sh9bn HIV Prevention Fund

    Kenya is among sub-Saharan Africa countries set to benefit from a Sh9.3 billion ($85 million) programme by the US government aimed at curbing spread of HIV among women. It aims to expedite access to a range of biomedical products that are affordable, acceptable, safe, and effective for HIV prevention. US-based non-governmental organisation, FHI 360, will lead a consortium of local and international partners in implementing the programme.

    August 23, 2021
    General
    Business Daily

  • First-Ever National At-Home HIV Testing Kit Program Launches. Here’s Why the Milestone Has Prompted Cautious Optimism From Activists

    It was announced this week that the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) has partnered with Us Helping Us, a group of volunteers providing holistic health information for those living with HIV, to provide the first national at-home HIV testing program.

    August 23, 2021
    General
    Yahoo! Life

  • The Potential Addition of Long-Acting Injectables for PrEP

    Welcome to our series, 1 Big Question, which asks 1 question to the medical community and we get their feedback on an important infectious disease topic. In this episode, our 1 Big Question is: Do you think the addition of long-term acting injectables for PrEP will lead to greater utilization of it?

    August 22, 2021
    PrEP
    Contagion Live

  • How Fast Is Too Fast? In the Driver’s Seat With the Pandemic’s Peer Reviewers

    During the pandemic, researchers and academic journals have gone into hyperdrive in order to produce research at an accelerated pace. This means some sacrifices have been made when it comes to vetting and checking publications through peer review. The peer-review system was already flawed even in pre-pandemic times but the current environment has exposed ways in which bad science can slip through.

    August 20, 2021
    General
    Health 24

  • If These mRNA Vaccines Are So Great, Why Don’t We Have One for HIV Yet?

    One thing I’ve heard a lot of in the past year or so from friends both IRL and on social media, is: “How could we get multiple COVID-19 vaccines in less than a year, while we’ve known about HIV for nearly 40 years and we still don’t have an HIV vaccine? The pharmaceuticals must be stopping it because they’re making too much money off the HIV drugs!”

    August 18, 2021
    HIV Vaccine
    The Body

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