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28 MAY 2021 VOLUME 23 ISSUE 21

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  • Study Highlights Strategies That Help Teenagers Living With HIV Feel Ready To Move Into Adult Care

    A Ugandan study has found that trusting peer educators, having counselling, visiting adult clinics and being educated beyond secondary school level are all things that help adolescents and young people living with HIV feel ready to move into adult HIV care.

    May 27, 2021
    Treatment
    Avert

  • To End The HIV Epidemic, Implement Proven HIV Prevention Strategies In The Criminal Justice System

    Criminal justice-involved populations are disproportionately affected by HIV. In the US, one in seven people living with HIV leaves a correctional facility each year. Marginalized populations are at increased risk of both HIV infection and incarceration, and this dual risk is amplified among communities of color.

    May 27, 2021
    General, PrEP
    Health Affairs

  • COVID-19 Still Impacting Medical and Traditional Circumcision in the Eastern Cape

    Every year botched traditional circumcisions in the Eastern Cape make headlines as some young men are badly injured, and in some cases die. The provincial legislature in 2016 passed the Eastern Cape Customary Male Initiation Practice Act in an attempt to ensure that initiates come back home healthy and alive. The legislature is now reviewing the Act to further tighten provisions to protect initiates better.

    May 27, 2021
    Voluntary Medical Male Circumcision
    Spotlight

  • UK Aid Cuts ‘Directly Hamper’ Fight Against HIV, Warn Politicians and AIDS Groups

    Cuts to foreign aid will “directly hamper” global efforts to fight AIDS, putting millions at risk, warned a coalition of celebrities, politicians and former heads of state in a joint letter to the UK prime minister.

    May 27, 2021
    General
    Financial Times

  • HIV Rates Remain Stubbornly High in Mississippi, Despite Falling Cases Across the US

    In February, the Mississippi State Department of Health began offering free telehealth services across the state so residents could access PrEP, a breakthrough drug that reduces the risk of contracting HIV by 99 percent and has significantly helped slow the spread of the virus. This was good news for the state, whose capital city has the highest rate of infection in women and the fourth-highest rate overall in the United States, disproportionately affecting Black residents.

    May 27, 2021
    PrEP, Treatment
    Washington Post

  • New Study in South Africa of Treatment To Lower Risk of HIV in Young Women

    A group of about 60 women between the ages of 18 and 23 years will take part in a trial treatment that is aimed at lowering HIV risk in an innovative study launched this week, in Umlazi township, south of Durban.

    May 26, 2021
    Treatment
    Sowetan Live

  • Rich Countries Cornered COVID-19 Vaccine Doses. Four Strategies to Right a ‘Scandalous Inequity’

    In January, the director-general of the World Health Organization (WHO), Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, issued a blunt warning. The world was “on the brink of a catastrophic moral failure,” he said. Wealthy countries were buying up available COVID-19 vaccines, leaving tiny amounts for others—a replay of what happened during the 2009 influenza pandemic. “The price of this failure will be paid with lives and livelihoods in the world’s poorest countries,” Tedros said.

    May 26, 2021
    General
    Science Magazine

  • The Sisonke Trial Rewrote History: Eight Lessons for the Nationwide Vaccine Roll-Out

    Usually, the gap between designing a study and scaling it up to reach people on the ground takes years. Sisonke did it in a matter of 17 days — and rewrote history.

    May 26, 2021
    General
    Daily Maverick

  • CDC Releases Draft Update for HIV PrEP Guidance

    “The main changes surround the soon-to-be-approved availability of long-acting PrEP injectables with cabotegravir used as intramuscular injections every 8 weeks,” Infectious Disease News Chief Medical Editor Paul A. Volberding, MD, professor emeritus of medicine at the University of California, San Francisco, explained to Healio.

    May 26, 2021
    PrEP
    Healio

  • Monkey Study Points to Potential Way to Clear HIV Reservoirs

    A funny thing happened when rhesus macaque monkeys with HIV-like simian immunodeficiency virus (SIV) took a combination of antiretrovirals (ARVs) and immunotherapy: The monkeys started generating specialized immune cells that may be capable of hunting down and eliminating the virus from latent cells in lymph nodes and elsewhere, according to a study described in Nature Communications.

    May 25, 2021
    Cure, Treatment
    POZ

  • Fauci Says US Can Still End HIV Epidemic by 2030 Despite COVID Pandemic

    White House chief medical advisor Dr. Anthony Fauci said Tuesday that the US can still achieve its goal of ending the HIV epidemic by 2030 despite the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, which saw testing sites for other diseases temporarily shut down and medical personnel being reassigned.

    May 25, 2021
    General, PrEP
    CNBC

  • Skepticism Of Science In A Pandemic Isn't New. It Helped Fuel The AIDS Crisis

    Forty years ago, Lawrence Mass, a young, gay doctor living in New York City, made history. It is the kind of history no one wants to make. Mass began writing news stories about a disease that many did not want to acknowledge.

    May 23, 2021
    General
    NPR

  • Cheaper Generic PrEP Now Available in the United States

    Multiple generic formulations of tenofovir disoproxil fumarate/emtricitabine—the equivalent of Truvada—are now available in the United States for HIV treatment and prevention, leading to a dramatic drop in the price of pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP).

    May 21, 2021
    PrEP
    POZ

  • More Young Zambians Living With HIV Openly Talk About Their Status

    As the world works to end AIDS, more and more Zambian young people who are HIV positive begin to openly talk about their status. It is an effort to discourage populations from discriminating people living with HIV as well as encourage those infected to seek help without feeling ashamed. One of the Zambians who have come out to publicly state that they are HIV positive is 29-year-old Precious Kaniki, a resident of Zambia's capital Lusaka.

    May 14, 2021
    General
    Xinhua

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