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29 MAY 2020 VOLUME 22 ISSUE 21

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  • COVID-19 Research in Africa

    Suggesting that clinical trial conduct is at a lower standard in Africa is unacceptable. Africa has innovated and implemented health solutions with high ethical regard for its people. In March, the Academy of Science of South Africa stressed the importance of research and development on COVID-19 in Africa as “key to the response to outbreaks of emerging and re-emerging pathogens.” The expertise and infrastructure of African clinical research sites, along with African nations' engagement of their communities who wish to contribute to effective solutions, are ready to be leveraged to tackle this pandemic emergency.

    May 29, 2020
    General
    Science Magazine

  • The Benevolent Rage of Larry Kramer

    Kramer’s unflinching activism also set American medicine on a course that fundamentally altered the relationship between doctors and their patients. It became inconceivable for federal scientists to consider a drug or treatment protocol without including at least someone who actually had the disease they were investigating. Patients who had been trained to be docile and accepting came to doctors’ appointments with reams of data and genuine demands. This is how Fauci described the phenomenon in “Public Nuisance,” my Profile of Kramer for The New Yorker, in 2002. “In American medicine, there are two eras. Before Larry and after Larry. . . . There is no question in my mind that Larry helped change medicine in this country. And he helped change it for the better. When all the screaming and the histrionics are forgotten, that will remain.”

    May 29, 2020
    General
    New Yorker

  • HIV ‘Morning-After Pill’ Prescriptions Have Fallen Sixfold During the Lockdown

    According to figures just published in The Lancet HIV, prescriptions for HIV post-exposure prophlyaxis (PEP) at the largest HIV and sexual health clinic in Europe, 56 Dean Street in London, fell from an average of 40 a week in January, to seven a week in April, after lockdown for COVID-19 was instituted on 23 March.

    May 29, 2020
    General
    aidsmap

  • Dr. Anthony Fauci: How Larry Kramer 'Transformed the Relationship' Between Activists and Government

    I have known Larry Kramer, who died at 84 on May 27, for more than 30 years. We had an extraordinary, complicated but wonderful relationship that ultimately culminated in a very deep friendship, affection and I would even say love for each other. He was unique in that he totally transformed the relationship between activism and the scientific, regulatory and government community. He realized early on in the AIDS crisis that the country as a whole, in the form of the federal government, was not paying much attention to the emerging pandemic.

    May 29, 2020
    General
    Time

  • The HIV Testing Gap: Poorer and Less Educated Africans Still Missing Out

    An analysis of 32 health and demographic surveys conducted between 2003 and 2016 in 16 African countries has found that poorer and less educated people remain less likely than others to test for HIV, despite efforts since 2008 to increase testing access.

    May 28, 2020
    General
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  • Opinion: To Accelerate Search for COVID-19 Vaccine, Look to HIV and Act Globally

    In just six months, the virus that causes COVID-19 has spread around the world, infected over 5 million people, and exacted devastating public health and economic tolls that are only just beginning. Unprecedented efforts to accelerate the development of a vaccine for the virus underscore the urgency of this public health crisis.

    May 27, 2020
    General
    Devex

  • Making a Vaccine Accessible: A Glossary of Terms

    Some health advocates suggest that governments will allow monopolies of COVID-19 products to emerge, allowing corporate profiteering and preventing low-income countries from affording a vaccine. They are calling for governments to take stronger measures to ensure a vaccine will be accessible to lower-income countries. This debate — set to be one of the most important in global politics and development during the pandemic — is riddled with technical terms.

    May 27, 2020
    General
    Devex

  • Rwanda Changes Tack On HIV Amidst COVID-19 Outbreak

    Recently, concerns have emerged that countries are diverting resources, including those that are meant to fight HIV/AIDS, in a bid to curb the coronavirus crisis. However, according to the Rwanda Biomedical Centre (RBC), the country has intensified the fight against HIV/AIDS and also put measures to ensure that patients are not left behind.

    May 27, 2020
    General
    New Times

  • What the Growing Rift Between the US and WHO Means for COVID-19 and Global Health

    Experts in health policy are contending with the real possibility that the United States will pull away from the World Health Organization (WHO), fracturing a relationship that began in the wake of the Second World War.

    May 27, 2020
    General
    Nature

  • 13,332 Males Circumcised Last Year

    About 13,300 men were circumcised last year in Bulawayo amid reports that only 31 percent of the sexually active age group accessed the service which can reduce the risk of contracting HIV by up to 60 percent.

    May 26, 2020
    Voluntary Medical Male Circumcision
    Chronicle

  • Black People and Women Are Under Represented in Anti-HIV Drug Studies

    Recruitment to clinical trials that lead to the licensing of antiretroviral drugs is not representative of the global HIV pandemic, an international group of researchers report in the Journal of Virus Eradication. Licensing studies were overwhelming conducted in richer countries and white men were massively over-recruited.

    May 25, 2020
    General
    aidsmap

  • Remdesivir Data From NIAID Trial Published

    Peer-reviewed findings were published late Friday from one of the key trials of remdesivir, perhaps the most promising antiviral agent for COVID-19, confirming and extending topline results announced a month ago via press release.

    May 23, 2020
    General
    MedPage Today

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