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3 DECEMBER 2021 VOLUME 23 ISSUE 48

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  • New HIV and AIDS Strategy Calls Racism a Public Health Crisis

    Promising to take “aggressive action” to end HIV in the US, President Joe Biden on Worlds AIDS Day on Wednesday announced a 3-year roadmap to help reduce new HIV transmissions in the US by 90 percent by 2030. And he did so by being the first US president to link systemic racism and other discrimination directly to the prolonged HIV epidemic.

    December 3, 2021
    General
    Web MD

  • Use of HIV Prevention Treatments Is Very Low Among Southern Black Gay Men

    Use of antiretroviral treatments to prevent HIV infection – called pre-exposure prophylaxis or PrEP – is very low among high-risk populations with poor access to HIV care, especially Black men in the South who have sex with men. That’s the main finding of our new study), which suggests public health officials will need to do more outreach to this population if they hope to end the HIV pandemic by 2030.

    December 2, 2021
    PrEP
    The Conversation

  • How HIV Research Paved the Way for the COVID mRNA Vaccines

    Every Dec. 1, the world commemorates those who have died from an AIDS-related illness. Known as World AIDS Day, it serves as a reminder that there has been an ongoing pandemic for the past 40 years, pre-dating COVID. The COVID vaccines were sequenced, developed and approved in the US in record time, but that would not have been possible without decades of work by HIV researchers.

    December 1, 2021
    HIV Vaccine
    CNBC

  • The Current

    The COVID-19 pandemic has complicated — and in some cases halted — the fight against HIV/AIDS. We talk about that impact with Hombisa Ntsikanye, an implementer and developer of the HIV and AIDS program at Blue Roof Life Space in Durban, South Africa; and Mitchell Warren, executive director of the AIDS Vaccine Advocacy Coalition.

    December 1, 2021
    General
    CBC

  • COVID Has Hurt the Fight Against AIDS, Experts Say — But It Could Also Lead to an HIV Vaccine

    Dr. Anthony Fauci, the top US infectious disease expert, said Tuesday the COVID-19 pandemic has diverted scientific and financial resources from the fight against AIDS, seriously impeding global efforts to achieve the UN goal of ending AIDS by 2030.

    December 1, 2021
    HIV Vaccine
    NBC News

  • An HIV-Prevention Drug Is Widely Available. Yet At-Risk Women Are Getting Left Behind

    In the US, women account for a fifth of new infections. But a persistent lack of education means few even know about the highly effective medication known as PrEP.

    December 1, 2021
    PrEP
    National Geographic

  • Pandemics Will Prosper Unless People With HIV Are Put First

    While all eyes are on the omicron COVID-19 variant that has triggered global alarm, Wednesday marks the annual commemoration of another deadly disease that has claimed millions of lives.

    December 1, 2021
    General
    Independent

  • HIV Prevention Pill PrEP Is Now Free Under Most Insurance Plans – But the Latest Challenge to the Affordable Care Act Puts This Benefit at Risk

    Since the start of the HIV epidemic in 1981, over 700,000 Americans have lost their lives to AIDS. Being infected used to be a death sentence. But now, 40 years later, the US is on the precipice of eradicating HIV.

    December 1, 2021
    PrEP
    The Conversation

  • HIV: People With Virus or Taking PrEP To Be Allowed To Join Armed Forces

    PrEP is an antiretroviral medicine which, taken once a day, stops the transmission of HIV during unprotected sex. Until now, that meant you couldn't join the military, because of the "logistical burden" of hiring people who take regular medication. The Ministry of Defence (MoD) says the change will mean people who take PrEP are treated the same as those taking contraception, so from today it won't be a barrier to employment.

    December 1, 2021
    PrEP
    BBC News

  • HIV: Syringe Services Fill the Gap When Clinicians Refuse to Prescribe PrEP to People Who Inject Drugs

    Not that long ago, a man in his mid-20s whom Morgan Farrington calls Kiddo showed up at her house with a fever, chills, and nausea. He was increasingly out of it. These were all signs of an abscess from missing a vein and using someone else's syringe, said Farrington, founder of Goodworks, in Huntsville, Alabama.

    December 1, 2021
    PrEP
    Medscape

  • Kenyatta University Receives Automatic HIV Testing Kit Vending Machine

    At a cost of Sh.25 for a self-testing kit at a local pharmacy, Kenyatta University students will be able to access a HIV Self-test kit in the school premises free of charge. This comes as a partnership between Kenyatta University and Orasure who hosted the HIV-testing camp at the main campus of the school.

    December 1, 2021
    General
    The Star

  • Even After 40 Years the Response to AIDS in Many Countries Is Still Held Back by Stigma

    Forty years after the first cases of AIDS were discovered, goals for its global elimination have yet to be achieved. In 2020, nearly 700,000 people died of AIDS-related illnesses and 1.5 million people were newly infected with HIV.

    December 1, 2021
    General
    The Guardian

  • A Guide to HIV: Top 10 Facts, From Prevention and Treatment to a Possible Cure

    HIV may not be the virus on the block since 2020, but it is going nowhere until a cure is found. It remains common in South Africa, with about 240,000 infections a year, and is especially common among young women. We give you the lowdown on everything – from prevention to treatment and cure.

    November 30, 2021
    PrEP
    Daily Maverick

  • Condoms Shortage at the Center of HIV Prevention Crisis

    The Ministry of Health has warned of an acute shortage of condoms attributed to dwindling donor resources. This was highlighted in the Kenya National Condom Strategy 2018-2023 (KNCS) report, where it emerged that the country needs 455 million condoms annually against the 1.6 million provided by the government monthly.

    November 30, 2021
    Male and Female Condoms
    The Capital News

  • Despite Interventions, Black and Hispanic Men Are Contracting HIV at the Same Rates As 10 Years Ago

    Despite numerous advances in the prevention of HIV, new data show that the rate of new infections among Black and Hispanic/Latino gay and bisexual men did not decline over the past decade.

    November 30, 2021
    General
    STAT News

  • A Vaginal Ring to Prevent HIV Is Coming to Africa. Could It Catch On in the US Too?

    “There’s a lot of excitement about the ring in Africa.” So says Dázon Dixon Diallo, founder and president of the longtime Atlanta-based women’s HIV and sexual health group SisterLove. Her organization also has programs in South Africa, a country that accounts for 19 percent of all people living with HIV (PLWH) worldwide—and where women make up 63 percent of all adults in the country living with HIV and 64 percent of new infections.

    November 30, 2021
    Microbicides
    TheBody

  • African Scientists Should Lead in Developing an AIDS Jab for Africa

    Scientific progress over the past four decades in the response to the HIV/AIDS pandemic has been nothing short of extraordinary. Combination antiretroviral therapy has transformed the disease form a death sentence to a chronically manageable disease. Some 26 million people around world are now on lifesaving antiretroviral treatment, two-thirds of them from the African continent. Yet each year some 1.5 million people are newly infected with the virus and another 10 million are still failing to access treatment.

    November 29, 2021
    HIV Vaccine
    The East African

  • Glaxo Aims for HIV Cure by 2030 as It Looks to Post-Split Future

    GlaxoSmithKline Plc told investors it’s aiming to develop a cure for HIV by 2030, as the company outlines its future ahead of splitting in two next year.

    November 29, 2021
    Cure
    Bloomberg

  • Beijing Reports Year-on-Year Jump in New HIV/AIDS Cases

    Beijing saw a year-on-year rise in new HIV/AIDS cases during the Jan.-Oct. period of this year, the municipal health authorities said Monday. A total of 1,654 new HIV/AIDS cases living in the city were reported in the first 10 months of this year, up 17.47 percent year on year, the Beijing Municipal Health Commission said.

    November 29, 2021
    General
    Xinhua

  • South Africa Isn’t Doing Enough To Provide HIV Prevention Treatment for Mothers: Why It Needs To

    A global target for the elimination of mother to child transmission of HIV globally was set in 2015. The ambitious target of the Joint United Nations Programme (UNAIDS) was to reduce new infant HIV infections by 75 per cent by 2020. This is equivalent to reducing new infections to under 1 per cent.

    November 28, 2021
    Treatment
    The Conversation

  • How Inequality Drives HIV in Adolescent Girls and Young Women

    Despite the advances that have been made against HIV, the world has 37 million people living with HIV. And 680,000 people died from AIDS-related causes in 2020. While the prevention of mother to child transmission, and provision of treatment as prevention, are great successes, there are still gaps. Over 1.5 million new HIV infections were recorded in 2020.

    November 28, 2021
    The Conversation

  • How Traditional and Medical Male Circumcision Services Could Work Together

    Voluntary medical male circumcision (VMMC) is a proven HIV prevention tool. Despite its health benefits, many young Malawian men who are willing to be circumcised are choosing to do so as part of a traditional ceremony. Understanding why this is could hold the key to improving VMMC uptake.

    November 26, 2021
    Voluntary Medical Male Circumcision
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