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6 AUGUST 2021 VOLUME 23 ISSUE 31

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  • Ghana LGBT+ Bill Would Threaten Fight on HIV/AIDS, Says UNAIDS

    If passed, this legislation will drive LGBT+ people further away from HIV prevention, care and treatment services and endanger the advances made against the HIV epidemic in the last decade, says UNAIDS.

    August 6, 2021
    General
    Reuters

  • Here’s How HIV Research Can Better Serve Transgender and Gender-Diverse People

    The architects of a new manifesto explain why gender diversity in HIV prevention research matters—and what the research community can do to achieve it.

    August 5, 2021
    General
    The BodyPro

  • Two PrEP medications are now available. Equally safe/effective. The biggest difference? The price tag.

    With a significantly costlier medication for PrEP approved in 2019, a new study examined reasons patients switched to the new drug. Study results indicate that a minority of those who switched had a documented clinical reason to do so.

    August 5, 2021
    PrEP
    Medical Xpress

  • Two New HIV ‘Cure’ Trials To Begin in Melbourne

    Forty years after the first case of HIV was reported in the United States in 1981, a “cure” has remained elusive so far. Now, HIV/AIDS researchers across the world are keenly awaiting the results of two new trials that are scheduled to start in Melbourne. Researchers involved with the study say that the outcome of the NIVO-LD and Titan trials at the Alfred hospital in Melbourne could bring us “a step closer” to a “cure” to HIV.

    August 4, 2021
    Cure
    Star Observer

  • Five Ways Uganda’s Health Teams Provided HIV Care in Lockdown

    Uganda is currently in a partial country-wide lockdown. The “second wave” of coronavirus infections has been especially unforgiving. There is no household in Uganda I know of that has not been touched by the COVID-19 pandemic. Social media posts are awash with reports of death. Hundreds of lives cut short in their prime. It is no longer a story about the elderly. The frequency of death announcements in the national newspapers is truly unprecedented.

    August 3, 2021
    General
    The Conversation

  • CDC Calls for More Syringe Access in WVa County Hit by HIV

    People who inject drugs in West Virginia’s largest county should have expanded access to sterile syringes, testing and treatment in response to one of the nation’s highest spikes of HIV cases, according to federal and state recommendations released Tuesday.

    August 3, 2021
    General
    AP

  • Prevention Is Good, but We Have Yet to Recognize the Humanity of People Already Living With HIV

    Last month, the 2021 Missouri legislative session gave us something to celebrate: A new law that modernizes our state’s deeply harmful HIV criminalization code—reducing the charges a person accused of exposing someone to the virus faces—was passed and signed by Gov. Mike Parson. Parson also signed legislation making PEP (post-exposure prophylaxis), a medication that can be taken within 72 hours of HIV exposure to prevent contracting the virus, available from a pharmacy without requiring a doctor’s visit.

    August 3, 2021
    General, PrEP, Treatment
    The Body

  • International AIDS Society Leaders on the Future of HIV Prevention and Treatment

    Over the past 18 months, the COVID-19 pandemic has brought the treatment and prevention of infectious diseases to center stage. For Dr. Adeeba Kamarulzaman, Dean of the Faculty of Medicine at University of Malaya in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, and Dr. Sharon Lewin, Professor of Medicine at the University of Melbourne in Melbourne, Australia, the pandemic offers an opportunity for the global health community to review its approach to HIV prevention and treatment and to plot a stronger course going forward.

    August 3, 2021
    General
    Yahoo! Finance

  • HIV Increases Risk of Severe COVID-19 in Largest US Study

    The largest national US cohort study so far, reports that people living with HIV have significantly higher risks of more severe COVID-19 and that these risks increase further with lower CD4 counts and higher viral load.

    August 3, 2021
    General
    i-base

  • Cash Transfers Result in Reduced AIDS Cases, Hospitalisations and Deaths Among Brazil’s Poorest

    Conditional cash transfers in Brazil were associated with a 10 percentage-point reduction in the number of new AIDS diagnoses in poor areas with a high HIV burden. Results were even more impressive among women and children, with 15 and 39 percentage-point reductions respectively.

    August 2, 2021
    General, Treatment
    aidsmap

  • Feminizing Hormones Don’t Affect PrEP Drug Levels

    Women of trans experience seemed more likely to take HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis pills (PrEP) if they knew that feminizing hormones didn’t reduce its effectiveness, according to a drug concentration study presented at the 11th International AIDS Society Conference on HIV Science (IAS 2021).

    August 2, 2021
    PrEP
    POZ

  • Ending HIV Means Ending Sex Workers’ Invisibility

    Since being appointed as the director of the White House Office of National HIV/AIDS Policy, Harold Phillips has been inundated with requests for his help with a host of urgent HIV-related needs. He was appointed to the position on June 5, 2021, by the White House Ambassador Susan Rice, President Biden’s Domestic Policy Advisor. At the ceremony, Rice recognized the 40th anniversary of the identification of HIV/AIDS and “called upon the nation to recommit ourselves to ending HIV/AIDS once and for all.”

    July 30, 2021
    General
    POZ

  • ‘Men-Only’ Spaces Could Improve Prevention of Mother-to-Child Transmission

    A study with men in Lusaka, Zambia suggests that ‘men-only’ antenatal talks which include information on HIV and the prevention of mother-to-child transmission (PMTCT) could help male partners be better informed on these issues.

    July 30, 2021
    General
    Avert

  • Illinois Fully Repeals its HIV Criminalization Law

    The Governor of the US state of Illinois signed a bill that fully repeals its HIV criminalization law, becoming only the second US state ever to do so.

    July 30, 2021
    General
    HIV Justice Network

  • The Federal Government Is Making HIV Prevention Treatment Free — But There's A Catch

    Recent federal guidance says health insurance companies must cover all of the costs for PrEP treatment, including the medication, doctor's visits, and lab tests. For those with health insurance, this removes a major barrier to getting on PrEP. But for those without insurance, issues remain.

    July 29, 2021
    PrEP
    NPR

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