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8 MAY 2020 VOLUME 22 ISSUE 18

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  • Learn Lessons From AIDS Response, Says Head of UNAIDS

    Winnie Byanyima, Executive Director of the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS), today warned world leaders battling COVID-19 not to forget the lessons learnt fighting AIDS. The four-decade-long HIV fight, she says, holds infrastructure and strategies that can be successfully used as ammunition against SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19.

    May 8, 2020
    General
    Daily Maverick

  • Stay Focused on HIV Prevention During COVID-19 Pandemic – UNAIDS

    Countries have been urged to remain steadfast in their HIV prevention efforts and ensure that people can continue to access the services they need even in the light of the COVID-19 pandemic.

    May 8, 2020
    The Independent

  • Moderna Gets OK to Start Larger Trial for a Coronavirus Vaccine

    One of the first biotech companies to begin human trials of an experimental vaccine for the coronavirus is now ready to move onto the next phase of testing.

    May 7, 2020
    General
    New York Times

  • COVID-19 Found in Semen -- What Does That Mean?

    SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, was found in the semen of a minority of men with COVID-19 infection in China, including recovering patients, researchers found.

    May 7, 2020
    General
    MedPage Today

  • After Recovery From the Coronavirus, Most People Carry Antibodies

    A new study offers a glimmer of hope in the grim fight against the coronavirus: Nearly everyone who has had the disease — regardless of age, sex or severity of illness — makes antibodies to the virus.

    May 7, 2020
    Antibody Related Research
    New York Times

  • Africa Must Be Part of Vaccine Trials

    First was a video clip by French scientists proposing that an African country would be most ideal for COVID-19 vaccine clinical trials.

    May 7, 2020
    General
    Daily Nation

  • COVID-19 is Devastating Black Communities. And amfAR Just Released New Data and a Website to Prove It

    For weeks, it was suspected that African Americans and people of African descent in the United States might be disproportionately impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic. But data collection and dissemination have been mostly anecdotal, from frontline health care workers, a few local health departments, and reportage by the press. The coronavirus pandemic has followed along the course of existing racial disparities—but this has been difficult to prove with little direct evidence.

    May 6, 2020
    General
    The BodyPro

  • STIs: Lockdown ‘Once in a Lifetime Opportunity’ for Sexual Health

    Self-isolation has meant a huge change in a lot of people's sex lives but experts believe the fact we're not hooking up is a "once-in-a-lifetime opportunity" to drive down sexually transmitted infections permanently.

    May 6, 2020
    General
    BBC

  • Clinical Trials Press On for Conditions Other Than COVID-19. Will the Pandemic’s Effects Sneak Into Their Data?

    Myron Cohen has run clinical trials through hurricanes and civil unrest. Now, the infectious disease researcher at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, says he and his colleagues are in a new situation: trying to carry out large, international trials in the midst of coronavirus lockdowns. Cohen co-leads a network of HIV prevention trials, some of which have paused during the pandemic. But for other studies, he says, “stopping would be of grave consequence” to participants.

    May 6, 2020
    General
    Science

  • Adolescents on PrEP May Need More Hands-On Care

    Clinicians prescribing Truvada (tenofovir disoproxil fumarate/emtricitabine) or Descovy (tenofovir alafenamide/emtricitabine) as pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) for adolescents may have to go the extra mile to provide the most effective support to help this population mitigate their risk of contracting HIV.

    May 5, 2020
    PrEP
    POZ

  • Supreme Court Considers Anti-Prostitution Pledge In HIV/AIDS Funding Case

    The Supreme Court kicked off a second day of telephone arguments Tuesday with a case that mingles sex, the HIV/AIDS epidemic and free speech. At issue is whether the government can require private nonprofits to denounce prostitution in order to qualify for U.S foreign aid grants aimed at fighting the worldwide AIDS epidemic. This is the second time the court has faced this issue, but this time it comes with a twist.

    May 5, 2020
    General
    NPR

  • #CoronavirusSA: Barriers to ARV Access During Lockdown

    For many HIV-positive South Africans, the national lockdown has hindered their ability to easily access antiretroviral drugs and treatment. However, convenient and cost-efficient options for medicine collection are available.

    May 4, 2020
    Treatment
    Health-e News

  • Unlike HIV, Coronavirus Has A Weak Shield. Why Does That Matter?

    The race to develop vaccines and drugs against SARS-CoV-2 is centred on the spike proteins that the coronavirus uses to invade human cells. But like many proteins built from the materials a virus steals from its host, the spike isn't simply a protein but a 'glycoprotein' covered in carbohydrate sugars.

    May 4, 2020
    General
    Forbes

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