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The New Face of HIV and Treating the 'Hardly Reached'

Physicians, scientists, government agencies, and companies are questioning whether the way they've always recruited for clinical trials still serves patients.

Published
20 July 2019
From
Medscape (requires free registration)
The search for a cure
Is It Safe to Interrupt HIV Treatment During Cure Studies?

Previous research has shown that long interruptions are not safe—but what about shorter, more closely monitored gaps in treatment?

Published
17 July 2019
From
POZ
The search for an HIV prevention vaccine
HIV Vaccine Trials on Gay, Bi Men to Begin in U.S., Europe

Around 3800 men who have sex with men will be part of Johnson & Johnson's historic vaccine trial.

Published
15 July 2019
From
Advocate.com
Clinical trials
EU Calls For Results Of All EU-based Clinical Trials To Be Added To Public Database

The European Commission and European Union medicines regulatory agencies sent an open letter to all sponsors of EU-based clinical trials to remind them of their obligation to publish the results of the trials – both positive and negative – in a public database.

Published
07 July 2019
From
Health Policy Watch
Types of HIV tests
Can Self-Swabs Make HIV Exposure and Risk Reporting More Accurate?

A new study conducted in South Africa finds that when cisgender women are given the tools to assess their HIV exposure risk at home, those tools can yield far more accurate results than a sit-down interview with an HIV clinician. The study also pioneered a new use case for swabbing kits, yielding valuable insights that lead author Maria Lemos, Ph.D., says may one day lead to a new method of self-testing for HIV exposure at home.

Published
01 July 2019
From
The Body Pro
Cancer
Breaking down HIV exclusions in cancer clinical trials

As an eligibility barrier cracks, a lung cancer patient gets a new lease on life.

Published
10 June 2019
From
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Clinical trials
Half of H.I.V. Patients Are Women. Most Research Subjects Are Men.

Trials of vaccines and treatments have not included enough female participants. Now that scientists are exploring possible cures, the need to enroll women is greater than ever.

Published
31 May 2019
From
New York Times
Clinical trials
UCSD has not told women with HIV of data breach, despite researchers' pleas

University of California San Diego officials stonewalled attempts to notify women in an HIV research study that their confidential data was breached more than seven months ago, an inewsource investigation has found. UCSD researchers conducting the EmPower Women study told university officials in October that participants’ names, audio-taped conversations and other sensitive materials were made accessible to everyone working at Christie’s Place, a San Diego nonprofit supporting women with HIV and AIDS.

Published
15 May 2019
From
inewsource
Clinical trials
Despite Uptick, Black and Latinx People Have Relatively Low Participation in HIV Vaccine Trials

Black and Latinx people historically have not willfully participated in clinical trials in high numbers. Medical mistrust of research and health care institutions has long been a problem for conducting biomedical research. So what's causing the racial disparities in research participation, and what are researchers doing about it?

Published
14 May 2019
From
The Body Pro
Transgender people
The largest study involving transgender people is providing long-sought insights about their health

The research examines once taboo questions about the impacts of gender transition. The European Network for the Investigation of Gender Incongruence (ENIGI) is the largest scientific study of transgender people in the world, now with 2600 participants, and is unique because it is prospective, studying the impact of hormone and other therapies on their health over the long term.

Published
25 April 2019
From
Nature
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Community Consensus Statement on Access to HIV Treatment and its Use for Prevention

Together, we can make it happen

We can end HIV soon if people have equal access to HIV drugs as treatment and as PrEP, and have free choice over whether to take them.

Launched today, the Community Consensus Statement is a basic set of principles aimed at making sure that happens.

The Community Consensus Statement is a joint initiative of AVAC, EATG, MSMGF, GNP+, HIV i-Base, the International HIV/AIDS Alliance, ITPC and NAM/aidsmap
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