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Treatment guidelines
HIV care is threatened by proposed changes to Medicare Part D

Optimal HIV care includes early and uninterrupted access to effective antiretroviral medications. Proposed changes to Medicare Part D threatens that.

Published
25 January 2019
From
STAT
Starting treatment
‘RAPID’ HIV treatment initiation a success in San Francisco

Populations considered hard to treat or engage in care can benefit from same-day antiretroviral treatment as part of a clinic offering social safety-net interventions.

Published
08 January 2019
From
AVERT
Delivery of care
Sub-Saharan Africa leads the way in medical drones

By improving access to vital medicines in parts of Africa, medical drones promise to deliver on universal health coverage. The developed world is slowly catching up. Becky McCall reports.

Published
04 January 2019
From
The Lancet (requires free registration)
Global health initiatives
UNAIDS report overlooks significant aspects of the global HIV response

UNAIDS' World AIDS Day 2018 report is selectively silent on persistently high AIDS mortality and looming treatment rationing in light of donor disengagement.

Published
30 November 2018
From
Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF)
Delivery of care
Q&A: Privacy ‘not keeping pace’ with digital health

The pace of technological advancement in digital health – where smartphones and the internet are being used to personalise health services – is moving faster than policies to ensure people’s data is being protected, according to Patricia Mechael, co-founder of the non-profit organisation HealthEnabled. For example, officials in Tanzania used health records to identify gay men.

Published
29 November 2018
From
Sci Dev Net
Health services and systems
Integrating the exceptional in an evolving response to AIDS

How do we keep what is valuable from the vertical approach to HIV while simultaneously broadening the health services delivered?

Published
15 November 2018
From
Friends of the Global Fight
TB transmission and prevention
49th Union World Conference on Lung Health: Integrating HIV treatment and TB preventative therapy greatly improves IPT adherence

When tuberculosis preventive therapy is delivered with HIV treatment services and patients get a choice in where they access treatment, completion of tuberculosis preventive therapy rises, helping to ensure people living with HIV stay healthy, researchers said here. This model of prevention should be scaled up in TB-HIV high burden settings, researchers said.

Published
05 November 2018
From
Science Speaks
Money, benefits and housing
What it’s like to provide HIV care to people without housing

How can a person take daily medications if they’re constantly having their belongings stolen? Or prioritize going to medical appointments if they’re just worried about where their next meal will come from? How can they contact their doctor with questions, if they can’t afford a mobile phone plan?

Published
29 October 2018
From
BETA blog
Delivery of care
Why integrating HIV with non-HIV services in Uganda won’t work

Several policies, including World Health Organisation guidelines, have outlined ways in which HIV services can be integrated into general health services. But, our research in Uganda shows that the country is not prepared for this integration. This is because general clinic staff don’t have specialist HIV knowledge, as well as the fact that sheer numbers of HIV clients will make it difficult.

Published
22 October 2018
From
The Conversation
Delivery of care
Zambia: Patients With HIV Will Forgo Short Wait Time, Travel Distance to Access Nice Providers

Patients with HIV indicated a strong preference for “nice” over “rude” providers and a willingness to wait 19 hours more or travel 28 miles farther to see nice rather than rude providers.

Published
03 September 2018
From
American Journal of Managed Care
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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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