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Why Experienced HIV/ID Doctors Leave Clinical Practice

Three of my good friends — they’re way more than just colleagues after all this time — in the HIV/ID world have left clinical practice recently.

Published
16 May 2018
From
NEJM Journal Watch
Delivery of care
HIV Care Gaps of Less Than 9 Months Do Not Worsen Patients

Gaps in care of up to 9 months for patients with HIV do not worsen viral loads, a study involving more than 6000 HIV-infected individuals has found. Current guidelines specify that gaps in visits to primary care doctors should not exceed 6 months for clinically stable HIV patients with sustained viral suppression—even though longer lapses are common.

Published
16 May 2018
From
MD Magazine
Delivery of care
South Africa: Providing healthcare to men who have sex with men is complex but possible

In many parts of sub-Saharan Africa, including South Africa, men who have sex with men encounter stigma and prejudice when they use health services. However, our research shows that it’s possible to provide good quality care in the public sector to men who have sex with men.

Published
15 May 2018
From
The Conversation
UK health services
Dean Street clinics—battling London's MSM HIV epidemic

Dean Street's success in managing those at risk of HIV infection is evident, with their clinics' new HIV diagnoses dropping from a peak of 72 cases in June 2015 to 11 in September 2017. But like other prevention services in the UK, the good work being done risks being undone by the continual cuts to the public health grant from central government that councils across England use to fund HIV and STI prevention.

Published
08 May 2018
From
The Lancet HIV (requires free registration)
Delivery of care
South Africa tests ATMs for medicine

People living with HIV and other chronic illnesses are getting faster, simpler access to essential medicines thanks to new medicine dispensing machines being piloted in Johannesburg, South Africa.

Published
04 May 2018
From
UNAIDS
Access to medicines and treatment
Orban is not delivering health for Hungary

Viktor Orban's re-election to a third consecutive term in Hungary offers a preview for western countries of what the health consequences could be for governments that value populism and economic strength over the health of their people...An OECD Country Health Profile on Hungary in 2017 offers a stark comparison with health outcomes in other European Union (EU) countries. Life expectancy in Hungary is nearly 5 years below the EU average...lower than all of Hungary's immediate neighbours with the exception of Romania. Under Orban's leadership, the number of new cases of HIV/AIDS has more than doubled in a decade, rising from 1·0 per 100 000 in 2005 to 2·7 per 100 000 in 2015.

Published
21 April 2018
From
The Lancet
Delivery of care
New care standards for HIV aim to boost quality despite funding pressures

Treatment advances mean that HIV is becoming more common in people over the age of 50, and services need to better reflect the need for care over the life course, says the British HIV Association today on the issue of its latest set of quality standards for people living with HIV.

Published
20 April 2018
From
OnMedica
Access to medicines and treatment
Antiretroviral shortage reaches 100% in Venezuela

Alberto Nieves, executive director of Acción Ciudadana Contra el SIDA (ACCSI) says: "By March 2018, the shortage of antiretroviral drugs reached 100% in Venezuela, which It is affecting more than 80 thousand people with HIV." Four of the 27 licensed antiretrovirals were still in stock but not ones necessary to construct viable combination therapy.

Published
17 April 2018
From
Corresponsales Clave
PrEP
Four Models of PrEP Service Provision to Enhance Access and Uptake

In an article recently published in the Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes (JAIDS), Kenneth Mayer, M.D., of the Fenway Institute and his co-authors analyzed the current state of PrEP implementation in the U.S. With attention to PrEP delivery in diverse settings and a concern for reducing health disparities, Mayer highlighted four evolving models to enhance PrEP access and uptake.

Published
15 March 2018
From
The Body Pro
Finance and funding
Beyond donor dollars for health care: how Uganda is thinking outside the box

What’s become increasingly clear is that there’s funding gap for the scale-up of antiretroviral treatment as well as service delivery. In our research we looked at how Uganda is attempting to plug this gap with a range of innovative approaches involving different donors and for different aspects of HIV treatment.

Published
23 February 2018
From
The Conversation
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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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