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PrEP policies and guidelines
London: Tower Hamlets Mayor calls for Government to fund PrEP for all to stop HIV transmission

John Biggs, Mayor of Tower Hamlets has written to Matt Hancock the Secretary of State for health, to call for the funding of HIV treatment that could stop the spread of HIV, saving the NHS millions of pounds.

Published
11 April 2019
From
Tower Hamlets council
PrEP science
Sticker Shock: PrEP Is Not Cost-Effective at Current Price, Health Economists Find

For years, the U.S. HIV prevention community has known that pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) is prohibitively expensive for many patients who need it. Now, new research presented at the 2019 National HIV Prevention Conference (NHPC) in Atlanta finds that not only is PrEP expensive for individual patients, it's also not cost-effective for the health system as a whole.

Published
09 April 2019
From
The Body
Government, leadership and policy
Scotland urged to eliminate new HIV transmissions by 2030

Scotland has a chance to eliminate new cases of HIV if it avoids complacency in the fight against the virus, according to a charity.

Published
26 March 2019
From
BBC News
HIV prevention policy
UK Government appoints first National Adviser for LGBT Health

Clinical adviser in the NHS appointed to advise on LGBT health issues. Expert panel also appointed, which will focus on key issues such as conversion therapy, improving access and tackling inequality in healthcare.

Published
18 March 2019
From
gov.uk
HIV prevention policy
LGBT+ health adviser urges Britain to make HIV-prevention drug free

Britain’s first national adviser for LGBT+ health has said the roll-out of a highly effective HIV prevention pill could save hundreds of thousands of pounds for the country’s publicly funded health authority. In an exclusive interview Michael Brady, who will take up the role on April 1, said a planned roll-out of pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) - a once-daily pill that protects against HIV – in England would prove cost effective “very quickly”.

Published
18 March 2019
From
Reuters
Clinical trials
Effective HIV Interventions Have Changed the Approach to Trials

In the past, individuals who were at high risk for HIV infection and who were enrolled in placebo-controlled prevention trials had been typically randomly assigned to either an experimental agent or placebo. However, that trial design—and the way those trials were interpreted—has shifted. This was the topic of discussion during David Dunn’s session yesterday at the Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI) 2019. Dunn is a researcher at University College London in the United Kingdom.

Published
11 March 2019
From
Infectious Diseases Consultant
Government, leadership and policy
Ireland: The new HIV crisis needs a better response

HIV is a public heath issue, but a spike in diagnoses in Ireland seems to be going unchecked. New figures published last week show there were 531 new cases of HIV infections diagnosed in 2018, an increase from 492 in 2017. There is now a new diagnosis of HIV in Ireland every 17 hours; Ireland’s rate of new diagnoses stood at 10.2 per 100,000 people in 2017, while the European average is 6.2 per 100,000.

Published
04 March 2019
From
Irish Times
Epidemiology
Ireland Diagnosed Record Number of H.I.V. Infections in 2018, Health Data Suggests

Ireland diagnosed a record high number of new H.I.V. infections in 2018, new health data suggests, a trend that contrasts with a general decline in infections across Europe, and that some Irish activists attribute to poor sex health education and insufficient access to preventive drugs.

Published
27 February 2019
From
The New York Times
Structural factors
To end the HIV epidemic, addressing poverty and inequities one of most important treatments

What we need most urgently today is a new generation of rigorously evaluated, cost-effective HIV interventions focused on the fundamental contextual factors for disease. These factors include access to adequate housing , access to quality health care and health insurance , access to child care , education, employment status, gender equality and income.

Published
16 February 2019
From
The Conversation
Structural factors
Eradicating HIV in Black Communities Requires Systemic Change

If left unacknowledged, persistent racial and gender disparities in HIV transmission and treatment will continue to thwart any effort to curtail the pandemic.

Published
16 February 2019
From
Rewire.News
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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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