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'This Is a Public Health Failure': New York City's Troubling Silence on Morning-After HIV Meds

Eight years into the CDC putting its stamp of approval on PEP as a measure to block HIV infection, why do so few people — especially gay men, who continue to make up the city's highest rate of HIV infections — know what it is or where to get it?

Published
23 July 2013
From
New York Magazine
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ACT UP New York Protests Hospital for Denial of PEP

ACT UP New York protested outside Mount Sinai Hospital in Manhattan for denying post-exposure prophylaxis (PEP) to a gay man, according to an ACT UP statement.

Published
18 July 2013
From
Poz magazine news
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Mathematical models to better combat HIV

In a paper titled "Stochastic Analysis of Pre- and Postexposure Prophylaxis against HIV Infection," authors Jessica Conway, Bernhard Konrad, and Daniel Coombs present theoretical models of HIV dynamics immediately following exposure to the virus, thus providing a method to study infection and treatment at these early stages, as well as come up with preemptive strategies for prevention.

Published
03 June 2013
From
Eurekalert Medicine & Health
PEP
Doctors call for law to protect them against HIV

Leading doctors are calling for a change in the law, so that unconscious patients can be tested for HIV if those treating them get injured.

Published
03 June 2013
From
The Telegraph
PEP
Drug that can stop HIV if used right away is costly

The man believes the doctor he spoke with at the ER kept him from the life-saving medicine because he is uninsured, but the hospital argues its hands were tied.

Published
11 April 2013
From
KERO-TV 23
PEP
Postexposure Prophylaxis: Dealing With Old Guidelines

The patient responded, “With all due respect to the guidelines, in the current era when there are increasingly well-tolerated medications, why would you use a regimen that included only 2 NRTIs without a third drug in any setting where there is a risk of HIV transmission?”

Published
13 March 2013
From
Clinical Care Options (requires registration)
PEP
Australia: Second man denied PEP from hospital

Another gay man has come forward claiming he was unable to access HIV-preventative medication from his local health centre due to ignorance of proper procedure from medical staff.

Published
23 January 2013
From
Sydney Star Observer
Undetectable viral load and treatment as prevention
New report: evaluating HIV treatment as prevention in the European context

The report concludes that antiretroviral treatment has well-documented benefits for reducing the transmission of HIV, and has had a major impact on reducing HIV acquisition among children born to HIV positive mothers. However, the policy of treatment as prevention cannot be universally applied to all persons diagnosed with HIV without understanding whether there is a benefit for the individual’s health.

Published
07 June 2012
From
European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) press release
PEP
Post-Exposure Prophylaxis, the World’s Most Outdated HIV Guidelines, and What To Do About Them

Every time I cover HIV prevention in a lecture, it’s always kind of embarrassing to cite the “official” post-exposure prophylaxis (PEP) guidelines.

Published
06 March 2012
From
Journal Watch
Women
KENYA: Sexual violence still a major urban threat

Reports of gender-based violence are on the rise in Kenya's cities, and experts say the police must improve their handling of cases of sexual assault to build public trust in the security and justice systems. 

Published
26 October 2011
From
IRIN Plus 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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