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People who inject drugs
New PEPFAR guidance authorises funding for needle exchange and wide range of services for people who inject drugs.

The new guidance allows PEPFAR support for a comprehensive package of prevention services scientifically demonstrated to decrease HIV infection risk without increasing drug use, including needle and syringe programs (NSPs) and expansion of methadone and other medication-assisted treatment (MAT) to HIV-negative IDUs.

Published
19 July 2010
From
PEPFAR
Limits to methadone prescription proposed by UK drugs agency

Strict limits on how long drug addicts are allowed to stay on heroin substitute methadone have been proposed by the government body responsible for treatment strategy, in what will be seen as a watershed in UK drugs policy.

Published
19 July 2010
From
The Guardian
Ukraine
Why is Ukraine reversing HIV policy? | Diederik Lohman

Ukraine appears to be slipiing backwards in its HIV prevention policies as it criminalises drug users. Is it following Russia's lead?

Published
18 July 2010
From
The Guardian
Women
New website: What works for women and girls: evidence for HIV/AIDS interventions

A comprehensive review of successful HIV programming for women and girls spanning 2,000 articles and reports with data from more than 90 countries. Published by OSI's Public Health Program, this valuable resource contains—in one centralized, searchable location—the evidence of successful gender-specific programming from global programs and studies, with a focus on the Global South. 

Published
17 July 2010
From
OSI
New Trend Increases HIV Risk for Heroin Users

Heroin users in some African countries are injecting themselves with blood from other drug users in order to eke out drug supplies, a practice known as flashblood or flushblood, the New York Times reports.

Published
17 July 2010
From
New York Times
Men who have sex with men (MSM)
Argentina becomes first country in Latin America to legalise gay marriage

Argentina's Senate has voted 33-27 to support a bill to legalise gay marriage.

Published
15 July 2010
From
Pink News
Obama shifts AIDS strategy to high-risk groups

The White House announced the nation's most sweeping national strategy ever for fighting HIV/AIDS on Tuesday, an effort that aims to cut infection rates by 25 percent in five years by shifting money to help gay and African American men who are at highest

Published
14 July 2010
From
SFGate
Activism
Acclaimed AIDS Documentary Sparks Discussion Between Survivors and Younger Gays

The terrifying early years of the AIDS epidemic and how it ravaged San Francisco are the focus of the affecting documentary We Were Here.

Published
01 January 1970
From
Advocate
Epidemiology and behaviour
Half of Heterosexual Women With HIV Have No Risk Factors

Nearly half of heterosexual women with HIV infection report having no identifiable risk factors, according to new surveillance data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

Published
01 January 1970
From
Medscape (requires registration)
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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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