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People living with HIV can live longer, but urgently need improved care to achieve better health outcomes and quality of life

Experts unveiled a set of recommendations on Wednesday to address health problems facing people living with HIV. Treatments are helping people with HIV live long lives, but they face higher risk than others of serious illnesses – from cancer to heart disease to depression.

Published
29 November 2017
From
HIV Outcomes
Undetectable viral load and treatment as prevention
What's it like being in a HIV mixed diagnosis relationship?

'I spent a lot of time researching the condition and I learnt quite quickly that people with HIV live the same length of time as people without. The most important fact is that if your partner is on HIV medication, there's zero chance of being infected."

Published
15 November 2017
From
Metro
Testing and health monitoring
Americans Are Still Dying From AIDS. We Need More HIV Prevention

The ravages of advanced HIV infection, the nearly-forgotten news items of the 1980s like PCP — Pneumocystis pneumonia -- and Kaposi Sarcoma, are still afflicting those diagnosed late, even if this fact is no longer news.

Published
07 November 2017
From
WBUR
Telling people you have HIV
Two thirds of people living with HIV too scared to disclose their status to dates, new survey finds

Over two thirds of people living with HIV (PLWHIV) in the UK are too scared to reveal their status to potential partners, according to a shocking new survey. The ‘HIV is: Expectations from Life’ survey found 68% of PLWHIV said a fear of disclosing their status has impacted their decision to go on dates.

Published
26 October 2017
From
Gay Star News
Treatment outcomes and life expectancy
New York City finds gaps in the HIV cascade of care linked to reduced survival

60% of HIV-positive people in New York City who died had not been virally suppressed through treatment. Rates of viral suppression lowest among women, young people, black and Hispanic people, as well as people in low-income neighbourhoods.

Published
25 October 2017
From
CATIE
Treatment outcomes and life expectancy
ART in Africa bridges health gap between those with, without HIV

The expansion of ART for HIV infection has helped reduce disparities in health-related quality of life between HIV-positive and HIV-negative individuals in Zambia and South Africa, according to findings published in The Lancet Global Health.

Published
13 October 2017
From
Healio
Epidemiology
South Africa death rates declined due to HIV success – report

Death rates have declined, largely due to successes in HIV, but a lot more needs to be done to defeat its “terrible twin”, tuberculosis (TB).

Published
23 August 2017
From
Health-e
Treatment outcomes and life expectancy
Viral Rebound Unlikely for Many on ART

British investigators have determined that a substantial proportion of people with HIV who are taking antiretroviral therapy (ART) will not experience viral rebound during their lifetime.

Published
14 July 2017
From
Infectious Disease Special Edition
Money, benefits and housing
Life insurance policyholders with HIV urged to review life cover term

People with HIV who took out life insurance between 2009 and 2013 should review their policy, Unusual Risks has urged.

Published
24 May 2017
From
Professional Adviser
History of HIV and AIDS
The HIV story is not over - the spectre of anti-science threatens our advances

The life expectancy of people with HIV is now ‘near normal’, but complacency would be wrong.

Published
17 May 2017
From
The Guardian
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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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