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Motsoaledi blames lack of sex ed in schools after latest HIV results

Health Minister Aaron Motsoaeledi has again raised his concerns about the lack of sexual and reproductive education at schools, after the results of a national HIV survey showed that young people are still at risk.

Published
18 July 2018
From
Health24
Support issues for children and young people
How South African teenagers born HIV positive are navigating life in care

Fifteen years ago drugs were introduced that, for the first time, prevented mothers from transmitting the HIV virus to their babies. The drugs meant that children born to mothers infected with the virus could live long and fruitful lives despite being HIV positive. Since then researchers have studied the health issues facing children living with HIV and there’s a fairly good understanding about the medical challenges they face. But there’s still a lack of knowledge about the social issues these young people have to navigate.

Published
27 June 2018
From
The Conversation
Young people
Most doctors would give HIV prevention drugs to teens

(Reuters Health) - Last month U.S. regulators said a pill that helps prevent infection with HIV is safe for use by adolescents, and a study suggests most physicians would be willing to prescribe this medicine to teens. So-called pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) with Truvada, a daily pill combining the medicines tenofovir and emtricitabine, can lower the risk of getting HIV from sex by up to 90 percent, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Truvada has long been used to treat HIV and as a prevention strategy for adults.

Published
27 June 2018
From
Reuters
PrEP
Fairfax students to learn about HIV prevention pill in health classes

The Fairfax County School Board voted last week to include information about pre-exposure prophylaxis — PrEP — in the district’s family life education curriculum, which includes lessons on sexual health and sexuality.

Published
19 June 2018
From
Washington Post
Young people
'I believe it was Section 28 that caused my HIV diagnosis'

If I’d had inclusive and compulsory sex education at school, I don’t think I’d be HIV positive today.

Published
25 May 2018
From
indy100
Adherence
Short Cycle ART Noninferior to Continuous Therapy in Youth With HIV

Short cycle therapy (SCT) comprising an antiretroviral therapy (ART) regime of 5 days on and 2 off achieved sustainable noninferiority of virological suppression in young people with HIV compared with continuous therapy (CT) over a median of 3.6 years, according to research published in PLos One.

Published
25 May 2018
From
Infectious Disease Advisor
Structural factors
No more victim blaming: Preventing HIV in young women

An estimated 2 000 new HIV infections occur in young women and girls every week in South Africa. Two high-profile programmes are aiming to address this crisis.

Published
15 May 2018
From
Health-e
PrEP
U.S. Food and Drug Administration Approves Expanded Indication for Truvada® for Reducing the Risk of Acquiring HIV-1 in Adolescents

Truvada for PrEP is now indicated in combination with safer sex practices to reduce the risk of sexually acquired HIV-1 in at-risk adults and adolescents weighing at least 35 kg. In the United States, adolescents and young adults 13 to 24 years of age comprised 21 percent of all new infections in 2016, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and 81 percent of those infections were among young men who have sex with men (YMSM).

Published
15 May 2018
From
Gilead press release
Behaviour change interventions
Football charities face challenges in teaching South African teens about HIV

In a packed first-floor classroom in Khayelitsha, one of the poorest townships in Cape Town, 50 young teenagers in their uniforms of white shirts and purple jumpers are sitting behind their desks for a session led by four moderators just a few years older.

Published
05 May 2018
From
Financial Times
Young people
First global comparison reveals stark health inequalities among adolescents born with HIV.

New research highlights significant gaps in health outcomes for adolescents born with HIV across the world – but paints a hopeful picture for the future as treatment access expands.

Published
27 April 2018
From
AVERT
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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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