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Activism
‘TAC protected the man who sexually harassed me’

One of South Africa's most influential civil society organisations and its leaders may have flouted justice to protect a close ally, according to the woman who dared to speak up about her sexual harassment.

Published
21 July 2019
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Health-e
PrEP policies and guidelines
Indonesia commits to piloting PrEP

Indonesia has decided to pilot pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) in four cities with high levels of HIV prevalence.

Published
21 July 2019
From
UNAIDS
Cancer
C. trachomatis may raise risk for precancerous anal lesions in patients with HIV

Study findings showed that patients with HIV who are coinfected with HPV and Chlamydia trachomatis face a substantially increased risk for high-grade anal intraepithelial neoplasia, suggesting that C. trachomatis may enhance the oncogenic potential of HPV, researchers said.

Published
21 July 2019
From
Healio
Cancer
People With HIV Have Good Lung Cancer Surgery Outcomes

HIV-positive people who underwent surgery to remove early lung cancer fared as well as HIV-negative people.

Published
21 July 2019
From
POZ
Combatting stigma
What to call someone who uses heroin?

First-ever study to ask people who use heroin what they want to be called finds 'people first' language often best, and language suggesting misuse or dependence generally worst

Published
21 July 2019
From
EurekAlert
Achieving the 90-90-90 target
UN Aids target to end epidemic by 2030 at risk as funding falls for first time

The pace of reducing new HIV infections is slowing and progress in accessing treatment is decreasing, putting UN targets to end the Aids epidemic by 2030 in doubt.

Published
21 July 2019
From
The Guardian
People who inject drugs
PrEP Education Campaigns Leave People Who Inject Drugs Behind

On July 12, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention published a report that found an “encouraging” increase in recent years in urban-living queer men’s awareness of pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP). But in some of the cities covered by the CDC’s report, many people who inject drugs are wholly unaware of the “miracle drug,” as HIV activists have dubbed it.

Published
21 July 2019
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PrEP programmes and uptake
No new cases of HIV among people in Wales taking PrEP

Vaughan Gething, the Welsh minister for health and social services, said he was “delighted” that access to PrEP was now “fully embedded” into sexual health services.

Published
21 July 2019
From
The Pharmaceutical Journal
PrEP
Market for HIV Prevention Drugs May More Than Double, Citi Says

An experimental drug from Merck & Co may lead the way in the U.S. market, Citi said. Baum estimates MK-8591 may reach sales of $7 billion in HIV. Of that total, $3.5 billion may come from pre-exposure prophylaxis, or PrEP, as the preventative treatments are called.

Published
21 July 2019
From
Bloomberg
Women
The New Face of HIV and Treating the 'Hardly Reached'

Physicians, scientists, government agencies, and companies are questioning whether the way they've always recruited for clinical trials still serves patients.

Published
20 July 2019
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Medscape (requires free 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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