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HATIP #131, 19th February 2009

Published: 19 February 2009

  • Highlights from CROI 2009

    This edition of HATIP is devoted to news headlines from last week’s Sixteenth Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections, held in Montréal, Canada. We published...

  • Opportunistic infections: prophylaxis and management

    Ugandan study supports the use of fluconazole to prevent cryptococcal meningitis Oral fluconazole prophylaxis safely prevents invasive cryptococcal disease in people with advanced HIV, according to...

  • Prevention technologies

    Antiretroviral treatment lowers rates of HIV transmission in heterosexual couples in Africa Antiretroviral treatment is associated with a lower risk of heterosexual HIV transmission in African...

  • HIV testing and prevention

    Men becoming visible: more light shed on men who have sex with men in Africa and India The majority of men who have sex with men...

  • Antiretroviral therapy

    When to start HIV treatment: cohort studies disagree on how early Two major analyses of the risk of death or AIDS-related illness in people who started...

  • PMTCT and maternal health

    ART use in mothers with low CD4 cell counts reduces breastfeeding transmission fivefold: Malawi The use of antiretroviral therapy (ART) by breastfeeding mothers greatly reduced the...

HATIP #131, 19th February 2009

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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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