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Issue 191: November 2009

Published: 01 November 2009

  • In this issue

    At first sight this year’s World AIDS Day theme might seem vague - ‘Reality’. Well, yes, I suppose it’s better to live in the real world, but...

  • Are we thinking clearly about brain impairment?

    For the last three years the UK’s HIV doctors’ and patients’ organisations - the British HIV Association (BHIVA) and the UK Community Advisory Board (UKCAB) - have collaborated...

  • Lost to care: the mystery of the disappearing patients

    Up to a third of patients who attend their first HIV clinic appointment don’t return. Why do they drop out of care, and are they putting themselves...

  • How does HIV make us sick?

    Nearly 30 years after the first documented cases of AIDS, we still don’t know exactly how HIV destroys the immune system. But inflammation – sustained immune activation...

  • Punching fog – how people with HIV are tackling stigma worldwide

    The UK theme of this World AIDS Day is ‘HIV: Reality’, building on last year’s theme of ‘Respect and Protect’. The reality is that HIV status continues...

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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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