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Issue 198: July 2010

Published: 01 July 2010

  • In this issue

    Life never ceases to throw surprises at us, including things we shouldn’t be surprised by. One of those is old age. As the failure of young people...

  • Once-a-day pills and other sticky problems

    Less-than-perfect adherence to a once-a-day HIV treatment carries five times more risk of treatment failure than imperfect adherence to a twice-a-day regimen. That’s one of the surprising things...

  • Happy families

    Sally Farthing is an HIV specialist midwife at West Middlesex Hospital in Isleworth, west London. She praises the measures – and the mothers – who together have sent...

  • Will a long life be a good one?

    People with HIV are now living into old age – an old age many regard with fear, as Lisa Power from the Terrence Higgins Trust finds...

  • Are lubricants safe?

    The ‘lubes’ used most often in sex may actually make HIV transmission more likely. Gus Cairns explores some unnerving new findings from the 2010 International Microbicides Conference. ...

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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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