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Issue 200: October 2010

Published: 01 October 2010

  • In this issue

    This edition of HIV Treatment Update (HTU) is themed on the subject of HIV and young people. HTU hasn’t covered positive youth for a long time. Apart...

  • HIV - the recession bites

    On 15th September, a man dressed as a bear was being tugged around Red Square in Moscow on a leash by three blonde ‘naughty nurses’. Promoting a...

  • Coming of age

    Soon, the majority of children in the UK born with HIV will be young adults. Many already are. Gus Cairns talks to healthcare workers about helping...

  • JD and Max tell their stories

    The geographical transition from paediatrics to adult care was minimal. In fact leaving the sixth floor of St Mary’s to go to their ground floor 900 Clinic...

  • How HIV harms young brains

    HIV paediatrician Anton Tan and clinical psychologist Diane Melvin write about the challenges to development and maturity that HIV imposes on children. ...

  • Don’t forget SP: testing untested children

    ‘SP’ (not his real initials) was a ten-year-old boy who died of AIDS in a north London hospital in 2008. He was finally tested for HIV, and...

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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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