Funders, health providers and advocates should take lessons
from the rollout of voluntary medical male circumcision (VMMC) as an HIV
prevention measure in Africa if they wish
- Published
- 10 September 2018
- By
- Gus Cairns
Over the course of three decades, the name Larry Kramer has become synonymous with the gay rights movement, patient rights — and savage attacks on public officials and drug companies. Today, with controversy over drug prices and concern over public health funding, we were curious what Kramer had on his mind. We also wondered whether at the age of 83 he has mellowed. He has not.
- Published
- 30 August 2018
- From
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STAT
It’s the clarion call of many a budding activist: “HIV does not define me.” You must have read it a hundred times. It’s an admirable sentiment too. It speaks of empowerment, of mastering challenge, of defiance, of retaining a clear sense of identity and of priorities.
At the same time, I can’t help but think that, manageable condition or not, HIV DOES define me, and many others. It shapes our lives.
- Published
- 23 August 2018
- From
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Poz
Civil society
organisations (CSOs) providing HIV services and advocacy to key populations and people
living with HIV are increasingly under attack from populist and repressive government
regimes across
- Published
- 26 July 2018
- By
- Lisa Power
"I decided that the only way to change the discussion about PrEP in Poland was to win Mr Gay Poland and then use my position to educate people."
- Published
- 26 July 2018
- From
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Mainly Male
It's already clear that the story from Amsterdam is that ending epidemic levels of new HIV diagnoses depends on building services and societies that recognize individuals as wonderful, wild, weird, whole people, with more specificity, respect and rigor than ever before. It also depends on activism, nasty women and their male allies, everyone demanding change, refusing to play nice.
- Published
- 26 July 2018
- From
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AVAC
Terrorizing immigrants. Family separations. Detentions. Targeting sex workers and LGBTQ communities. Global Gag Rule. War on people who use drugs. Closed borders. The wall. Police brutality. Racist violence grounded in white supremacy. This is Trump’s U.S.A.
Despite this hostile environment, this March, the International AIDS Society (IAS) announced San Francisco as the host city for the next International AIDS Conference, which will take place in 2020.
- Published
- 24 July 2018
- From
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Positive Women's Network
This blog post by Angelo Kaggwa-Katumba and Kay Marshall talks about the essential work of connecting journalists and researchers and how advocates are the linchpin.
- Published
- 20 July 2018
- From
- AVAC
Transcript of YouTube video interview with Bruce richman of U=U: published on YouTube in May 2017.
- Published
- 03 July 2018
- From
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The Body
“There’s wisdom with age, but there’s a lot more wisdom with age and HIV,” says Nelson Vergel. Like many long-term survivors, he initially considered his HIV diagnosis a death sentence. But despite the odds, the Venezuelan immigrant refused to give up.
- Published
- 29 June 2018
- From
- Poz
Antiretroviral drug chartA one-page reference guide to the anti-HIV drugs licensed for use in the UK or European Union, with information on formulation, dosing, key side effects and food requirements.
Your next stepsA booklet with information for people who’ve just found
out they have HIV.
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