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The president forced me to take his herbal HIV 'cure'

The Gambia's former leader, Yahya Jammeh, who left the country a year ago after two decades in power, has been accused of many crimes. But one of the strangest was forcing thousands of people with HIV to undergo treatment with a concoction of herbs he had invented himself. An unknown number died, reports Colin Freeman.

Published
22 January 2018
From
BBC News
HIV prevention policy
CDC Reportedly Bans Words Including “Transgender” and “Science-Based”

The Trump Administration is forbidding policy analysts at the nation’s main public health agency from using seven words and phrases, including transgender, fetus and evidence-based, in official documents dealing with the upcoming budget, The Washington Post reported. That assertion is a “complete mischaracterization of discussions,” says an HHS spokesperson.

Published
19 December 2017
From
Poz
Bad science and bogus treatments
Fingerprints of Russian Disinformation: From AIDS to Fake News

Called Operation Infektion by the East German foreign intelligence service, the 1980s disinformation campaign seeded a conspiracy theory that the virus that causes AIDS was the product of biological weapons experiments conducted by the United States.

Published
13 December 2017
From
New York Times
The search for a cure
HIV ‘cure’ based on one patient? Here’s what you need to know

Headlines today raise hope that a cancer drug could “cure” HIV infection. But this potential cure is based on results from just a single man whose reservoir of dormant HIV-infected cells went down after treatment with the cancer drug nivolumab.

Published
04 December 2017
From
Health News Review
Bad science and bogus treatments
Russia’s HIV epidemic is fuelled by virus deniers, who think it’s all a Western hoax

Fewer than half of Russians with HIV are taking antiretroviral drugs, in part because of a conspiracy theory that the Aids-causing virus is a myth invented by the West, officials and activists say.

Published
04 December 2017
From
South China Morning Post
Bad science and bogus treatments
Nigeria's flourishing 'miracle cure' business

Infected with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), she felt the ad was her only hope -- so against her better judgement, she clicked on the link.

Published
01 December 2017
From
Pulse
Combatting stigma
Betty Price's HIV Quarantine Query Echoes White Supremacist Voices in the Trump Era

Price's line of questioning seemed to belong to the 1980s, when HIV and AIDS were less understood and far less preventable, as well as surrounded by much more fear and hysteria. But I heard very similar consideration of quarantining people with HIV as a viable option a few months ago -- on a white supremacist podcast. And these podcasts are the new "test kitchens" of the right -- floating ideas once considered politically impossible to see what'll stick with the core supporters of the current regime.

Published
01 November 2017
From
The Body
HIV and criminal law
Wife of ex-US health secretary Price asks if people with HIV can be quarantined

A Georgia state lawmaker who is married to former Trump health secretary Tom Price asked during a legislative committee meeting about the possibility of quarantining people with HIV.

Published
21 October 2017
From
The Guardian
Bad science and bogus treatments
Unpacking Michael Weinstein's Latest PrEP Denialism

The controversial head of the AIDS Healthcare Foundation has taken his PrEP-skepticism campaign to the prestigious medical journal AIDS. The editorial is compromised by unsound logic, the cherry picking of evidence and the tendency to ignore important granular details about HIV infection and PrEP-use trends.

Published
13 October 2017
From
Poz
Bad science and bogus treatments
‘AIDS spreads by shaking hands’: Old, banned pamphlets resurface on social media

A pamphlet on AIDS awareness with wrongly printed information has suddenly resurfaced on social media and gone viral, but it turns out, the campaign was over two years old and had already been recalled.

Published
27 September 2017
From
Indian Express
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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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