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PrEP programmes and uptake
Six innovative models for PrEP services

For pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) to have a substantial public health impact, access to PrEP needs to be improved so that more people who would benefit from

Published
07 January 2019
By
Roger Pebody
Delivery of care
Sub-Saharan Africa leads the way in medical drones

By improving access to vital medicines in parts of Africa, medical drones promise to deliver on universal health coverage. The developed world is slowly catching up. Becky McCall reports.

Published
04 January 2019
From
The Lancet (requires free registration)
Retention and linkage to care
Ten reasons people stop attending HIV care in Zambia

Patient-provider relationships are strained by poor working conditions and rigid application of one-size-fits-all models of care, according to an in-depth investigation of why people with HIV drop

Published
10 December 2018
By
Roger Pebody
Diagnosing children
Digital health services highly effective in early infant diagnosis of HIV in Kenya

A digital health system combining online services with text messages is highly effective in early infant diagnosis of HIV according to findings from a cluster-randomised controlled trial in

Published
04 December 2018
By
Carole Leach-Lemens
Global health initiatives
UNAIDS report overlooks significant aspects of the global HIV response

UNAIDS' World AIDS Day 2018 report is selectively silent on persistently high AIDS mortality and looming treatment rationing in light of donor disengagement.

Published
30 November 2018
From
Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF)
Delivery of care
Q&A: Privacy ‘not keeping pace’ with digital health

The pace of technological advancement in digital health – where smartphones and the internet are being used to personalise health services – is moving faster than policies to ensure people’s data is being protected, according to Patricia Mechael, co-founder of the non-profit organisation HealthEnabled. For example, officials in Tanzania used health records to identify gay men.

Published
29 November 2018
From
Sci Dev Net
Health services and systems
Integrating the exceptional in an evolving response to AIDS

How do we keep what is valuable from the vertical approach to HIV while simultaneously broadening the health services delivered?

Published
15 November 2018
From
Friends of the Global Fight
People who inject drugs
How has Glasgow responded to an outbreak of HIV among people who inject drugs?

Intensive efforts to reach people who inject drugs who have acquired HIV in a recent transmission outbreak in the city have resulted in high levels of antiretroviral

Published
07 November 2018
By
Keith Alcorn
TB transmission and prevention
49th Union World Conference on Lung Health: Integrating HIV treatment and TB preventative therapy greatly improves IPT adherence

When tuberculosis preventive therapy is delivered with HIV treatment services and patients get a choice in where they access treatment, completion of tuberculosis preventive therapy rises, helping to ensure people living with HIV stay healthy, researchers said here. This model of prevention should be scaled up in TB-HIV high burden settings, researchers said.

Published
05 November 2018
From
Science Speaks
Money, benefits and housing
What it’s like to provide HIV care to people without housing

How can a person take daily medications if they’re constantly having their belongings stolen? Or prioritize going to medical appointments if they’re just worried about where their next meal will come from? How can they contact their doctor with questions, if they can’t afford a mobile phone plan?

Published
29 October 2018
From
BETA blog
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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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