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Pharmaceutical industry
Taxpayers funded this HIV research. The government patented it. Now a company profits.

Thomas Folks spent years in his U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention lab developing a treatment to block deadly HIV in monkeys. Then, San Francisco AIDS researcher Robert Grant, using $50 million in federal grants, proved the treatment worked in people who engaged in risky sex. Their work — almost fully funded by U.S. taxpayers — created a new use for an older prescription drug called Truvada: preventing HIV infection. But the U.S. government, which patented the treatment in 2015, is not receiving a penny for that use of the drug from Gilead Sciences Inc., Truvada’s maker, which racked up $3 billion in Truvada sales last year.

Published
29 March 2019
From
Los Angeles Times
Government, leadership and policy
Scotland urged to eliminate new HIV transmissions by 2030

Scotland has a chance to eliminate new cases of HIV if it avoids complacency in the fight against the virus, according to a charity.

Published
26 March 2019
From
BBC News
Access to medicines and treatment
Little advice in place for patients in England if drug supplies dry up

The Department of Health and Social Care and NHS England have given little practical advice to patients in England about what they can do if they are left unable to get hold of their normal drugs.

Published
24 March 2019
From
The Guardian
Government, leadership and policy
Trump Plans to End the AIDS Epidemic. In Places Like Mississippi, Obstacles Are Everywhere.

The administration will focus on more than fifty “hot spots” in the U.S. that annually account for half of new H.I.V. infections. A clinic in the Deep South sees the challenges every day.

Published
18 March 2019
From
New York Times
HIV prevention policy
UK Government appoints first National Adviser for LGBT Health

Clinical adviser in the NHS appointed to advise on LGBT health issues. Expert panel also appointed, which will focus on key issues such as conversion therapy, improving access and tackling inequality in healthcare.

Published
18 March 2019
From
gov.uk
Government, leadership and policy
9 New Members Named to President’s HIV Council—and They’re Meeting Right Now

Nine new members have been named to the Presidential Advisory Council on HIV/AIDS (PACHA), bringing the total to 11 if you count the two cochairs. This in itself is big news considering that PACHA had been in effect nonexistent for most of Trump’s presidency.

Published
15 March 2019
From
Poz
Epidemiology
New survey results indicate that Nigeria has an HIV prevalence of 1.4%

Expanded data collection and analysis provides better understanding of HIV epidemic in Nigeria

Published
14 March 2019
From
UNAIDS press release
Government, leadership and policy
9 New Members Named to President’s HIV Council—and They’re Meeting Right Now

PACHA had been empty over a year, after everyone quit or was fired by Trump.

Published
14 March 2019
From
Poz
Finance and funding
Trump Budget Proposes Largest Ever Cuts to Global HIV Programs

Just one month ago, President Trump promised during the State of the Union Address to defeat HIV in the U.S. and beyond. But the president’s budget proposal to Congress today—which threatens to gut life-saving HIV treatment and prevention programs—unmasks his lies. If implemented, Trump’s proposal would wipe out years of progress in the effort to end the AIDS pandemic.

Published
14 March 2019
From
Health GAP
Government, leadership and policy
Trump’s Proposed Budget Undermines His H.I.V. Plan, Experts Say

Strategies abound to end the AIDS epidemic, but expense — mostly for drugs costing up to $50,000 a year — is the inevitable obstacle.

Published
14 March 2019
From
The New York Times
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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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