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TAG statement on the President’s FY 2020 budget proposal

Treatment Action Group (TAG) opposes the President’s Fiscal Year (FY) 2020 budget proposal, which makes a mockery of the administration’s purported strategy to end AIDS in the United States over the next decade. TAG welcomes additional investments in HIV prevention and treatment towards eliminating HIV in the U.S. However, the federal budget’s defunding equally important areas across domestic and global health programs, social services, and research raises tremendous doubt about the administration’s commitment to end HIV. We are also concerned about the fate of related epidemics such as hepatitis C (HCV) and tuberculosis (TB).

Published
14 March 2019
From
TAG
Government, leadership and policy
Thailand’s achievements in HIV are not all widely implemented

“Thailand is progressing in the right direction to end AIDS, but needs sustained political and policy commitment with a sense of urgency for ‘the last miles’,” Dr

Published
12 March 2019
By
Roger Pebody
Government, leadership and policy
Anthony Fauci: Physicians cured a man of HIV, but that's not our best shot at fighting AIDS

The Berlin and London patients give important insights for HIV researchers, and a cure for HIV is an aspiration we continue to pursue. But the end of the epidemic - the reduction of new HIV infections and HIV-related deaths to very low levels - is within our reach even without a cure.

Published
12 March 2019
From
Sydney Morning Herald
Finance and funding
Trump’s Budget Offers $291M To Fight HIV In U.S. But Trims Overseas Efforts

The Trump administration took another step toward fulfilling its goal of ending the HIV epidemic in the United States Monday by requesting $291 million for its initiative in the White House’s annual budget. But within the budget, the administration also proposed actions that could undermine efforts to control the virus’s spread, HIV experts and advocates said, including carving out funds from programs that aim to eradicate HIV in other parts of the world.

Published
12 March 2019
From
Kaiser Health News
Government, leadership and policy
Ireland: The new HIV crisis needs a better response

HIV is a public heath issue, but a spike in diagnoses in Ireland seems to be going unchecked. New figures published last week show there were 531 new cases of HIV infections diagnosed in 2018, an increase from 492 in 2017. There is now a new diagnosis of HIV in Ireland every 17 hours; Ireland’s rate of new diagnoses stood at 10.2 per 100,000 people in 2017, while the European average is 6.2 per 100,000.

Published
04 March 2019
From
Irish Times
Epidemiology
Decline in U.S. HIV Infection Rate Stalled From 2013 to 2016

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) new HIV surveillance report, the estimated annual HIV transmission rate in the United States declined modestly between 2010 and 2013 and then stagnated through 2016. The CDC has contradicted its own previous reports by characterizing this recent trend as a plateau that followed a “dramatic decline.” HIV incidence declined during the 2010 to 2016 period among white men who have sex with men (MSM) and among heterosexuals. However, troubling increases in the transmission rate among Latino MSM, and Black MSM between 25 and 34 years old, have offset such promising trends.

Published
28 February 2019
From
POZ
Access to medicines and treatment
Analysis: How a cutting edge medicine made it to South Africa’s new ARV tender

South Africa’s recently awarded antiretroviral (ARV) tender, worth around R14-billion over three years, heralds the introduction of a much-anticipated new medicine called dolutegravir into the public healthcare system from July 2019. For a cutting-edge HIV drug to reach the public sector so quickly, and at such a low price, is unprecedented.

Published
27 February 2019
From
Spotlight
Access to medicines and treatment
HIV Situation Is “Critical” in Venezuela as Military Withholds Meds

“We are scared for the safety of our activists and call upon the global community to help the people of Venezuela living with HIV.”

Published
20 February 2019
From
Poz
Activism
Urgent: HIV Activists in Venezuela Need Our Immediate Help!

The Global Network of People Living with HIV (GNP+) expresses our grave concern over the health, safety and wellbeing of prominent HIV activists that are being targeted by the government of Venezuela in the midst of their devastating ongoing political, economic and humanitarian crisis.

Published
16 February 2019
From
GNP+
Government, leadership and policy
Trump’s goal to eradicate the HIV epidemic in the United States is achievable — yet remote

The president’s pledge rings hollow without a major shift in policy and rhetoric.

Published
12 February 2019
From
Nature (editorial)
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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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