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African migrants
Deportation fears, uncertainty over health insurance and stigma are barriers to accessing HIV services for undocumented African migrants in the US

Qualitative research carried out with undocumented African migrants in New York City revealed that fears of discovery and deportation presented a substantial barrier to seeking out HIV

Published
19 July 2019
By
Krishen Samuel
HIV testing programmes
Less than 40% of adults in the USA have ever tested for HIV

Baseline HIV testing data reveals sub-optimal testing rates among those living in the most heavily burdened areas of the USA.

Published
08 July 2019
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Avert
HIV testing programmes
More support needed to increase HIV testing in GP practices

One-off training sessions for GPs are not enough to increase rates of HIV testing in general practice and greater support is needed, according to researchers.

Published
10 June 2019
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University of Bristol
Self-testing and home testing
Government is accused of 'not caring' about HIV after 'disgraceful' decision to deny people in England access to free self-testing kits

Public Health England last year offered firms the chance to sell their self-testing kits to the NHS, but later withdrew the offer completely. In a scathing attack on the move, the manufacturer of a type of testing kit branded it 'disgraceful', 'discriminatory' and 'small-minded'.

Published
10 June 2019
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Daily Mail
HIV testing programmes
Churches can help increase HIV testing in South African men

Religious leaders can play a critical role in reaching hard-to-reach groups with HIV testing, including men and first-time testers.

Published
21 May 2019
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Avert
African migrants
Rate of undiagnosed HIV remains high among black African heterosexuals in London

The rate of undiagnosed HIV infection among heterosexual black Africans living in London remains unacceptably high, according to research published in JAMA Network Open. Oral testing showed that over

Published
14 May 2019
By
Michael Carter
PrEP programmes and uptake
First year of PrEP in Scotland: more users than expected, few dropouts, few HIV infections

The recent report on the first year of the implementation of  pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) through the National Health Service (NHS) in Scotland concludes: “Year one has

Published
02 April 2019
By
Gus Cairns
HIV testing programmes
CROI 2019: Interventions raise men’s HIV testing rates

A financial incentive as small as a $3 voucher for food dramatically increases HIV testing in areas with high HIV infection rates but low rates of testing, researchers said here. In places where HIV testing and linkage to care among men remain low while new infections among women and deaths from HIV among men remain high, scaling up the use of such small incentives may be an effective tool in increasing the number of people who know their HIV status, Hae-Young Kim of the Africa Health Research Institute said.

Published
14 March 2019
From
Science Speaks
Self-testing and home testing
Self-testing helps the partners of people with HIV to test, but not to link to care

Asking people living with HIV in Malawi to pass on HIV self-testing kits to their sexual partners was an effective way to encourage partners to take a

Published
12 March 2019
By
Roger Pebody
Undetectable viral load and treatment as prevention
The length of time Americans with HIV remain infectious is falling, but slowly

In 2016, more than half of people with HIV in the United States took more than three years to be diagnosed, and more than five months after

Published
07 March 2019
By
Roger Pebody
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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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