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DIY tests for HIV beat stigma in Zimbabwe's fight against AIDS

Under an initiative launched in 2016, the kits are sold for $3 to $5 in pharmacies and are free at public health centres as part of a drive to ensure 90 percent of Zimbabweans know their HIV status by 2020 and receive treatment quickly if needed.

Published
06 August 2018
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Reuters
Behaviour change interventions
Digital innovations are promoting HIV testing and prevention to MSM in Asia

Innovative health promotion interventions engaging men who have sex with men (MSM) in south east Asia through social media, apps, online marketing, video tools and phone services

Published
30 July 2018
By
Roger Pebody
Achieving the 90-90-90 target
HIV elimination in gay men: what is working?

Substantial decreases in HIV diagnoses in key cities show the way to elimination of new HIV diagnoses in gay men, a workshop at the 22nd International AIDS

Published
26 July 2018
By
Lisa Power
Undetectable viral load and treatment as prevention
Test and treat studies show high rates of HIV diagnosis, viral suppression

Two large studies of community-based universal test and treat campaigns to promote HIV diagnosis, treatment and prevention, presented at the 22nd International AIDS Conference (AIDS 2018) in

Published
25 July 2018
By
Keith Alcorn
Retention and linkage to care
Universal test and treat greatly improves retention in care

People who started HIV treatment in Swaziland under a universal test and treat policy were seven times more likely to still be in care and to have

Published
25 July 2018
By
Keith Alcorn
HIV testing programmes
High uptake of HIV testing when self-tests are offered to outpatients in Malawi

Most models of HIV self-test distribution are based on community settings, but providing self-tests to outpatients at health facilities is a promising strategy, Kathryn Dovel of Partners

Published
25 July 2018
By
Roger Pebody
HIV testing programmes
Prince Harry joins Elton John to launch HIV campaign targeting men

The billion-dollar project “MenStar” will target men living with or at risk of HIV in sub-Saharan Africa, which has been ravaged by AIDS since the 1980s.

Published
25 July 2018
From
Reuters
Achieving the 90-90-90 target
Rapid treatment initiation and less time with detectable HIV linked to falls in new HIV diagnoses in San Francisco and Melbourne

More rapid initiation of treatment after diagnosis – and the shortening of the period with detectable viral load – has coincided with substantial declines in new HIV

Published
24 July 2018
By
Keith Alcorn
Epidemiology and behaviour
HIV is not the only risk – using condoms or getting tested can pose risks to trust and relationships

Perceptions of risk are crucial in explaining why people do or do not make use of HIV-prevention interventions. But considerations of risk need to go

Published
06 July 2018
By
Roger Pebody
HIV testing policies and guidelines
Many high-risk patients report not being tested for HIV at clinical visit

Despite CDC guidance that high-risk individuals be tested for HIV at least annually, about half of men who have sex with men and people who inject drugs in the United States who were unaware of their HIV infection reported not being offered testing in the past year even though they had visited a clinician, according data published today in JAMA.

Published
02 July 2018
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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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