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HIV in the arts and media
Looking Back at ‘Philadelphia,’ 25 Years Later

What would the breakthrough movie about the AIDS crisis look like if it were made today?

Published
04 January 2019
From
Smithsonian Magazine
Ageing and HIV
The Lisbon Patient: Meet the man living with HIV who's about to turn 100

Referred to in a soon-to-be published case study as “The Lisbon Patient,” Miguel -- which is not his real name -- is also the oldest documented person with HIV in the world.

Published
18 December 2018
From
CTV
UK health services
Public Health England warns that improved treatment and testing rates for STIs in the UK could be imperilled by cuts

A review of one hundred years of diagnoses of sexually transmitted infections (STIs) in the UK confirms that there have been sharp increases in gonorrhoea and syphilis

Published
18 December 2018
By
Gus Cairns
Government, leadership and policy
China’s history with AIDS explains a puzzling aspect of the ‘CRISPR babies’ story

The first time I met someone in China dying from complications of AIDS, he had never heard of the illness that had already killed thousands of his fellow citizens. That ignorance among sufferers, in parts of the country where people were most likely to have it, reflected China’s unique and complex history with AIDS, one that involved a litany of scandals and government cover-ups that have left a lasting imprint of stigma and fear about HIV and AIDS — and discrimination.

Published
17 December 2018
From
STAT
Activism
George H. W. Bush’s Presidency Erased People with AIDS. So Did the Tributes to Him

The essential demand of AIDS activism was that the war be seen. Visibility is the starting point of politics. Unlike other disenfranchised groups, gay men with AIDS, many of whom were white and not poor and had been closeted, had experienced the shock of elision. George H. W. Bush consistently refused to see them.

Published
10 December 2018
From
New Yorker
Activism
Tribute to Treatment Action Campaign at 20!

The Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) turns 20 today – International Human Rights Day – and our history would be much poorer without them.

Published
10 December 2018
From
Health-e
Government, leadership and policy
George H.W. Bush Is Not Fondly Remembered by AIDS Activists

If you don’t know why, then watch this 1992 video of ACT UP’s Ashes Action outside the White House.

Published
07 December 2018
From
Poz
History of HIV and AIDS
'He Did Not Lead on AIDS': With Bush, Activists See a Mixed Legacy

The death of George Bush on the eve of World AIDS Day was a painful reminder of some of the most lethal days of the epidemic, when people — predominantly gay and bisexual — were struck down by an illness that few in the White House seemed to lose sleep over.

Published
05 December 2018
From
New York Times
HIV in the arts and media
Loss and Bravery: Intimate Snapshots From the First Decade of the AIDS Crisis

We asked three New York Times photographers and one reporter who covered the AIDS crisis as the epidemic escalated to reflect on how they navigated what was then an unknown and terrifying world.

Published
02 December 2018
From
New York Times
The search for an HIV prevention vaccine
Needles in a haystack: the quest for bnAbs

HIV induces antibody responses in infected individuals, but only a few of these individuals manage to produce antibodies that are capable of viral neutralization—and even fewer produce antibodies that can neutralize different strains of HIV.

Published
01 December 2018
From
Nature
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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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