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Trans Woman With HIV Dies During Release From ICE Custody After Being Denied Meds

An HIV-positive trans woman asylum seeker from El Salvador died during the process of being released from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) custody on June 1 after being denied HIV medication, ThinkProgress reports. She was 25 years old.

Published
05 June 2019
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The Body
Money, benefits and housing
Rapid rehousing support for homeless people living with HIV improves housing and HIV outcomes

Homeless people with HIV who are provided with rapid rehousing and intensive, tailored case management are placed in stable housing more quickly and are twice as likely to

Published
17 May 2019
By
Michael Carter
Migrants, refugees and displaced people
Autopsy: Migrant detainee died from AIDS complications

A Honduran transgender migrant, whose 2018 death while in the custody of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement sparked protests and calls for an investigation, died of a rare disorder that developed quickly due to AIDS, according to an autopsy released Tuesday.

Published
10 April 2019
From
San Francisco Chronicle
Migrants, refugees and displaced people
HIV and immigration detention staff must jointly ensure good care in immigration removal centres

NAT and HIV clinicians at BHIVA have produced new guidance (last published in 2009) that supports staff in Immigration Removal Centres (IRCs) and local HIV services to deliver good care. This follows a report published yesterday, by the Home Affairs Select Committee, that raised grave concerns about access to healthcare for people held in IRCs.

Published
22 March 2019
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NAT
Delivery of care
EACS takes steps towards a common, auditable European standard of care

The purpose of the European AIDS Clinical Society's (EACS) meeting in January in Bucharest, Romania was to devise consistent, auditable standards of care for HIV, co-infection and

Published
11 March 2019
By
Gus Cairns
Behaviour change interventions
Innovative HIV prevention projects reached 170,000 people in 2018

Projects working towards preventing HIV across England, which were funded by the Public Health England (PHE) HIV Innovation Fund, reached around 170,000 people at-risk of, or living with HIV - as well as the general public in 2017 to 2018.

Published
28 February 2019
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Public Health England
Access to medicines and treatment
Tackling HIV and hepatitis C in Europe: towards minimum standards

Despite the huge disparities in care that were highlighted, last week's Standard of Care for HIV and Coinfections in Europe meeting in Bucharest featured discussions that could form

Published
08 February 2019
By
Gus Cairns
Hepatitis C treatment
Hepatitis C Fight Hinges on Prisons

Lawsuits across the country are seeking better but more expensive care for inmates with the infectious disease, who can spread it upon their release.

Published
05 February 2019
From
U.S. News & World Report
Prisoners
Prisoners with HIV Face Higher Mortality Risk from All Causes After Release

People with HIV face a higher risk of death from all causes when they leave prison than members of the general public, a study that tracked 1350 former prisoners shows.

Published
29 November 2018
From
MD Magazine
Prisoners
Recent incarceration increases HIV and hepatitis C risk for people who inject drugs

People who inject drugs (PWID) recently released from prison or jail have a substantially increased risk of acquiring infection with HIV or hepatitis C virus (HCV), according

Published
12 November 2018
By
Michael Carter
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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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