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The search for a cure
Fifty years of HIV: how close are we to a cure?

It’s half a century since the first known HIV-related death and two patients appear to have been cured of the virus. What does this mean for the 37 million still living with it?

Published
03 July 2019
From
The Guardian
Cancer
Rising Above: People living with HIV are also facing cancer as they age

As a long-term survivor living with HIV, Sean McKenna has faced numerous battles, including two episodes of skin cancer and several bouts of anal precancer. Jill Cadman, another long-timer, is living with HIV and Stage IV colon cancer. And they are not alone.

Published
02 July 2019
From
POZ
Confidentiality, consent and medical ethics
Scottish HIV patient suing NHS after being ‘outed’ as email blunder identifies dozens with the illness

A DISTRAUGHT HIV patient is to sue NHS Highland after he was "outed" in an email blunder. The Inverness-shire man who is in his 40s was left "shell-shocked and physically sick" after his details were shared.

Published
01 July 2019
From
Scottish Sun
Global health initiatives
Who should be the new head of UNAIDS?

We have asked various experts and members of the AIDS community from around the world about their views on the five candidates. We have by no means conducted a scientific survey, but we have at least some sense of sentiment in the AIDS community.

Published
01 July 2019
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Spotlight
Global health initiatives
Five candidates in the running to head UNAIDS after Sidibé

A shortlist of five candidates—including four people from Africa—are in the race to become Executive Director of the UN agency. Behind the scenes, lobbying is expected to intensify, including from the global AIDS community, donor countries, and countries with a high prevalence of people living with HIV, senior UN officials and ambassadors told The Lancet.

Published
01 July 2019
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The Lancet (free registration required)
Men who have sex with men (MSM)
In Haiti, gay men infected with HIV are targets of discrimination

Despite many public health interventions in the region, people in Haiti that are infected with HIV are vulnerable to stigmatisation, particularly sexual minorities. The latter suffer considerable ostracism, which prevents access to care.

Published
01 July 2019
From
The Conversation
Travel
UNAIDS and UNDP call on 48* countries and territories to remove all HIV-related travel restrictions

New data show that in 2019 around 48* countries and territories still have restrictions that include mandatory HIV testing and disclosure as part of requirements for entry, residence, work and/or study permits.

Published
01 July 2019
From
UNAIDS
History of HIV and AIDS
How a Dying Ryan White United Washington on the AIDS Crisis

In the late ’80s, getting Congress or the White House to fund anything having to do with AIDS was a non-starter. Advocates needed a miracle. And they got one.

Published
01 July 2019
From
Daily Beast
HIV and criminal law
Working to end the criminalization of HIV in Canada

On June 14, I travelled to Toronto to meet with leading activists, researchers and experts working to end the criminalization of HIV in Canada for the 8th Symposium on HIV, Law and Human Rights. Organized by the Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network, the annual forum for the past few years has focused solely on advocacy to end Canada’s position as a global leader in the criminalization of people living with HIV for alleged non-disclosure, exposure and transmission.

Published
26 June 2019
From
CATIE
Experiences of stigma
Facing discrimination and ignorance, Hongkongers living with HIV want better education to debunk myths on disease

HIV-positive people in the city say they have encountered hostility in hospitals and in society. Activists urge government to give more support to education programmes and help destigmatise those with the disease.

Published
25 June 2019
From
South China Morning Post
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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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