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  • The beginning of change: the 2010 CHIVA summer camp

    December 2010

    Following on from our issue looking at young people, in October, guest writer Bakita Kasadha talks to the organisers and participants in the UK’s summer camp for teenagers

    Information level Level 3

  • How HIV harms young brains

    October 2010

    HIV paediatrician Anton Tan and clinical psychologist Diane Melvin write about the challenges to development and maturity that HIV imposes on children.

    Information level Level 3

  • JD and Max tell their stories

    October 2010

    The geographical transition from paediatrics to adult care was minimal. In fact leaving the sixth floor of St Mary’s to go to their ground floor 900 Clinic

    Information level Level 3

  • Don’t forget SP: testing untested children

    October 2010

    ‘SP’ (not his real initials) was a ten-year-old boy who died of AIDS in a north London hospital in 2008. He was finally tested for HIV, and

    Information level Level 3

  • Coming of age

    October 2010

    Soon, the majority of children in the UK born with HIV will be young adults. Many already are. Gus Cairns talks to healthcare workers about helping

    Information level Level 3
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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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