Beginning to End the AIDS Epidemic: What’s the Research Agenda?
Capitol Hill briefing highlights research agenda to end AIDS The following is a guest blog post by Chris Collins, vice president and director of Public Policy at the Foundation for AIDS Research...
View ArticleWHO’s HIV/TB update latest move toward treatment as prevention
The potential for antiretroviral medicine to reduce transmission of HIV and tuberculosis has been demonstrated, but the challenges of using treatment to prevent infection will need to be tackled...
View ArticleAnalysis looks at fiscal savings, human toll
Unless Congress finds ways to lower the federal deficit by $1.2 trillion in the next five months, the law passed last year mandating across-the-board cuts to nearly all budget items will reduce...
View ArticleThe potential of HIV Treatment as Prevention among drug users
Of the nearly 16 million injection drug users worldwide, approximately 3 million are living with HIV. And if sub-Saharan Africa is excluded, thirty percent of global HIV cases are attributed to...
View ArticleSubsequent HPTN 052 data shows early HIV treatment is even more beneficial to...
The good news keeps getting better for the HIV Prevention Trials Network (HPTN) 052 study, which found last year that HIV-infected persons on antiretroviral therapy (ART) were 96 percent less likely to...
View ArticleWHO documents summarize current guidelines, progress, next steps, and pitfalls
Remember when one of the objections to rolling out life-saving treatment to people living with HIV in developing countries was that lack of capacity to maintain treatment would lead to drug resistance...
View ArticleHIV’s impact on men who have sex with men “can no longer be ignored”
More than 30 years into the epidemic that was first documented among gay men in America, a disturbing trend is being noted globally: Where rates of new HIV infections are going down among other...
View ArticleThai trial yield continues with news vaccine changed virus
The vaccine that showed a vaccine can prevent HIV infection also has shown that the vaccine changed the virus in people who did become infected, according to research revealed today in the first...
View ArticleStudy: Universal testing and treatment in sub-Saharan Africa would pay off in...
In April 2000, an education professor at the University of Zambia sized up the still growing impact of the HIV epidemic in sub-Saharan Africa and wrote: “Notwithstanding the catastrophic effects that...
View ArticleStudies show “Real World,” benefits of HIV treatment: It reduces likelihood...
First the landmark HPTN 052 study proved what antiretroviral treatment can do to prevent transmission of HIV. Now, two studies reported in the most recent edition of the journal Science spell out what...
View ArticleBreaking News: House committee approves 2013 funding for PEPFAR, Global Fund,...
The House Appropriations Committee voted on its fiscal year (FY) 2013 State and Foreign Operations Appropriations bill Wednesday and released a report that clarifies its funding intentions for key...
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