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HIV prevention, treatment and care
A Quarter for Prevention?
The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria is a major financier of national HIV responses and a vital source of prevention investments. By 2015, the Global Fund supported 3.6 million pregnant women to receive ARV prophylaxis to prevent transmission to their unborn children and distributed 5.3 billion condoms.… Read more
ICASO and INA endorse U=U Consensus Statement
20 January 2017
Tirau, New Zealand; Toronto, Canada
ICASO (International Council of AIDS Service Organizations) and INA (Māori, Indigenous & South Pacific) HIV/AIDS Foundation strongly endorse the Undetectable = Untransmittable (U = U) Consensus Statement issued by the Prevention Access Campaign.… Read more
Collaborative Canadian Study on HIV, Housing and Health Wins 2016 Robert Carr Research Award
A ground-breaking, community-based Canadian study exploring the relationship between housing and health for people living with HIV has been honoured with the second Robert Carr Research Award. Positive Spaces Healthy Places: HIV, Housing and Health Research in Action – a 10-year longitudinal study – documented the impact of housing on both the physical and mental health-related quality of life for people living with HIV. … Read more
Sex work, violence and HIV in Asia
An interview with Aarthi Pai, Laxmi Murthy and Meena Saraswathi Seshu, Centre for
Advocacy on Stigma and Marginalization (CASAM)
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Stories of Stigma, Stories of Hope
Across the world, governments are scaling up national programs to prevent vertical transmission.The aim of the scale up is to meet the Global Plan targets to eliminate new infections in children by 2015 and keep their mothers alive. However, systemic barriers that prevent women living with HIV from accessing reproductive and maternal health services or adhering to drug and feeding regimens still pose the biggest threat to efforts to end vertical transmission, and may lead them to drop out of prevention of vertical transmission programs in spite of the science and tools to bring about success.… Read more