WHO releases 2015 Consolidated Guidelines on HIV Testing Services with 5 Cs: Consent Confidentiality, Counselling, Correct Results and Connection VANCOUVER, Canada – It is lost on no one here that history in the fight against AIDS was made in this city once before, nearly two decades ago with the announcement that a combination of three […]
VANCOUVER, Canada – A call for all countries to change policies, move resources, and lead efforts to provide antiretroviral drugs to treat all people living with HIV and to prevent transmission of the virus including through prophylactic use has been signed by heads of the worlds largest donor AIDS programs, the leader of UNAIDS, and […]
VANCOUVER, Canada – Treatment eligibility for everyone diagnosed with HIV without a wait for the virus to damage their immune systems, the option of treatment initiation for all pregnant women with HIV, integration of new options for first line treatment were among changes that will be spelled out in the next World Health Organization guidelines for HIV treatment […]
HIV
The science is clear, HIV criminalization is abusive, discriminatory and counterproductive – The destructiveness of HIV-specific laws that fueled stigma and discouraged diagnosis by criminalizing people […]
Tuberculosis
THE HAGUE, Netherlands – New results from the ongoing Nix-TB trial continue to confirm a short-course treatment regimen of bedaquiline – one of the two newest […]
Research & Development
A trial to test the safety of, and immune response prompted by, the latest candidate for a vaccine to protect against Zika virus infection has begun […]
Policy
So many lessons are offered in a recent communication from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention about antibiotic-resistant infections among patients returning to the […]