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Jun 28, 2015

World must drastically accelerate AIDS efforts or face more HIV infections and deaths than five years ago—says UNAIDS and Lancet Commission

UNAIDS–Lancet Commission, London, 25 Juni 2015 - Countries most affected by HIV must focus on stopping new HIV infections and expanding access to antiretroviral treatment or risk the epidemic rebounding, urges a major new report from the UNAIDS and Lancet Commission.

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Jun 26, 2015

New British guidelines recommend treatment for everyone with HIV

aidsmap.com, June 2015 - Everyone with HIV who is prepared to take antiretroviral treatment should receive it, regardless of CD4 cell count, new draft British HIV Association (BHIVA) treatment guidelines recommend.

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Jun 23, 2015

Empower young women and adolescent girls: Fast-Track the end of the AIDS epidemic in Africa

UNAIDS, June 2015 - Fast-tracking the end of the AIDS epidemic by 2030 requires strong political leadership and commitment to stop new infections and deaths among young women and adolescent girls and eliminate mother to child transmission of HIV.

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Jun 03, 2015

Funders' priorities and targets hindered community mobilisation and meaningful participation of sex workers in India

aidsmap.com, Juni 2015 - "Two qualitative studies, investigating the implementation of a massive programme of HIV prevention through community mobilisation in India, have identified challenges to the rapid scale-up and roll-out of a programme in which grassroots action was meant to be central.

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Jun 02, 2015

Harm reduction for people who inject drugs in New York has worked, but hasn’t reduced racial inequality

aidsmap.com, May 2015 - "Needle and syringe exchange and opiate substitution therapy in New York City has worked in reducing HIV infection in people who inject drugs (PWIDs) to the extent of almost abolishing HIV infection in white people who inject drugs, a recent study published in PLOS One shows.

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May 30, 2015

Acute HIV infection may present in many ways – sometimes as a serious illness

aidsmap.com, May 2015 - "A Swiss study of people who were diagnosed during early HIV infection has found that a quarter of them presented or developed a wide variety of non-typical early symptoms of HIV infection, many of them serious and a few life-threatening.

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