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01/12/2017

Europe's HIV epidemic growing at alarming rate, WHO warns

Reuters - "The number of people newly diagnosed with HIV in Europe reached its highest level in 2016 since records began, showing the region’s epidemic growing “at an alarming pace”, health officials said on Tuesday.

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30/11/2017

The Right to Health Is Universal

Project Syndicate - "On this year's World AIDS Day, millions of people with HIV still do not have access to life-saving treatment, while millions more do not even know that they have the disease. This is a grave injustice, and it speaks to an even larger problem around the world: health is not being afforded the protection it deserves as a fundamental human right. (by Michel Sidibé & Dainius Puras)

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30/11/2017

UNAIDS announces nearly 21 million people living with HIV now on treatment

UNAIDS - CAPE TOWN/GENEVA, 20 November 2017: "Remarkable progress is being made on HIV treatment. Ahead of World AIDS Day, UNAIDS has launched a new report showing that access to treatment has risen significantly. In 2000, just 685 000 people living with HIV had access to antiretroviral therapy.

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13/11/2017

UNAIDS launches 2017 World AIDS Day campaign—My Health, My Right

UNAIDS - "In the lead-up to World AIDS Day on 1 December, UNAIDS has launched this year’s World AIDS Day campaign. The campaign, My Health, My Right, focuses on the right to health and explores the challenges people around the world face in exercising their rights.

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25/11/2017

Alliance launches READY to Decide campaign

www.aidsalliance.org - "Thousands of girls and young women in sub-Saharan Africa are contracting HIV because they’re not able to choose what happens to their bodies. What happens to a girl’s body needs to be when she is ready to decide.

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25/11/2017

Offline: Who is Peter Sands?

The Lancet - "The appointment of a new Executive Director to lead the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria was not a tidy process. The first attempt to find a successor to Mark Dybul ended in ignominious failure, with questions raised, variously, about the moral probity and conflicts of interest of several prominent candidates. The Global Fund Board tried again.

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25/11/2017

Time for a GIPA refresh

International AIDS Society - "Perhaps the single most important characteristic of the AIDS response – one that holds lessons about efforts to address other health challenges – is the central contribution of people living with HIV and those in the communities who have borne the brunt of HIV, including LGBTI people, sex workers, and people who use drugs. For no other health problem has the involvement of affected individuals played so vital a role.

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23/11/2017

Repressive Drug Policies Fuel Overdoses in Estonia – An Interview with Mart Kalvet

Drug reporter - Estonia is a country hit hard by the opioid overdose epidemic. People struggling with overdoses in other countries can learn a lot from the Estonian example about what works and what does not work in preventing deaths and suffering. We interviewed Mart Kalvet, an activist representing LUNEST, the Estonian organisation of people who use drugs.

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