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UNAIDS denies shut-down discussions, but refuses to answer specific questions

UNAIDS denies shut-down discussions, but refuses to answer specific questions

By Spotlight, July 26, 2018
Posted in: Latest

Spotlight published an opinion piece this week with leaked information about UNAIDS Executive Director Michel Sidibe’s correspondence with McKinsey and Company and senior UN leaders. The piece by AIDS-Free World…

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UNAIDS denies shut-down discussions, but refuses to answer specific questions
AIDS2018: WHO recommends dolutegravir widely but women’s access will depend on contraception provision

AIDS2018: WHO recommends dolutegravir widely but women’s access will depend on contraception provision

By Spotlight, July 26, 2018
Posted in: Latest

WHO launched new interim guidance on HIV treatment at AIDS 2018 recommending dolutegravir (DTG) for everyone aged six years and above. [1, 2] But access to DTG for women and adolescent…

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AIDS2018: WHO recommends dolutegravir widely but women’s access will depend on contraception provision
AIDS2018: What has happened to AIDS activism? Views from eight leading activists

AIDS2018: What has happened to AIDS activism? Views from eight leading activists

By Spotlight, July 25, 2018
Posted in: Latest

There is a perception that AIDS activism is largely dead, that the AIDS activists have “retired”. There is a narrative and belief among some that there is a serious and…

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AIDS2018: What has happened to AIDS activism? Views from eight leading activists
AIDS2018: The future of AIDS activism: If we don’t join the dots we are dead

AIDS2018: The future of AIDS activism: If we don’t join the dots we are dead

By Spotlight, July 25, 2018
Posted in: Latest

For over 30 years activism has been the engine that has driven almost every advance in our response to the AIDS epidemic. Mark Heywood assesses the state of activism in…

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AIDS2018: The future of AIDS activism: If we don’t join the dots we are dead
AIDS2018: UNAIDS LEAKS! Will Amsterdam Be UNAIDS’ Last Stand?

AIDS2018: UNAIDS LEAKS! Will Amsterdam Be UNAIDS’ Last Stand?

By Spotlight, July 24, 2018
Posted in: AIDS2018, HIV/AIDS, Latest

According to leaked information about UNAIDS Executive Director Michel Sidibe's correspondence with McKinsey and Company, 2018 will mark the beginning of the end of UNAIDS: the embattled leader has hatched…

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AIDS2018: UNAIDS LEAKS! Will Amsterdam Be UNAIDS’ Last Stand?
AIDS2018 Breaking News: Zero HIV transmissions in PARTNER study after gay couples had sex 77,000 times without condoms – an undetectable viral load stops HIV

AIDS2018 Breaking News: Zero HIV transmissions in PARTNER study after gay couples had sex 77,000 times without condoms – an undetectable viral load stops HIV

By Spotlight, July 24, 2018
Posted in: AIDS2018, HIV/AIDS

By Simon Collins, HIV i-Base On Tuesday 24 July, the results from the extension to the PARTNER study were presented by Alison Rodger at a press conference at AIDS 2018,…

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AIDS2018 Breaking News: Zero HIV transmissions in PARTNER study after gay couples had sex 77,000 times without condoms – an undetectable viral load stops HIV
AIDS2018: Reduction in price of bedaquiline welcome, but is it enough?

AIDS2018: Reduction in price of bedaquiline welcome, but is it enough?

By Marcus Low, July 24, 2018
Posted in: Access to Medicines, AIDS2018, HIV/AIDS

This week the price of bedaquiline in the public sector in South Africa was cut in half. What does this mean for the increased uptake of this critically important TB…

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AIDS2018: Reduction in price of bedaquiline welcome, but is it enough?
AIDS2018: Delegates walk out on Sidibe

AIDS2018: Delegates walk out on Sidibe

By Spotlight, July 24, 2018
Posted in: AIDS2018, HIV/AIDS, LGBTI

Hundreds of delegates walked out of the opening of the International AIDS Conference in Amsterdam last night in protest when UNAIDS Executive Director Michel Sidibe took the stage.  By Kerry…

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AIDS2018: Delegates walk out on Sidibe
AIDS2018: G23 women draw a line in the sand

AIDS2018: G23 women draw a line in the sand

By Marcus Low, July 24, 2018
Posted in: AIDS2018, HIV/AIDS, Reproductive Health

This is a statement read out by the group of 23 women as Michel Sidibe took to the stage at the opening plenary. “…a political struggle that does not have…

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AIDS2018: G23 women draw a line in the sand
AIDS2018: Humans in the Age of HIV-There was no one who came to visit them at their homes

AIDS2018: Humans in the Age of HIV-There was no one who came to visit them at their homes

By Spotlight, July 24, 2018
Posted in: AIDS2018, Men's Health

By Ngqabutho Mpofu Ronnie came out in the early 1980s, telling his friends and sister that he was [caption id="attachment_6571" align="alignright" width="300"] Ronnie. Pic by Joyrene Kramer[/caption] homosexual. This was…

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AIDS2018: Humans in the Age of HIV-There was no one who came to visit them at their homes
AIDS2018: Time to make AIDS political again

AIDS2018: Time to make AIDS political again

By Spotlight, July 24, 2018
Posted in: Access to Medicines, AIDS2018, HIV/AIDS, LGBTI

By Anele Yawa Two years ago, we welcomed the world to the International AIDS Conference [caption id="attachment_6568" align="alignright" width="300"] Anele Yawa at the Durban2016 march[/caption] in Durban, South Africa. At…

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AIDS2018: Time to make AIDS political again
AIDS2018: Tangerine, a Thai transgender programme that works

AIDS2018: Tangerine, a Thai transgender programme that works

By Spotlight, July 24, 2018
Posted in: AIDS2018, HIV/AIDS, Reproductive Health

Almost everyone in the HIV world is talking about providing services to key populations – a ground-breaking project in Thailand is providing an example of how to go about it.…

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