New dawn in TB prevention therapy
After decades of relying on isoniazid-based TB preventive therapy as the best option for TB prevention, a number of new regimens have done well in clinical trials and at least some of them will soon be rolled out.
UNAIDS denies shut-down discussions, but refuses to answer specific questions
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…
AIDS2018: WHO recommends dolutegravir widely but women’s access will depend on contraception provision
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…
AIDS2018: What has happened to AIDS activism? Views from eight leading activists
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…
AIDS2018: The future of AIDS activism: If we don’t join the dots we are dead
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…
AIDS2018: UNAIDS LEAKS! Will Amsterdam Be UNAIDS’ Last Stand?
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…
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 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,…
AIDS2018: Reduction in price of bedaquiline welcome, but is it enough?
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…
AIDS2018: Delegates walk out on Sidibe
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…
AIDS2018: G23 women draw a line in the sand
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…
AIDS2018: Humans in the Age of HIV-There was no one who came to visit them at their homes
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…
AIDS2018: Time to make AIDS political again
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…