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For the next five years South Africa will be leading one of the latest large-scale trials for a vaccine for HIV.
The focus of the 2016 International AIDS Conference has on access to necessary antiretrovirals, equity and making sure no-one is left behind. But there is a funding gap that needs to be addressed.
Efficacy is estimated to be as high as 99% in men who have sex with men who take Truvada daily.
If the vaginal ring becomes available for commercial use it will become one of the tools in the HIV prevention toolbox for women alongside female condoms and daily pre-exposure prophylaxis.
South Africa’s programmes preventing HIV transmission from mothers to children have been hugely successful. But there are still gaps that need to be filled.
Although men make up two-thirds of HIV-related deaths, there are not enough services geared towards helping them.
Thanks to treatment advances, people with HIV can and do live long and full lives. And that has led to a challenge that doctors and patients may not have imagined 35 years ago: the aging HIV patient.
With nearly one-fifth of the globe’s HIV positive population, South Africa has the largest anti-retroviral program in the world. But HIV prevention still presents a big challenge for the country.
Used properly and consistently, condoms are the most effective, affordable, and low-tech way to prevent HIV. But unfortunately, condoms are not an easy option for everyone – particularly women.
A pill a day can prevent HIV, but there’s no guarantee Australians will get access to this intervention anytime soon.
New York’s achievements have provided a beacon of hope as well as a road map that has been successfully tailored to the needs of resource-poor settings throughout the world.
PrEP drugs to prevent people contracting HIV mustn’t disrupt existing sexual health strategies.
This study appears to be the first causal evidence that formal education and reduced HIV infection rates go hand in hand.
Indonesia’s war on drugs aims to protect the country’s young generation from an alleged “national drug emergency.” But the government’s coercive approach is harming the people it wishes to protect.
Starting HIV treatment early, before immune damage occurs, brings real clinical benefits, a new study has shown.
South Africa’s maternal mortality rate rose dramatically after 1998, almost doubling to 302 deaths per 100,000 live births by 2009.
Officials in Indiana would have served the population better if syringe exchanges had been in place before the upsurge in HIV cases began.
A new pill available could enable people living with HIV to conceive children through sex without risking the health of their HIV-negative partner.
* This is the first in an occasional series of articles on must-read, indispensible papers in public health. Forty-one years ago when I started working in public health, there was a parable someone would…
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Professor of medicine and deputy director of the Desmond Tutu HIV Centre at the Institute of Infectious Disease and Molecular Medicine, University of Cape Town
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Senior Research Fellow, Kirby Institute, UNSW Sydney
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Associate Professor and Director: Research at the Wits Reproductive Health and HIV Institute I, University of the Witwatersrand
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Associate Professor and Principal Research Fellow at the Australian Research Centre in Sex, Health and Society, La Trobe University
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Director of Implementation Science, Wits Reproductive Health & HIV Institute, University of the Witwatersrand
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Ezintsha, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, University of the Witwatersrand
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Lecturer in Virology, University of Surrey
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Medical Doctor, Epidemiologist and Biostatistician, University of the Witwatersrand
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Director, The Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity, The University of Melbourne and Royal Melbourne Hospital and Consultant Physician, Department of Infectious Diseases, Alfred Hospital and Monash University, The Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity
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Professor of Pediatrics and Public Health; Public Voices Fellow, Columbia University
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Director, Maternal and Infant Health Care Strategy Extramural Unit, SAMRC, University of Pretoria
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Doctoral student in Global Health, Harvard University
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Assistant Professor of Global Health, Boston University
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Chancellor's Fellow, Usher Institute of Population Health Sciences and Informatics, The University of Edinburgh
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Associate Professor of Psychology, Indiana University
