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The US PEPFAR initiative has brought HIV medication to millions of people globally. Behind this progress are the activists that pressured politicians and companies to put patients over patents.
We need a combination of new approaches to reduce age disparate sex. And we need new technologies to protect young women.
The next step in HIV prevention — long-acting injectable pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) — is not yet available in Canada, a year after its approval in the U.S.
Prejudice and stigma can discourage the communities most affected by infectious diseases from seeking care. Inclusive public health messaging can prevent misinformation and guide the most vulnerable.
Intensified efforts to obtain funding are urgently required to mitigate and reverse the negative impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on TB.
South Africans would rather see efforts go into tackling other challenges – but climate change will intensify those challenges.
Dec. 1 marks World AIDS Day. Canada has the tools and means to end the epidemic. The question remains, are we up to the task?
Some vulnerable populations may have fallen through the cracks despite efforts to improve access to HIV services during the pandemic in Nigeria.
The individual stories of migrant women are essential in understanding if HIV healthcare strategies and programmes are working.
The benefit of an injectable product is that it avoids the adherence issues related to taking a pill daily.
Outpatient visits, screening and diagnostic services, and child immunisation were particularly negatively affected.
When antiretroviral therapy is working effectively, HIV cannot be transmitted. This allows people with HIV to live fuller lives without the fear of infecting others.
Antiretroviral therapies for HIV, while extremely effective, need to be taken daily for life. Designing antibody treatments that need to be taken only once could improve compliance and reduce drug resistance.
African media also emphasise the west as superior and Africa as inferior.
Patients with low HIV viral loads are just as likely to harbour HIV variants with drug resistance mutations as those with high viral loads.
The future is bleak for Zimbabwe’s healthcare unless there are serious long-term reforms to build resilience.
The continuing precarity and vulnerability to violence has long term consequences for these women’s health and well-being.
Monkeypox is not considered an STI but is spreading among sexual partners. Adding sexual health strategies to the public health response is helpful, but there is a danger of stigmatizing MPXV.
Countries have to weigh up the cost of vaccinating everybody versus the cost of treating the disease.
Top contributors
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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, 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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Research Professor, Perinatal HIV Research Unit and President, South African Medical Research Council
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Senior Research Fellow, Kirby Institute, UNSW Sydney
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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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Associate Professor, Monash University
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Ezintsha, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, University of the Witwatersrand
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Honorary Research Associate, Centre for Infectious Disease Epidemiology and Research, University of Cape Town
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Scientia Professor of Medicine and Director, Kirby Institute, UNSW Sydney
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Associate Professor and Head of the Surveillance and Evaluation Program for Public Health at the Kirby Institute, UNSW Sydney
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Professor and Director of the Centre for Social Research in Health, UNSW Sydney
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Senior Lecturer in History of Modern and Contemporary Art and Visual Culture, University of Exeter
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Assistant Professor of Nursing, Case Western Reserve University
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Associate research scientist, African Population and Health Research Center
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Dean Faculty of Health Sciences and Professor of Vaccinology at University of the Witwatersrand; and Director of the SAMRC Vaccines and Infectious Diseases Analytics Research Unit, University of the Witwatersrand
