Until then we need to get effective, accessible treatment for all who need it, while deploying the many prevention tools at our disposal.
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TB outside the lungs accounted for 14% of TB cases recorded globally in 2017.
Community-based HIV programmes helps improve access to health care.
Headlines around the world declared that a second person was cured of their HIV. But while the results are encouraging, we're a long way from a cure.
The White House will expand a law that cuts funding to abortion providers abroad. When the Bush-era 'global gag rule' was last in effect, abortion rates tripled in Latin America and doubled in Africa.
In the film, the real tensions of gay life in the 1980s – from government apathy towards the AIDS crisis, to rampant anti-gay prejudice – don't get their due.
The global cancer burden especially in developing countries is exacerbated by the high cost of treatment.
Female-centred health services are good, but they may detract from gender equality and men’s health.
STI prevention was largely driven by HIV prevention. With changes in HIV prevention initiatives that don't really take into account other STIs, there's need to refocus STI prevention.
At the turn of the century, the greatest threats were posed by infectious diseases today, the biggest threats are posed by lifestyle diseases.
Gene sequences can be manipulated to prevent certain diseases and improve public health.
Eradicating a virus from the community requires everyone to have access to prevention, as is the case with tuberculosis. So why not HIV?
Data suggest that people are living many years in poor health in Africa.
The Trump administration has banned NIH researchers from using fetal tissue. The tissue is an essential tool for scientists investigating diseases ranging from Alzheimer's to Zika virus infections.
Taking the HIV self-test gave nurses valuable insights into what their patients go through.
Knowing your HIV status is key to accessing life-saving treatment or evaluating the best prevention options.
HIV negative children born to women with HIV have a greater risk of dying before their first birthday.
A liver transplant from an HIV-positive living donor to an HIV-negative recipient is possible, but there are still gaps in our knowledge.
Access to HIV testing is an important factor in reaching UN goals that 90% of people with HIV must know their status by 2020.
The world seemed to be inching forward with CRISPR gene editing technology – but suddenly the forbidden fruit has been plucked, and some even worry that the CRISPR tree has been cut down.
Top contributors
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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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Senior Research Fellow at the Australian Research Centre in Sex, Health and Society, La Trobe University
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Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Kirby Institute, UNSW
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Research Professor, Perinatal HIV Research Unit and President, South African Medical Research Council
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Associate Professor, Monash University
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Scientia Professor of Medicine and Director, Kirby Institute, UNSW
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Associate Professor and Head of the Surveillance and Evaluation Program for Public Health at the Kirby Institute, UNSW
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Professor and Director of the Centre for Social Research in Health, UNSW
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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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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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Trevor Cullen is a Friend of The Conversation.
Associate Professor & Head of Journalism, Edith Cowan University
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Emeritus Consultant, St Vincent's Hospital, Darlinghurst
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Senior Research Fellow, Monash University
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Senior Lecturer in Medicine and Specialist Physician (Internal Medicine), UNSW
