Health Care Professionals News

[From UNAIDS, June 27, 2019] “GENEVA, 27 June 2019—UNAIDS and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) are urging countries to keep the promises made in the 2016 United Nations Political Declaration on Ending AIDS to remove all forms of HIV-related travel restrictions. Travel restrictions based on real or perceived HIV status are discriminatory, prevent people […]

[From Advocate, June 20, 2019] “U.S. Sen. Kamala Harris is introducing a bill to guarantee insurance coverage of drugs used in pre-exposure prophylaxis, a strategy to prevent transmission of HIV, she announced today.” For more, click here.

[From CBS San Francisco, June 20, 2019] “For San Francisco’s LBGTQ community and their family, friends, and colleagues, Pride is a time to be proud about the hard-fought, grief-filled and tenacious march to equality. Part of the legacy includes the inspiring work of some very early AIDS activists, particularly one week in 1990 when they

[From aidsmap, June 20, 2019] “Despite impressive health system-related achievements in the prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV (PMTCT) in the last decade, Nigeria contributes the greatest number of infants infected with HIV worldwide. Elimination of mother-to-child transmission of HIV in Nigeria requires the implementation of feasible, culturally acceptable and sustainable interventions and policies addressing

[From aidsmap, June 19, 2019] “Drug-drug interactions are common in people over the age of 65 living with HIV and this substantially increases healthcare costs in France. Published in Open Forum Infectious Diseases, a new study has revealed that as many as 17% of ageing individuals had an identified drug-drug interaction, costing as much as