The World Health Organization (WHO) and UNAIDS have released a joint statement on HIV testing services that reinforces two key principles that ensure a human rights-based and public health approach to HIV testing. The statement says that HIV testing, no matter how it is delivered, must always respect ...

When Canadian researchers asked HIV-positive people over the age of 50 how they would define “successful ageing”, six key themes emerged – accepting limitations, staying positive, maintaining social support, taking responsibility, living a healthy lifestyle, and engaging in meaningful activities. Writing in the International Journal of STD ...

America House Kyiv is pleased to announce a call for artists for an exhibit “B POSITIVE.” The “B POSITIVE” exhibit supports the 2017 “Positive Life” campaign organized by Small Heart with Art, in partnership with the East Europe & Central Asia Union of PWLH. This exhibit will ...

In Chisinau, at the annual coordination meeting of the Participants of the General Meeting of the ECUO, the priorities for advocacy activities for the coming year were identified. The ECUO participants and focal points from 15 countries of the Eastern Europe and Central Asia, as well ...

Northwestern Medicine scientists have developed a novel method of tracking HIV infection, allowing the behavior of individual virions — infectious particles — to be connected to infectivity. The findings, published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, could help lead to the development of novel therapies for HIV ...

President of the ECUO Vladimir Zhovtyak talks, in his blog, about the main issues to be discussed at the working meeting of the ECUO communities, which will be held on the 6th of September in Poland. During the first working week of autumn, representatives of ECUO ...

One of the most critical scientific questions in TB today is the optimal combination of new and repurposed drugs for the treatment of extensively drug-resistant, pre- extensively drug-resistant, and hard-to-treat multidrug-resistant TB (XDR-TB, pre-XDR-TB, MDR-TB). Тhe Global TB Community Advisory Board (TB CAB) has developed a ...

ITPCru ceases its participation in the EECA CAB in favor of its own project activities and from now on work of the EECA CAB will be coordinated by the ECUO. Note that the ECUO and ITPCru which in 2009 jointly initiated establishment of the Community Advisory ...

Conference funders, Gilead Sciences, named and shamed for its “insatiable greed” 9th International AIDS Conference on HIV Science in Paris (IAS 2017), drew to a close, in style. The community address delivered by Othoman Mellouk, during the final ceremony, exposed one of the key conference sponsors, ...