ECUO team is pleased to present free online access to Community Regional Action Plan for Enhancing Sustainable Access to Quality and Continuous HIV Care for All Who Need It in Eastern Europe and Central Asia in 2017-2020 (Regional Plan). The developed Regional Plan is a ...

Central Asia and the Russian Federation face a major intra-regional migration flow, home, as it is, to one of the largest labor migration corridors in the world, with hundreds of thousands of migrant workers moving from Central Asian countries to the Russian Federation and to ...

A group of 18 of UNAIDS’ top donors have published a report highlighting UNAIDS’ unique value to the communities it serves and its partners and key stakeholders. The assessment, carried out by the Multilateral Organisation Performance Assessment Network (MOPAN), which was set up to monitor ...

High drug pricing for interferon-free direct acting antiviral regimens (up to US$93 000 per 12 week course) has limited broad implementation in the vast majority of settings, with restrictions based on liver disease stage generally introduced to reduce budget impact. Other restrictions, including those based on ...

The Lancet HIV is an exclusively online journal dedicated to publishing original research that advocates change in, or illuminates, HIV clinical practice. It publishes translational, epidemiological, clinical, operational, and implementation studies. The April 2017 issue is available here. Source

WHO/Europe has launched the third in a series of publications providing in-depth analyses of health situations in Member States. Focused on the Republic of Moldova, the report reveals a health situation that has improved significantly in the last decade but still faces considerable challenges. The report, ...

Implant could offer long-acting, removable form of prevention not currently available Chapel Hill, NC – Researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have received a three-year, $1.8 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to develop a new implantable drug delivery system ...

Patent opposition aims to increase affordable access to hepatitis C drug sofosbuvir for millions Rome/Geneva, 27 March 2017 – The international medical humanitarian organisation Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has today filed a patent challenge on the hepatitis C drug sofosbuvir with the European Patent Office (EPO) ...

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Testing all patients is vital if the proportion of HIV co-infections is to fall in the European Union and European Economic Area, the World Health Organization has announced ahead of World TB Day 2017. The proportion of people in Europe living with tuberculosis (TB) and HIV ...

After three years, tenofovir alafenamide (TAF) for first-line HIV treatment was better at suppressing viral load and safer for the bones and kidneys than the older tenofovir disoproxil fumarate (TDF), researchers reported at the 2017 Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI 2017) last month in ...

As EATG and the communities of people living with HIV are getting even more intensively involved in work around pre-exposure prophylaxis, or PrEP, it makes sense to remind ourselves of the results of the FLASH PrEP Study conducted by the French HIV organisation AIDES. While subject ...

Tallinn, Estonia, March 23, 2017 - A new network of sex workers in Eastern Europe and Central Asia has been registered in Tallinn, Estonia. EECA Sex Workers’ Alliance is created to promote the development of policies on sex workers based on humanity, tolerance, protection of ...

Living with HIV in Ukraine is fraught with stigma and discrimination. It’s even harder if you’re a woman. On International Women’s Day in early March, the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) published a report stating there is an “urgent need” to increase HIV treatment ...

New tuberculosis (TB) ethics guidance, launched today by the World Health Organization (WHO), aims to help ensure that countries implementing the End TB Strategy adhere to sound ethical standards to protect the rights of all those affected. TB, the world’s top infectious disease killer, claims 5 ...

On 6th March 2017, European AIDS Treatment Group and Treatment Action Group (TAG) have jointly organized the webinar on TB Diagnostics. Moderator: Evgenia Maron Speakers: Ruth McNerney, University of Cape Town – TB Diagnostics Erika Lessem, Treatment Action Group – Advocating for better TB diagnosis Presentations and documents of the webinar

The International Association of Schools of Social Work (IASSW) and UNAIDS have published a new joint report, Getting to zero: global social work responds to HIV, a collection of stories and articles showing how social workers are central to the AIDS response around the world. Launched ...

CORVALLIS, Ore. – Development and widespread use of a vaccine that’s even partially effective against HIV, along with more progress toward diagnosis and treatment, offer the best hopes for turning the corner on a global pandemic that’s still spiraling out of control, researchers reported today. Even ...