The European Medicines Agency developed a brochure on the European regulatory system for medicines. The booklet explains how the European regulatory system for medicines operates. It describes how medicines are authorized and monitored in the European Union (EU) and how the European medicines regulatory network – ...

Young women aged 15–24 years are at particularly high risk of HIV infection, accounting for 20% of new HIV infections among adults globally in 2015, despite accounting for just 11% of the adult population. In sub-Saharan Africa, young women accounted for 25% of new HIV ...

A combination of interventions for HIV that reflect alternative routes to program strengthening and encourage country programs to evaluate costs, impact and clinical benefits of immediate initiation should be prioritized over individual high-cost interventions such as the universal test-and-treat strategy in regions with limited resources, ...

Health ministers from eastern Europe and central Asia adopted on 3 November in Minsk, Belarus, a consensus statement on HIV and tuberculosis (TB) treatment for all, calling for expanded and rapidly scaled-up access to affordable, quality-assured medicines. Representatives of Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, the ...

The Government of Ukraine has announced that in 2017 it will fully finance from its budget the national opioid substitution therapy programme for people who use drugs, a key population in Ukraine that is at higher risk of HIV infection. Approximately US$ 500 000 will ...

Associated Press: Official: Fourth-largest city in Russia has HIV epidemic “Russian health officials say one in 50 people in the country’s fourth-largest city is carrying as Russia struggles to deal with a rapidly rising number of infections. The central Russian city of Yekaterinburg suffers from ...

If an HIV-positive patient’s viral load test results come back between 50 copies/mL and 200 copies/mL, consider retesting the same blood sample, Joseph Eron Jr., M.D., suggests. According to study results he presented at IDWeek 2016 on Oct. 28, the new test result may well ...

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services said on Thursday (November 3) added seven new agents, including HIV and an industrial solvent, to its list of carcinogens. The list identifies factors including chemicals, agents like viruses, X-rays and ultraviolet radiation, and divides them into two ...