UNAIDS’ vision of zero discrimination and ending AIDS by 2030 will only become a reality if the response to HIV reaches everyone, including lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) people. The International Day against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia (IDAHOT), a worldwide celebration of sexual and ...

Statement by the NGO Delegation to the Programme Coordinating Board of the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) on the International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia (IDAHOT) – May 17th, 2017 On this International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia (IDAHOT), the NGO Delegation ...

User experience analysis of e-TB Manager, a nationwide electronic TB recording and reporting system in Ukraine Abstract Ukraine has successfully implemented e-TB Manager nationwide as its mandatory national tuberculosis registry after first introducing it in 2009. Our objective was to perform an end-of-programme evaluation after formal handover ...

The International Treatment Preparedness Coalition (ITPC) released its Annual report 2016: Investing in Communities. To access a summary, click here. [gview file="http://ecuo.org/mvdev/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2017/05/ITPC-Annual-Review-2016.pdf"] Source

Harm Reduction International released a report, Harm reduction investment in the European Union: Current spending, challenges and successes ahead of the 25th Harm Reduction International Conference (HR17) taking place on 14 – 17 May 2017 in Montréal, Canada. [gview file="http://ecuo.org/mvdev/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2017/05/HRWreportApril2017_web_1.pdf"] [gview file="http://ecuo.org/mvdev/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2017/05/thepolicy2017_online_version.pdf"] Europe is the birthplace of harm ...

The European Medicines Agency’s (EMA) 2016 annual report published today focuses on the Agency’s key achievements in the areas of medicine evaluation, support to research and development of new and innovative treatments and the safety monitoring of medicines in real life. In 2016, the Agency recommended ...

Recurrent TB and associated factors: A five-year countrywide study in Uzbekistan Abstract Background In Uzbekistan, despite stable and relatively high tuberculosis treatment success rates, relatively high rates of recurrent tuberculosis have recently been reported. Recurrent tuberculosis is when a patient who was treated for pulmonary tuberculosis and cured, ...

Treatment Action Group and the ACTION Global Health Advocacy Partnership will host a 2-part webinar series on civil society asks and engagement ahead of the Global Ministerial Conference on TB to be held on 16–17 November 2017 in Moscow, Russian Federation. The two webinars will take ...

Over the next 20 years, cases of drug-resistant tuberculosis (TB) are set to rise in India, the Philippines, Russia, and South Africa – the four countries which already bear the highest burden. A new study published in The Lancet Infectious Diseases says the rise is likely ...

Antiretroviral therapy (ART) has increased life expectancy by a decade in young Europeans and North Americans treated for HIV. Substantial declines in mortality emerged especially for those starting treatment between 2008 and 2010, pointing to the positive effect of evolving therapies and earlier detection. Reporting in ...

This year, pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) advocates noted a stunning disconnect between key organizations that issue guidelines on the use of tenofovir/emtricitabine (TDF/FTC, Truvada) for HIV prevention: The United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) continues to say that people need 20 days of ...

DR-TB STAT and the Sentinel Project will host a webinar, MDR-TB Treatment with Bedaquiline in Children and Adolescents: Global Recommendations and Program Experience in Belarus on 26 May 2017. For more information about the webinar and how to connect, click here. Source

Research at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has provided the first evidence that viruses and hosts share highly similar regulatory sequences in their promoters—the initiation sequences of human genes that code for functional proteins. “To date viral-host networks include protein and mRNA interactions between viruses ...

AIDS data contains the very latest data, from the end of 2015 and in mid-2016, on the world’s response to HIV: the latest information on the number of people living with HIV, the number of new HIV infections, the numbers of people—both adults and children—on ...

The Global Fund has issued a new request for 2 proposals to select civil society service providers to support the realisation of 2 components of the Community Rights and Gender Strategic Initiative, during 2017-2019: Civil society and community organizations to provide peer-to-peer short-term technical assistance for civil ...

The World Health Organization (WHO) updated the fourth edition of the Guidelines for treatment of tuberculosis published in 2010. The Global TB Programme of the World Health Organization convened a meeting of a Guidelines Development Group on 11-13 July 2016 in Geneva, Switzerland in order to ...

On 28 April 2017, UNAIDS will conduct a Multi-stakeholder consultation to discuss the findings and recommendations of the Global Review Panel (GRP) on the new Operating Model of the UNAIDS Joint Program. In preparation for the Multi-stakeholder consultation, the NGO Delegation to the UNAIDS Program ...

Eurasian Harm Reduction Network (EHRN) presents the regional report “Programmatic and Finance Gaps for Key Populations in a Selection of Eastern European and Central Asian Countries,” which covers the financial and programmatic data, barriers and challenges to strengthening the continuum of HIV care in seven ...