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 ...

An anti-HIV infection drug has “clear potential” to prevent people catching the virus, a Welsh Government-commissioned report has said. Pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) is not currently available on the Welsh NHS. But a report by an independent HIV expert group said it was “highly effective” when used with ...

Inflammatory mechanisms of innate immunity known to be involved in neurodegeneration in HIV-associated neurocognitive disorders (HAND) can be modulated by agents approved in autoimmune neuroinflammation leading to reduced neurotoxicity. About 50% of HIV infected patients have neurocognitive disorders associated with the infection. Despite being on combined ...

Treatment Action Group (TAG) released a statement in strong opposition to the President’s 2018 budget blueprint. The blueprint threatens research essential to ending the epidemics of HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis (TB), and hepatitis C virus (HCV) in the United States and globally by cutting funding and eliminating ...

Odessa in Ukraine has become the latest city to sign the Paris Declaration to end the AIDS epidemic in cities. Since the end of 2014, more than 200 cities around the world have signed the Paris Declaration and are addressing the significant disparities in access ...

Copenhagen and Stockholm, 20 March 2017 New data released today by the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) and the WHO Regional Office for Europe ahead of World TB Day show that new tuberculosis (TB) cases and deaths in the 53 countries of the ...

ECUO presents the first pilot database of ARV drugs purchased in Eastern Europe and Central Asia (EECA) for both state budget funds and funds of international organizations Earlier, ECUO team initiated the Regional Monitoring on Drug Supply Access (Regional Monitoring) which was conducted in 2016 involving ...

The findings advance progress toward HIV vaccine design DURHAM, N.C., March 15, 2017 – A Duke Health-led research team has described both the pathway of HIV protective antibody development and a synthetic HIV outer envelope mimic that has the potential to induce the antibodies with vaccination. “A ...