SWAN, within the Regional Platform EECA, has developed a video and community guide  on the community’s engagement in Global Fund supported processes on the national level. “Engaging in Global Fund Process. A Community Perspective”  reflects the experiences of sex workers’ communities from 6 countries: Kyrgyzstan, Ukraine, ...

A regional program in Eastern Europe and Central Asia (EECA) will pilot an innovative city service model to combat HIV and TB, with a special focus on key affected populations (KAPs). The city service model was implemented in Western Europe, the U.S. and Canada as far ...

The 11th meeting of the WHO European Advisory Group on Tuberculosis Control (TAG-TB) took place on 13 and 14th February in Copenhagen, Denmark. The meeting was chaired by Professor Alberto Matteelli, and widely attended by WHO officers from countries, academia, civil society members and community ...

Partner Dialogue on Participation of Civil Society Organizations (CSO) in the TB-REP Project and Exchange of Operational Information was held in the capital of Denmark and attended by East Europe and Central Asia Union of People Living with HIV (ECUO) representatives. Meeting Summary - ECUO and Stop ...

Researchers have been successful in increasing HIV treatment success rates by almost 18 percent. Teams from the Universities of Aberdeen, Maastricht and the University and Academic Medical Centre in Amsterdam, developed a new programme designed to better assist patients treated for HIV in taking their ...

The Stop TB Partnership delivered the letter to WHO requesting inclusion of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in the WHO’s Global priority list of antibiotic-resistant bacteria to guide research, discovery and development of new antibiotics. STOP TB PARTNERSHIP ANNOUNCEMENT Geneva, Switzerland – 6 March 2017 — We would like to ...

University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Nursing Professor David Vance, Ph.D., has received a two-year, $404,250 R21 grant from the National Institute of Nursing Research for his project “Individualized-Targeted Training in Older Adults with HAND” to develop cognitive training interventions to improve everyday functioning ...

Global TB community demands inclusion of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in the WHO’s Global priority list of antibiotic-resistant bacteria to guide research, discovery and development of new antibiotics. Join the Stop TB Partnership in its appeal to the World Health Organization (WHO) to add TB to the Global ...

Transatlantic agreement will help to make better use of inspection capacity and reduce duplication Regulators in the European Union (EU) and the United States (US) have agreed to recognise inspections of manufacturing sites for human medicines conducted in their respective territories on both sides of the ...

In 2016, a regional action plan for Europe that aims to contribute to the implementation of the global viral hepatitis elimination strategy was developed by the WHO Regional Office for Europe. In an article published in Eurosurveillance, the authors take a closer look how Europe ...

After several years of lobbying work and pressure from patient organisations, the European Parliament has now published a report on the EU’s options for improving access to medicines. This useful snapshot from the European Public Health Alliance describes the report. The report is non-binding though ...

2 March 2017 – Today marks a significant development in responding to the HIV testing gap with the approval of the first product for HIV self-testing (HIVST) by the UNITAID-funded Expedited Review Panel for Diagnostics (ERPD), hosted by the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis ...

This year we are calling on everyone to make some noise for #zerodiscrimination. Individuals and communities can join voices and transform the world. Zero Discrimination Day is an opportunity to highlight how everyone can be part of the transformation and take a stand for a ...

Eight infants who began antiretroviral therapy (ART) during the first year of life and maintained viral suppression for 7 years had no evidence of ongoing HIV replication or consequent viral evolution . The findings are important because low viral diversity in just-infected infants provides a ...

More research is needed into how the virus may affect cerebral small vessel disease, a leading cause of cognitive decline. Even when people with HIV are doing well on antiretroviral (ARV) treatment, they are apparently more likely to have certain abnormalities in blood vessels in the ...

SEATTLE — Assessing multiple viral load (VL) values across time may better inform treatment response and potential for HIV transmission, according to researchers at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). They presented new data at the Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI ...

Monash University and Cardiff University (UK) researchers have come a step further in understanding how the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) evades the immune system. Declared a pandemic in 1987 by the World Health Organization, HIV infection has been responsible for 39 million deaths over the last ...

Close to 60% of adults benefiting from point-of-care CD4 cell count testing at HIV testing sites, accelerated antiretroviral (ART) initiation and SMS appointment reminders were retained in care after one year, compared to just 44% of those receiving the standard of care (SOC) in Mozambique, ...