29 November 2016 | GENEVA – In advance of World AIDS Day, WHO has released new guidelines on HIV self-testing to improve access to and uptake of HIV diagnosis. According to a new WHO progress report lack of an HIV diagnosis is a major obstacle to ...

“Over the past 10 years, the number of officially recorded patients who receive HIV treatment in Russia has increased five fold from 7.5 % to 37% in 2015. This figure is expected to rise …to 41.5% this year, according to preliminary reports for 2016,” Skvortsova ...

South Africa hosts historic NIH-supported clinical trial The first HIV vaccine efficacy study to launch anywhere in seven years is now testing whether an experimental vaccine regimen safely prevents HIV infection among South African adults. The study, called HVTN 702, involves a new version of the ...

Strengthened global political commitment to HIV prevention must be followed by strengthened financial commitment. The successes of the global AIDS response to date have been fuelled by extraordinary investment. The total amount of financial resources for AIDS responses in low- and middle-income countries reached an ...

1 December 2016 Michel Sidibé, Executive Director of UNAIDS, Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations Today, we commemorate World AIDS Day—we stand in solidarity with the 78 million people who have become infected with HIV and remember the 35 million who have died from AIDS-related illnesses since the ...

Apathy and political expedience have shaped the Kremlin’s frozen-in-time views on the virus. Will officials finally act to prevent a national health crisis? Moscow, November 22, 2016 — Max Malyshev first started using drugs as a teenager in Tver, an industrial city north of Moscow, mostly ...