Fear of others thinking they’re promiscuous, or that they’re already infected with HIV, is a barrier to many women who might benefit from pills that help prevent the infection, a U.S. study suggests.

The guide explains what global standards are for TB prevention, treatment, and care, so people with TB and their caregivers can know what services they have the right to receive.

On the New Year Eve Irkutsk AIDS Center published a spoof video on the "Sex and the City" TV series, called "Bullshit and the Backwater Town", which focuses on the topics of love, fidelity, truth, lies and safe sex. The storyline explores typical situations when people ...

ICW, INPUD, IRGT, GATE, GNP+, MSMGF, the Platform and NSWP invite you for a timely discussion about a new phase in the evolution of the HIV response - one that reinvigorates existing HIV prevention interventions with the powerful effectiveness of community action.

Global HIV Prevention Coalition holds first meeting in Geneva, Switzerland, to find ways to strengthen and sustain political commitment for HIV prevention As part of global efforts to end AIDS as a public health threat, UNAIDS, the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) and partners have launched ...

Andrey Yarovoi: expert of the regional expert group (REG) of the program "Partnership" implemented by the ECUO. Member of the ENPUD Coordination Council, a member of OST Association of Ukraine.   On September 18-19, in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, was held the National Conference "New challenges: HIV and TB", ...

On September 6, in Poland, the ECUO held a working meeting jointly with the international experts, representatives of governmental institutions and activists of PLHIV communities, to discuss the new concept of access to innovative treatment. You can review the concept here. Without exaggeration, it is a landmark meeting that took place on the edge of two Europes: East and West. In West Europe, the epidemic is brought under control already, so HIV-infected people have an opportunity ...

29 June 2017 — Geneva, Switzerland — ICASO’s Executive Director, Mary Ann Torres, representing the organization at the 40th meeting of the UNAIDS Programme Coordinating Board, made an intervention during the thematic segment, entitled “HIV Prevention 2020: A Global Partnership for Delivery.”  Mary Ann’s remarks, ...

The International AIDS Society (IAS) is currently inviting civil society organizations and HIV prevention service providers to nominate Youth Champions for HIV prevention among key populations in Eastern Europe Eastern Europe to develop a nuanced understanding of current primary prevention practices and models that effectively address the ...

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 ...

Face-to-face interventions work best A meta-analysis of studies of brief interventions to reduce HIV risk behaviour in HIV-negative gay men has concluded that there is evidence that such techniques did have a significant impact on the behaviours they were designed to change. It also found evidence that ...

Abstract Background UNAIDS has set a 90-90-90 target to curb the HIV epidemic by 2020, but methods used to assess whether countries have reached this target are not standardised, hindering comparisons. Methods Through a collaboration formed by the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) with European HIV ...

The number of new HIV diagnoses in gay men attending five key London clinics fell substantially during 2015 and 2016, Valerie Delpech of Public Health England told the British HIV Association (BHIVA) conference in Liverpool yesterday. Epidemiological analysis shows that the phenomenon is real. Diagnoses fell ...

UNAIDS is championing the inaugural #WhatWomenWant Day on 6 April. Led by the Athena Network, the day sees the launch of the report #WhatWomenWant: a transformative framework for women, girls and gender equality in the context of HIV and sexual and reproductive health and rights. The ...

Central Asia and the Russian Federation face a major intra-regional migration flow, home, as it is, to one of the largest labor migration corridors in the world, with hundreds of thousands of migrant workers moving from Central Asian countries to the Russian Federation and to ...

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 ...

A new partnership has been formed between European and African researchers to develop an AIDS vaccine that can be used to prevent infection with different strains of HIV worldwide. The Globally Relevant AIDS Vaccine Europe-Africa Trials Partnership (GREAT) will evaluate a new vaccine that triggers the ...

The Global Review Panel on the Future of the UNAIDS Joint Programme Model has launched a virtual consultation that will run until 10 February. The panel is seeking input on how the Joint Programme can be refined and reinforced to better support countries to end ...