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 ...

The European HIV-Hepatitis Testing Week started today. It will last from November 17 to November 24. The East Europe and Central Asia Union of People Living with HIV (ECUO PLWH) supported the initiative and joined the testing campaign. The slogan of the weekly campaign is "Test. ...

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 ...

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 ...

Overview Testing and diagnosis of hepatitis B (HBV) and C (HCV) infection is the gateway for access to both prevention and treatment services, and is a crucial component of an effective response to the hepatitis epidemic. Early identification of persons with chronic HBV or HCV infection ...

Fast-track the end of AIDS in the EU – practical evidence-based interventions In a two-day conference organised in collaboration between the Maltese Presidency of the Council of the European Union and ECDC, HIV experts from across the European Union discuss how to reverse this trend and ...

Kaiser Family Foundation: The Global HIV/AIDS Epidemic This updated fact sheet provides information on current HIV prevalence and incidence, prevention and treatment strategies, and the U.S. and global responses to the epidemic (1/19). Kaiser Family Foundation: The U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) This updated fact ...

DPP® HIV-Syphilis Assay on track for U.S. regulatory submission in 2017 MEDFORD, N.Y., Jan. 17, 2017 — Chembio Diagnostics, Inc. (Nasdaq:CEMI), a leader in point-of-care (POC) diagnostic tests for infectious diseases, today announced that it has received a CE mark for its DPP® HIV-Syphilis combination assay. ...

Supplement to consolidated guidelines on HIV testing services Since the release of the consolidated guidelines in 2015, new evidence has emerged. Consequently, in an effort to further support countries, programme managers, health workers and other stakeholders seeking to achieve national and international HIV goals, this 2016 ...

The January issue of the Journal includes papers on a range of topics and reports from two recent meetings – the Ghent HIV Reservoir Characterization Symposium and the Third Biennial Strategies for an HIV Cure Meeting. To read an overview of the issue, click here. The January ...

Eight weeks of treatment with AbbVie’s investigational, pan-genotypic, ribavirin-free regimen of glecaprevir/pibrentasvir (G/P) for chronic hepatitis C achieved high SVR rates in genotype 1 Japanese patients. – 99 percent (n=105/106) of genotype 1 (GT1) chronic HCV-infected Japanese patients without cirrhosis achieved SVR with 8 weeks of ...

IAPAC launched Recommendations for the Rapid Expansion of HIV Self-Testing in Fast-Track Cities during a joint Brazilian National STI, HIV/AIDS & Viral Hepatitis Program – IAPAC meeting of that country’s cities held January 26, 2017, in Brasília. Developed in collaboration with ASLM, the recommendations promote ...

In advance of World AIDS Day, WHO has released new guidelines on HIV self-testing to improve access to and uptake of HIV diagnosis.

European doctors ask the question at 2016 Standard of Care meeting The purpose and structure of clinical HIV guidelines may have to change radically now that universal treatment on diagnosis is the clinical consensus, physicians from the European AIDS Clinical Society (EACS) heard in a meeting ...

With hepatitis C (HCV) being curable with direct-acting antivirals in eight to 12 weeks or less, the question arises whether we can transplant HCV-positive organs to HCV-negative patients safely with treatment. In a large study of U.S. kidney transplant recipients, five-year graft and patient survival ...

Actor Charlie Sheen revealed this month that he has achieved an undetectable viral load by taking PRO 140, an injectable HIV drug that’s currently being studied, according to a report in the Daily Mail. “It’s impossibly amazing. Personally, I think about how I felt on the ...

The UNITAID HIV rapid diagnostic tests for self-testing Landscape was first published on World AIDS Day in December 2015, as part of an effort to build an understanding of the HIV self-testing market. A second edition was published in July 2016 at the International AIDS ...

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 ...