Growing support globally to end HIV medicine stockouts in India
Several networks of people living with HIV are pouring in support to the ongoing indefinite sit-in (since 21st July 2022) outside offices of India's AIDS programme, to demand an end…
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HIV patients should have uninterrupted flow of life saving anti-retroviral drugs
Statement issued by HIV activists and civil society organisations Civil Society organisations and activists working on the HIV response in India are putting out this statement in utter distress and…
Regaining the Ground,Reclaiming the Network – A Bottom-up Response to HIV
India’s responses to HIV/AIDS through the national AIDS Programme have been widely acclaimed as the most successful public health intervention in its history since the Independence. From 1992 onwards we…
When people with HIV can live normal lives then why 680,000 AIDS deaths in 2020?
When we know how to prevent HIV transmission, and how to keep every person living with HIV healthy, then how can one fathom deaths of at least 680,000 people due…
What if TB, HIV medicines stop working? Experts unite against drug resistance
A picture containing text, person, person, suit Description automatically generatedOne year and 10 months ago when first case of corona virus was reported in Wuhan, China, entire world was terrified…
ABVA’s tryst with activists, lawyers & judges before, during and after its anti-sodomy law petition was filed
ABVA members wearing black T-shirts addressing the press at the Ashoka hotel, New Delhi during the Second Asia Pacific AIDS conference, November 1992 In April 1994 ABVA filed a Civil…
Moving HIV prevention and treatment tools from the lab to all those in need
Recent scientific advancements have brought to the fore the promise of more effective and long-term solutions to help people living with HIV to thrive and not just survive. Today we…
A bouquet of novel compounds: New treatment options for HIV
It was 40 years ago when the first case of HIV infection was diagnosed. Since then, 77.5 million people have been infected with the virus and 34 million people have…
Expanding the buffet of choices for preventing HIV
Great strides have been made in HIV prevention, treatment and care, since the first case of the viral infection was reported 40 years ago. Thanks to the untiring efforts of…
Are we failing children in the HIV response?
The promise was that by 2020, no child will be born with HIV or newly infected with HIV during breastfeeding across the world. Even before the Covid-19 pandemic posed an…
HIV science has advanced but policies-programmes have been slow to #endAIDS
HIV science has advanced but policies and programmes have been slow to respond towards ending AIDS, said Mitchell Warren, co-chair of the global conference on HIV Research for Prevention (HIVR4P)…
Expanding range of options to prevent HIV is key as no one size fits all
While the currently available HIV prevention and treatment tools have helped reduce new HIV infections and AIDS-related deaths by 23% and 39% respectively since 2010, we still have a long…
The ring has finally arrived!
You guessed it right. I am talking about the dapivirine vaginal ring (DPV-VR), which is one of the top advances happening in the field of microbicides. It is the first…
Is Universal Health Coverage an opportunity to end AIDS and TB?
At the United Nations General Assembly in September 2019, a special United Nations High Level Meeting (UNHLM) will be held on Universal Health Coverage (UHC). 193 countries have promised to…
A tale of two positives attracting each other
I met the two of them at the Clinica Condesa Iztapalapa, in Mexico City, where I had gone to attend the 10th IAS Conference on HIV Science (IAS 2019). Was…
Writing’s on the wall: No #endAIDS without #endTB
TB and HIV both are preventable, but cutting the chain of transmission of HIV and TB is proving to be a daunting task. Treatment exists for both TB and HIV…
Achieving 100:100:100 + zero HIV transmission is must to #endAIDS
It has been 38 years and 1 month since the first case of HIV infection was detected in 1981, reminded Dr Anthony Fauci, Director of US National Institute of Allergy…
Complacency kills: Prevention cannot take a backseat while we scale up treatment coverage to #endAIDS
"The global health system is only as strong as its weakest parts" had said UNDP’s Mandeep Dhaliwal in her article around last year's World AIDS Day. The context has only…
We want the ring…
That seemed to be the resonating refrain of women at the HIV Research for Prevention Conference (HIVR4P2018) held recently in Madrid, Spain. And no, they were not talking about the…
HIV prevention: Bridging the gap between research and impact
We are at an incredible moment in the history of the HIV/AIDS response, which reflected in the vibrancy of the HIV Research for Prevention (HIVR4P 2018) - the only…
Where are the nurses in the HIV response?
(CNS): Since the beginning of the HIV epidemic, nurses have been at the forefront of the response to this once fatal infection. The nurse is involved at every stage of…
Ending AIDS, the Dutch way
Photograph of Alphonsus Stoelinga, Netherlands Ambassador to India (CNS): We are all very familiar with the phrase ‘going Dutch’ (meaning each person of a group pays one's own expenses in…
Integrated TB-HIV Responses Are A Must To Meet Sustainable Development Goals
(CNS): At the 2015 United Nations General Assembly, governments committed to achieve SDGs by 2030, one of which is to end AIDS and TB by 2030. If people living with…
Self-Stigma: Let Us Do More Than Just ‘Talk About It’
Senior HIV activists who have not only helped shape HIV responses on the ground over the years, but also have been living with the virus for several years, shared their…
Battling With Three Diseases And Still Going Strong
(Based on an exclusive interview given by Nqobile Zungu, and her doctor Dr Samele Madela to CNS – Citizen News Service) I met 37 years old Nqobile Zungu, at the…
International AIDS Conferences: From Durban To Durban – Has Anything Changed In 16 Years?
AIDS 2016, the XXI International AIDS Conference - (with the theme of 'Access Equity Rights Now') which will be held in Durban, South Africa, from 18 to 22 July…
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