HIV Health and Wellness

, ,

Asia Pac HIV Key Population Networks Seek More Influence Over Global Fund Grant-Making

, ,

A coalition of regional key population networks responding to the impact of HIV in Asia and the Pacific is calling for its members to be more involved in managing key grants from the internationally funded Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (the Global Fund).
 

Netherlands: It’s time to stop accepting the status quo, PrEP Summit concludes

The biggest barrier to HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) becoming more available and more widely used is not cost so much as widespread acceptance of the status quo in HIV prevention, the first-ever European PrEP Summit, held in Amsterdam earlier this month, heard.

France: HPV16 highly prevalent among HIV-positive MSM

Although a third of anal cancers in HIV-positive patients did not contain HPV16, no other single HPV type predominated in these cancers. The authors of the meta-analysis believe their findings have implications for HPV vaccination strategies in patients with HIV, concluding “nine-valent would provide a larger gain in HIV-positive than HIV-negative individuals.”