A meta-analysis of sexual behavior studies performed between 1990 and 2012 in low-income countries found that the initiation of antiretroviral treatment (ART) did not contribute to an increase in risky sexual behavior. Researchers from The Evidence Project, a program sponsored by the National Institute of Mental Health, presented their findings at AIDS 2014 in Melbourne, Australia. ...
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The start of this month marked the launch of Accelerating Children’s HIV/AIDS Treatment (ACT), an ambitious new program that will double the amount of children with access to lifesaving anti-retroviral therapy (ART) across ten strategic African countries over the next two years. A joint investment from the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) and the Children’s Investment Fund Foundation (CIFF), ACT will increase the number of children living with HIV who have access to treatment by over 300,000 children....
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When the world gets together every two years to consider the global realities of HIV&AIDS, participants at the International Conference on AIDS often author a highly contextualized statement regarding the pandemic and their vision for the present and future of people living with HIV&AIDS. This year is no exception, and the Melbourne Declaration for 20th International Conference on AIDS, July 20th-25th, 2014, entitled “Nobody Left Behind,”...
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Many of us erroneously believe that certain, unique people groups or people who live on other continents, in other countries and from other cultures have to worry about HIV/AIDS. The truth is, anyone can become infected with HIV, because it’s what you and I DO that puts us at risk, not who are or where we live....
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