WHO Bulletin review of TB and illicit drug use calls for five “urgent measures”
Sharing drug equipment that includes water pipes, often living in close quarters, frequently imprisoned, and facing greater than average rates of other health conditions including alcoholism, hepatitis...
View ArticleHIV, TB, Malaria, Neglected Tropical Diseases: An International Infectious...
A nurse and a drug dealer make a deal to get clean needles to injecting drug users in a Tanzania slum, confronting HIV and TB where they thrive. The result is powerful, and the story of how and why...
View ArticleUkraine NGO crackdown raises questions on sustained HIV prevention, care...
January 16 “Charter for Opression” shows precariousness of HIV response “partnerships” In April 2011, when Ambassador Eric Goosby made his first visit to Ukraine in his role of U.S. Global AIDS...
View ArticleNeedle exchange, methadone programs in Malaysia save money, protect public...
Of the more than 98,000 people diagnosed with HIV since 1986 in Malaysia, more than 67,000 of them have been people who inject drugs . . . When more than two-thirds of the people who have been...
View ArticleHIV among people who inject drugs emerging, growing, largely unaddressed and...
Review highlights unmet needs, chance of hidden epidemics and opportunity in countries where people who inject drugs in region of high risk and lagging response In Afghanistan, where an estimated 83...
View ArticleCriminalized sex work, contraception as the weakest link, reducing harm...
“An end to AIDS is only possible if we overcome the barriers of criminalization, stigma and discrimination that remain key drivers of the epidemic.” AIDS 2014, Nobody left behind, The Melbourne...
View ArticleWhat we’re reading: Saying goodbye to gay sex bans, providing safe injection,...
In the midst of stalled funding and politicized policies, we’re reading about answers to infectious diseases that remain just out of reach . . . Inspired by India, Singaporeans seek to end gay sex ban...
View ArticleAs an opioid crisis drives the spread of HIV, Kentucky plan invests in harm...
Using funds generated by Kentucky’s HIV drug assistance program, a plan launched this month will support urgent and ongoing responses to the infectious disease impacts of an injecting drug use epidemic...
View ArticleTreatment rationing, other structural barriers stand in the way of stopping...
When provinces in Canada lifted restrictions pegging eligibility for treatment for hepatitis C with direct-acting antivirals to the stage of the disease — or range of liver damage — to make the...
View ArticleCountry’s effort toward historic HCV elimination goal highlights challenges
A small Eastern European country with limited resources and a high prevalence of hepatitis C, Georgia had factors in its favor in 2015, when it launched a historic effort to eliminate the virus. It had...
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