IDSA’s “Science Speaks”: Can counseling, links to services cut death rates in half among people with HIV who inject drugs? Antigone Barton, senior editor and writer of “Science Speaks,” discuses results from a study published in The Lancet examining the engagement of people who inject drugs in HIV care and…

IntraHealth International’s “Vital”: One Major Reason the AIDS Epidemic Isn’t Going Away Lindsey Freeze, brand and creative services manager at IntraHealth International, discusses the challenges of stigma and discrimination in efforts to make progress on HIV/AIDS. Freeze writes, “Investing in strategies to eliminate institutional practices that cause shame, fear, and…

Devex: What happened to PEPFAR’s $100M Key Population Investment Fund? “The head of the United States President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief has said government bureaucracy prevented her from giving $100 million directly to in-country groups targeting key populations living with HIV. The money will now be delivered through U.S.…

Deutsche Welle: Opinion: Don’t jeopardize progress in fight against AIDS Astrid Prange, journalist at DW “The main takeaway from the 22nd International AIDS Conference in Amsterdam is clear: Fighting the spread of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is a matter of political will. Those who oppose sexual education and the…

CNN: Growing homophobia will fuel the HIV epidemic, experts fear (Senthilingam, 7/28). Health Policy Watch: Top WHO Official On HIV/AIDS Gottfried Hirnschall: World Needs New Approaches To Deal With HIV/AIDS Challenges (Zarocostas, 7/23). Globe and Mail: Countries, including Canada, are prosecuting people with HIV because they misunderstand science, leading researchers…

Antigone Barton, senior editor and writer at “Science Speaks,” and Rabita Aziz, writer at “Science Speaks” and senior global health policy specialist at IDSA, report from the 22nd International AIDS Conference in Amsterdam on “news, updates, and analysis of new research findings, evidence-based responses, and community action for global access…

CNN: ‘Nobody needs to die of AIDS anymore,’ Elton John says (Senthilingam, 7/25). health24: Charlize links HIV to inferior status of women at AIDS conference (Cullinan, 7/25). Reuters: Prince Harry joins Elton John to launch HIV campaign targeting men (Crane/Deutsch, 7/24). Science: Troubling questions remain about whether a popular HIV…

Devex: Opinion: The global HIV response is neglecting people who use drugs Naomi Burke-Shyne, deputy director of Harm Reduction International “…People who inject drugs are one of the most at-risk populations for HIV and over 20 times more likely to contract the virus than the general public. The risks are…

The Lancet HIV: Potential impact of implementing and scaling up harm reduction and antiretroviral therapy on HIV prevalence and mortality and overdose deaths among people who inject drugs in two Russian cities: a modelling study Javier A. Cepeda of the Division of Infectious Diseases and Global Public Health at the…

The Guardian: Misuse of opioids such as tramadol and fentanyl is ‘global epidemic,’ report finds (Beaumont, 6/27). The Guardian: Death sentence quashed for teenager who killed rapist husband in Sudan (Burke/McVeigh, 6/26). The Guardian: The Ugandan girl who trekked barefoot to escape marriage at 13 (Okiror, 6/26). The Guardian: ‘Toxic…