AIDS 2010: Know Your Epidemic, Know Your Response: MSM and Their Needs in Low- and Middle-Income Countries July 22, 2010 Event Around the world HIV continues to spread among men who have sex with men (MSM).
AIDS 2010: Putting HIV Testing to the Test: Progress, Gaps and Opportunities July 22, 2010 Event Three years after the adoption of the WHO/UNAIDS Guidance on Provider-Initiated HIV Testing and Counseling, universal access to HIV testing remains a distant goal.
AIDS 2010: Understanding HIV Transmission Mechanisms: Microbicides and PrEP July 22, 2010 Event Understanding factors and mechanisms, cellular pathways, viral features and immune interaction of mucosal HIV transmission should provide important insight to design prevention methods to interrupt transmission.
AIDS 2010: Disability and AIDS, Two Years Later July 22, 2010 Event The UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities came into force in international law in 2008.
AIDS 2010: Thursday Plenary July 22, 2010 Event For more information on this session, including access to speaker presentations, please see the conference Programme-at-a-Glance.
AIDS 2010: The Role of Families in HIV Prevention, Treatment, Care and Support July 22, 2010 Event To date responses to the epidemic have been largely individualistic, bypassing families.
AIDS 2010: Prevention of Mother-to-Child Transmission: Maternal Health and Elimination of Pediatric HIV/AIDS July 22, 2010 Event According to the latest data, significant progress has been made in delivering prevention of mother-to-child transmission (PMTCT) services in low- and middle-income countries.
AIDS 2010: No More People Living with HIV Dying from TB July 22, 2010 Event Of the 33.2 million people living with HIV a third are estimated to also be infected with Mycobacterium tuberculosis.
AIDS 2010: CLOSE THE GAPS: How to Counter the Retreat from HIV Treatment Scale Up; Current and Future Prospects for Scaling-Up Optimal AIDS Treatment July 22, 2010 Event The past decade has shown that providing antiretroviral therapy (ART) makes clinical, social and economic sense. ART is bending all epidemiological curves, resulting in reduced morbidity and mortality, and recent research now shows that treatment also reduces HIV incidence. Despite this evidence, donors are shifting their focus away from AIDS just as efforts should be ramped up.
AIDS 2010: Regional Session on Europe and Central Asia July 22, 2010 Event Where Europe and Central Asia are in terms of HIV prevention, treatment and political commitment?
