Category: News
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WHO Launches New HIV Treatment and Prevention Guidelines
The WHO has made two important new treatment recommendations that will affect all HIV treatment programmes. The recommendations are entitled the ’Early Release’ Guidelines on when to start antiretroviral therapy and on pre-exposure prophylaxis for HIV. The recommendations in this guideline will form part of the revised consolidated guidelines on the use of ARV drugs…
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Launch of Moroccan Generic Sofosbuvir: A Victory for the Wide-spread Use HCV Treatment in Morocco
According to the Ministry of Health, 625,000 people are infected by HCV, 1.6% of the general population of Morocco. Of those infected, 267,000 people have active chronic infection requiring treatment. Until recently, the management of HCV infection has been hampered by inadequate and costly treatments. The standard treatment involved a combination of pegylated interferon and…
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Treatment Advocates Denounce Gilead’s Embargo against Thousands of Tunisians Suffering from HCV Infection
The Tunisian Association of Fight against STDs and AIDS (ATL Tunis) and the International Treatment Preparedness Coalition in MENA Region (ITPC-MENA) denounce the refusal of Gilead Sciences to make their drug against the Hepatitis C Virus (HCV), sofosbuvir, available to Tunisian patients. “For months, thousands of patients have been desperately waiting for access to sofosbuvir.…
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UNAIDS Report Suggests AIDS Epidemic Could End by 2030
BY NICHOLAS CIMARUSTI SEPTEMBER 27 2013 The UNAIDS released its 2013 global HIV/AIDS report Monday. Its figures estimate a possible end to the AIDS epidemic by 2030, which would also affect pharmaceutical companies. UNAIDS released the 2013 global HIV/AIDS report Monday, whose figures support a tentative estimation that the HIV epidemic could end by 2030,…
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Global policy report on the prevention and control of viral hepatitis
The five viruses that cause infections of the liver are responsible for a widely prevalent and growing disease burden. No country, rich or poor, is spared. These viruses are important as they cause infectious diseases in their own right. Hepatitis A and E viruses are major foodborne and waterborne infections, which cause millions of cases…
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GENERATION OF CHANGE: Portraits of HIV & AIDS Activists from MENA
The Middle East/North Africa (MENA) region is in turmoil. The trajectory and consequences of the current political, social and economic transformations rippling across the region will become clear in the years ahead. Meanwhile, the region is also experiencing one of the fastest-growing HIV epidemics in the world. In this context of change, a new generation…