The Global HIV Prevention Working Group (PWG) is an international panel of more than 50 leading public health experts, clinicians, biomedical and behavioral researchers, advocates and people affected by HIV/AIDS, convened by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation. The Working Group was launched in 2002 to inform global policy-making, program planning, and donor decisions on HIV prevention. The Working Group: * Issues periodic reports and fact sheets on key more...
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The United Nations' goal of providing universal access to antiretroviral drugs by 2010 is unlikely to be reached by some countries, Michel Kazatchkine, executive director of the Global Fund To Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, and Peter Piot, executive director of UNAIDS, said on Wednesday August 06, at the XVII International AIDS Conference in Mexico City. The 2010 target was agreed to at a 2006 United Nations General Assembly meeting and later supported by the Group of Eight industrialized more...
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Despite significant funding for HIV/AIDS treatment in the developing world and efforts to prevent mother-to-child transmission, the global response to the disease has 'short-changed' children, health workers at the XVII International AIDS Conference in Mexico City said on Wednesday, August 06 - during the conference's first plenary lecture on children. In the past five years, 1.5 million children have died of AIDS-related causes, and 15 million children have lost one or both parents to the dise more...
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National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Director Anthony Fauci and UNAIDS Executive Director Peter Piot on August 06 at the XVII International AIDS Conference in Mexico City discussed progress in HIV/AIDS treatments and prevention efforts and the future of HIV treatment. According to Fauci, HIV-positive people eventually might be able to stop taking drugs and live without symptoms if they are treated aggressively with newer antiretroviral drugs. Treating patients soon after they ar more...
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Based on a review of hundreds of studies, the new PWG report focuses on behavioral change prevention, and calls for significantly expanded delivery of HIV prevention programming aimed at reducing high-risk behaviors. The report also identifies gaps in knowledge about behavioral change programming.
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When formulating their HIV strategies, governments worldwide overlook research showing the importance of behavior change in HIV prevention, several experts said Tuesday at the XVII International AIDS Conference in Mexico City. Experts discussed a variety of behavior modifications, including promoting safer sex practices, decreasing injection drug use, providing needle-exchange programs and promoting male circumcision. Although 'none of the measures alone offer a simple solution to preventing inf more...
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