Limited community awareness, late and superficial institutional support, and cost-effectiveness issues paint a bleak future for Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis in the UK. On the opening day of the TasP PrEP Evidence Summit organised by IAPAC, Lord Fowler expressed his bemusement at the US attitude towards clean
The TasP PrEP evidence Summit organised by the International Association of Providers of AIDS Care (IAPAC) opens in London with a welcomed tone that departs from the usual HIV Grand Masses. There is something in the annual IAPAC conference in London that is not often
Don’t we all know that popping pills is not the solution to all our problems? The writer reflects on his and other’s assumptions about the role of biomedical interventions in the control of the HIV epidemic. This blog’s title mirrors that of Jake Sobo’s “Why
The potential for Social Media (#SoMe) to contribute to HIV prevention is worth exploring and researching but studies need to be conducted with strict criteria to discern the evidence from the hype in such a fuzzy area. A study published in the Annals of Internal
The much awaited Department of Health announcement of the “Modernisation of HIV rules to better protect public” is finally available online. In this statement Chief Medical Officer Professor Dame Sally Davies announced that “outdated rules designed to combat the threat of AIDS in the 1980s