HIV home testing may appeal to some people unaware of their HIV status and not prepared to visit a GUM clinic. However, home testing could lead to an increased attrition in the HIV cascade of care and treatment, as well as threaten sexual health and
After 25 World AIDS Day days, how are we doing? And do we still need a WAD? It is the time of the year when activists and NGOs are going through the final preparation for the 1st of December, World AIDS Day (though many will
This year AIDS vaccine conference held in Barcelona highlighted some new and interesting developments but also showed that as an event it was starting to run on empty. A tale of two trials (one in Monkeys, one in Humans) The tag line “Progress, Partnership and
A reflexion on a piece written for and published by OpenDemocracy in November 2010, shortly after the public release of the iPrEX trial. Three years later many of the questions raised then are still very much relevant. Of course we now know much more about
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