Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence. Does the PARTNER study signal the death of condoms or should we curb our enthusiasm, and carry on pretending we use them? The preliminary results of the PARTNER study were one of the most talked about data
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
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