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THE 30 YEARS' WAR AGAINST AIDS -- COMMENT FROM THE ...

‘[T]his is the sort of area where a single scientific breakthrough might, like the invention of AIDS-suppressing drugs and the discovery that those drugs could be used to break the chain of transmission, change everything.’ This article ... read more

AIDS, 30 YEARS ON: PODCAST FROM BBC WORLD SERVICE

Podcast at http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/console/p00gzd9c read more

AIDS IN RETROSPECT: AN AUDIOCAST FROM THE ECONOMIS ...

A summary of three decades' experience, at http://www.economist.com/blogs/multimedia/2011/06/end-aidsGood listening. read more

COVERAGE OF ANTIRETROVIRAL THERAPY, BY COUNTRY

  Coverage of antiretroviral therapy at the end of 2009 (WHO 2010 Guidelines, CD4<350) Below, top and bottom quintiles; all quintiles and countries listed on page 45, AIDS AT 30 http://www.unaids.org/unaids_resources/aidsat30/a ... read more

15 MILLION ON RETROVIRALS BY '15?

See below, and at www.un.org, deliberations of the high level meeting on AIDS just completed at UN headquarters.   Among other things, the meeting called for placing 15 million PLWHA on retroviral therapy by 2015. This makes good epidemiol ... read more

POLITICAL DECLARATION ON HIV/AIDS: INTENSIFYING OU ...

United Nations A/65/L.77, http://www.un.org/Docs/journal/asp/ws.asp?m=A/65/L.77 General Assembly Sixty-fifth session Agenda item 10 Political Declaration on HIV/AIDS: Intensifying our Efforts to Eliminate HIV/AIDS The General Assembly, Adopts t ... read more

MALE CIRCUMCISION IN EIGHT AFRICAN COUNTRIES

EXCERPT FROM THE UN REPORT, 'AIDS AT 30: NATIONS AT THE CROSSROADS' Medical circumcisions in eight African countries have risen to 350,000 per year from low baseline levels, according to this UN report. This, however, leaves millions of at risk male ... read more

LESSONS LEARNED FROM FIRST YEAR OF MC IMPLEMENTATI ...

  The authors reviewed health facilities for seven criteria for provision of male circumcision services:       Room available for surgery (e.g., minor theater)       Room available for reco ... read more

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