On World AIDS Day, mayors meet in Paris as UNAIDS releases a new report on the huge potential of fast-tracking the AIDS response in cities
Ahead of a Fast-Track cities event to take place in June at the 2016 United Nations General Assembly High-Level Meeting on Ending AIDS, the Mayor of Kyiv, Vitali Klitschko, has committed the city to the UNAIDS Fast-Track approach to end the AIDS epidemic.
We received a call at the office from Dr. Benjamin Young MD, the senior vice president and chief medical officer of the International Association of Providers of AIDS Care (IAPAC), and he filled us in on something pretty outstanding. Denver is ...
We stand at a defining moment in the AIDS response.Thanks to scientific breakthroughts, community activism and ploitical commitment to shared goals,we have real opportunity to end AIDS epidemic globally by 2030.
Five years after being diagnosed with HIV, Matthew Bratrsovsky knows what it is like to be stigmatized by those who fear, or look down on, people who have the virus that causes AIDS. Once, when he had pancreatitis, an ambulance driver who was taking him to a hospital greeted him by saying, “Oh, you’re the guy with AIDS.”
At the 2015 Colorado AIDS Walk, held in August, Denver made a bold commitment: to end the AIDS epidemic by 2030.AIDS has affected us deeply as individuals, families and as a community, and few diseases have caused the level of fear that AIDS has. But is it really possible to achieve its elimination?
It is time for the Colorado Aids Project’s Annual AIDS Walk Colorado. This year’s event will be their 28th annual in Cheesman Park, at 1177 Race St, Denver, CO 80206. For directions to the park click here. At this year’s event the Deputy Mayor of Denver, Cary Kennedy, will announce the City of Denver’s participation in a new initiative which will strive to end this horrible disease by the year 2030.
Het einde van hiv in Amsterdam” – dat was één van de ambitieuze missies van professor Joep Lange. Voor de fatale vlucht met MH-17 in juli 2014 startte hij een innovatief project waarin alle belangrijke partners samenwerken om hiv te stoppen in Amsterdam: het H-TEAM initiatief (Hiv Transmissie Eliminatie Amsterdam).
Nog nooit waren er zoveel keuzes beschikbaar in de preventie en behandeling van hiv als nu, volgens de organisatoren van de internationale conferentie Aids Impact in Amsterdam. Kennis over mogelijke medische en gedragsinterventies en over de mensen waarvoor die zijn bedoeld, , zal uitgewisseld worden door een bont gezelschap uit 47 landen . De conferentie duurt 4 dagen en kan worden gezien als voorloper van de grote Internationale Aidsconferentie ,die in 2018 naar Amsterdam komt
Ruim 70% van de nieuwe hiv-infecties onder mannen die seks hebben met mannen (MSM) wordt veroorzaakt door mannen die niet weten dat ze hiv hebbe
