Category Archives: Treatment

Suspect in Seattle syringe stabbing: “Welcome to the HIV club”

Posted on October 2, 2014 by Rusiate Mataika

A man visiting Seattle as a crewmember on a yacht, says he was stabbed with a syringe in an unprovoked attack outside a bar last week, according to the Seattle Police Department. According to the police report, the victim and … Continue reading →

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HIV+ people face continued stigma

Posted on October 2, 2014 by Rusiate Mataika

PEOPLE living with HIV and AIDS continue to face stigma and discrimination from the general public, threatening efforts to increase the provision of anti-retrovirals (ARVs) to those in need of treatment, officials have said. Addressing an HIV and human rights … Continue reading →

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New president must fill funding gap in HIV fight

Posted on September 20, 2014 by Rusiate Mataika

Indonesia, one of only three countries in the Asia-Pacific region that is seeing a trend of increased HIV infections, must plug a $30 million ($58.82m) funding gap in its fight against HIV, a U.N. health official said on Wednesday. President-elect … Continue reading →

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India battles drug shortage as firms halt supply

Posted on September 13, 2014 by Rusiate Mataika

India is facing a shortage of HIV/AIDS drugs provided under the government’s free medicine programme after some drugmakers halted supplies due to delayed payments, leaving thousands of patients without treatment, activists said. The National AIDS Control Organisation (NACO), a unit … Continue reading →

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Domestically manufactured ARV medication welcomed

Posted on August 26, 2014 by Rusiate Mataika

Indonesians living with HIV/AIDS now have wider access to antiretroviral (ARV) treatment as state-owned pharmaceutical company PT Kimia Farma has started producing Efavirenz, an ARV drug. An Indonesia AIDS Coalition community organizer staff member, Irwandy Widjaja, said people living with … Continue reading →

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Australian trials underway for HIV ‘prevention’ drug

Posted on August 20, 2014 by Rusiate Mataika

As Australia’s HIV infection rates reach a 20-year high, trials are underway for a new drug that’s been shown to prevent people from contracting the virus. President of the Australasian Society of HIV Medicine, Edwina Wright, said the drug, named … Continue reading →

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Where to now? Future directions for HIV treatment

Posted on August 6, 2014 by Rusiate Mataika

The future of HIV treatment bears no resemblance to its past. Through the lonely days of the early single-drug treatment AZT to the arrival of combination therapy in 1996, and the new generation of fixed-dose therapies (one pill containing three or more … Continue reading →

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