Global News 2
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TB and HIV: A Deadly Duo
A new study aims to improve health outcomes for people who are co-treated for tuberculosis disease and HIV.
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Cannabis, Youth, and Public Health: Assessing the Pitfalls of Legalization
Decriminalization of cannabis in Thailand deserves public health policy guidance to protect youth.
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HIV and Youth in Thailand: Addressing Suicide Risk
A new study seeks to create mental health interventions for a vulnerable population.
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Improving Transgender Health in Southeast Asia
A new study seeks to improve HIV-related transgender health in Thailand, Vietnam, and the Philippines.
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HIV Care Continuum & Beyond: A New Era for Asia
With TREAT Asia as one of its partners, an initiative strives to strengthen HIV policies and programs across a regional cascade of care.
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Dangerous Inequalities
New UNAIDS report identifies key drivers of the HIV epidemic: gender inequalities, discrimination against key populations, and failures to address needs of children with HIV.
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TREAT Asia Calls for Expanded Access to Pediatric Dolutegravir
Facilitating access to formulations of the HIV medicine dolutegravir (DTG) that can be used by infants and children living with HIV in the Asia-Pacific is an urgent concern. In light of recent U.S. and European regulatory approvals of a dispersible version of pediatric DTG, amfAR’s TREAT Asia program recommends steps that national HIV programs and…
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Recent ARV Stockouts in India Created a Health Crisis for People Living with HIV
An antiretroviral therapy stockout in India limited treatment options and created barriers to healthcare access for people living with HIV.
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amfAR at AIDS 2022
Researchers from amfAR and the foundation’s partners will present on community-led HIV programming at the 24th International AIDS Conference
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When U.S.-Based Studies Don’t Measure Up
Study finds that Ugandans with HIV have smaller, but more genetically diverse reservoirs within individuals than for participants with HIV in the U.S.
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UNAIDS: Most New HIV Infections Among Children Are Preventable
UNAIDS estimates that most of the 150,000 new HIV infections among children in 2020 could have been prevented.
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COVID-19 Pandemic Threatens HIV Drug Supplies
There is mounting concern in many countries, and emerging acutely in Asia, about a growing shortage of lifesaving antiretroviral drugs as a result of supply chain disruptions and stock-outs caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. Experts fear that further disruptions could halt and even reverse the hard-won progress on HIV/AIDS that has been achieved in many…
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amfAR’s TREAT Asia program contributes to success of multi-year collaboration on treatment access
More than 58 million people worldwide are living with chronic hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection, according to the World Health Organization. In 2019, an estimated 290,000 people died from diseases such as cirrhosis or liver cancer as a consequence of HCV.
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Tracking COVID-19’s Impact and Vaccine Uptake in the Asia-Pacific Region
TREAT Asia program launches new website with up-to-date data across graphs, tables, and maps charting the impact of COVID-19 in the region.
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TREAT Asia Mourns the Passing of Cambodian Network Investigator Dr. Ly Penh Sun
With the passing of Dr. Ly Penh Sun on November 9, 2021, we lost a regional champion for HIV prevention, care, and research.