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GETTING TO ZERO: THE NEXT CHAPTER OF HIV

Robert Fieldhouse (Editor, BASELINE Magazine)

[Article submitted to EHNN December 2011]

30 years after the first cases of what would turn out to be AIDS were described in the USA HIV remains an incurable disease.

But the epidemic is at a tipping point. In many countries new HIV...     Read More

Much of this year’s European AIDS Conference has been a heady mix of hardcore treatment science and treatment advocacy. This is perhaps best demonstrated by the prominent role played by the European AIDS Treatment Group (EATG) during what is essentially a medical and scientific event. Another key issue impacting acros...     Read More

A key theme at this year’s European AIDS Conference is access to treatment and diagnostics. Though this sounds more like a developing than developed world problem, evidence presented at the conference over the last couple of days, by both clinicians and advocates, suggests that shortages in anti-retroviral medication (ARV) and diagnostic equip...     Read More

[SERBIA: 12th October 2011] Here at the 2011 European ADS Conference in Belgrade, one of the opening, pre-conference sessions this morning covered a topic always at risk of being nudged out of mainstream discussions: the involvement of communities in biomedical prevention trials. Here, the efficacy of treatment as prevention is explored, and des...     Read More

The 13th European AIDS Conference, to be held in Serbia, will soon be upon us (12th October 2011). According to a press release sent today, key issues to be addressed include:

* post-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP)

* drug development for HIV treatment

* managing T...     Read More

Ukraine has the the highest prevalence of HIV in the European region, and is struggling to cope with high rates of injecting drug use in the context of undeveloped harm reduction strategies.

Alliance Ukraine is the largest NGO focused on HIV in Ukraine and is now one of the technical partners which are supporting the Alliance’s new Comm...     Read More

This article excerpt, published in the Guardian (UK) in March, is an interview with Nadja Benaissa, the German singer charged in 2010 for infecting a partner with HIV. The full article is available here: http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2011/mar/19/nad...     Read More

preliminary guidelines on Pre-exposure prophylaxis in men having sex with mean

URL: http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm6003a1.htm?s_cid=mm6003a1_w

David Kato, prominent Ugandan gay rights activist was killed in Kampala yesterday, according to BBC news reports, in all likelihood because of his sexuality. All of us working in the HIV field are shocked – must be shocked – at this dreadful news. Uganda i...     Read More

Welcome to the launch of the European HIV Nursing Network (EHNN).  We hope the website will develop into a resource that you will find useful for your personal and professional development.  Over the next few months you will find guidelines, examples of good practice, educational resources, discussion forums and general information.  The webs...     Read More