HIV Health and Wellness

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France: French bioethics body backs assisted reproduction for all women

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France’s highest bioethics body, the National Consultative Ethics Committee (CCNE), ruled on Tuesday that access to medically assisted reproduction should be expanded to include single women and lesbian couples.

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The African Union and UNAIDS, as Chair of the H6 partnership, join forces to tackle sexual and gender-based violence and health in humanitarian crises

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Action-based partnership to support women and girls announced by health and political leaders at a high-level event at the 73rd Session of the United Nations General Assembly

US: Williams Institute: Culture, not PrEP, linked to spike in STIs

Lead study author Phillip Hammack, Ph.D., professor of psychology at the University of California, Santa Cruz, told the Los Angeles Blade: “Our data don’t support the idea that we can attribute the rise in STIs to PrEP use, at least not in a direct manner. I personally don’t think that’s what’s happening.”

UK: Court invalidates Gilead's Truvada patent extension, allowing PrEP generics

Activists in the U.S. are asking authorities to break Gilead’s patents on Truvada in an effort to help end the HIV epidemic. Now, a court in the U.K. has done just that, potentially allowing for widespread use of generics as a pre-exposure prophylaxis. 

Singapore: Calling for repeal of 377A, Action for Aids says law has negative impact on HIV prevention

Advocacy group Action for Aids (AFA) has lent its voice to the heated debate over a law here that criminalises sex between men, saying its repeal will significantly strengthen programmes to control the spread of HIV