Much has been accomplished over the past two decades in global HIV treatment and prevention. Although in need of renewed emphasis, the worldwide scale-up of antiretroviral therapy (ART) has gone beyond what many imagined possible.
AIDS: homophobic and moralistic images of 1980s still haunt our view of HIV – that must change
If you remember the 1980s, you will likely summon up the image of the Grim Reaper or a black tombstone when asked to think about AIDS. Those images, embedded in our collective memory by two iconic Australian and British public health campaigns of that decade, reveal how AIDS has been both a medical and a cultural epidemic since it was first clinically observed in the US in 1981.
Brazil: High levels of unmet PrEP needs among transgender women
A study recently published in The Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes indicates that transgender (trans) women in Brazil had low levels of pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) awareness. This was combined with significant proportions being willing to use PrEP as a prevention tool and being eligible for PrEP.