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#AIDS2020Virtual: Covid-1919 impacts 17.7 million people on ARVs
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The World Health Organization and UNAIDS has warned that if efforts are not made to mitigate health services and supply interruptions during the COVID-19 pandemic,the disruption of antiretroviral therapy could cause 500 000 more deaths in sub-Saharan Africa in 2020–2021.
#AIDS2020Virtual: Pills, vaccines and the road towards the HIV cure
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“In the face of a seemingly hopeless scientific and humanitarian challenge, scientists and activists joined together to accelerate the development of breakthrough treatment and biomedical prevention tools,” reads the 23rd International Aids Conference website.
#AIDS2020VIRTUAL: Community involvement key to addressing disparities after 40-years of HIV pandemic
Ndivhuwo Mukwevho
“Communities are important – as some of great ideas might not generally come from the top, but they can come from the bottom,” says Gregorio Millett of the American Foundation for Aids Research.
#AIDS2020VIRTUAL: Setting the path for new HIV targets
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All countries should set the same 2025 goals to work towards eradicating HIV in the next ten years.
#Aids2020Virtual: How to improve PrEP delivery
Ndivhuwo Mukwevho
The lesson taken from the Covid-19 pandemic to treating HIV/Aids is to make delivery of medication simpler and diverse to save more lives.
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