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Today marks the International Day of Action for Women’s Health. On this occasion, European AIDS Clinical Society (EACS) interviewed our friend and collaborator Dr.

The annual Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI) will be held from March 8 to 11 in Boston, Massachusetts.

CROI brings together top basic,

The 10th International Workshop on HIV & Women is in Boston on 6 – 7 March 2020, just prior to CROI.

This is an outstanding opportunity for health care providers,

Just published – data on T & B cell memory and T cell function in early-treated children in the Journal of Immunology and AIDS.

Today we celebrate Human’s Right Day: this year’s theme is “Youth Standing Up for Human Rights”.
School HIV-prevention campaigns in Africa are often designed to frighten children.

Picturing Health has created the first video in a three part series of adolescent films about growing up with HIV. This series of short films tackles the issue of dealing with disclosure and the impact a child being told they are HIV positive.

The theme of this year’s World AIDS Day, which we commemorate today, is “Communities make the difference“. Today we highlight the role of communities in ensuring that AIDS remains at the top of the political agenda.

Today, November 20^th, is Universal Children’s Day. This year, we are celebrating in Cape Town, South Africa, where the EPIICAL 3rd General Assembly is being hosted.

Treat early, suppress fast!

In a new paper just published online in Journal of AIDS, EPIICAL researchers investigated the association between the timing of antiretroviral therapy (ART) initiation and time-to suppression​ among HIV-infected infants who initiated​ ART within the first 28 days of life.

The Penta-sponsored clinical trial SMILE has achieved a significant milestone by recruiting its 100^th patient yesterday. The patient was enrolled at the Perinatal HIV Research Unit (PHRU) in Soweto,

The annual Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI) was held on 4-7 March 2019, at the Washington State Convention Center in Seattle,

Seattle is gearing up for the 2019 edition of CROI next week. Held at Washington State Convention Center on 4th-7th March, the Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections is an important event in the Penta calendar,

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Last week saw the EMPIRICAL project get off to a great start with the Kick-off Meeting held in Lusaka, Zambia on 19th-20th February.

This new project is funded by European and Developing Countries Clinical Trial Partnership (EDCTP) is coordinated by consortium member Servicio Madrileño de Salud (SERMAS) –

The many challenges of developing drugs appropriately formulated for children are compounded by a series of market factors that make these efforts costly and complex, discouraging drug manufacturers – especially generic drug manufacturers – from prioritizing investments in new paediatric treatment options.

In coincidence with the recent World AIDS Day 2018, the Children’s HIV Association of the UK and Ireland (CHIVA) has proudly launched a powerful short film created with young people who have grown up living with perinatally acquired HIV.

Although the number of new HIV infections has continued to decline globally, and the overall level of HIV treatment is high, progress is far slower than what is required to reach the 2020 milestone of less than 500,000 new infections.