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“HIV, Viral Hepatitis and Sexual Health”, supervised by Prof. Christine Katlama (France), Dr Jade Ghosn (France), and Prof. Gilles Wandeler (Switzerland), is a collective work by AFRAVIH’s network of over 190 experts spanning 17 countries. This comprehensive work geared at all French-speaking healthcare professionals and community actors offers updated insights on treatment and prevention strategies for HIV and hepatitis, and also covers sexual health as a fundamental aspect of human health.

You can find a short video presentation of the book here. Moreover, it is available in paper format from publisher EDP Sciences (livres_at_edpsciences.org) and is also downloadable free of charge as an ebook from here

” One great thing about WAVE is that it involves an international group of both healthcare professionals of different areas and community representatives to endorse equality of access to care and standards of care for women living with HIV (WLWH). We focus on new opportunities like breastfeeding of WLWH in high resource settings and PrEP as a prevention strategy for women.”
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Guidance on COVID-19 for people living with HIV (PLWH)

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Have a look at the infographic we issued on the occasion of the Spring European Testing Week 2020.

You can find it here

On the occasion of the International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia (IDAHOBIT), the European AIDS Clinical Society and Life4me+ interviewed some HIV clinicians and activists with the aim of breaking any form of stigma and discrimination towards PLWH and the LGBTI community.

You can find the full video on our Youtube channel here

“The European Testing Week has helped to decrease the number of individuals who are HIV-positive but do not know their diagnosis, as well as identify patients with chronic hepatitis and link them to advances in hepatitis treatment. Testing and subsequent linkage to care are clearly the most important pillars in ending the HIV and viral hepatitis epidemic.”

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HIV-treating clinicians are invited to take a ten-question survey that is being fielded by IAPAC to gauge the effects that COVID-19 responses may be having on continuity of HIV services in local communities.

http://survey.constantcontact.com/survey/a07eh165gsak8ylhucw/a00sk8yypnc6/questions

After a careful analysis of the impact that the current COVID-19 pandemic is having on the organisation of the HIV Summer School, we do not have enough certainty to ensure the successful organisation of the course. Therefore, we have come to the difficult decision to cancel this year’s edition.