Meeting Report
Bangkok, Thailand 8-11 August 2016
The new WHO guidelines recommend that people living with HIV be started on antiretrovirals (ARVs) as soon as possible after being diagnosed. Currently, many people living with the virus globally must wait until their CD4 counts fall to 500 to start treatment. According to the WHO, the move to early
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treatment –or what some have dubbed the “test and treat” model –is backed by the latest research.
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Recommendations for a public health approach
2010 revision
Public Health Situation Analysis and Interventions 10 October 2017
WHO working group on HIV incidence assays meeting report
10–11 December 2015
Glion, Switzerland
UNAIDS/WHO working group on global HIV/AIDS and STI surveillance
WHO/HIV/2017.03
2016 Update
Key population
Guidelines
Key Populations
Guidelines
June 2017
HIV strategic information for impact
Available in English, French, Spanish and Russian from the website https://apps.who.int/iris/handle/10665/344562
Supplement October 2010
HIV/AIDS, security and conflict: making the connections
Leishmaniasis is a climate-sensitive disease. Changes in temperature, rainfall, and humidity can have strong impacts on
the sandfly vector, altering their distribution and influencing their survival and population sizes. Increased temperatures shorten vector development time, reduce Leishmania para
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site incubation time, and increase vector biting rates, allowing transmission
in areas not previously endemic for the disease. Poor and
marginalized communities will be hit disproportionately harder by
the effects of climate change, and droughts, famines, and floods
can also lead to displacement and migration of immunologically
naive people to areas where leishmaniasis is endemic, posing a
threat of leishmaniasis outbreaks.
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Ensuring Access to Simple, Safe and Effective First-Line Medicines for Tuberculosis.
Accessed in November 2017.