{"id":123,"date":"2019-06-15T06:38:44","date_gmt":"2019-06-15T06:38:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mymedicplus.com\/news\/?p=123"},"modified":"2019-06-15T06:38:44","modified_gmt":"2019-06-15T06:38:44","slug":"10-things-you-have-to-know-from-the-aids-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mymedicplus.com\/blog\/10-things-you-have-to-know-from-the-aids-conference\/","title":{"rendered":"10 things you have to know from the Aids conference"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Source: timeslive.co.za<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The\n 9th SA Aids Conference in Durban ended on Friday with the eThekwini \nDeclaration: &#8220;A Radical Call to Action &#8211; Reinvigorating and \nRevolutionising the HIV Response&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here are 10 things you need to know from the conference:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>&#8220;Reawaken the urgency of HIV and Aids as a devastating public health  crisis still requiring an emergency response&#8221; \u2013 The eThekwini  Declaration, handed to vice-president David Mabuza, who closed the  conference;<\/li><li>This is why it matters &#8211; South Africa has 7.9-million people  currently living with HIV and at least 4.4 million on treatment, but  there is inadequate progress towards the UN 90-90-90 global targets: 90%  of people will know their HIV status, 90% with HIV will get sustainable  antiretroviral therapy, 90% on treatment will have viral suppression;<\/li><li>New HIV infections in South Africa are declining but the infection  rate among young people, particularly teenage girls and young women, is  still shockingly high;<\/li><li>Almost four women per 100, aged 16 to 35, are getting HIV every  year, a study on the safety of three contraceptives including  Depo-Provera found. The contraceptive is safe. Nearly 8,000 women from  South Africa, Kenya, Zambia and Swaziland took part in the clinical  trial, and the results were announced on Thursday by Prof Helen Rees,  one of the trial leaders and director of the Wits Reproductive Health  Institute (WRHI);<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Professor of medicine Francois Venter, head of Ezintsha, a WHRI \nsub-syndicate, says of the ECHO results: &#8220;If ever there was a wake-up \ncall for the family planning sector, this is it: we should be treating \nwomen accessing these services as an emergency for access to HIV \nprevention, especially PrEP \u2013pre-exposure prophylactic treatment&#8221;;<\/li><li>Key vulnerable populations, such as sex workers, need to be \nprioritised for better care and treatment, researchers and activists \nurged. They have higher infection and death rates. All groups on \ntreatment in the public health system are at risk of antiretroviral drug\n stockouts, which are common;<\/li><li>The good news is that South Africa is at the forefront of HIV \nvaccine research. Four large-scale HIV vaccine efficacy clinical trials \nare taking place at research sites across the country, says Prof Glenda \nGray, president of the SA Medical Research Council and director of the \nHIV Vaccine Trials Network Africa Programmes;<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>HIV\/Aids donor funding to South Africa has reached a high point says\n Dr Fareed Abdullah, director of the Office of AIDS &amp; TB Research at\n the South African Medical Research Council. Pepfar has pledged about \nUS$730m for the current year and for the next year, following \nuncertainty about whether they would, and The Global Fund has increased \nits allocation to US$369m to South Africa for the next three-year cycle;<\/li><li>Despite this, HIV\/Aids activists and clinicians raised concerns on \nand off stage at the conference that service delivery by some \norganisations, or &#8220;implementing partners&#8221;, is threatened following \nunforeseen shifts in donor funding. They called for greater transparency\n and participation in the awarding of grants; and<\/li><li>The theme of the conference was Unprecedented Innovations and \nTechnologies: HIV and Change. More than 3,000 delegates attended, about \n25% of them from other countries. Prof Refilwe Phaswana-Mafuya, deputy \nvice chancellor research &amp; innovation at North-West University, \nchaired the conference.<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: timeslive.co.za The 9th SA Aids Conference in Durban ended on Friday with the eThekwini Declaration: &#8220;A Radical Call to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":121,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[249,62,250,251,252],"class_list":["post-123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-aids-hiv","tag-10-things","tag-aids","tag-conference","tag-declaration","tag-revolutionising"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>10 things you have to know from the Aids conference - MyMedicPlus<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mymedicplus.com\/blog\/10-things-you-have-to-know-from-the-aids-conference\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"10 things you have to know from the Aids conference - 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