UNAIDS
, Prevailing against pandemics by putting people at the centre, in eastern Europe and central Asia provided a platform for the proposal of a joint revision of social and legal enablers in the region to achieve the proposed 2025 targets. UNAIDS Cosponsors, governments and civil society partners presented their views on the issue and the joint action to be taken.
Based on the regional data, the 90-90-90 treatment cascade in the region is far off the targets, having reached only 70-44-41. Lev Zohrabyan, the UNAIDS Strategic Information Adviser for Eastern Europe and Central Asia, noted that one of the reasons for this is late diagnosis: in 2019, 55% of all new HIV cases in the region were registered in the later stages. In his opinion, it shows that testing strategies need revision and require enabling societal conditions.
Prevailing against pandemics by putting people at the centre, in eastern Europe and central Asia provided a platform for the proposal of a joint revision of social and legal enablers in the region to achieve the proposed 2025 targets. UNAIDS Cosponsors, governments and civil society partners presented their views on the issue and the joint action to be taken.
Based on the regional data, the 90â90â90 treatment cascade in the region is far off the targets, having reached only 70â44â41. Lev Zohrabyan, the UNAIDS Strategic Information Adviser for Eastern Europe and Central Asia, noted that one of the reasons for this is late diagnosis: in 2019, 53% of all new HIV cases in the region were registered in the later stages. In his opinion, it shows that testing strategies need revision and require enabling societal conditions.
Huggins partners with Public Health to administer expiring COVID-19 vaccines
Huggins Hospital nurse Amy Varney, RN, assists a patient through a vaccine clinic Sunday that was set up overnight to help the state save doses set to expire that day. (Courtesy Photo) (
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Huggins Hospital nurse Amy Varney, RN, assists a patient through a vaccine clinic Sunday that was set up overnight to help the state save doses set to expire that day. (Courtesy Photo) (
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February 03, 2021WOLFEBORO Over the weekend, local public health officials informed Huggins Hospital of approximately 100 doses of the SARS-CoV-2 vaccine allocated for Carroll County that were set to expire on Sunday. With quick action and mobilization of teams, Huggins Hospital, County Coalition for Public Health (C3PH) and local EMS collaborated to make sure no doses would go to waste.
Demedicalisation Demedicalisation was a word much used in the workshop. It was acknowledged that simply for reasons of capacity, expanding PrEP provision would be difficult if every appointment had to involve a doctor (some countries still require a doctor’s permission or presence even for an HIV test).
There was a lot of discussion about how PrEP services could be demedicalised to some extent without compromising safety. For instance, kidney function tests probably did not have to happen every three months for people aged over 45 and could be done with a urine dipstick.
But there was concern about total demedicalisation – a PrEP over the counter model, as effectively already happens with unlinked online purchase. A UK doctor said that although serious adverse events were rare, there had been a few cases of pancreatitis in the IMPACT implementation study in England. If people were able to start without an HIV test, the small possibility of PrEP use during acute HIV infecti