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druginfo-boun...@lists.hst.org .za] On Behalf Of Andy Gray
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Hi all

The FDA advisory panel's recommendation on TDF/FTC for pre-exposure
prophylaxis has also raised the profile of the debate about home testing

From HIV This Week - Issue 98

*Expanding ART for treatment and prevention of HIV in South Africa:
Estimated cost and costeffectiveness*
*2011-2050*
Granich R, Kahn JG, Bennett R, Holmes CB, Garg N, Serenata C, Sabin ML,
Makhlouf-Obermeyer C, De Filippo
Mack C, Williams P, Jones L, Smyth C, Kutch KA, Ying-Ru L, Vitoria M,

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stock-outs of medicines

TAC Electronic Newsletter

10 May 2012

*Civil society organisations call for an enquiry into the ongoing
stock-outs of medicines*

*Statement by the Treatment Action Campaign, the HIV Clinicians Society of
Southern Africa, the Rural Health Advocacy Project, the Rural Doctors

Cross-posted from HST and 60%:

Today. the National Department of Health released the Management of Drug
Resistant Tuberculosis Policy Guidelines.

To access the document please visit:
[link]

Below is the Executive Summary of the document.

Cross-posted from Activist and GroundUp

*Antiretroviral shortage, so patients receive rationed medicines*
Posted: May 8, 2012 -
Mary-jane Matsolo
[link]

[image: Atripla photo]
Atripla is a three-in-one antiretroviral pill that contains tenofovir.

May 7, 2012
A Regime’s Tight Grip on AIDS

By DONALD G. McNEIL
Jr.<[link]>
[link]

HAVANA — Yudelsy García O’Connor, the first baby known to have been born

From Legal Briefs:

*Litigation: **Judge calls S exual Offences Act absurd*
North Gauteng High Court Judge Pierre Rabie had pressing questions
yesterday relating to the provisions of the S exual Offences Act, which
made consensual s exual activities between children aged between 12 and 16
(be it s ex or kissing) a crime, and asked whether these were not perhaps

Thanks to Gesine Meyer-Rath for this alert:

Paper by Leigh Johnson on the number of people on ARVs in SA.
His numbers are based on DoH figures and give a current coverage of 79%
under the old guidelines (ie, eligibility at <200), and of 52% under the
new guidelines (ie, eligibility at <350).

Cross-posted from Activist
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Dear All
"The right to life, dignity and health of the petitioners must take
precedence over the intellectual property rights of patent holders." A
great judgment from Kenya. Thanks to Anneke Meerkotter from Southern
African Litigation Centre for a copy of the judgment. Check two paragraphs

See Govt Gazette attached and Press Release from Lawyers for Human Rights
below. Came into effect 1 April 2012.
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FYI
Dear colleagues
Attached herewith please find the new regulations to the Social Assistance
Act extending access to social grants to refugees. Congratulations to

Supporting documents have been uploaded to:
[link]

See the Joint Statement below. The presentations that were discussed at
the meeting will be available at
[link] soon
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How we can improve HIV testing and counselling
*Joint Statement by the Southern African HIV Clinicians Society, Treatment

[link]
South African Health Review 2011
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Author:
Padarath A, English R, editors
Publication Date:
2011
Published by:
Health Systems Trust
Class:
HST General
Type:
Book

The importance of living wills and discussing end-of-life choices.
SAVES Living Will Society - [link]
OP-ED CONTRIBUTOR Taking Responsibility for Death By SUSAN
JACOBYPublished: March 30, 2012
[link]

From LegalBriefs and M&G:
*General:** Secrecy issue holds up Basson hearing *
A lengthy argument broke out during the professional conduct hearing of
apartheid-era chemical weapons developer Wouter Basson yesterday when the
defence tried to call Surgeon-General Daniel (Niel) Knobel to give
evidence, notes a*Mail & Guardian Online *report. Knobel read out a

In the context of different HIV testing approaches being debated, the SEAD
report on point-of-care-testing is useful.
Strategic Evaluation, Advisory and Development (SEAD) "Analysis of POCT/VCT
performed at South African primary health care clinics"
Report available: [link]

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To: activ...@tac.org.za
Today, new details on the Tara KLamp scandal have been released. Thanks to
TAC members in Kwazulu-Natal for their role in making this information
available, as well as whistleblowers who wish to remain anonymous. Thanks
also to the HIV Clinicians Society for taking a firm stance on this. If

3 hot-off-the-press articles on the current debate on stavudine
Southern African Journal of HIV Medicine
Debate Why it’s time to say goodbye to stavudine ...
everywhere<[link]>
PDF <[link]>

Attached and available from:
[link]
Voluntary male medical
circumcision<[link]>
PDF <[link]> Matthew
Kesinger, Peter S Millard123-124 The medical proof doesn't get much better

From the International AIDS Society.
The State of Social and Political Science Research Related to HIV: a Report
for the International AIDS Society
The report can be downloaded here:
[link]
Summary: