AVAC in the News

HIV activists from Africa and the US have called for a rapid increase in voluntary medical male circumcision in Africa to reduce new infections.

In a landmark advancement against AIDS, federal authorities Monday made a drug from Gilead Sciences, a California company, the world's first approved medication to help prevent the spread of HIV.

Just last week, an advisory committee to the US Food and Drug Administration recommended approval of the antiretroviral TDF/FTC for pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) in HIV-negative adults. A final decision from the FDA is expected in June -- and approval would provide another powerful option for HIV prevention.

Could we be one step closer to a world without HIV AIDS?Hopes are rising after a panel of US health experts has, for the first time, backed a drug to prevent HIV infection in healthy people.