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The Institutionalization of Global AIDS and the Creation of the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS)

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In this paper, the authors focus on the creation of the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS), and how this new formation set about institutionalizing a global AIDS perspective.
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This chapter focuses on the creation of the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS), and how this new formation set about institutionalizing a global AIDS perspective. The chapter considers the main motivations behind this creation, which included the need to create a coherent and shared understanding of HIV, together with a coordinated policy framework to bring together different technical and political capacities for coherent policy intervention in multiple country contexts. The chapter argues that this process of creating a shared understanding of expected outcomes led to a shared understanding of the disease laying the foundations for the politics of Global AIDS.

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Everything counts - a method to determine viral suppression among people living with HIV using longitudinal data for the HIV care continuum - results of two large, German, multi-center real-life cohort studies over 20 years (1999–2018)

TL;DR: Using the threshold of VL <200 copies/ml, Germany reached the UNAIDS 95 target of viral suppression since 2017 and provided a method for estimating viral suppression and duration of viremia using longitudinal VL data.
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Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptors in HIV: Possible Roles During HAND and Inflammation.

TL;DR: A new perspective is addressed in the field of HIV, where the alpha7 nicotinic acetylcholine receptor (α7-nAChR) is the protagonist and possible explanations about its role in HAND and inflammation in both the central nervous system and the periphery are provided.
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'I don't want anyone to know': Experiences of obtaining access to HIV testing by Eastern European, non-European Union sex workers in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

TL;DR: Six key barriers to HIV testing are found: migration and sex-work policies; stigma, including self-stigmatization; lack of trust in healthcare providers or social workers; low levels of Dutch or English languages; negative experience in accessing healthcare services in the home country; and low perceived risk and HIV-related knowledge.
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Unpacking the practice of ukujola in contemporary South Africa: understanding informal/casual sexual relations of young African adults in the context of HIV and AIDS.

TL;DR: The study found that ukujola relationships are a relatively new phenomenon in Zulu society, and there is a need for a national dialogue on ilobolo in the context of HIV and AIDS.
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Comparison of HIV-Positive Incidence Among Transgender Women and Men Who Have Sex with Men at Stand-Alone and Mobile Voluntary Counseling and Testing Facilities in Chiang Mai Province, Thailand

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors compared the incidence of HIV infection between MSM and TGW who were tested at stand-alone and mobile HIV voluntary counseling and testing (VCT) centers and identified factors associated with HIV-positive individuals from the two services.
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An overview on the 2008 UNAIDS Report on the 2008 UNAIDS Report on the Global AIDS Epidemic.

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