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  Where next for HIV prevention?

  Gus Cairns finds that UK HIV prevention campaigners and researchers are all in agreement that something has to change. They’re not so certain about where we go...

  From:HIV treatment update

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  Safer sex in the treatment era

  There is mounting evidence that reducing viral load through HIV treatment may be one of the most effective ways of stopping onward transmission of HIV. But how...

  From:HIV treatment update

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  HIV prevention: does scaring people work?

  A new 30-second HIV prevention advert,1 from the New York City Health Department (NYC Health) and aimed at gay men, has caused a lot of controversy and...

  From:HIV treatment update

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• How is HIV prevention policy made in Tanzania and why do structural interventions lose out?

  Far from being primarily driven by scientific evidence, decisions about spending priorities for HIV prevention programmes emerge from an imperfect, politicised process, Moritz Hunsmann argues in an article published online ahead of print in Social Science and Medicine. Drawing on ...

  28 March 2012 | Roger Pebody

• Media campaign on disclosure and stigma changes gay men’s attitudes

  A Canadian campaign which asked gay men “If you were rejected every time you disclosed, would you?” appears to have raised men’s understanding of the dilemmas which men with HIV face. The campaign also succeeded in reducing the number ...

  21 September 2011 | Roger Pebody

• Disappointing results from two peer education projects in southern Africa

  Two large HIV prevention programmes that recruited people to educate their friends and classmates have both failed to make an impact on sexual behaviour, researchers report in two separate articles published online ahead of print in AIDS and Behavior. A ...

  20 September 2011 | Roger Pebody

• Motivational interviewing, widely used counselling technique, may not work well for sexual behaviour change

  A meta-analysis of sexual risk behaviour reduction using the counselling technique known as motivational interviewing has found little evidence of efficacy, the Tenth AIDS Impact conference heard this week. Researcher Rigmor Berg, of the Norwegian Knowledge Centre for Health Services in Oslo, ...

  16 September 2011 | Gus Cairns

• What's next for HIV prevention? Paying people to be healthy

  Researchers are investigating the impact of offering financial incentives to people who are at risk of acquiring or passing on HIV, the International AIDS Society conference (IAS 2011) in Rome heard last week. A large study in the United ...

  25 July 2011 | Roger Pebody

• Couple-based counselling reduces HIV risk behaviour in drug-using couples

  Couple-based risk counselling reduces rates of unprotected sex in HIV-negative drug-using couples, investigators from New York report in the online edition of the Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes. Results of the study also showed that the counselling had ...

  10 July 2011 | Michael Carter

• Intensive and targeted PEP counselling leads to less risky sex afterwards, fewer HIV infections

  People at higher risk of HIV infection who take post-exposure prophylaxis benefit from an intensive programme of risk reduction counselling, American researchers report in the 1 July issue of Clinical Infectious Diseases. Participants made durable changes to their sexual ...

  21 June 2011 | Roger Pebody

• Large gaps in the HIV prevention evidence base

  An analysis of research that is relevant to HIV prevention in the United Kingdom has identified several important topics on which little research is done. Writing in the journal BMC Public Health, the authors point to the lack of ...

  09 June 2011 | Roger Pebody

• “Intensive Combination Prevention” proposal for gay men in England would include PrEP

  A pilot rollout in England of a new, standardised intensive HIV prevention package for gay men at high risk of HIV infection would include a substudy in which half of them will be offered pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP), the 17th ...

  15 April 2011 | Gus Cairns

• South Africans who have tested for HIV are more likely to discuss sexual health issues

  South Africans who have ever tested for HIV are more likely than others to have discussed HIV and sexual health issues with others, researchers report in the April issue of Sexually Transmitted Infections. However those who tested HIV-positive were ...

  04 April 2011 | Roger Pebody

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• HIV prevention measures must include behavioral strategies to work, says APA

  A drug that has been shown to prevent HIV infection in a significant number of cases must be combined with behavioral approaches if the US health care establishment is to succeed in reducing the spread of the virus, according to the American Psychological Association.

  15 May 2012 | Eurekalert Medicine & Health

• Clinic appeals to community to design new HIV awareness campaign

  London sexual health clinic 56 Dean Street is asking members of the gay community to design an innovative HIV or sexual health awareness campaign.

  11 May 2012 | Pink News

• How new technology is helping deliver sexual health services

  Text services, apps and social media are being used to provide advice and information to young people

  10 May 2012 | The Guardian

• UGANDA: Combining safe riding on a motorcycle taxi with safe sex

  It's Saturday night and Jaffari Musoke*, who rides a 'boda boda' - motorcycle taxi - arrives at his regular stage, or departure point, near several hotels in Kampala, the Ugandan capital. He has an easy camaraderie with the sex workers who hang around the hotels, taking many of them home after a night's work. Sometimes he mixes business with pleasure.

  04 May 2012 | IRIN Plus News

• Op-ed: Digital Ways of Preventing HIV Are the Best Medicine

  As digital technologies become integral to our lives, they have become equally central to innovative HIV education, prevention and care efforts. These technologies enable us to work together in ways never before possible, offering unprecedented opportunities to tackle the many barriers that make our communities vulnerable to HIV.

  26 April 2012 | The Advocate

• Getting Heterosexual Black Men Involved in HIV Prevention

  In order to fully address this epidemic head on, we have to include heterosexual African-American men. But how do we go about doing this given the stigma and homophobia in the black community? What work is being done now that is making an impact among this demographic? And where are the heterosexual men living with HIV who will speak out?

  24 April 2012 | The Body

• US National Institutes of Health under fire for grants toward creation of homoerotic website

  The National Institutes of Health has spent millions of dollars over the past decade to fund the construction of an HIV-prevention website that, among other sexually explicit features, includes a graphic image of homosexual sex and a Space Invaders-style interactive game that uses a penis-shaped blaster to shoot down gay epithets. 

  19 April 2012 | Fox News

• India - Living in a train, living their dream

  Imagine living in a train. We are not talking about travelling in one for a day or two, but for months at a stretch. For 20 people who form the crew of Red Ribbon Express, this train is their home.

  18 April 2012 | DNA

• Using Incentives To Encourage Adherence To Health Interventions

  The suggestion to pay for individuals to engage in pro-health behaviors and the question if this idea is an effective, sustainable, as well as cost-efficient tool to promote individual and public health is a controversial issue...

  30 March 2012 | HIV / AIDS News From Medical News Today

• DC female condom program prevents HIV infections

  A District program that distributes free female condoms in areas of the city with high HIV rates prevented enough infections in its first year to save over $8 million in future medical costs over and above the cost of the program.

  26 March 2012 | Washington Post

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