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  Uncomfortable news on lubes for anal sex

  Commercially available sexual lubricants may increase people’s susceptibility to sexually transmitted infection (STIs), US scientists reported recently. A study found that people who consistently used shop-bought ‘lubes’ for...

  From:HIV treatment update

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  Where next for HIV prevention?

  New online on aidsmap is the third edition of Preventing HIV, NAM’s comprehensive and detailed summary of the history of, and evidence for, methods of preventing HIV...

  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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  Are lubricants safe?

  “What’s our take home message here?” Gorbach was asked. The long-term message is clear: there is an urgent need to conduct further research into sexual lubricants, and...

  From:HIV treatment update

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  Bored and horny

  It’s Sunday afternoon and it’s raining. I’m bored and horny. However, I’ve got £20 left over from the night before and this will be enough...

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Condoms and lubricant news from aidsmap

• Douching does not seem to increase STI risk

  In HPTN 035, vaginal hygiene practices were assessed at quarterly visits and the 3087 participants were counselled to try not to use the practices. They were divided into women who did not practice vaginal washing, ones who only used ...

  18 April 2012 | Gus Cairns

• Serosorting does help prevent HIV – up to a point

  A meta-analysis of HIV-negative gay men’s sexual behaviour and HIV incidence rate in four HIV prevention studies, presented earlier this month at the 19th Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI), has found that attempting to ‘serosort’ by restricting unprotected ...

  19 March 2012 | Gus Cairns

• The safety spectrum: gay men use many ways to moderate their sexual risk

  The vast majority of gay men, HIV-positive and negative, make some effort to moderate their risk of transmitting or acquiring HIV, a large Australian study finds. Dr Limin Mao of the University of New South Wales in Australia, speaking at the ...

  18 September 2011 | Gus Cairns

• The spirit is willing, but... sex in the HIV-positive over-50s

  Although the average age of the HIV-positive population is increasing, in both richer and poorer countries, and though sex between older people has often been cited as a possible risk factor for HIV, there has been surprisingly little investigation ...

  16 September 2011 | Gus Cairns

• Viral suppression reduces HIV risk despite more sex and 'condom fatigue' in patients starting treatment in Cameroon

  Cohen J, Spire B (presenter) et al. Susceptibility to transmitting HIV in ART-treated individuals: longitudinal analysis from Stratall ANRS 12110/ESTHER trial. Sixth International AIDS Society Conference on HIV Pathogenesis, Treatment and Prevention, Rome, abstract MOAC0203, 2011. Kouanfack C et ...

  19 July 2011 | Gus Cairns

• Study finds most lubricants damage rectal cells and some increase HIV activity

  ReferencesBegay O et al. Identification of personal lubricants that can cause rectal epithelial cell damage and enhance HIV-1 replication in vitro. AIDS Research and Human Retroviruses, early online edition. February 2011. The study may be viewed online here.Begay ...

  26 February 2011 | Gus Cairns

• Young people's stories about condoms can help re-shape prevention messages

  The themes and preoccupations of stories submitted by young people in six African countries should be looked at to inform HIV prevention programmes, researchers write in the journal Social Science and Medicine. With rates of condom use being ...

  17 February 2011 | Roger Pebody

• UK Gay Men’s Sex Survey: new data on age, strategic positioning, condom failure and HIV testing

  Sexual behaviours that are most likely to result in acquiring HIV are most common in teenagers, while those behaviours most likely to pass on HIV are most common among men in their thirties. These are some of the results ...

  06 January 2011 | Roger Pebody

• Condom avoidance not a motivation for circumcision among blacks and coloured in Johannesburg

  Bridges JFP et al. Condom avoidance and determinants of demand for male circumcision in Johannesburg, South Africa. Health Policy and Planning, online edition: DOI: 10.1093/heapol/czq064, 2010 (click here for access to the study’s free abstract). ...

  09 November 2010 | Michael Carter

• Second-ever pre-exposure prophylaxis study reports no safety concerns and promising result

  The last day of the Vienna International AIDS Conference featured the results of the second-ever completed randomised controlled trial of pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) – giving antiretrovirals to HIV-negative people at high risk of HIV to prevent them becoming infected. The ...

  23 July 2010 | Gus Cairns

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• The Female Health Company to Expand Manufacturing Capacity for FC2 Female Condoms

  The Female Health Company (nasdaq-cm:FHCO) - today announced plans to install two more production lines for its FC2 Female Condom® at its manufacturing facility in Malaysia.

  23 April 2012 | MarketWatch (press release)

• Prostitutes Push for N.Y. Law Banning Condoms as Evidence

  Prostitutes are pushing New York lawmakers to make the state the first in the U.S. to ban police from using condoms as a reason to arrest them.

  17 April 2012 | San Francisco Chronicle

• Female condom prevents HIV transmission

  A female condom program in Washington prevented enough HIV infections in one year to save $8 million in future medical costs, researchers said.

  30 March 2012 | UPI

• The real-life STI prevention potential of the male condom: hard to fulfil, hard to evaluate

  UNAIDS deems the male latex condom “… the single most efficient, available technology to reduce the sexual transmission of HIV and other sexually transmitted infections”.  Sadly, though the condom may be effective in vitro, this potential proves hard to realize use in real life. 

  27 March 2012 | BMJ Group blogs

• Study Finds Female Condoms Are Cost-Effective For HIV Prevention

  When researchers compared the cost of condoms for women with the cost of HIV infections it prevented, they found the relatively new condoms saved between $15 and $20 for every dollar spent on distributing them in Washington.

  26 March 2012 | Google Alerts HIV

• 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

• China Mandates Condoms in 95% of Hotels by 2015

  China's new AIDS Action Plan for reducing HIV transmission and AIDS deaths involves placing condom machines in hotels and other public places, China.org.cn reports.

  01 March 2012 | Poz magazine news

• Condom use 101: Basic errors are so common, study finds

  Some of the most frequent mistakes include putting a condom on partway through intercourse or taking it off before intercourse is over, failing to leave space at the tip of the condom for semen, and failing to look for damage before use. These errors can contribute to breakage or leakage, researchers reported in the journal Sexual Health.

  27 February 2012 | MSNBC

• South Sudan - Condoms to South Sudanese military to stem HIV-AIDS

  UNFPA provides condoms to South Sudanese military to stem HIV/AIDS. The UN Population Fund (UNFPA) is working with a non-governmental organization (NGO) to provide condoms to the South Sudanese military in a bid to tackle the high rates of HIV/AIDS among the country’s soldiers.

  19 February 2012 | Manual Items

• Femidoms still a taboo

  Female condoms were introduced over a decade ago, but they still remain a taboo subject with many South Africans; negative perceptions from the product’s intended users and a perceived low demand for female condoms have considerably slowed its distribution and accessibility.

  15 February 2012 | Health e-News

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