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Cambodia on track to eliminate HIV transmission by 2020

The World Health Organisation says Cambodia is on track to become one of the few countries in the world to successfully reverse its HIV epidemic and may eliminate new infections by 2020. The Southeast Asian nation has reduced its HIV prevalence rate from a 1998 peak of 1.7 percent among people aged 15-49 to 0.7 percent in 2012 across the whole population

Published
13 May 2013
From
Radio Australia
Epidemiology and behaviour
Little cross-border spread of HIV seen in 26-country European study

Despite international travel and fluid population movement across Europe, three quarters of clustered new infections in a 26-country study involved people from the same country and another 10% involved people from a neighboring country.

Published
07 May 2013
From
International AIDS Society
Epidemiology and behaviour
Lack Of Data On Gay Men Impedes HIV Fight In Central Asia

In recent years, the countries of Central Asia have experienced some of the fastest growing rates of HIV infection in the world. One of the key populations at risk is men who have sex with men (MSM). However, an acute lack of data on the health of that population -- due in large part to intense stigmatization of homosexuality – may be obscuring the region's HIV epidemic.

Published
07 May 2013
From
RadioFreeEurope / RadioLiberty
Epidemiology and behaviour
Young black Brooklyn males struggling with sexual identify fuel Brooklyn HIV crisis

A new generation of young Brooklyn black males - many who hide their sexual identify - are worrying doctors who say they are fueling the borough's HIV epidemic.

Published
25 April 2013
From
NY Daily News
Epidemiology and behaviour
Study shows why HIV risks greater among men under 30

Young men who have sex with men have more instability in their lives and less access to HIV prevention and treatment than their older counterparts, a new study shows.

Published
22 April 2013
From
The Desert Sun
Epidemiology and behaviour
San Francisco: A New Phase in the HIV Epidemic Among MSM

In San Francisco, HIV incidence did not increase between 2004 and 2011 among men who have sex with men, despite ongoing risk behavior.

Published
16 April 2013
From
Journal Watch
Epidemiology and behaviour
Mozambique mining boom brings fear of rising HIV infection rate

Coal boom adds to complications for health workers trying to stop spread of HIV among miners, truck drivers and sex workers.

Published
15 April 2013
From
The Guardian
HIV prevention policy
Ukraine's HIV battle

Twelve years ago Lucy Ash investigated Ukraine's fight against HIV infection, which was mainly caused by injecting drug users. After the Orange Revolution in late 2004, the government promised to do everything it could to fight the disease and the situation seemed to improve. But now Ukraine has the second highest infection rate in Europe, surpassed only by Russia.

Published
11 April 2013
From
BBC Radio 4 (audio)
Epidemiology and behaviour
Gay sex to blame for 1700 new HIV infections among Chinese students, experts say

Senior health experts say that sex between men is the main cause HIV infections among Chinese college students rose by 25% last year.

Published
08 April 2013
From
Gay Star News
Epidemiology and behaviour
69,000 new HIV cases reported in Russia

More than 69,000 new cases of HIV were recorded in Russia last year, the country's top public health official said.

Published
26 March 2013
From
Newstrack India
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