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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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  South African AIDS Conference: Special Issue

  The 5th South African AIDS Conference, held from 7-10 June, 2011 in Durban, showcased the recent remarkable achievements of the country’s HIV/AIDS response. Consequently, the conference was...

  From:HIV & AIDS treatment in practice

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• Half of women at east London HIV clinic have experienced intimate partner violence

  Half the female patients at the HIV clinic in Homerton Hospital, east London, have suffered intimate partner violence, Dr Rageshri Dhairyawan told the British HIV Association (BHIVA) conference in Birmingham yesterday. One in seven had experienced it in the ...

  19 April 2012 | Roger Pebody

• Gay partners' HIV transmission study due to start, despite practical barriers

  A large study looking at HIV infections in gay men who are within long-term relationships with HIV-positive partners is about to start in Australia, the International Microbicides Conference in Sydney heard today. This Opposites Attract study will look at the ...

  17 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

• A new patient zero? Researchers may have spotted animal-to-human immunodeficiency virus transfer

  A group of scientists working in Ivory Coast may have discovered a case of infection of a human with a novel variety of an animal immunodeficiency virus, in circumstances that suggest it was a direct infection from an animal. ...

  07 March 2012 | Gus Cairns

• Substantial number of HIV infections in UK-born patients acquired abroad

  A substantial number of HIV infections in UK-born individuals were acquired abroad, investigators report in HIV Medicine. Overall, 15% of HIV infections in UK nationals were probably acquired abroad, and “sex tourism” was a risk factor. “We provide evidence of a ...

  22 February 2012 | Michael Carter

• Men who have sex with men may now be the highest-risk group for HIV in Africa, IAVI study suggests

  Men who have sex with men may now be at considerably higher risk of acquiring HIV than other at-risk groups such as female sex workers or young people of either sex, if findings by the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative ...

  01 February 2012 | Gus Cairns

• Alcohol increases desire for sex without condoms: systematic review

  Alcohol consumption has an impact on the intention of individuals to have unprotected sex, according to the results of a systematic review and meta-analysis published in the journal Addiction. “The higher the blood alcohol content, the more pronounced the intention ...

  21 December 2011 | Michael Carter

• Gay men having unprotected sex think that having HIV is still a big deal, but that it’s now harder to transmit

  A study of Australian gay men examining unprotected sex and the beliefs that are associated with it has found that the concept of ‘treatments optimism’ needs to be unpacked. While some men do think that having HIV is less ...

  19 December 2011 | Roger Pebody

• 3000 UK gay men diagnosed with HIV in 2010 – the highest number ever reported

  Against a background of fewer diagnoses among heterosexuals infected abroad, the number of gay men diagnosed with HIV in the UK continues to rise, the Health Protection Agency announced today. Moreover, one quarter of them had recently acquired their ...

  29 November 2011 | Roger Pebody

• LGV cases almost triple in one year; UK public health officials warn against serosorting

  The number of gay men infected with the sexually transmitted infection lymphogranuloma venereum (LGV) has almost tripled in one year, and the UK now has the world’s worst epidemic of LGV, the Health Protection Agency reported ...

  29 November 2011 | Roger Pebody

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• Australia: Sex tourism to Thailand and Indonesia driving rise in HIV cases

  Sex tourism to Thailand and Indonesia driving rise in HIV casesCourier MailDRUNKEN lads' holidays in Thailand and Indonesia, involving unprotected sex with prostitutes, are boosting Queensland's HIV rate.

  20 May 2012 | Courier Mail

• Aids and ignorance thrive as Swaziland struggles for funds to fight disease

  Despite improving healthcare and information campaigns, country still has world's highest infection rateSwaziland has the miserable distinction of the highest HIV rate in the world, with more than one in four adults estimated to be carrying the virus.

  10 May 2012 | The Guardian

• HIV Compounds Poverty in Nepal

  Life, already hard in Nepal's remote western region, is getting worse thanks to HIV infection brought back by men who go to neighbouring India for seasonal work.

  10 May 2012 | Inter Press Service

• Cuba: A Regime’s Tight Grip on AIDS

  Whatever debate may linger about the government’s harsh early tactics — until 1993, everyone who tested positive for H.I.V. was forced into quarantine — there is no question that they succeeded. Cuba now has one of the world’s smallest epidemics, a mere 14,038 cases. Its infection rate is 0.1 percent, on par with Finland, Singapore and Kazakhstan.

  08 May 2012 | New York Times

• HIV/AIDS: Voices From Cuba

  Profiles of a number of Cubans living with HIV

  08 May 2012 | New York Times

• UGANDA: Inadequate healthcare and rising HIV prevalence in Karamoja

  The nomadic Karimojong ethnic group, once regarded as a low-risk HIV population because regional instability in northeastern Uganda and strong adherence to their culture kept them relatively isolated, have not been a priority on the country's HIV agenda, but recent statistics show prevalence among this community is now 5.8 percent, up from 3.5 percent five years ago.

  30 April 2012 | IRIN Plus News

• Study: Craigslist Drives STD Spread

  You can find pretty much anything on Craigslist. Unfortunately, that apparently includes sexually transmitted diseases.

  23 April 2012 | Investor Place

• PAPUA NEW GUINEA: Violence and belief in magic raise risk of HIV for women

  PORT MORESBY, 18 April 2012 (PLUSNEWS) - High levels of sexual violence and a cultural belief in witchcraft are putting an increasing number of women at risk of HIV in Papua New Guinea (PNG), health experts say.

  18 April 2012 | IRIN Plus News

• RUSSIA: Censorship and Dirty Needles Fuel HIV/AIDS Epidemic

  A recent government crackdown on Russian media, particularly online information portals specialising in health tips and harm reduction methods for drug users, has sparked widespread public opposition, with critics claiming that the "draconian silencing" of public health advocates could worsen an already perilous health situation in the country.

  13 April 2012 | IPS

• Rwanda: Millennium HIV-Aids Goal Is Achievable By 2015

  Although HIV/Aids is no longer the killer disease that it was in the 1980s, it is still a big threat to everyone and efforts in fighting it continue to be extensive all around the world. To this end, the United Nations made this fight part of the Millennium Development Goals in article 6A which aims to have halted the spread of HIV/AIDS by 2015 and begun to reverse it and in 6B which targets universal access to treatment for HIV/AIDS for all those who need it by 2010.

  09 April 2012 | AllAfrica

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