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Issue 202: December 2010

Published: 02 December 2010

  • In this issue

    December 2nd, says the diary. The day after World AIDS Day (WAD), an occasion I’ve sometimes been cynical about in the past. So nice for the world...

  • Another weapon against HIV

    There has been good news this month. The Pope changed 2000 years of Catholic doctrine by saying condom use might under certain circumstances be OK, because...

  • The prescription for old age

    What will happen as the HIV-positive population grows older is already the topic most frequently suggested by readers for HIV Treatment Update to cover. It was recently the...

  • The whether forecast: HIV services in the cutback era

    Some HIV experts are wondering not what our services will look like in the future but in some areas, whether there will be any HIV-specific services at all....

  • News in brief

    The annual report on the UK HIV epidemic from the Health Protection Agency (HPA) reveals that the number of new HIV diagnoses declined last year for the...

  • The beginning of change: the 2010 CHIVA summer camp

    Following on from our issue looking at young people, in October, guest writer Bakita Kasadha talks to the organisers and participants in the UK’s summer camp for teenagers...

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