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• Treatment as prevention: what are the next steps?

  Infectiousness and treatment as prevention
  Keith Alcorn | 20 July 2011

  Turning treatment into a prevention tool that can end the HIV pandemic will require not one, but a host of different improvements, in the delivery of health care to achieve its full ...

• Malawi MSM survey reveals very high HIV acquisition and transmission risks

  Transmission and prevention
  Gus Cairns | 03 August 2008

  The first figures released from a series of systematic surveys of men who have sex with men in southern Africa has revealed, at least in the first site analysed in ...

• $100 million grant programme for innovative approaches to health systems strengthening in Africa

  Keith Alcorn | 28 September 2007

  The Doris Duke Charitable Foundation (DDCF) is to provide $100 million over five to seven years to African-led partnerships working on innovative strategies to overcome barriers to integrated primary healthcare ...

• Contributions by (RED) to the Global Fund reach $45 million

  Epidemiology
  Keith Alcorn | 26 September 2007

  (RED), the initiative launched last year to engage corporate and consumer power in the fight against AIDS in Africa, says that sales of RED-branded products have raised more than $45 ...

• Genital herpes associated with higher genital and plasma HIV viral load in women

  Transmission and prevention
  Adam Legge | 22 August 2007

  Women with genital ulcers as a result of the herpes simplex virus have more HIV in both their blood and their cervicovaginal fluid, according to French researchers writing in the ...

• Watch your HIV epidemic closely, warns World Bank scientist, or risk pointless prevention work

  Transmission and prevention
  Keith Alcorn | 04 July 2007

  There has been controversy in some African countries about the decisions by the US government to downgrade spending on generalised condom promotion, but evidence from Uganda shows that a much ...

• UNAIDS AIDS epidemic update 2006: headlines

  Epidemiology
  Keith Alcorn | 21 November 2006

  UNAIDS today released new global estimates on the scale of the AIDS pandemic, and reported that approximately 39.5 million people are living with HIV in 2006, 2.6 million more than ...

• Younger women in Africa have increased condom use

  Transmission and prevention
  Michael Carter | 17 November 2006

  The sense of failure surrounding HIV prevention efforts in Sub-Saharan Africa is unjustified, as there has been a significant increase in recent years in the proportion of young women reporting ...