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• How to tackle HIV stigma among health care workers

  Experiences of stigma
  Mara Kardas-Nelson | 02 August 2012

  Stemming in part from negative associations with the virus itself, and in part from marginalisation of populations highly impacted by the virus, stigma and discrimination has long dissuaded people from accessing HIV-related services. ...

• Anal HPV infection more likely to persist in gay men compared to heterosexual men

  Sexually transmitted infections
  Michael Carter | 03 November 2011

  An international team of investigators have found a possible explanation for the higher rates of anal cancer observed in men who have sex with men (MSM) compared to men who have sex ...

• What's next for HIV prevention? Paying people to be healthy

  Behaviour change interventions
  Roger Pebody | 25 July 2011

  Researchers are investigating the impact of offering financial incentives to people who are at risk of acquiring or passing on HIV, the International AIDS Society conference (IAS 2011) in Rome heard last ...

• Behaviour change programmes have had little impact on HIV incidence amongst girls and women in poorer countries

  Behaviour change interventions
  Michael Carter | 19 May 2010

  Behavioural change interventions to prevent sexual transmission of HIV among women and girls in resource-limited settings have had limited success, according to a systematic review published in the online edition ...

• H1N1 in people with HIV: severity of disease generally unaffected, vaccine responses may be blunted

  Vaccines
  Derek Thaczuk | 25 February 2010

  Several studies on H1N1 vaccines and clinical outcomes in people with HIV were presented as posters and in a discussion session Friday at the 17th Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic ...

• Tesamorelin safe and effective for fat accumulation in patients taking HIV treatment

  New and experimental HIV treatments
  Michael Carter | 03 February 2010

  Treatment with tesamorelin significantly improves visceral fat accumulation in patients with HIV, an international team of investigators report in the online edition of the Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes. ...

• DetecTB study shows intensified case finding can reduce burden of TB within community with high HIV prevalence

  Tuberculosis and HIV
  Theo Smart | 08 January 2010

  Going into communities to actively screen for tuberculosis (TB) can uncover a very large number of TB cases in settings with a high prevalence of HIV — and within a ...

• Household contact tracing reveals extensive community spread of MDR and XDR TB

  Tuberculosis and HIV
  Lois Eldred | 08 January 2010

  Approximately half of adult household contacts of drug resistant TB cases had resistance profiles that differed from the index case of TB, according to a presentation given by Dr. Tony ...