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  • HPV vaccine completion rate among girls is poor, getting worse

    (University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston) The proportion of insured girls and young women completing the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine among those who initiated the series has dropped significantly -- as much as 63 percent -- since the vaccine was approved in 2006, according to new research from the University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB) in Galveston.

    05 May 2012 | Eurekalert Medicine & Health

  • UGANDA: Hearing impaired demand inclusion in HIV programmes

    KAMPALA, 2 April 2012 (PLUSNEWS) - Leaders of the hearing impaired community in Uganda say the government's HIV programmes have failed them because their special needs are not taken into consideration.

    02 April 2012 | IRIN Plus News

  • More focus on men needed in HIV prevention

    Edward Mills of the University of Ottawa, Canada and colleagues argue in this week's PLoS Medicine that the HIV/AIDS response in Africa needs a more balanced approach to gender, so that both men and women are involved in HIV treatment and prevention.

    07 February 2012 | Eurekalert Inf Dis

  • Few Treatment Options for Afghans as Drug Use Rises

    New York Times

    This is another of Afghanistan's afflictions: a growing drug addiction problem and all the ills that come with that, not least HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, which can be transmitted when addicts share needles.

    27 August 2011 | New York Times

  • Zimbabwe: Women's Latest Bargaining Tool

    "WOMEN think that when you're married, you don't have to worry about HIV. They think it is a safe haven,"said Beauty Nyamwanza of the National Aids Council.

    24 August 2011 | AllAfrica

  • Philippines: HIV infections rising steadily among Filipino youth

    MANILA: HIV infections are rising steadily among the Filipino youth and experts say this is the result of engaging in risky sexual behaviours.

    18 August 2011 | Channel News Asia

  • Overseas Filipino workers prone to HIV & AIDS?

    MANILA: One out of every four Filipinos diagnosed with HIV is an overseas Filipino worker.

    Non-governmental organisations (NGOs) say there's a need to heighten awareness among them, to curb the spread of the disease.

    17 August 2011 | channelnewsasia

  • Boys who masturbate are likelier to have safe sex

    Teenage boys who masturbate are much more likely to use condoms when they do have sex, according to a study in the Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine. Eighty-six per cent of boys who said they masturbated had used a condom last time they had sex compared with 44% who said they didn't.

    04 August 2011 | Reuters Health

  • Why some MSM present late for HIV testing: a qualitative analysis

    Qualitative interviews with HIV+ UK gay men who presented late for HIV testing reveals four themes that contribute to late testing:

    • Fear of illness and dying

    • Perceived stigma against people who test for HIV and who live with it

    • Perceived low risk for contracting HIV

    • Strong views that a more active approach by healthcare services, including general practice, is necessary if the uptake of HIV testing is to increase.

    08 May 2011 | AIDS Care

  • Five Things About HIV They're Not Telling You

    Gay men are still forced to piece together the latest facts about HIV, largely due to the reticence of public health messages -- or just plain homophobia.

    12 January 2011 | The Body
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