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  Uncomfortable news on lubes for anal sex

  Commercially available sexual lubricants may increase people’s susceptibility to sexually transmitted infection (STIs), US scientists reported recently. A study found that people who consistently used shop-bought ‘lubes’ for...

  From:  HIV treatment update

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  Cervical cancer in women with HIV

  Cervical cancer is one of the major causes of death and illness in women globally.Cervical cancer is...

  From:  HIV & AIDS treatment in practice

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  Staying safe inside: HIV and hepatitis C health care in prison

  Policies on safer sex and needle exchange in UK prisons seem to have stalled. With a high and increasing prevalence of hepatitis C in our jails, and...

  From:  HIV treatment update

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  HIV-positive women in clinical trials: A gap in the facts

  Sharon L Walmsley is one of a group of female physicians, experts and patient advocates who together set up Women for Positive Action, an organisation that campaigns...

  From:  HIV treatment update

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  Stigma begins at home

  The stigma attached to having HIV is one of the most all-pervasive aspects of living with the virus. HTU plans a series of articles addressing this complex subject....

  From:  HIV treatment update

Populations in your own words

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  Diagnosed far from home

  I still remember the very cold January morning; I was not listening to the pre-counselling, I thought it did not concern me. I just...

  From:In your own words

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  My hero!

  Sex. It’s messy, fraught with all sorts of psychological problems and yes, it’s obviously what got me into this whole predicament in the first place....

  From:In your own words

Populations news from aidsmap

• Black gay men run higher risk of HIV infection despite fewer partners

  An analysis of four studies of sexual risk and HIV infection in US gay men, presented at the 20th Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI 2013), has found a 22% higher risk of HIV infection per sexual ...

  06 March 2013 | Gus Cairns

• Consistent condom use in anal sex stops 70% of HIV infections, study finds, but intermittent use has no effect

  An analysis by Dawn Smith of the US Centers for Disease Control (CDC) reported at the 20th Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI 2013) on 4 March has provided the first estimate of the efficacy of condoms ...

  04 March 2013 | Gus Cairns

• US gay youth PrEP study meets recruitment and adherence problems

  A small six-month pilot study of the feasibility and acceptability of pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) in young gay men aged 18 to 22 in the US found that although participants reported adherence levels of 80%, their actual adherence (in the ...

  02 March 2013 | Gus Cairns

• In resource-rich countries, migrants have a higher risk of progressing to AIDS in the first year of HIV therapy

  Rates of AIDS-defining illnesses in the first year of antiretroviral therapy are significantly higher among migrant than non-migrant populations in resource-rich countries, investigators report in the online edition of AIDS. The difference was mainly driven by higher rates of tuberculosis ...

  01 March 2013 | Michael Carter

• Steep fall in incidence of TB among HIV-positive heterosexuals in the UK

  Incidence of tuberculosis (TB) among HIV-positive heterosexual people in England and Wales declined significantly between 2002 and 2010, investigators report in the online edition of AIDS. The fall is attributed to changes in the epidemiology of HIV in the ...

  15 January 2013 | Michael Carter

• Young people know less about HIV and are less trustful of condoms, French survey finds

  The first survey for six years of attitudes to HIV and sexual risk behaviour among the general public in France has found that young people are less frightened of AIDS than they used to be, are more likely to ...

  10 January 2013 | Gus Cairns

• US research shows that HPV vaccination could prevent pre-cancerous anal cell changes in HIV-positive gay men

  Vaccination against cancer-associated strains of human papillomavirus (HPV) could be highly effective at preventing pre-cancerous anal cell changes in men living with HIV, according to research published in the online edition of the Journal of Infectious Diseases. The cross-sectional study ...

  03 January 2013 | Michael Carter

• Very high rates of HIV infection among gay/bisexual male youths in the United States

  Over a quarter of new HIV infections in the US involve young people aged between 13 and 24, investigators report in the November 27th edition of MMWR Weekly Report. Approximately 75% of these infections involved gay and bisexual young ...

  29 November 2012 | Michael Carter

• Low levels of vitamin D associated with poorer long-term CD4 cell gains in women who start HIV treatment late

  Vitamin D insufficiency is associated with poorer CD4 cell recovery among women who start HIV treatment late, US investigators report in the online edition of AIDS. After taking into account factors such as viral load, the authors found ...

  27 November 2012 | Michael Carter

• Unprotected sex reported by the majority of sexually active adolescents infected with HIV since birth

  Close to two-thirds of sexually active adolescents infected with HIV at birth have had unprotected sex, US investigators report in the online edition of Clinical Infectious Diseases. Many of those initiating sexual activity had a high viral load ...

  21 November 2012 | Michael Carter

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• Exquisite Corpse: The Stigma of HIV and AIDS

  "Sofia, Samira and I were waiting impatiently to get our HIV test results. The atmosphere in the waiting room seemed quiet and unpleasant. I could observe fear and frustration on everybody's faces; a fear of being HIV positive, a fear of becoming an outcast among our friends, our families and our society.... "...[Sofia] wasn’t crying just because of being infected with HIV, she was crying because she knew the awful life that was coming. A life of being prejudged unjustly, being accused of what she was not responsible for, and being treated like a cheap prostitute...After the painful experience Sofia went through, she left the city the next morning, and since then nobody has heard from her."

  10 October 2012 | City College News

• Philippines: HIV-tainted blood donations continue to increase

  The number of units of donated blood contaminated with the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) rose by 18 percent this year, according to data from the latest Philippine HIV/AIDS Registry. The country is currently experiencing one of the shapest rises in HIV prevalence of any country in the world, largely due to sex between men.

  09 October 2012 | GMA News

• Porn trade group calls for nationwide moratorium while L.A. officials investigate syphilis outbreak

  A pornography trade group has called for a nationwide filming moratorium while performers are tested for syphilis and Los Angeles County public health officials investigate a possible outbreak of the sexually transmitted disease.

  21 August 2012 | New York Daily News

• ‘Gay cure’ therapist loses appeal against the British Association of Counselling and Psychotherapy

  Lesley Pilkington, a psychotherapist who was found guilty of ‘professional malpractice’ for using the techniques of ‘conversion therapy’ (a bogus form of treatment which is supposed to make gay people become straight) has lost her appeal against the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP). Mrs Pilkington was found guilty of malpractice last year after trying to convert a gay client to heterosexuality, with the BACP describing her practice as ‘negligent’, ‘dogmatic’ and ‘unprofessional’.

  24 May 2012 | British Humanist Association

• 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

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