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  Hillary Clinton pledges money for vulnerable minorities, reproductive rights, AIDS-free families

  US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton received a relatively warm reception yesterday at the 19th International AIDS Conference (AIDS 2012) in Washington DC, as she supported the...

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• Study of South African sex worker characteristics could assist in informing policy decisions

  Male and transgender sex workers in South Africa are at particularly high risk of HIV infection and have significant unmet prevention needs, according to results of a large multi-site study presented last month at the Southern African HIV Clinicians ...

  14 December 2012 | Lesley Odendal

• Female sex workers have 14 times the risk of having HIV as other women

  Although researchers and public health organisations in most low and middle income countries have not collected any recent data on the prevalence of HIV in female sex workers, the data that do exist are alarming, the 19th International AIDS ...

  31 July 2012 | Roger Pebody

• Hillary Clinton pledges money for vulnerable minorities, reproductive rights, AIDS-free families

  US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton received a relatively warm reception yesterday at the 19th International AIDS Conference (AIDS 2012) in Washington DC, as she supported the reproductive rights of women with HIV, unveiled a $37m programme to help ...

  24 July 2012 | Gus Cairns

• Criminalising condom possession by sex workers is a global trend

  There's nothing new about sex work being illegal – a fact that remains the norm in many countries – but now sex workers are being targeted for simply trying to protect their health and the health of their clients ...

  24 July 2012 | Mara Kardas-Nelson

• Vaginal discharge is a poor way of diagnosing STIs, with asymptomatic infections associated with an increased risk of HIV

  Symptoms are a poor way of detecting discharge-causing sexually transmitted infections (STIs) in women, investigators report in the 1 July edition of the Journal of Infectious Diseases. The research was conducted in South Africa, where diagnosis of STIs relies ...

  26 June 2012 | Michael Carter

• Poor adherence may be an obstacle to intermittent PrEP

  Adherence to intermittent pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) is significantly poorer than adherence to daily PrEP, according to a study published in PLoS One. The research involved men who have sex with men (MSM) and female sex workers in Kenya. Average adherence ...

  06 June 2012 | Michael Carter

• Men who have sex with men may now be the highest-risk group for HIV in Africa, IAVI study suggests

  Men who have sex with men may now be at considerably higher risk of acquiring HIV than other at-risk groups such as female sex workers or young people of either sex, if findings by the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative ...

  01 February 2012 | Gus Cairns

• Concerns about efficacy, cost and side-effects possible barriers to PrEP uptake in groups with high HIV risk

  Concerns about cost, efficacy, and side-effects are possible barriers to the acceptability of pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) in key at-risk groups, a study conducted in Peru and published in the International Journal of STD and AIDS shows. “Important barriers to ...

  13 June 2011 | Michael Carter

• HIV risk factors common in Central and Eastern European gay men who have migrated to the UK

  Gay men from Central and Eastern Europe who have migrated to the UK are at risk of HIV and other sexually transmitted infections, investigators report in the online edition of Sexually Transmitted Infections. Approximately a quarter of men reported ...

  05 January 2011 | Michael Carter

• HIV infections soar amongst Eastern European 'street youth'

  As many as 40% of young people living on the streets in some areas of Eastern Europe are infected with HIV, according to doctors, activists and UNICEF representatives presenting at the Eighteenth International AIDS Conference in ...

  20 July 2010 | Mara Kardas-Nelson

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• China’s prostitutes routinely extorted, abused by police, report says

  Possession of condoms often is used as evidence of sex workers’ guilt, causing many prostitutes to avoid carrying them and elevating the risk of disease. Abuses by health agencies — such as coerced HIV testing and disclosure of HIV status — also have made women distrustful of health officials, according to a report by Human Rights Watch.

  14 May 2013 | Washington Post

• Cambodia on track to eliminate HIV transmission by 2020

  The World Health Organisation says Cambodia is on track to become one of the few countries in the world to successfully reverse its HIV epidemic and may eliminate new infections by 2020. The Southeast Asian nation has reduced its HIV prevalence rate from a 1998 peak of 1.7 percent among people aged 15-49 to 0.7 percent in 2012 across the whole population

  13 May 2013 | Radio Australia

• Right to remain silent

  The US Supreme Court should overturn the 2003 law that requires federally funded HIV/AIDS programmes abroad to denounce prostitution.

  09 May 2013 | Nature

• U.S. justices conflicted over AIDS funding case

  Supreme Court justices appeared divided on Monday as they considered a challenge to a law requiring non-profit organizations to adopt an anti-prostitution policy in order to obtain federal funding for HIV/AIDS programs abroad.

  23 April 2013 | Reuters

• Fights against AIDS, sex traffic collide at high court

  Two worthy goals come into conflict on Monday at the Supreme Court: preventing the global spread of HIV/AIDS and discouraging the sex trafficking of women and girls.

  22 April 2013 | USA Today

• Mozambique mining boom brings fear of rising HIV infection rate

  Coal boom adds to complications for health workers trying to stop spread of HIV among miners, truck drivers and sex workers.

  15 April 2013 | The Guardian

• Prostitution policy splits NGOs in top court AIDS case

  A Supreme Court case that challenges a law requiring anti-prostitution policies for HIV/AIDS programs seeking federal money has generated a split among nonprofit groups that counsel sex workers overseas. The case involves a 2003 law that bars funding for groups that work on HIV/AIDS prevention but do not have a policy opposing prostitution and sex trafficking.

  10 April 2013 | Reuters

• Sex work, violence and HIV: experience from rural Karnataka

  Working with women in sex work for the last 10 years in rural South India has taught me that it is not HIV that is a priority in their lives but issues like violence, stigma and discrimination and uncertainties related to their children’s future. We organised a participatory workshop with sex workers to understand the extent of violence in these intimate relationships, including causes of violence.

  14 March 2013 | Open Democracy

• Blame and HIV: views from Soroti town, Uganda

  The government should address how its own officials understand HIV. Not doing so allows blame and stigma to flourish - and this puts more people, not less, at risk argues Williams Moi.

  08 February 2013 | Key Correspondents

• Supreme Court to hear free speech case on anti-prostitution rule

  Congress requires groups receiving funds to fight HIV and AIDS globally to have a standard opposing prostitution. Justices will hear the case in spring.

  14 January 2013 | Los Angeles Times

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