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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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  Getting tough on criminalisation

  “Nothing short of barbaric.” This was the comment of a BBC presenter, confronted with the number and sheer arbitrary injustice of criminal convictions of people accused of transmitting...

  From:HIV treatment update

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  Safer sex in the treatment era

  There is mounting evidence that reducing viral load through HIV treatment may be one of the most effective ways of stopping onward transmission of HIV. But how...

  From:HIV treatment update

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  Do HIV drugs really mean you aren’t infectious?

  Gus Cairns looks at new research on this controversial subject. ...

  From:HIV treatment update

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  Love is a danger

  American researchers have reported that gay men in the US are more likely to contract HIV from their main sexual partner than from casual sex.  What are the...

  From:HIV treatment update

Sexual transmission 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

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  Bored and horny

  It’s Sunday afternoon and it’s raining. I’m bored and horny. However, I’ve got £20 left over from the night before and this will be enough...

  From:In your own words

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  Anger - I was furious

  I wasn’t really surprised when I found out I had HIV, after all I went to have an HIV test because I had all the...

  From:In your own words

Sexual transmission news from aidsmap

• Substantial number of HIV infections in UK-born patients acquired abroad

  A substantial number of HIV infections in UK-born individuals were acquired abroad, investigators report in HIV Medicine. Overall, 15% of HIV infections in UK nationals were probably acquired abroad, and “sex tourism” was a risk factor. “We provide evidence of a ...

  5 hours ago | Michael Carter

• Alcohol increases desire for sex without condoms: systematic review

  Alcohol consumption has an impact on the intention of individuals to have unprotected sex, according to the results of a systematic review and meta-analysis published in the journal Addiction. “The higher the blood alcohol content, the more pronounced the intention ...

  21 December 2011 | Michael Carter

• Contraceptive injections and HIV transmission risk - what happens now?

  With new data suggesting that injectable contraceptives may double the risk both of acquiring and passing on HIV, how will this affect women’s contraceptive choices? What are the implications for family planning policy in countries with ...

  26 October 2011 | Roger Pebody

• PrEP acceptable to gay men and few report that it would change their risk behaviour

  Approximately 50% of American gay men said they were likely to use pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP), but few reported that it would lead to a change in their risk behaviour, according to data presented to the International AIDS Society conference ...

  10 August 2011 | Michael Carter

• Pregnancy doubled risk of female-to-male HIV transmission in Partners in Prevention study

  Pregnancy increased the risks of female-to-male HIV transmission twofold among over 3300 serodiscordant couples from seven African countries, Nelly R Mugo and colleagues reported in a prospective study published in the advance online edition of AIDS. The risks of becoming infected ...

  05 August 2011 | Carole Leach-Lemens

• Narrow window to avert HIV epidemics among MSM in Middle East and North Africa

  HIV epidemics are emerging among men who have sex with men (MSM) in a number of Middle Eastern and North African countries, an international team of investigators report in the online journal PLoSMedicine. Prevalence of HIV was as high as 28% ...

  02 August 2011 | Michael Carter

• Hormonal contraceptive use increases women’s risk of acquiring and transmitting HIV

  A two-year, seven-country study has concluded that women using hormonal contraceptives, particularly injectable forms, are at a greater risk both of acquiring HIV themselves and of passing it on to a male sexual partner. Presenting the results to the ...

  21 July 2011 | Roger Pebody

• Small study shows women on stable HIV therapy have very low levels of HIV and high drug concentrations in genital fluids

  A study of paired samples collected from the blood and cervico-vaginal fluid (CVF) of 20 women on stable antiretroviral therapy has found little evidence that there are infectious quantities of cell-free virus in CVF in women on stable therapy. ...

  19 July 2011 | Gus Cairns

• Viral suppression reduces HIV risk despite more sex and 'condom fatigue' in patients starting treatment in Cameroon

  Concerns that HIV treatment may lead to increased rates of unprotected sex and a decline in condom use need to be considered in the context of the very substantial reduction in the risk of HIV transmission ...

  19 July 2011 | Gus Cairns

• Bacterial vaginosis raises women's risk of transmitting HIV

  A man who is in a relationship with an HIV-positive woman has a three times higher risk of acquiring HIV if his partner also has bacterial vaginosis, Craig Cohen told the Sixth International AIDS Society conference (IAS 2011) in ...

  18 July 2011 | Roger Pebody

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Sexual transmission news selected from other sources

• WHO to issue guidance on hormonal contraceptives and HIV

  The World Health Organization (WHO) will later this month issue further guidance on the reported link between hormonal contraceptives such as the pill, injectables, implants and HIV.

  06 February 2012 | UNAIDS

• Semen Protein Boosts HIV Transmission

  Researchers identify a protein in semen that enhances the transmission of HIV in culture, but whether it increases infectivity in humans is not yet known.

  15 December 2011 | The Scientist

• Contraception and HIV transmission: Scientists and the media must give a balanced view

  James Shelton, science adviser to the Bureau of Global Health, comments on recent reporting on a study of hormonal contraception and the risk of HIV infection.

  04 November 2011 | Nature

• Nigeria: HIV/Aids - '70 Percent of New Infections Found in Couples'

  The Mode of Transmission Survey (MOT) conducted last March by the Kaduna State Agency for Control of AIDS (KADSACA) and Enhancing Nigeria Response (ENR) shows that about 70 percent of new infections are found in couples, KADSACA Executive Secretary Mr. Patrick Katuka has said.

  01 November 2011 | AllAfrica

• Uganda: Research Links Rapid HIV Spread to Malaria Infections

  Malaria could be contributing to the spread of HIV in Uganda by making carriers more likely to pass on the viral disease to their sexual partners, according to a new research.

  30 September 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

• Nigeria: Couples With Different HIV/Aids Status Can Lead Normal Lives

  Though a cure for HIV/AIDS is yet to be found, the Director General of NACA Professor John Idoko says couple with different status (one negative and the other positive) can marry, give birth to negative babies, live a normal life, using treatment as prevention.

  02 August 2011 | AllAfrica

• Africa: Anal sex HIV risk misunderstood among heterosexuals

  Vaginal sex, thigh sex, even armpit sex - people have sex in lots of ways, but in heterosexual anal sex, HIV prevention programming is silent about the high risk of infection that goes with it, and people may have mistaken this silence for safety.

  22 June 2011 | IRIN Plus News

• Fertility treatment can use semen from men with HIV

  Fertility treatments can be done safely and effectively in couples where the man is infected with the AIDS virus and the women isn't, according to a new review of past studies.

  27 March 2011 | Reuters

• Studies in Post-Menopausal Women Reveal Potentially Higher Biological HIV Risk, as Well as Possible Tenofovir Concerns

  A little light from CROI 2011 has shone into the dark corners of research into aging women with HIV/AIDS. Two oral presentations compared HIV risk in pre-menopausal versus post-menopausal women.

  01 March 2011 | The BodyPro

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