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Studies have reported HIV superinfection incidence rates of between 0 and 7.7 percent per year, but understanding of the phenomenon is hazy.
10 June 2013 | AIDSMeds
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In early 2012 WHO convened a meeting of experts to discuss research on use of hormonal contraception by women at high risk of HIV and those currently living with HIV. The conclusions and recommendations from the Consultation have already been published. However during the consultation multiple programmatic and research issues emerged, including priority knowledge gaps. This brief serves to highlight actions that programmes providing sexual and reproductive health and HIV-prevention services should undertake, in order to complement the Consultation’s recommendations. Directions for future research to address current gaps are noted.
03 June 2013 | World Health Organization
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A new generation of young Brooklyn black males - many who hide their sexual identify - are worrying doctors who say they are fueling the borough's HIV epidemic.
25 April 2013 | NY Daily News
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A new report suggests that the concentration of one human cytokine, interleukin 7 (IL-7), in the semen of HIV-1-infected men may be a key determinant of the efficiency of HIV-1 transmission to an uninfected female partner.
07 March 2013 | EurekAlert (press release)
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Having suggested in 2011 that the urethra is a novel entry site for HIV, a team from the Institut Cochin has now confirmed this hypothesis and identified the cells and mechanisms brought into play: the immune system cells macrophages, present in the epithelium of the urethra, allow the entry of HIV.
04 March 2013 | News-Medical.net
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An immune system protein normally found in semen appears to enhance the spread of HIV to tissue from the uterine cervix, according to researchers at the National Institutes of Health.
11 February 2013 | US National Institutes of Health
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New research suggests that heterosexual couples in long-term relationships who have sexual encounters outside their established partnership (extra-couple relationships) are one of the main drivers of the HIV epidemic in sub-Saharan Africa.
05 February 2013 | Medical Xpress
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In a wide–ranging interview that poses difficult questions, Bob Leahy asks Toronto-based clinician/scientist Dr. Rupert Kaul about how can we interpret risk of HIV transmission in the age of undetectable viral load.
09 November 2012 | Positive Lite
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A new study has found that even though HIV diversifies widely within infected individuals over time, the virus strains that ultimately are passed on through heterosexual transmission often resemble the strain of virus that originally infected the transmitting partner. Learning the characteristics of these preferentially transmitted HIV strains may help advance HIV prevention efforts, particularly with regard to an HIV vaccine, according to the scientists who conducted the study.
25 September 2012 | Eurekalert Inf Dis
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The viral load surge with syphilis “implies that syphilis may increase the risk of HIV transmission,” the researchers propose, “even in patients receiving antiretroviral therapy and with a viral load of less than 500 copies/mL.”
25 September 2012 | International AIDS Society
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