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  What kind of prevention do gay men need?

  A number of presentations at the 19th International AIDS Conference explored the 'hyperepidemic' of HIV amongst men who have sex with men, and especially black MSM. A paper...

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• Are we underestimating the proportion of virally-suppressed patients in the US?

  Several presentations at the recent 20th Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections in Atlanta suggest that previous estimates of the proportion of people with HIV in the USA who are on antiretroviral therapy (ART) and with an undetectable viral ...

  15 March 2013 | Gus Cairns

• 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

• Huge differences in HIV mortality rates in US according to race, social and economic status

  New US research has revealed enormous differences in HIV mortality rates between patients according to their race and social and economic status. Published in the online edition of the Archives of Internal Medicine, the study showed that mortality rates ...

  19 October 2012 | Michael Carter

• What kind of prevention do gay men need?

  A number of presentations at the 19th International AIDS Conference explored the 'hyperepidemic' of HIV amongst men who have sex with men, and especially black MSM. A paper presented by Gregorio Millet showed that, at least in the USA, ...

  06 August 2012 | Gus Cairns

• Depending on how it's defined, between 13% and 46% of American gay men report intimate partner violence

  A study which aimed to produce a definition of intimate partner violence (physical, sexual, or psychological harm caused by a current or former partner) that would be appropriate for gay, bisexual and other men who have sex with men ...

  03 August 2012 | Roger Pebody

• Poverty-targeted cash transfers are reducing some HIV risk behaviours

  Cash transfers to orphans and vulnerable children in Kenya are associated with later onset of sexual activity and fewer sexual partners, but no increase in condom use among those already sexually active, according to long-term follow-up from Kenya’s national cash transfer ...

  31 July 2012 | Mara Kardas-Nelson

• 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

• The paradox of HIV in black MSM in the US – very high infection rates despite no more risky sex and more precautions

  A new meta-analysis, presented to the 19th International AIDS Conference (AIDS 2012) on Tuesday, shows that the exceptionally high rates of HIV infection seen in black men who have sex with men (MSM) cannot be explained by ...

  25 July 2012 | Roger Pebody

• Very high incidence of new HIV infections in American black MSM; links with young age and unemployment

  The largest-ever cohort of black men who have sex with men (MSM) recruited in the United States has found that, among those who were initially HIV negative, 3 in every 100 acquired a new HIV infection within a year. ...

  24 July 2012 | Roger Pebody

• Financial incentives and motivational interviewing being used to improve adherence in young people

  St Mary’s Hospital in London is testing the use of cash incentives, in combination with motivational interviewing, in an effort to improve the adherence of a small group of HIV-positive young people. The rationale and first ...

  20 April 2012 | Roger Pebody

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• Media mis-reporting HIV rate among SA schoolgirls - true rate is 12.7 percent

  The claim that 28 percent of South African schoolgirls are living with HIV started with a remark by Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi, misreported by The Sowetan. Unquestioned, it has been repeated by media across the country and the world. The true rate is half that.

  8 hours ago | Africa Check

• Many poor heterosexuals in US cities at risk for HIV infection

  Some 2.3 percent of 8,500 poor heterosexuals living in cities with high rates of HIV infection tested positive for the virus that causes AIDS, and nearly half of those who were infected said they had never had an HIV test before the study, health officials said on Thursday.

  15 March 2013 | Reueters

• South Africa: '28% of schoolgirls are HIV positive'

  AT LEAST 28% of schoolgirls are HIV positive while only 4% of young boys are infected with the virus in the country. Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi said this was a clear indication that old men were sleeping with young girls - a statistic he said "destroyed my soul".

  15 March 2013 | The Sowetan

• 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

• Link between violence and HIV must be made explicit, say African ministers

  The link between gender-based violence and HIV infections needs to be explicit in the outcome document of the UN Commission on the Status of Women (CSW), delegates said this week.

  08 March 2013 | The Guardian

• Behind the miracle child a broken system lurks

  While we celebrate this week’s story of an HIV-miracle cure, let’s not forget the story of injustice that made it possible. How is it possible for a pregnant woman in the world’s wealthiest country to not receive prenatal care? Why were the mother and child “lost to care” for over 6 months?

  07 March 2013 | AIDS Foundation of Chicago

• Falling Through the Cracks

  We can strengthen two of the weakest links in the U.S. health care chain for people with HIV/AIDS—linking people to care and retaining them in care—but doing so requires a collective approach.

  05 March 2013 | Poz

• Antiretroviral Drugs Sold for Food in Kenya’s Slums

  Impoverished Kenyans living with HIV/AIDs are sometimes selling their antiretroviral drugs to buy food for themselves and their families. Medical professionals believe there has been a slight growth in the trend, saying that people are simply trying to survive.

  05 March 2013 | Voice of America

• Gays can't have sex

  'Gays can’t have sex. We can have only “safer sex” or “protected sex” (where condoms or any other form of barriers are used). The sad part of “protected sex” is that it implies that sex between men is not safe,...' - psychotherapiast Marco Posadas ponders whether 'safer sex' is having a damaging effect on gay men's self-image.

  22 February 2013 | Xtra!

• Violence as a cause or consequence of HIV for women in England

  This report highlights the experiences of women living with HIV in England in relation to Gender-Based Violence. It documents the findings of a study to explore the potential for a national investigation into violence as a cause or a consequence of HIV for women in England.

  15 February 2013 | Sophia Forum

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