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HIV disproportionately affects individuals and communities who face challenges in terms of poverty, employment, housing, education, racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, and gender-based violence. These social forces limit engagement with health care, create vulnerability to HIV infection and drive the HIV epidemic.

Women

Miriam Hospital study links intimate partner violence and risk of HIV

Editor's pick
Eurekalert Medicine & Health
22 January 2014
Economic & social inequality

Government grants reduce HIV risks for teenage girls in South Africa

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Eurekalert Inf Dis
27 November 2013
Women

Economist wins Polanyi Prize for research into the unfaithful

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Ottawa Citizen
26 November 2013
Violence

UNAIDS Urges End to Gender-Based Violence in Effort to Reduce Risk of HIV Infection

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AllAfrica
26 November 2013
Men who have sex with men (MSM)

Urgent need to address "resurgent" gay global epidemic, says English public health chief

News
23 November 2013
HIV testing programmes & uptake

Late testing rates declining in Europe, but largely in gay men

News
24 October 2013
Epidemiology & behaviour

Startling New Map: 92 Percent of New HIV Cases are in 25 Percent of US Counties

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The New Republic
2 October 2013
Undetectable viral load & treatment as prevention

Economic austerity affects the way in which HIV-positive Londoners view ‘treatment as prevention’

News
23 September 2013
Women

Mexico: How Male Power Spreads HIV

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The Atlantic
17 September 2013
Epidemiology & behaviour

HIV treatment has not led to increasing sexual risk-taking in rural South African communities

News
2 August 2013
PrEP policies & guidelines

Biomedical HIV prevention – the social complexities of achieving effectiveness

News
25 July 2013
Circumcision

Medical male circumcision campaigns face cultural challenges in southern Africa

News
17 July 2013
Circumcision

Male circumcision: the message is catching on, but scale-up poses monitoring and follow-up problems

News
15 July 2013
Prisoners

To cut STD rate, Calif considers condoms in prison

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SFGate
8 July 2013
Harm reduction

Drug addicts to be given foil to encourage treatment

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BBC
8 July 2013
Global health initiatives

PEPFAR budget cuts cause anxiety

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IRIN Plus News
5 July 2013
Economic & social inequality

Intervention with cash lottery prizes cuts HIV infection by 39% in young women in Lesotho

News
4 July 2013
Behaviour change interventions

First-ever community-randomised combination prevention trial produces modest drop in HIV incidence, big increase in testing in men

News
3 July 2013
HIV prevention policy

Cambodia seeks to halt progression of HIV by 2020

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Healio.com
3 July 2013
Discrimination & the law

Laws in Asia hindering Aids fight, say UN health officials

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South China Morning Post
3 July 2013
Epidemiology & behaviour

Maps show how disproportionately HIV affects black America

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National Journal
28 June 2013
Economic & social inequality

HIV Is Not a PR Stunt for Marriage Equality

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Huffington Post
25 June 2013
Economic & social inequality

One in three women suffers violence, global study finds

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The Guardian
21 June 2013
Economic & social inequality

How does neighbourhood impact on STI (Chlamydia) risk?

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BMJ Group blogs
21 June 2013