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Injecting drug use
The Guardian | 12 hours ago
This is not the time to undermine harm reduction strategies such as the needle exchange programme, bravely, and surprisingly, initiated by Thatcher and her Tory government.
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History of HIV and AIDS
Positive Lite | 12 hours ago
Bob Leahy on the irreverent magazine by and for people living with HIV which brought black humour to the forefront of activism in the 1990s.
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The search for a cure
The Seattle Times | 19 hours ago
Timothy Ray Brown, a native of Seattle who was the first person cured of the AIDS virus, is joining with scientists at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center to help extend the cure to others.
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Health services and systems
Eurekalert Medicine & Health | 19 hours ago
A series of austerity reforms made by the Spanish government could lead to the effective dismantling of large parts of the country's healthcare system, with potentially detrimental effects on the health of the Spanish people, according to new research from the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine.
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Prisoners
Times Live | 19 hours ago
HIV-positive inmates released from prison are handed a virtual death sentence - there is no obligation on the Department of Correctional Services to ensure that they continue to receive, and take, medication.
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Treatment guidelines
AIDSMeds | 19 hours ago
While U.S. treatment guidelines recommend universal HIV treatment, the benefits of such a policy may not outweigh the costs in resource-poor global areas. Three researchers from Johns Hopkins University published a paper in Clinical Infectious Diseases, arguing that the limited scope and inconsistent availability of antiretrovirals (ARVs), as well as diminished laboratory monitoring capacity, prompt ethical considerations about applying U.S. treatment standards to impoverished countries at this time.
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Promoting HIV testing
US CDC | 19 hours ago
Young people between the ages of 13 and 24 represent more than a quarter of new HIV infections each year (26 percent) and most of these youth living with HIV (60 percent) are unaware they are infected, according to a Vital Signs report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The most-affected young people are young gay and bisexual men and African-Americans, the report says.
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Behaviour change interventions
IRIN Plus News | 19 hours ago
A mobile phone-based health programme designed to improve access to sexual health information and boost safe sex in rural central Uganda had the opposite effect, according to the findings of a Yale University study published in May.
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Sexually transmitted infections
Internal Medicine News | 19 hours ago
Urine screening alone is not a reliable method of finding gonorrhea and chlamydia infections in young men who have sex with men (MSM). Triple screening—pharyngeal, rectal, and genital—improves chlamydia and gonorrhea detection, particularly in an at-risk population.
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Pharmaceutical industry
Inter Press Service | 19 hours ago
The Supreme Court pushed back Monday against a longstanding practise in the U.S. pharmaceuticals industry under which large-scale companies pay producers of generic copies to hold off introducing those low-cost drugs into the marketplace. The practise, known as “reverse payments”, maintains a company’s lucrative monopoly over a drug, often resulting in significant extra income.
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