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  • Injecting drug use
    Outcry over NYC HIV/AIDS housing help policy
    Wall Street Journal | 9 hours ago

    People sickened with HIV or AIDS and seeking help from New York City to pay their rent could become ineligible for housing assistance if they refuse to go into substance abuse treatment.

  • Populations
    More focus on men needed in HIV prevention
    Eurekalert Inf Dis | 11 hours ago

    Edward Mills of the University of Ottawa, Canada and colleagues argue in this week's PLoS Medicine that the HIV/AIDS response in Africa needs a more balanced approach to gender, so that both men and women are involved in HIV treatment and prevention.

  • Drug interactions and pharmacokinetics
    Combining HCV Med Boceprevir with Boosted HIV Protease Inhibitors Can Lower Drug Levels
    HIVandHepatitis.com | 16 hours ago

    HIV/HCV coinfected people who take the HCV protease inhibitor boceprevir (Victrelis) for hepatitis C treatment along with a ritonavir-boosted HIV protease inhibitor may experience drug-drug interactions that reduce concentrations of both drugs to ineffective levels, Merck warned this week.

  • Activism
    Southern Africa: New President for HIV Clinicians Society
    AllAfrica | 19 hours ago

    The Southern African HIV Clinicians Society has appointed a new President, Dr Francesca Conradie.

  • Clinical trials
    HIV Experts Propose New Pathway for Conducting Phase 3 Drug Trials
    Forum for Collaborative HIV Research | 20 hours ago

    We face a new scientific challenge: how to demonstrate the safety and efficacy of promising new antiretroviral drugs when the two traditional study designs – the superiority trial and the non-inferiority trial – are no longer useful in showing improvements in both “treatment experienced” patients and those who have never received drug therapy (treatment-naïve patients).

  • Neurological and cognitive problems
    NeurogesX Patch for HIV Pain Might Be Ineffective, FDA Staff Report Says
    Bloomberg | 21 hours ago

    A pain patch from NeurogesX Inc., a specialty drugmaker that has never reported an annual profit, may not relieve pain related to nerve damage commonly associated with HIV, U.S. regulators said.

  • Pharmaceutical industry
    FDA fast-tracks Salix's diarrhea drug review
    Reuters | 22 hours ago

    Salix Pharmaceuticals Ltd said its experimental HIV-associated diarrhea drug will get a speedy review by U.S. health regulators.

  • Behaviour change interventions
    Iran's first sex education film
    Global Post | 23 hours ago

    Ever wonder what a sex education video looks like in Iran?

  • Global health initiatives
    The Global Fund at Ten Years: Not a Happy Birthday
    Global Fund Observer | 23 hours ago

    Last week, the Global Fund celebrated its tenth anniversary. These past 12 months, which ended with the Board persuading the Executive Director to resign, have been the Fund's most difficult to date, so the anniversary celebrations were rather muted. Whether the Fund's eleventh year will be more successful depends on how well the Fund learns from what went wrong during 2011.

  • Epidemiology and behaviour
    What Really Fuels the HIV/AIDS Epidemic in Black America?
    The Body | 23 hours ago

    For the past 15 years, we have been bombarded with images and media attention that have blamed the "down-low brotha" -- the closeted gay man who sleeps with both men and women -- for the AIDS epidemic in black America. Meanwhile, numerous studies have debunked those claims.

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Updated UK PEP guidance

PEP guidelines for the UK have been revised to take account of undetectable viral load.

State of primary care survey

HealthHIV survey shows that care providers in the US are struggling to cope with rising patient numbers.

HIV-positive healthcare workers

The Department of Health has opened a consultation on possible changes to its policy on the employment of people with HIV.

HIV drug prescribing

The NHS in London has changed the way HIV drugs are prescribed.

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