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Behaviour change interventions
Radio Australia | 2 hours ago
Family Planning Queensland is working with 11 Brisbane comedians to make short videos that address sexual health. "Sexual health information is traditionally presented in ways your mother would approve of - and young men simply don't respond to that," Professor McKee said. "But they are online and they are responsive to dirty jokes."
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TB services
Healio | 2 hours ago
A shortage of isoniazid interfered with patient care and may contribute to the spread of tuberculosis in the United States, according to a report by the CDC. “Interruptions in the supply of second-line anti-TB medications have been ongoing in the United States for several years,” the researchers wrote in Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. “But since November 2012, TB control programs have experienced the first sustained generalized supply interruption of a first-line anti-TB medication.”
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HIV and criminal law
Wall Street Journal | 2 hours ago
Nushawn Williams, a New York drug dealer imprisoned amid accusations he infected 13 young women with HIV in the 1990s, does not have the virus that causes AIDS, according to his attorney, who said he arranged for a new blood test as part of efforts to get him released from prison. But state officials have questioned the validity of the testing procedure used.
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Confidentiality, consent and medical ethics
PR Newswire (press release) | 2 hours ago
Anthem Blue Cross patients with HIV/AIDS may "opt-out" of a program that would have required them to obtain their medications by mail order under a settlement announced today by Consumer Watchdog and Whatley Kallas LLC. Blue Cross members who opt-out can continue purchasing such medications at a retail pharmacy.
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Medical procedures and other blood-borne exposure
CDC National Prevention Information Network | 2 hours ago
Canadians who contracted HIV and hepatitis C virus through tainted blood transfusions during the 1980s and the victims’ families are protesting the proposed licensing of three private plasma clinics in Toronto.
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Medical procedures and other blood-borne exposure
CDC National Prevention Information Network | 2 hours ago
Health Canada is lifting the lifetime ban on blood donations from men who have had sex with other men. Starting July 22, 2013, men who have abstained from sexual intercourse with other men for at least five years will be able to donate blood.
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The search for a cure
The Conversation | 2 hours ago
Dr John Frater of the University of Oxford comments on recent HIV cure research.
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UK health services
MEDFASH | 23 hours ago
The Clinical Reference Group (CRG) for HIV will be a key component in the delivery of HIV treatment and care, and will be the main source of clinical advice to NHS England as it moves forward in its direct commissioning role for specialised services. In this month’s eFeature Dr Simon Barton, Clinical Director & Consultant Physician HIV/Genitourinary Medicine at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital and Chair of the HIV CRG, gives an update on progress in establishing the HIV CRG and looks at the opportunities and challenges ahead.
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Access to medicines and treatment
The Guardian | 23 May 2013
Adam Green's piece voiced concerns about Merck's HPV programme serving as "market priming to create the conditions for adoption". From Rwanda's view, the jury is in: with more women dying of cervical cancer than in childbirth worldwide, the market is quite primed and demand readily apparent. Supply of the HPV vaccine and many other tools of modern medicine, on the other hand, remains in doubt for those who need them most.
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HIV and criminal law
HIV Justice Network | 23 May 2013
A new guide which aims to address some of the realities and complexities faced by nurses and others who provide care to people living with HIV in Canada, is now available.
Get set for HIV treatmentA tool to help you decide whether you are ready to start taking HIV treatment.
HIV, GPs & other primary careThis booklet explains the services GPs offer, how this fits with HIV specialist care, and how to make the most of primary care services.
New resources to support shared decision making in HIV care 21 May 2013There’s been lots of interest
recently in the concept of shared...
Pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) – free webinar 18 April 2013As part of its European HIV prevention work, NAM is
collaborating...
Learning the basics about hepatitis C 05 April 2013If you are familiar with NAM’s
patient information materials, hopefully you...