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Epidemiology
Public Health England | 17 hours ago
New publication: In 2011 there were over 2,600 new HIV diagnoses made in London clinics. Despite a decline in new HIV diagnoses since 2004, which may reflect changing patterns in migration, the number of new HIV diagnoses reported in 2011 was 11% higher than in 2000.
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Sexually transmitted infections
New York Times | 20 hours ago
A new, casually transmittable infection — a unique strain of bacterial meningitis — has cast a pall over the gay night life and dating scene, with men wondering whether this is AIDS, circa 1981, all over again. Seven men have died in New York City, about a third of diagnosed cases, since 2010. And in the last few months, the contagion seemed to be accelerating. It has targeted gay and bisexual men, and nobody knows exactly why.
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Epidemiology and behaviour
BETA blog | 20 hours ago
Consider the underlying assumption of serosorting: that, for negative guys, choosing to have condomless sex with other negative guys is less risky than having condomless sex with poz guys. In an era of treatment as prevention, at some point doesn’t that assumption become untenable? Especially in cities with low testing rates and high levels of HIV stigma?
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Vaccines
FRANCE 24 | 20 hours ago
The hunt for an HIV vaccine has gobbled up $8 billion in the past decade, and the failure of the most recent efficacy trial has delivered yet another setback to 26 years of efforts.
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Access to medicines and treatment
European Public Health Association | 20 hours ago
Austerity policies are having a profound impact on the ability of many European public health systems to provide many of the necessary biomedical products for their citizens and residents.
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The search for a cure
Financial Times | 20 hours ago
Thirty years ago, Françoise Barré-Sinoussi found an unidentified virus in a patient with Aids – work which won her a Nobel Prize. She talks about the continuing battle with the disease and her hopes of one day seeing a cure
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Contraception
Science Speaks | 21 hours ago
“Unless family planning is increased in Africa, eliminating mother-to-child transmission will not be met,” FHI 360 President Emeritus Ward Cates said.
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Access to medicines and treatment
Euractiv | 21 hours ago
One of the global financial crisis' consequences has been the lack of access to treatment for millions of Europeans. According to health promoters, alternative solutions to the problem may be the way forward.
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Money, benefits and housing
Vocal New York | 21 hours ago
State lawmakers could prevent homelessness for thousands of people living with HIV/AIDS by passing an affordable housing bill that would also save taxpayer’s money, according to a new report released on May 17th, 2013 by VOCAL-NY and the Community Development Project at the Urban Justice Center. The report includes new data about the causes of homelessness in New York City’s shelter system for people with HIV/AIDS and documents negative impacts that homelessness has on their health.
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Injecting drug use
Blenheim CDP | 21 hours ago
As the debate heats up in Brighton over the introduction of injecting rooms, there is a feeling of déjà vu at Blenheim and our long history documents similar debates in the 1960’s and 1970’s.
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Treatment as prevention – free webinar 20 March 2013As
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