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  • UK health services
    NHS in London spends £13m on PR
    BBC Health | 13 March 2013

    The NHS in London spent almost £13m on public relations in the last three years, a BBC London investigation finds. Some trusts said PR spending was needed to educate the public on health issues. Yet the outlay on staff press officers was supplemented by millions of pounds handed to private PR firms.

  • Injecting drug use
    HIV high on the agenda at the fifty-sixth session of the Commission on Narcotic Drugs
    UNAIDS | 13 March 2013

    At the fifty-sixth session of the Commission on Narcotic Drugs, which is running from 11-15 March, drug use and HIV will be addressed through a number of channels, including a draft resolution calling for the intensification of efforts to reduce HIV to attain the targets of the 2011 Political Declaration on HIV and AIDS.

  • Recreational drug use
    Recreational cocaine use linked to conditions that cause heart attack
    Science Daily | 13 March 2013

    Recreational cocaine users may have higher blood pressure, stiffer arteries and thicker heart muscle walls than non-users -- all of which can cause a heart attack. The Australian study is the first to document some of these cardiovascular abnormalities in seemingly healthy cocaine users long after the immediate effects of cocaine have worn off.

  • HIV prevention policy
    Political Strife Undermines HIV Treatment
    Science Daily | 13 March 2013

    Among other tragedies in countries with HIV epidemics, political violence can have the additional long-term consequence of an increase in viral resistance to treatment and HIV treatment failure, say the authors of a new paper in AIDS Reviews.

  • PrEP
    Preventing HIV Infection With Anti-HIV Drugs in People at Risk Is Cost-Effective
    Science Daily | 13 March 2013

    An HIV prevention strategy in which people at risk of becoming exposed to HIV take antiretroviral drugs to reduce their chance of becoming infected (often referred to as pre-exposure prophylaxis or PrEP), may be a cost-effective method

  • Women
    NEW YORK: 30% of N.Y. HIV Women Get 'Late' Diagnosis
    CDC National Prevention Information Network | 13 March 2013

    New York state health officials say that approximately 30 percent of the state’s women who are newly diagnosed with HIV receive an AIDS diagnosis at the same time or soon after their initial diagnosis.

  • HIV and criminal law
    Proposal to Allow HIV Tests on Alleged Rapists in South Africa
    Poz magazine news | 13 March 2013

    If positive, they would be charged with attempted murder.

  • Men who have sex with men (MSM)
    Men in same-sex marriages are living longer, study says
    Los Angeles Times | 13 March 2013

    Men in same-sex marriages are living longer, according to Danish researchers, but mortality rates among married lesbians have begun to rise after a long period of decline.

  • Drug-resistant TB
    An Activist’s Guide to Bedaquiline (Sirturo)
    Treatment Action Group | 12 March 2013

    Bedaquiline (also known by its trade name, Sirturo, or as TMC207) is the first new drug from a new drug class to treat TB to be approved by the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in over 40 years. This guide highlights important safety and efficacy data reported thus far and offers advocacy recommendations for activists to take forward. .

  • Access to medicines and treatment
    Third-line ARVs could widen treatment gap in Zimbabwe
    IRIN Plus News | 12 March 2013

    HIV/AIDS activists in Zimbabwe have welcomed the government's move to address the problem of HIV drug resistance by introducing third-line antiretroviral drug (ARVs). But it remains unclear how the cash-strapped government will finance this, as procuring the drugs will invariably be expensive and could divert resources away from other HIV treatment efforts.

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