HIV prevention news: Europe

NAM is launching a new monthly bulletin that covers HIV prevention news and research in Europe, and of relevance to Europe.

Our new email bulletin aims to strengthen your knowledge of the new prevention options and bring you the latest HIV prevention news and research.

Community organisations, HIV advocates, clinicians and counsellors across Europe work with people living with HIV and people at risk of HIV infection. These practitioners have a key role to play in supporting people at risk of acquiring HIV, or transmitting HIV, to understand their options and the implications of new research.

HIV prevention has been evolving rapidly in recent years, with landmark research developments in new prevention technologies and approaches, including HIV treatment as prevention, pre-exposure prophylaxis, expanded testing programmes and advocacy for proven approaches that remain unprovided, such as syringe and needle exchange and condoms in prisons.

As well as research from Europe, we’ll cover international studies that are relevant for people working on HIV prevention.

Each monthly issue will include:

  • Short summaries of the most important developments
  • Links to more detailed news stories and research reports
  • Links to background material
  • A selection of news stories from other high-quality sources.

We are initially offering the bulletin in English, Spanish, Portuguese, French and Russian.

You can sign up to receive this new monthly bulletin on the right-hand side of this page.

Archive

Issue #8 - May 2013

  • EU project maps how HIV crosses borders
  • Global gay survey: blackmail, stigma and poverty blight lives and health
  • Many Dutch men with HIV take viral load into account in condom decisions
  • Getting viral load as low as possible may pay prevention dividends
  • Steroid injectors: an under-studied HIV risk group
  • European HIV prevention webinars – an HIV cure
  • Other recent news headlines
  • New prevention bulletin
  • Acknowledgements
  • Editors' picks from other sources

Issue #7 - April 2013

  • Self-testing is feasible, acceptable and accurate, studies find
  • ‘Test and treat’ not enough to end gay epidemic, US model finds
  • More women than men on treatment have detectable genital HIV
  • Little change in English gay men’s sexual risk behaviour from 2001 to 2008
  • Most gay couples have ‘extramarital sex’ agreements – but don’t always agree what they are
  • European HIV prevention webinars – pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP)
  • Other recent news headlines
  • New prevention bulletin
  • Acknowledgements
  • Editors' picks from other sources

Issue #6 - March 2013

  • How effective are condoms in anal sex – really?
  • Why did PrEP and microbicides not work for African women?
  • US gay young people find taking PrEP hard, too
  • Majority with HIV ‘undetectable’ in France, UK – and sometimes in the US
  • Scientists study possible four-times-a-year anti-HIV drug
  • Many people in the UK don’t disclose HIV at sexual health check-ups
  • European HIV prevention webinars – treatment as prevention
  • Other recent news headlines
  • Editors' picks from other sources
  • AVAC/NAM webinar series
  • New prevention bulletin
  • Acknowledgements

Issue #5 - February 2013

  • UK statement: treatment "as effective as condoms" in reducing HIV transmission
  • Condoms used in a quarter of heterosexual encounters in the US
  • HIV infections in gay men unchanged or increasing in England and Wales, despite more testing
  • No HIV infections from partners on treatment in Ugandan couples
  • Circumcision makes no difference to HIV infection in UK gay men
  • European HIV prevention webinars – microbicides
  • Other recent news headlines
  • AVAC/NAM webinar series
  • New prevention bulletin
  • Acknowledgements
  • Editors' picks from other sources

Issue #4 - January 2013

  • High infection rates in men who have previously used PEP
  • How to raise awareness of biomedical interventions for HIV: PEP evaluation
  • French youth study: knowledge about HIV and trust in condoms has decreased
  • Low use of behavioural interventions in English STI clinics
  • European HIV prevention webinars
  • Other recent news headlines
  • Editors' picks from other sources
  • AVAC/NAM webinar series
  • New prevention bulletin
  • Acknowledgements
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