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Local Doctor Creates New Strategy to Curb HIV in Cameroon

HIV prevalence in Cameroon has not slowed despite extensive education of the population on the traditional approach to HIV prevention. One local doctor has developed a strategy promoting life skills to put the method into practice.

Published
15 November 2012
From
Global Press Institute
Behaviour change interventions
Australia: New HIV Campaign Weighs Up Risk Reduction

A new HIV prevention campaign is aiming to increase gay men's knowledge about the degrees of risk involved in not using condoms when they're having sex.

Published
31 October 2012
From
ACON press release
Epidemiology and behaviour
Looking Beyond HIV When It Comes to Gay Men of Color

HIV specialists have to understand that before gay black men can even think about HIV, many are still grappling with three important questions: 1) what it means to be black, 2) what it means to be a man, and 3) what it means to be gay, in that order. The fact that so many prevention messages jump straight to the last question without addressing the first two might be the reason that they fall on deaf ears.

Published
08 October 2012
From
Huffington Post
Religion and faith
“Abstinence doesn’t work, so use condoms”: Critical responses to Christian youth sexualities and HIV prevention in Africa

For many Christian youth, pre-marital abstinence is not an action one performs or a “behavior”, but is an integral part of one’s identity as a Christian. A critical first step towards developing an appropriate HIV prevention response for sexually-abstinent youth therefore, is one that takes into account the fact that pre-marital sexual abstinence is, for some young people, deeply embedded into their sense of self.

Published
02 October 2012
From
Somatosphere
Behaviour change interventions
Why I think it’s time for a shock campaign on HIV

Defending the new HIV testing advert which features a man lifting gym weights in an electric chair

Published
28 September 2012
From
Gay Star News
Behaviour change interventions
Uganda: It is time to give more than just information to address HIV

Today, many Ugandans are knowledgeable and even agree to have HIV tests. But what causes stigma to the extent of some one committing suicide on discovering that they are HIV positive? Why are partners not disclosing their sero status to each other? It is time to move beyond providing information, education and communication to focusing on behavioural change communication to tackling the increasing HIV prevalence rates.

Published
24 September 2012
From
Daily Monitor
Behaviour change interventions
Grim Reaper killed off?

Queensland Health has removed all images of the Grim Reaper from its controversial ‘Let’s End HIV’ campaign website. The sudden absence follows criticism from HIV experts and health organisations of the use of the notorious image from AIDS awareness ads in the 1980s.

Published
24 September 2012
From
Sydney Star Observer
Behaviour change interventions
The Grim Reaper died in the 80s – time for a new approach to HIV prevention

The new ad may have some success in putting HIV/AIDS back on the public agenda. But debate alone will not curtail HIV infections. What’s needed now are sophisticated prevention campaigns, driven by people and organisations that understand the complexities of HIV transmission patterns in Australia now.

Published
30 August 2012
From
The Conversation
Behaviour change interventions
Notorious 1987 Australian AIDS ad returns in gentler reincarnation

First appearing in a notorious anti-AIDS commercial 25 years ago, the controversial Grim Reaper character will feature in a Queensland Government campaign running across the commercial television networks from September 9.

Published
28 August 2012
From
Herald Sun
Young people
Mothers Sue California School District Over Abstinence-Only Sex Education

Two mothers are suing the Clovis Unified School District over its sex education curriculm, claiming that the Northern California district's abstinence-until-marriage teachings endanger the health of its students by omitting information about condoms and contraception.

Published
24 August 2012
From
The Advocate
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