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Smartphones Partially Responsible For HIV Spike In Philippines, Says Official

The Philippines was named one of the nine countries with a rising HIV rate this year. One DOH official argues that smartphones and social media are to blame.

Published
22 May 2013
From
Medical Daily
Epidemiology and behaviour
HIV infection rates rising in Kazakhstan

Research shows that HIV/AIDS among gay men is far higher than government statistics suggest.

Published
22 May 2013
From
Aljazeera.com
Epidemiology and behaviour
UNITED STATES: Navajo Confront an Increase in New H.I.V. Infections

A surge in H.I.V. infections on the Navajo reservation in New Mexico has doctors and public health workers increasingly alarmed that the virus that causes AIDS has resurfaced with renewed intensity in this impoverished region. The challenges of prevention are amplified in a place where sex is still rarely discussed publicly and infection is often hidden from loved ones.

Published
21 May 2013
From
New York Times
Epidemiology and behaviour
Promiscuous Gay Nerd: Is It Time to Abandon Serosorting?

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?

Published
20 May 2013
From
BETA blog
Men who have sex with men (MSM)
Higher rates of HIV in US black gay men may be due to smaller choice of partners and more age mixing

Limited partner choice, wider age gaps between partners, and mistaken beliefs about HIV status in regular partners are all driving the substantially higher rates of HIV in

Published
18 May 2013
By
Gus Cairns
Epidemiology and behaviour
More drugs, more alcohol often means more risky sex for HIV-negative gay men

There is a highly significant relationship between frequency and intensity of drug and alcohol use and risky sex among American HIV-negative gay men, a study published in

Published
14 May 2013
By
Michael Carter
HIV prevention policy
Cambodia on track to eliminate HIV transmission by 2020

The World Health Organisation says Cambodia is on track to become one of the few countries in the world to successfully reverse its HIV epidemic and may eliminate new infections by 2020. The Southeast Asian nation has reduced its HIV prevalence rate from a 1998 peak of 1.7 percent among people aged 15-49 to 0.7 percent in 2012 across the whole population

Published
13 May 2013
From
Radio Australia
New and experimental hepatitis C treatment
New HCV combinations could have a big role in prevention, but only if treatment rates increase

New combinations of hepatitis C drugs could have major public health benefits, a modelling study published in the online edition of Hepatology shows. Scaling-up treatment rates in

Published
11 May 2013
By
Michael Carter
Epidemiology and behaviour
Up to a third of HIV infections in European gay men may have come from another country

A study (Frentz) that looked at genetic similarities in the HIV from recently diagnosed people in 24 European countries found that among ‘clusters’ of closely related

Published
10 May 2013
By
Gus Cairns
Epidemiology and behaviour
Little cross-border spread of HIV seen in 26-country European study

Despite international travel and fluid population movement across Europe, three quarters of clustered new infections in a 26-country study involved people from the same country and another 10% involved people from a neighboring country.

Published
07 May 2013
From
International AIDS Society
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