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Australia: Sex tourism to Thailand and Indonesia driving rise in HIV cases

Sex tourism to Thailand and Indonesia driving rise in HIV casesCourier MailDRUNKEN lads' holidays in Thailand and Indonesia, involving unprotected sex with prostitutes, are boosting Queensland's HIV rate.

Published
20 May 2012
From
Courier Mail
Policy
Cuba: A Regime’s Tight Grip on AIDS

Whatever debate may linger about the government’s harsh early tactics — until 1993, everyone who tested positive for H.I.V. was forced into quarantine — there is no question that they succeeded. Cuba now has one of the world’s smallest epidemics, a mere 14,038 cases. Its infection rate is 0.1 percent, on par with Finland, Singapore and Kazakhstan.

Published
08 May 2012
From
New York Times
Epidemiology and behaviour
HIV/AIDS: Voices From Cuba

Profiles of a number of Cubans living with HIV

Published
08 May 2012
From
New York Times
Epidemiology and behaviour
Study: Craigslist Drives STD Spread

You can find pretty much anything on Craigslist. Unfortunately, that apparently includes sexually transmitted diseases.

Published
23 April 2012
From
Investor Place
Women
Half of women at east London HIV clinic have experienced intimate partner violence

Half the female patients at the HIV clinic in Homerton Hospital, east London, have suffered intimate partner violence, Dr Rageshri Dhairyawan told the British HIV Association (BHIVA)

Published
19 April 2012
By
Roger Pebody
Infectiousness and treatment as prevention
Gay partners' HIV transmission study due to start, despite practical barriers

A large study looking at HIV infections in gay men who are within long-term relationships with HIV-positive partners is about to start in Australia, the International Microbicides Conference

Published
17 April 2012
By
Gus Cairns
HIV prevention policy
Thailand struggles to teach the basics of sex education to students

Seemingly open culture contrasts with conservative approach to tackling STDs, unwanted pregnancies and HIV.

Published
21 March 2012
From
The Guardian
Safer sex
Serosorting does help prevent HIV – up to a point

A meta-analysis of HIV-negative gay men’s sexual behaviour and HIV incidence rate in four HIV prevention studies, presented earlier this month at the 19th Conference on Retroviruses

Published
19 March 2012
By
Gus Cairns
Epidemiology and behaviour
Uganda's HIV infection rate rises to 6.7%

The Ministry of Health has announced that the HIV incidence in the country has risen to 6.7%. At this figure, approximately two million people in Uganda are infected with HIV in total, in a country population of 33 million.

Published
18 March 2012
From
New Vision
Epidemiology and behaviour
HIV and the Long Tail of Child Sexual Abuse

Two-year study in Southeastern U.S. finds one-quarter of adult HIV patients were sexually abused as children.

Published
15 March 2012
From
Duke University
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