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Relationships and feelings
Real Talk: Play Well with Others? Open Relationships and Our Health

What motivates couples to open their relationships—or not? How do men in open relationships (and their outside partners) protect their physical health and emotional well-being? And is the marriage equality movement changing expectations around gay relationships?

Published
18 February 2013
From
BETA blog
Epidemiology and behaviour
Number of gay men catching HIV has doubled in 20 years because new drugs have 'encouraged unsafe sex'

Between 1990 and 2010, cases rose by 76 per cent due to fewer people using condoms. Experts say this is due to the introduction of antiretroviral drugs that are effective in treating the disease.

Published
18 February 2013
From
Daily Mail
Epidemiology and behaviour
Fall in condom use behind HIV rise

A fall in the proportion of gay and bisexual men using condoms is behind the rise in HIV infections in those groups in the UK, say researchers.

Published
18 February 2013
From
BBC Health
Infectiousness and treatment as prevention
Couples study in Uganda finds no HIV infections from partners on antiretroviral therapy

A longitudinal cohort study of heterosexual couples in Uganda has found more evidence of the efficacy of antiretroviral therapy (ART) in curbing HIV infection within the community. The study

Published
18 February 2013
By
Gus Cairns
HIV prevention policy
UNAIDS to collaborate with HSRC in HIV prevention research and policy development

UNAIDS and the Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC) have signed a memorandum of understanding to strengthen research, policies, and programmes on HIV prevention globally, with a special emphasis on Africa.

Published
11 February 2013
From
UNAIDS
Epidemiology and behaviour
Test and treat must go beyond couples to control HIV in Africa

A focus on stable couples when attempting to reduce HIV transmission through offering antiretroviral treatment, or when counselling about HIV transmission and safer sex, may

Published
08 February 2013
By
Michael Carter
Epidemiology and behaviour
Gay men's sense of ‘immunity’ spreads HIV

A new study has found that gay men with the highest risk of contracting HIV are more likely to consider themselves immune to infection than those who practise safe sex.

Published
08 February 2013
From
Sydney Star Observer
Epidemiology and behaviour
Extra-couple HIV transmission a major driver of Africa's HIV epidemic

New research suggests that heterosexual couples in long-term relationships who have sexual encounters outside their established partnership (extra-couple relationships) are one of the main drivers of the HIV epidemic in sub-Saharan Africa.

Published
05 February 2013
From
Medical Xpress
Epidemiology and behaviour
Matthew Todd: The roots of gay shame

News that HIV rates in gay men remain stubbornly high is depressingly predictable. There is an epidemic of chronic alcohol and drug misuse, fuelled by society's homophobia, which the Terrence Higgins Trust needs to get real about.

Published
04 February 2013
From
The Guardian
Infectiousness and treatment as prevention
HIV incidence in gay men unchanged in England and Wales, despite more testing

A paper in The Lancet Infectious Diseases by scientists from the UK’s Medical Research Council and the Health Protection Agency (HPA) has calculated that the number

Published
04 February 2013
By
Gus Cairns
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