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The blame game that is taking Uganda back to ABC

President Museveni has continuously blamed increasing HIV prevalence in Uganda on non-governmental organisations’ promotion of condom use, sex work and circumcision. “There are so many conflicting messages” observes Mr. Museveni.

Published
06 February 2013
From
Key Correspondents
Young people
UK: Sex education is in crisis

Sex education in our schools is shockingly inadequate, hit hard by cuts even though its benefits are proven

Published
04 February 2013
From
The Guardian
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
Epidemiology and behaviour
HIV in gay men 'refuses to fall'

Huge improvements in treating and testing for HIV have failed to curb infections in gay and bisexual men in England and Wales, a study suggests. New infections were static at about 2,300 a year between 2001 and 2010, despite rises in early diagnosis and far more people taking medication. Scientists, writing in the Lancet Infectious Diseases, said there had been a return of risky sexual practice.

Published
01 February 2013
From
BBC Health
HIV prevention policy
Condoms, HIV tests for KZN schools

High schools in KwaZulu-Natal must immediately begin discussing how to provide pupils with access to condoms and how to facilitate voluntary HIV/Aids testing.

Published
31 January 2013
From
Independent Online
Infectiousness and treatment as prevention
UK experts: successful treatment is "as effective as consistent condom use" in reducing HIV transmission

The British HIV Association (BHIVA) and the Department of Health’s Expert Advisory Group on AIDS (EAGA) published this week a position statement on the use of HIV

Published
23 January 2013
By
Roger Pebody
Global health initiatives
Online Consultation: Health in the Post-2015 Development Agenda

This online discussion (eDiscussion), hosted by UNAIDS as part of the Post-2015 Health Thematic Consultation, is an open and inclusive online discussion for individuals, and members of civil society, academia, governments, and the private sector to discuss the ways in which the global AIDS response can and should inform the Post-2015 Development Agenda.

Published
22 January 2013
From
The World We Want 2015
Infectiousness and treatment as prevention
BHIVA and EAGA position statement on the use of antiretroviral therapy to reduce HIV transmission: January 2013

The UK Department of Health, in collaboration with the Expert Advisory Group on AIDS and the British HIV Association, has issued a definitive statement on the potential of antiretroviral therapy to reduce HIV infectiousness and transmission. It says that the risk of transmission from a person with a fully-suppressed viral load in the absence of STIs is "extremely low" and advises physicians to discuss this with all patients.

Published
22 January 2013
From
Department of Health
Policy
Yusef Azad: Why the Government Risks Letting People With HIV Down

Lord Collins of Highbury stood up in the House of Lords on Tuesday and introduced a debate on how the Government has failed to deliver a much needed national HIV strategy. In doing so he raises the question, one the National AIDS Trust also wants answered, how serious is the Government about tackling HIV?

Published
17 January 2013
From
Huffington Post UK
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