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New and experimental HIV treatments
Nanoparticles May Transport HIV Meds to the Brain

Researchers have had early success in a method that might one day thwart the powerful blood-brain barrier and effectively deliver antiretrovirals to the brain.

Published
16 May 2013
From
AIDSMeds
Finance and funding
Malaria and HIV Spike as Greece Cuts Healthcare Spending

Greece's budgetary ax fell unduly hard on its healthcare sector, which was slated to grow at around 4 percent annually, but which has instead been jolted by a series of wage freezes, firings, and drug rationing programs.

Published
16 May 2013
From
The Atlantic
Global health initiatives
Canada commits cash to Global Fund against AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria

Canada’s Minister of International Co-operation Julian Fantino on Monday provided another $20 million to the Global Fund to support affordable medicines facilities for malaria.

Published
15 May 2013
From
Toronto Star
Cancer
Cancer Vaccines Get a Price Cut in Poor Nations

The two companies that make vaccines against cervical cancer announced Thursday that they would cut their prices to the world’s poorest countries below $5 per dose, eventually making it possible for millions of girls to be protected against a major deadly cancer.

Published
14 May 2013
From
New York Times
Ageing and HIV
Study highlights needs of growing older population living with HIV

A University of Salford study with charity the George House Trust has highlighted the North West’s growing population of older people with HIV and the lack of services for older HIV-positive gay men.

Published
13 May 2013
From
University of Salford
Cancer
Cancer linked to oral sex increasing; Milwaukee seeks to educate, promote vaccines

As a head and neck cancer surgeon, Michael Stadler never thought he'd have to ask his patients about their sexual practices. Thirty years ago, most cancers he treated were linked to smoking. Today, 60% to 80% of oropharyngeal (tonsil and back of the tongue) cancers are linked to oral sex and genital human papillomavirus, or HPV.

Published
10 May 2013
From
Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel
Ageing and HIV
Michelangelo Signorile: The First AIDS Generation: Grappling With Why We're Alive and What It Means

I was escaping the epidemic by immersing myself in the politics and urgency of it, which seems paradoxical but really does make a lot of sense .I gave myself a special dispensation on grief and heartbreak. There was no time for grief, especially when anger and indignation was so much more empowering. Of course, what I'm painfully learning 25 years later is that you can put grief off, but you can't ever escape it.

Published
10 May 2013
From
Huffington Post
HIV in children
Maternal abacavir, smoking tied to heart markers in HIV-exposed kids

HIV-exposed but uninfected (HEU) children of HIV-positive mothers who took abacavir, smoked, or drank alcohol had elevated levels of cardiac biomarkers that could signal heart trouble, according to analysis of the US Pediatric HIVAIDS Cohort Study (PHACS). The study also linked cardiac biomarkers to some echocardiographic abnormalities.

Published
07 May 2013
From
International AIDS Society
Men who have sex with men (MSM)
High prevalence of oral HPV infection in Dutch gay men

Oral infection with human papillomavirus (HPV) is common among gay men, Dutch investigators report in the online edition of AIDS. Prevalence was especially high among HIV-positive gay men,

Published
07 May 2013
By
Michael Carter
Recreational drug use
Sleazy Michael Presents Sauna and Drug Club Casualties - community panel on recent gay club deaths in London

Community panel on recent gay club deaths in London at Royal Vauxhall Tavern at 7pm on Thursday 9 May

Published
05 May 2013
From
Time Out
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