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Outcomes and prognosis
In resource-rich countries, migrants have a higher risk of progressing to AIDS in the first year of HIV therapy

Rates of AIDS-defining illnesses in the first year of antiretroviral therapy are significantly higher among migrant than non-migrant populations in resource-rich countries, investigators report in the online edition

Published
01 March 2013
By
Michael Carter
Migrants
Mexico: Efforts to provide HIV-AIDS care services to migrants face major obstacles

Since 2007, HIV and AIDS rates have gone up throughout rural Mexican states, partly as a result of returning migrants who have engaged in high-risk behaviors in the United States and not been able to receive diagnosis or treatment.

Published
13 February 2013
From
VOXXI
Migrants
ECDC meeting report: Responses to HIV and migration in western industrialised countries: current challenges, promising practices, future directions

The meeting had a special focus on HIV and the public health response relating to the health in migrants: monitoring HIV among migrant populations, as well as migrant-sensitive HIV prevention and treatment programmes and services.

Published
01 February 2013
From
ECDC press release
Access to medicines and treatment
Refugees in Canada have poorer access to health care than in refugee camps

Has the day come when access to basic health care is worse in Canada than in a refugee camp? It has, thanks to cuts to the Interim Federal Health Program. Refugee claimants from 27 designated countries of origin, announced on Dec. 15, will now be denied almost all health care services.

Published
22 January 2013
From
The Star
Migrants
Migrants Disproportionately Affected by HIV and AIDS in High-Income Countries, Says International Organization for Migration

Migrants and mobile populations are at particularly high risk of HIV infection all over the world, as they frequently face marginalization, exclusion and various barriers to accessing health promotion and care. In addition, there is also a lack of awareness of migrants’ vulnerability to HIV in high-income countries.

Published
03 December 2012
From
International Organization for Migration press release
Epidemiology and behaviour
Australia: Study busts myths about fly-in fly-out (FIFO) sex

RESEARCHERS from the University of New England, NSW are refuting the popular notion that ‘bored and cashed-up’ FIFO workers are to blame for increasing rates of sexually transmitted infections (STIs) and HIV.

Published
26 October 2012
From
Science Network Western Australia
Epidemiology and behaviour
Large study suggests that more African people are acquiring HIV in the UK than previously thought

A new approach developed by scientists at the Health Protection Agency indicates that around 31% of African heterosexuals diagnosed with HIV in the UK may have acquired their

Published
28 September 2012
By
Roger Pebody
Epidemiology and behaviour
Black gay men in the UK almost twice as likely to have HIV as white men, meta-analysis shows

A new analysis of existing studies on the sexual health of black gay men in the UK has found that despite having similar sexual risk behaviours to

Published
30 July 2012
By
Roger Pebody
Migrants
Greece: Migrants Describe Fear on the Streets

The Greek authorities are failing to tackle a rising wave of xenophobic violence that has left migrants afraid to walk the streets. The 99-page report, “Hate on the Streets: Xenophobic Violence in Greece,”documents the failure of the police and the judiciary to prevent and punish rising attacks on migrants.

Published
10 July 2012
From
Human Rights Watch
Epidemiology and behaviour
Rise in HIV cases worries the Phillipines

At a time when many countries are seeing their HIV infection rates level off or decline, the Philippines is going in the opposite direction.

Published
05 July 2012
From
The Wall Street Journal
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