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Cambodia on track to eliminate HIV transmission by 2020

The World Health Organisation says Cambodia is on track to become one of the few countries in the world to successfully reverse its HIV epidemic and may eliminate new infections by 2020. The Southeast Asian nation has reduced its HIV prevalence rate from a 1998 peak of 1.7 percent among people aged 15-49 to 0.7 percent in 2012 across the whole population

Published
13 May 2013
From
Radio Australia
Prisoners
Zimbabwe: HIV Wreaks Havoc in Prisons

The HIV prevalence rate in Zimbabwe prisons stands at 27%, a figure almost double the national prevalence rate, a health official revealed.

Published
13 May 2013
From
All Africa
New and experimental hepatitis C treatment
New HCV combinations could have a big role in prevention, but only if treatment rates increase

New combinations of hepatitis C drugs could have major public health benefits, a modelling study published in the online edition of Hepatology shows. Scaling-up treatment rates in

Published
11 May 2013
By
Michael Carter
Epidemiology and behaviour
Up to a third of HIV infections in European gay men may have come from another country

A study (Frentz) that looked at genetic similarities in the HIV from recently diagnosed people in 24 European countries found that among ‘clusters’ of closely related

Published
10 May 2013
By
Gus Cairns
Sex workers
Right to remain silent

The US Supreme Court should overturn the 2003 law that requires federally funded HIV/AIDS programmes abroad to denounce prostitution.

Published
09 May 2013
From
Nature
Infectiousness and treatment as prevention
Herpes viruses associated with shedding of HIV in the semen of gay men taking suppressive antiretroviral therapy

Low level HIV replication in semen persists in almost 10% of gay men taking antiretroviral therapy, investigators from the United States report in the online edition of

Published
09 May 2013
By
Michael Carter
Immigration
Queen's Speech signals a new Immigration Bill is on its way

Today we learned that Government is preparing a new Immigration Bill - despite ministers' acknowledgement that much of the detail behind the headlines is still missing. One aspect may be further restrictions on migrants' use of the NHS.

Published
08 May 2013
From
Migrants' Rights Network
Immigration
NAT comment on the Queen's speech and the impact it could have on people living with HIV

NAT (National AIDS Trust) responds to the announcement in the Queen's Speech today that migrants will face further restrictions to accessing NHS services. The Government has provided no evidence of the 'health tourism' which the restrictions on migrant access to the NHS outlined in today's Queen's Speech are meant to address. 

Published
08 May 2013
From
NAT press release
Combatting stigma
Chinese Women With HIV Suffer Harassment and Stigma

Human rights and press freedom are crucial if China is to achieve its stated AIDS prevention goals, particularly when it comes to safeguarding women and children, a leading AIDS specialist has said.

Published
08 May 2013
From
Radio Free Asia
Epidemiology and behaviour
Lack Of Data On Gay Men Impedes HIV Fight In Central Asia

In recent years, the countries of Central Asia have experienced some of the fastest growing rates of HIV infection in the world. One of the key populations at risk is men who have sex with men (MSM). However, an acute lack of data on the health of that population -- due in large part to intense stigmatization of homosexuality – may be obscuring the region's HIV epidemic.

Published
07 May 2013
From
RadioFreeEurope / RadioLiberty
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