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Majority of Italian HIV specialists would prescribe PrEP

Seventy per cent of Italian HIV specialists who answered an online survey would prescribe pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) to people in their care who ask for it, at least

Published
8 hours ago
By
Gus Cairns
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UK: Are you willing to take part in research that aims to reduce your risk of HIV?

PROUD is a two-year study to recruit gay and bisexual men across England, who will be placed at random into one of two groups. One group will use PrEP from the start of the study, and the other group will receive PrEP after 12 months.

Published
16 May 2013
From
PROUD study, UK Medical Research Council
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This PrEP-ed Life: Damon Jacobs on Sex and Dating in a New Era of HIV Prevention

As a licensed therapist working with people living with HIV, Damon Jacobs heard about pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) as an HIV prevention strategy. When he found himself newly single after being out of the dating game for almost a decade, he re-entered a dating pool that was not at all condom-friendly. To deal with this, and to finally come to terms with his distaste for condoms, Damon began taking PrEP in July 2011 to stay HIV negative.

Published
14 May 2013
From
TheBody.com
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PrEP – Is this just a phase I’m going through?

"How did I end up in this situation where I feel like I need PrEP?" The first of three blogs in which Marc-Andre le Blanc of IRMA answers his own question.

Published
18 April 2013
From
MyPrEPExperience
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PrEP doesn't lead to increases in risky sex among gay men

Taking HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) does not lead to increased levels of sexual risk behaviour among gay men, investigators from the United States report in the online

Published
15 April 2013
By
Michael Carter
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Disappointing tenofovir PrEP trials: maybe “adherence” is not to blame

Reports of modest success from two trials (2010) of tenofovir as pre-exposure prophylaxis against HIV (PrEP)– CAPRISA 004 (1) (topical gel/women) relative risk reduction (RRR) 39%; iPrEX (2) (oral tablet/MSM) RRR 44% – have inspired recent contributions to STI journal.

Published
29 March 2013
From
BMJ Group blogs
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New Advocacy Group Wants to Improve Feasibility of PrEP for U.S. Women

Following disappointing results from the VOICE trial released at the recent 20th Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI) in Atlanta, a new U.S. Women and PrEP Working Group has called on the federal government to help American women use antiretroviral pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) safely and effectively. But the AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF) responded by urging the Food and Drug Administration to rescind its approval of Truvada (tenofovir/emtricitabine) for HIV prevention.

Published
21 March 2013
From
HIVandHepatitis.com
Clinical trials
Testing HIV Prevention Tools: Other Ways Up the Alley

We need to design prevention trials that ask, “Is this test product better than nothing?” rather than, “Is this test product better than the best available prevention combination we have?”

Published
15 March 2013
From
Poz
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Preventing HIV Infection With Anti-HIV Drugs in People at Risk Is Cost-Effective

An HIV prevention strategy in which people at risk of becoming exposed to HIV take antiretroviral drugs to reduce their chance of becoming infected (often referred to as pre-exposure prophylaxis or PrEP), may be a cost-effective method

Published
13 March 2013
From
Science Daily
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Mitchell Warren: Listening to Women's Voices on HIV Prevention

The VOICE trial results show that we still have a lot to learn about what women really want and need in HIV prevention. The women in the trial are telling us something that is true for every group at risk for HIV: to help more people avoid infection, we need to offer prevention tools they will actually want, demand and use.

Published
12 March 2013
From
Huffington Post
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