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Epidemiology and behaviour
HIV infections soar amongst Eastern European 'street youth'

As many as 40% of young people living on the streets in some areas of Eastern Europe are infected with HIV, according to doctors, activists

Published
20 July 2010
By
Mara Kardas-Nelson
Recreational drug use
LSUHSC awarded $4 million to understand effect of THC on HIV

LSU Health Sciences Center New Orleans has been awarded a $4 million grant over five years to study how THC, a component chemical of marijuana, might reduce inflammation and viral replication in people with HIV, as a basis for future drug discovery.

Published
07 July 2010
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Transmission and prevention
Vienna declaration calls for science-based drug policies

Three leading scientific and health policy organizations this week launched a global drive for signatories to the Vienna Declaration, a statement seeking to improve community

Published
30 June 2010
By
Press Release
Human rights
Harm reduction and human rights

Harm reduction for injecting drug users, including clean needles and syringes and opiate substitution therapy, is extremely limited in some regions of the world. Harm reduction

Published
28 May 2010
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HIV & AIDS treatment in practice
Recreational drug use
Feasible to recruit and retain meth-using gay men to programmes treating dependence to the drug

It is feasible to recruit and retain methamphetamine-dependent gay men in a pharmacologic drug-treatment programme, US investigators report in the April 24th edition of AIDS.

Published
30 April 2010
By
Michael Carter
Recreational drug use
Counselling as well as drug treatment needed to reduce risky behaviour in opioid-using youth

Extended treatment with buprenorphine/naloxone helps reduce levels of injecting drug use and sexual activity in opioid-using youth, according to US research published in the online

Published
30 April 2010
By
Michael Carter
Drug interactions and pharmacokinetics
Drug interactions still common and often unrecognised in patients taking HIV treatment

Clinically significant drug interactions are common amongst patients taking antiretroviral therapy, and often are not noticed by HIV doctors, UK investigators report in the May

Published
23 April 2010
By
Michael Carter
Neurological and cognitive problems
Morphine may protect against HIV-related brain disease

Morphine protects rat neurons against damage by HIV, researchers from Georgetown University Medical Center, Washington DC, reported last week. They believe the finding might help in

Published
21 April 2010
By
Keith Alcorn
Men who have sex with men (MSM)
Having older sexual partners increases HIV risk for younger gay men

Sex with older partners is associated with a significantly increased risk of HIV infection for younger gay men, and other men who have sex with

Published
06 April 2010
By
Michael Carter
Recreational drug use
The lonely drug: crystal meth in the UK

There are increasing signs of problematic methamphetamine use amongst some gay men in the UK. Gus Cairns reports.

Published
01 March 2010
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HIV treatment update
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