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Men who have sex with men (MSM)
Higher rates of HIV in US black gay men may be due to smaller choice of partners and more age mixing

Limited partner choice, wider age gaps between partners, and mistaken beliefs about HIV status in regular partners are all driving the substantially higher rates of HIV in

Published
18 May 2013
By
Gus Cairns
Epidemiology and behaviour
A majority of HIV-positive gay men in Dutch survey take their viral load into consideration if having unprotected sex

About 40% of men who answered a community survey for HIV-positive gay men in the Netherlands said they took their viral load into consideration in deciding whether

Published
29 April 2013
By
Gus Cairns
Epidemiology and behaviour
Consistent decline in partner numbers in US gay men in last decade, but no change in condom use

Data from two national sex surveys in the United States show that gay and bisexual men (men who have sex with men, MSM) reported significantly fewer sexual

Published
25 April 2013
By
Gus Cairns
Finance and funding
Opinion: Why the gay community needs FS magazine

"GMFA first published FS magazine in 2002. In March this year we were told that the people who funded FS magazine were no longer going to continue this. Saying this came as a bit of a shock is an understatement. We believe that FS achieves something that no other HIV prevention does. Simply, we are able to reach gay men who are not necessarily seeking information on sexual health..." Ian Howley, editor of London's HIV prevention magazine for gay men, on why GMFA are going to try to continue to publish it, despite drastic funding cuts.

Published
16 April 2013
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Condoms and lubricant
Consistent condom use in anal sex stops 70% of HIV infections, study finds, but intermittent use has no effect

An analysis by Dawn Smith of the US Centers for Disease Control (CDC) reported at the 20th Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI 2013) on

Published
04 March 2013
By
Gus Cairns
Men who have sex with men (MSM)
Gays can't have sex

'Gays can’t have sex. We can have only “safer sex” or “protected sex” (where condoms or any other form of barriers are used). The sad part of “protected sex” is that it implies that sex between men is not safe,...' - psychotherapiast Marco Posadas ponders whether 'safer sex' is having a damaging effect on gay men's self-image.

Published
22 February 2013
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Condoms and lubricant
Condoms used in one-in-four heterosexual encounters in the US

A quarter of heterosexual adults in the United States used a condom the last time they had vaginal sex, researchers from Indiana University have found. Respondents generally reported that

Published
17 February 2013
By
Gus Cairns
Safer sex
Young people know less about HIV and are less trustful of condoms, French survey finds

The first survey for six years of attitudes to HIV and sexual risk behaviour among the general public in France has found that young people are less

Published
10 January 2013
By
Gus Cairns
Young people
Unprotected sex reported by the majority of sexually active adolescents infected with HIV since birth

Close to two-thirds of sexually active adolescents infected with HIV at birth have had unprotected sex, US investigators report in the online edition of Clinical Infectious Diseases.

Published
21 November 2012
By
Michael Carter
Microbicides
Some sexual lubricants damage cells – but may not increase HIV risk

An evaluation of 13 sexual lubricants has found that, while many are toxic to the cells that line the vagina and rectum, this does not lead to

Published
09 November 2012
By
Gus Cairns
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