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Infectiousness and treatment as prevention
Understanding Risk: A Conversation

Editor Bob Leahy interviews CATIE’s James Wilton about the tricky topic of communicating risk in the age of undetectable viral load.

Published
22 March 2012
From
PositiveLite
Safer sex
Serosorting does help prevent HIV – up to a point

A meta-analysis of HIV-negative gay men’s sexual behaviour and HIV incidence rate in four HIV prevention studies, presented earlier this month at the 19th Conference on Retroviruses

Published
19 March 2012
By
Gus Cairns
PrEP
Australian gay men cautious about PrEP; most in need are the most interested

Only just over one in four Australian gay men in a recent scientific survey described themselves as ‘willing’ to use pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) against HIV. The others,

Published
17 February 2012
By
Gus Cairns
Condoms and lubricant
Uncomfortable news on lubes for anal sex

Commercially available sexual lubricants may increase people’s susceptibility to sexually transmitted infection (STIs), US scientists reported recently. A study found that people who consistently used shop-bought ‘lubes’ for

Published
03 February 2012
From
HIV treatment update
Relationships and feelings
Serodiscordant relationships for Africans in the UK often marked by uncertainty and disempowerment

African people in the UK who are involved in a serodiscordant relationship (where one person has HIV and the other does not) have a wide range

Published
25 November 2011
By
Roger Pebody
Sexually transmitted infections
Reduced susceptibility to first-line drug causes change in UK gonorrhoea prescribing practice

UK Prescribing guidance for the treatment of gonorrhoea needs to change because of increasing prevalence of bacteria with reduced susceptibility to the first-line antibiotic cefixime, the Health

Published
11 October 2011
By
Michael Carter
Transmission and prevention
The safety spectrum: gay men use many ways to moderate their sexual risk

The vast majority of gay men, HIV-positive and negative, make some effort to moderate their risk of transmitting or acquiring HIV, a large Australian study finds. Dr Limin

Published
18 September 2011
By
Gus Cairns
Behaviour change interventions
Motivational interviewing, widely used counselling technique, may not work well for sexual behaviour change

A meta-analysis of sexual risk behaviour reduction using the counselling technique known as motivational interviewing has found little evidence of efficacy, the Tenth AIDS Impact conference heard this week. Researcher Rigmor

Published
16 September 2011
By
Gus Cairns
Ageing and HIV
The spirit is willing, but... sex in the HIV-positive over-50s

Although the average age of the HIV-positive population is increasing, in both richer and poorer countries, and though sex between older people has often been cited as

Published
16 September 2011
By
Gus Cairns
Viral load increasingly features in safer-sex discussion and decisions by HIV-positive gay men and their partners

A Dutch study presented at the Tenth AIDS Impact conference this week showed that HIV-positive gay men are increasingly taking viral load into account when it comes to

Published
15 September 2011
By
Gus Cairns
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