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Injecting drug users
Starting HIV treatment reduces risky sexual behaviour among injecting drug users

Starting antiretroviral therapy is associated with reductions in sexual risk-taking and injecting among HIV-positive drug users, according to US research published in the online edition of AIDS.  There

Published
06 November 2012
By
Michael Carter
Epidemiology and behaviour
Denmark: Late HIV diagnosis not a major factor in continued spread of HIV

Individuals whose HIV infection is diagnosed late are making only a minimal contribution to the HIV epidemic, Danish investigators report in the online edition of the Journal

Published
05 November 2012
By
Michael Carter
Conception
"How are we going to have a baby? I’m positive and you’re not"

Joanna Moss of the African Health Policy Network (AHPN) looks at conception and fertility guidelines and services for people living with HIV in the UK.

Published
22 October 2012
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HIV treatment update
HIV and criminal law
Viral load will be no defence against prosecution for HIV exposure or transmission in Norway

HIV campaigners reacted with dismay today to the issuing of a report by a Norwegian Commission on HIV and the Law which, while making one significant concession in

Published
20 October 2012
By
Gus Cairns
How transmission occurs
In heterosexuals, transmitted HIV strains often resemble original infecting virus

A new study has found that even though HIV diversifies widely within infected individuals over time, the virus strains that ultimately are passed on through heterosexual transmission often resemble the strain of virus that originally infected the transmitting partner. Learning the characteristics of these preferentially transmitted HIV strains may help advance HIV prevention efforts, particularly with regard to an HIV vaccine, according to the scientists who conducted the study.

Published
25 September 2012
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Eurekalert Inf Dis
Sexual transmission
Viral load climbs and CD4s fall with syphilis in HIV+ Paris men

The viral load surge with syphilis “implies that syphilis may increase the risk of HIV transmission,” the researchers propose, “even in patients receiving antiretroviral therapy and with a viral load of less than 500 copies/mL.”

Published
25 September 2012
From
International AIDS Society
HIV prevention policy
Fresh Research on HIV Urges New Approach to Gay Men

Unlike the flattening or even declining rates of HIV infection among nearly all other communities, the epidemic among gay men globally is rapidly expanding. But according to new research, the reason for this fast expansion is biological, not behavioural, thus countering some of the core priorities of traditional AIDS funding.

Published
10 September 2012
From
IPS
Sexual transmission
HPV infection doubles the risk of HIV acquisition

Human papillomavirus (HPV) infection doubles the risk of HIV acquisition for women, results of a systematic review and meta-analysis published in the online edition of AIDS suggest.

Published
03 September 2012
By
Michael Carter
Epidemiology and behaviour
Increased rates of unprotected sex among undiagnosed gay men wipe out benefits of diagnosis and HIV treatment

The ongoing HIV epidemic among gay men in the Netherlands is due to increased rates of unprotected sex, investigators report in the online edition of AIDS. Higher rates

Published
14 August 2012
By
Michael Carter
Contraception
Does injectable hormonal contraception increase the risk of HIV infection?

The 19th International AIDS Conference (AIDS 2012) heard further contradictory evidence this week on whether hormonal contraceptives, especially injectable ones, raise the risk to women of acquiring

Published
27 July 2012
By
Gus Cairns
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