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PrEP
Studies highlight complex questions about how communities will respond to PrEP

Two consecutive sessions at the 19th International AIDS Conference (AIDS 2012) in Washington DC highlighted some of the complexities of translating exciting research findings about pre-exposure prophylaxis

Published
25 July 2012
By
Kelly Safreed-Harmon
Injecting drug use
International AIDS Conference hears how drugs, sex and HIV interlock

Two sessions at the 19th International AIDS Conference (AIDS 2012) in Washington looked at the way injecting drug use, recreational drug use and unsafe sex interlock to

Published
25 July 2012
By
Gus Cairns
Infectiousness and treatment as prevention
HPTN 052 Follow Up: No Increase in Unsafe Sex; Continued Viral Suppression

Follow-up data from HIV Prevention Trials Network Study 052 (HPTN 052) show that HIV-serodiscordant couples, in which the positive partner is receiving antiretroviral (ARV) therapy, are no more likely to abandon safer sex practices over time.

Published
24 July 2012
From
POZ
Behaviour change interventions
Push to add sex education to the national curriculum

Findings of a national survey in Australia lay bare the need for sex education to be included in the national curriculum.

Published
05 July 2012
From
The Age
Epidemiology and behaviour
Rise in HIV cases worries the Phillipines

At a time when many countries are seeing their HIV infection rates level off or decline, the Philippines is going in the opposite direction.

Published
05 July 2012
From
The Wall Street Journal
How transmission occurs
Bacterial vaginosis is associated with higher risk of female-to-male transmission of HIV

Previous research has shown that bacterial vaginosis can increase a women's risk of becoming infected with HIV as much as sixty percent. Our study is the first to show that the risk of transmitting HIV is also elevated.

Published
27 June 2012
From
Eurekalert Inf Dis
Sexually transmitted infections
Vaginal discharge is a poor way of diagnosing STIs, with asymptomatic infections associated with an increased risk of HIV

Symptoms are a poor way of detecting discharge-causing sexually transmitted infections (STIs) in women, investigators report in the 1 July edition of the Journal of Infectious Diseases.

Published
26 June 2012
By
Michael Carter
Contraception
CDC says no link seen between contraceptives and higher HIV risk

There is no clear link between the use of contraceptives such as the birth control pill or Depo-Provera shots and an increased risk that a woman will contract HIV, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said on Thursday.

Published
22 June 2012
From
Reuters
Behaviour change interventions
Reality vs. “Maximalist Precautions”

Bob Leahy on how HIV prevention messaging, doctors and researchers interpret risk for us – and why their messages don’t always match the way we deal with risk in our everyday lives.

Published
01 June 2012
From
Positive Lite
Injecting drug use
Gay and bisexual men who inject drugs more likely to have HIV than other men who inject drugs

HIV prevalence is four times higher in gay and bisexual men who inject drugs, compared to heterosexual, male, injecting drug users, UK investigators report in Sexually Transmitted

Published
30 May 2012
By
Michael Carter
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