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Epidemiology and behaviour
Media mis-reporting HIV rate among SA schoolgirls - true rate is 12.7 percent

The claim that 28 percent of South African schoolgirls are living with HIV started with a remark by Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi, misreported by The Sowetan. Unquestioned, it has been repeated by media across the country and the world. The true rate is half that.

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12 hours ago
From
Africa Check
Infectiousness and treatment as prevention
Are we underestimating the proportion of virally-suppressed patients in the US?

Several presentations at the recent 20th Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections in Atlanta suggest that previous estimates of the proportion of people with HIV in the

Published
15 March 2013
By
Gus Cairns
Structural factors
Many poor heterosexuals in US cities at risk for HIV infection

Some 2.3 percent of 8,500 poor heterosexuals living in cities with high rates of HIV infection tested positive for the virus that causes AIDS, and nearly half of those who were infected said they had never had an HIV test before the study, health officials said on Thursday.

Published
15 March 2013
From
Reueters
Epidemiology and behaviour
South Africa: '28% of schoolgirls are HIV positive'

AT LEAST 28% of schoolgirls are HIV positive while only 4% of young boys are infected with the virus in the country. Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi said this was a clear indication that old men were sleeping with young girls - a statistic he said "destroyed my soul".

Published
15 March 2013
From
The Sowetan
Women
Sex work, violence and HIV: experience from rural Karnataka

Working with women in sex work for the last 10 years in rural South India has taught me that it is not HIV that is a priority in their lives but issues like violence, stigma and discrimination and uncertainties related to their children’s future. We organised a participatory workshop with sex workers to understand the extent of violence in these intimate relationships, including causes of violence.

Published
14 March 2013
From
Open Democracy
Women
Link between violence and HIV must be made explicit, say African ministers

The link between gender-based violence and HIV infections needs to be explicit in the outcome document of the UN Commission on the Status of Women (CSW), delegates said this week.

Published
08 March 2013
From
The Guardian
The search for a cure
Behind the miracle child a broken system lurks

While we celebrate this week’s story of an HIV-miracle cure, let’s not forget the story of injustice that made it possible. How is it possible for a pregnant woman in the world’s wealthiest country to not receive prenatal care? Why were the mother and child “lost to care” for over 6 months?

Published
07 March 2013
From
AIDS Foundation of Chicago
Sexual transmission
Black gay men run higher risk of HIV infection despite fewer partners

An analysis of four studies of sexual risk and HIV infection in US gay men, presented at the 20th Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI

Published
06 March 2013
By
Gus Cairns
Retention and linkage to care
Falling Through the Cracks

We can strengthen two of the weakest links in the U.S. health care chain for people with HIV/AIDS—linking people to care and retaining them in care—but doing so requires a collective approach.

Published
05 March 2013
From
Poz
Money, benefits and housing
Antiretroviral Drugs Sold for Food in Kenya’s Slums

Impoverished Kenyans living with HIV/AIDs are sometimes selling their antiretroviral drugs to buy food for themselves and their families. Medical professionals believe there has been a slight growth in the trend, saying that people are simply trying to survive.

Published
05 March 2013
From
Voice of America
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