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Behaviour change interventions
Poverty-targeted cash transfers are reducing some HIV risk behaviours

Cash transfers to orphans and vulnerable children in Kenya are associated with later onset of sexual activity and fewer sexual partners, but no increase in condom use among

Published
31 July 2012
By
Mara Kardas-Nelson
Sex workers
Female sex workers have 14 times the risk of having HIV as other women

Although researchers and public health organisations in most low and middle income countries have not collected any recent data on the prevalence of HIV in female sex

Published
31 July 2012
By
Roger Pebody
HIV prevention policy
What science can't yet treat: HIV's impact on minorities, poor

For all the strides made against HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, science and medicine alone can't end an epidemic that affects vulnerable populations disproportionately: minorities, young people, poor people and those who lack access to health care.

Published
27 July 2012
From
The News Tribune
Epidemiology and behaviour
The paradox of HIV in black MSM in the US – very high infection rates despite no more risky sex and more precautions

A new meta-analysis, presented to the 19th International AIDS Conference (AIDS 2012) on Tuesday, shows that the exceptionally high rates of HIV infection seen in black

Published
25 July 2012
By
Roger Pebody
Epidemiology and behaviour
Very high incidence of new HIV infections in American black MSM; links with young age and unemployment

The largest-ever cohort of black men who have sex with men (MSM) recruited in the United States has found that, among those who were initially HIV negative,

Published
24 July 2012
By
Roger Pebody
Women
Addressing Gender-Based Violence and HIV/AIDS

The dual global epidemics of HIV/AIDS and gender-based violence (GBV) exert a destructive and disproportionate impact on women and girls, especially in high HIV prevalence countries in Africa.

Published
17 July 2012
From
Smart Global Health
HIV prevention policy
Aids conference forces Washington's epidemic into global spotlight

It has an HIV infection rate of 3.2%, placing it above Gambia, the Democratic Republic of Congo and Senegal, and just behind Nigeria where prevalance is 3.6%. But this is no third-world country – it is the capital city of the richest nation on Earth.

Published
09 July 2012
From
The Guardian
HIV prevention policy
Judy Auerbach: On “Activism”

There will be another group of activists, who often are not thought of in this way, who also will populate AIDS 2012. These are what I call “scientist-activists”.

Published
08 July 2012
From
Somatosphere
Epidemiology and behaviour
AIDS In Black America: A Public Health Crisis

Of the more than 1 million people in the U.S. infected with HIV, nearly half are black men, women and children — even though blacks make up about 13 percent of the population. AIDS is the primary killer of African-Americans ages 19 to 44, and the mortality rate is 10 times higher for black Americans than for whites.

Published
06 July 2012
From
NPR
Women
Is somebody taking notice of the links between Gender Based Violence and HIV ?

Gender Based Violence (GBV) is a huge issue for women living with HIV. Internationally the reciprocal links between GBV and HIV have been widely recognised. However in the UK, up to now, they have been widely ignored by researchers, policy makers and service providers.

Published
02 July 2012
From
Speaking Up!
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