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Women
Beyond "Getting Over It": Why Trauma and Gender Violence Matter in HIV/AIDS

Part of breaking the cycle of gender violence, trauma and HIV will need to include demanding, growing and supporting leadership by women at every table where decisions that affect our community are made.

Published
14 June 2012
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Adherence
Financial incentives and motivational interviewing being used to improve adherence in young people

St Mary’s Hospital in London is testing the use of cash incentives, in combination with motivational interviewing, in an effort to improve the adherence of

Published
20 April 2012
By
Roger Pebody
HIV prevention policy
How is HIV prevention policy made in Tanzania and why do structural interventions lose out?

Far from being primarily driven by scientific evidence, decisions about spending priorities for HIV prevention programmes emerge from an imperfect, politicised process, Moritz Hunsmann argues in an

Published
28 March 2012
By
Roger Pebody
Injecting drug users
Upsurge in HIV diagnoses among IDUs in Greece and Romania - are reduced prevention services the cause?

New diagnosis and prevalence of HIV increased sharply among injecting drug users in Greece and Romania in 2011, European investigators report. Several other countries in the

Published
16 January 2012
By
Michael Carter
Epidemiology and behaviour
MSM living in hostile social environments more likely to have negative feelings about sexuality, less likely to test for HIV

The largest ever international study of the sexual health of men who have sex with men (MSM), which recruited men from across the European continent,

Published
16 November 2011
By
Roger Pebody
Behaviour change interventions
Disappointing results from two peer education projects in southern Africa

Two large HIV prevention programmes that recruited people to educate their friends and classmates have both failed to make an impact on sexual behaviour, researchers report in

Published
20 September 2011
By
Roger Pebody
Behaviour change interventions
What's next for HIV prevention? Paying people to be healthy

Researchers are investigating the impact of offering financial incentives to people who are at risk of acquiring or passing on HIV, the International AIDS Society conference (IAS

Published
25 July 2011
By
Roger Pebody
Epidemiology and behaviour
Concurrent partnerships in men do not explain HIV incidence in women: number of partners does

A study of HIV incidence amongst women in part of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, failed to find any evidence that HIV incidence in women was associated with

Published
16 July 2011
By
Gus Cairns
Epidemiology and behaviour
Risk factors for HIV vary between African cities, need tailored responses

A comparative study in three large cities in southern Africa has found big differences in risk factors for acquisition of HIV infection, emphasising the importance of locally tailored

Published
04 July 2011
By
Carole Leach-Lemens
Men who have sex with men (MSM)
WHO issues global recommendations on services for men who have sex with men and transgender people

The World Health Organization has issued comprehensive recommendations on the prevention and treatment of HIV and sexually transmitted infections among men who have sex with men and

Published
23 June 2011
By
Keith Alcorn
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