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Retention and linkage to care
New Phone App to Facilitate HIV Screening, Counseling, and Linkage to Care

The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, in collaboration with the Institute for Johns Hopkins Nursing, the American Academy of HIV Medicine (AAHIVM), and DKBmed, LLC, has announced the creation of an application (app) that brings essential features of the SCALE HIV™ program to iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch devices. The app can be found at www.dkbmed.com/scale.

Published
23 April 2013
From
Yahoo! News
Promoting HIV testing
Training for GPs can increase HIV testing rate

A multifaceted educational intervention for doctors and practice nurses working in general practice in London led to a tripling in the number of HIV tests provided, researchers

Published
22 April 2013
By
Roger Pebody
Finance and funding
Opinion: Why the gay community needs FS magazine

"GMFA first published FS magazine in 2002. In March this year we were told that the people who funded FS magazine were no longer going to continue this. Saying this came as a bit of a shock is an understatement. We believe that FS achieves something that no other HIV prevention does. Simply, we are able to reach gay men who are not necessarily seeking information on sexual health..." Ian Howley, editor of London's HIV prevention magazine for gay men, on why GMFA are going to try to continue to publish it, despite drastic funding cuts.

Published
16 April 2013
From
Sosogay
Health monitoring in resource-limited settings
Cellphone microscopes: a how-to guide

Tiny microscopes that can be fitted onto any mobile phone with a camera and used to diagnose illnesses in remote areas may have the potential to revolutionise healthcare in developing world.

Published
16 April 2013
From
SciDevNet
Epidemiology and behaviour
San Francisco: A New Phase in the HIV Epidemic Among MSM

In San Francisco, HIV incidence did not increase between 2004 and 2011 among men who have sex with men, despite ongoing risk behavior.

Published
16 April 2013
From
Journal Watch
Health monitoring in resource-limited settings
Cheap and quick HIV testing made possible with DVD scanners

Thanks to USB sticks and video streaming, DVD players are becoming all but obsolete. But their cheap optics may find a new life in a cost-effective and speedy technique for on-the-spot HIV testing and other analytics.

Published
11 April 2013
From
Phys.Org
Infectiousness and treatment as prevention
Treating everyone diagnosed would not end HIV in US gay men, Los Angeles-based model finds

Increasing HIV testing frequency, and giving everyone antiretroviral therapy (ART), would not in themselves reduce HIV prevalence in US gay men, a mathematical model suggests. These measures would

Published
11 April 2013
By
Gus Cairns
Infectiousness and treatment as prevention
Viral load in genital secretions differs between men and women undergoing HIV therapy

The female genital tract appears to be a 'reservoir' for ongoing HIV replication, even during effective antiretroviral therapy, an international team of investigators report in Clinical

Published
11 April 2013
By
Michael Carter
Epidemiology and behaviour
No increase in sexual risk taking by gay men in England, 2001 to 2008

Analysis of Gay Men’s Sex Survey data shows that, overall, the proportion of men reporting unprotected anal intercourse (UAI) did not change between the 2001 and 2008

Published
10 April 2013
By
Roger Pebody
Taking an HIV test
The Week I Had HIV

Misdiagnoses are a rare but intractable problem. Here’s what happened to me.

Published
04 April 2013
From
Slate Magazine
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