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Beginning to End the AIDS Epidemic: What’s the Research Agenda?

Looking back over three decades of AIDS, it’s hard to point to a better investment than research. Over the past three years, a string of HIV prevention research breakthroughs has put the ambitious goal of even talking about an end of AIDS within sight for the first time. With more strategic use of the tools we have today, we can bend the curve of new infections.

Published
25 May 2012
From
Science Speaks
Adherence
HIV treatment breaks lead to drug resistance in the female genital tract

Antiretroviral treatment interruptions of 48 hours or more are associated with the emergence of resistant strains of HIV in the female genital tract, investigators report in the

Published
24 May 2012
By
Michael Carter
Infectiousness and treatment as prevention
Kenyan heterosexual couples want a choice of antiretroviral prevention methods

Approximately 40% of HIV-positive people in a stable relationship with an HIV-negative person in Kenya have reservations about starting antiretroviral therapy early for the purposes of prevention, investigators

Published
23 May 2012
By
Michael Carter
Conception
NICE says sperm washing is no safer than effective treatment and timed intercourse

Draft UK guidance on fertility treatment says that sperm washing may no longer be necessary for couples where the man has HIV and the woman does not.

Published
22 May 2012
By
Roger Pebody
Infectiousness and treatment as prevention
Antiretroviral therapy may be stabilising HIV epidemic in Danish gay men

The use of antiretroviral treatment appears to have stabilised the HIV epidemic in Danish gay men, even though rates of risky sex have increased, research published in

Published
22 May 2012
By
Michael Carter
Injecting drug use
Germany: Intoxicating history

In tracing the modern history of Germany’s policy on intoxicant and drug use, which favours therapy rather than punishment, Cambridge historian Dr Victoria Harris highlights that criminalisation may not be the only route.

Published
18 May 2012
From
University of Cambridge
Men who have sex with men (MSM)
To Fight HIV, Indian Health Workers Say Homosexuality Must Be Legal

The men here are among what Davinder calls India's "key population" — those most at risk of contracting HIV. He and his colleague, Husefa Saigoonwala, come here every week to pass out handfuls of condoms.

Published
15 May 2012
From
NPR (blog)
Vaccines
What ever happened to the Thai HIV vaccine?

In 2009, it was announced that the first successful HIV vaccine, the Thai vaccine, had been identified. At the time, this news was greeted with both excitement and skepticism, but we haven’t heard much about it since. What happened to the vaccine? Why isn’t it available? Will it ever be?

Published
14 May 2012
From
CATIE
PrEP
US regulators vote for approval of PrEP by large majority

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) took a decisive step yesterday towards approving the use of the combination pill Truvada (tenofovir/FTC) as a prevention

Published
11 May 2012
By
Gus Cairns
Transmission and prevention
Slim Abdool Karim: Shaking up SA’s ailing medical research

Hand-picked for the job by Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi, Karim is used to difficult challenges. He was a political activist and medical student at the height of apartheid and went on to become one of the world’s leading HIV researchers, investigating vaginal gels to protect women from infection.

Published
11 May 2012
From
Business Day
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