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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
Clinical trials
Testing HIV Prevention Tools: Other Ways Up the Alley

We need to design prevention trials that ask, “Is this test product better than nothing?” rather than, “Is this test product better than the best available prevention combination we have?”

Published
15 March 2013
From
Poz
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
History of HIV and AIDS
The Battle for Needle Exchange, as AIDS Raged

In the '80s, HIV was killing tens of thousands of heroin addicts. Yet swapping clean needles for dirty ones remained illegal—until a ragtag group of AIDS activists put their bodies on the line.

Published
14 March 2013
From
The Fix
PEP
Postexposure Prophylaxis: Dealing With Old Guidelines

The patient responded, “With all due respect to the guidelines, in the current era when there are increasingly well-tolerated medications, why would you use a regimen that included only 2 NRTIs without a third drug in any setting where there is a risk of HIV transmission?”

Published
13 March 2013
From
Clinical Care Options (requires registration)
Injecting drug use
HIV high on the agenda at the fifty-sixth session of the Commission on Narcotic Drugs

At the fifty-sixth session of the Commission on Narcotic Drugs, which is running from 11-15 March, drug use and HIV will be addressed through a number of channels, including a draft resolution calling for the intensification of efforts to reduce HIV to attain the targets of the 2011 Political Declaration on HIV and AIDS.

Published
13 March 2013
From
UNAIDS
HIV prevention policy
Political Strife Undermines HIV Treatment

Among other tragedies in countries with HIV epidemics, political violence can have the additional long-term consequence of an increase in viral resistance to treatment and HIV treatment failure, say the authors of a new paper in AIDS Reviews.

Published
13 March 2013
From
Science Daily
PrEP
Preventing HIV Infection With Anti-HIV Drugs in People at Risk Is Cost-Effective

An HIV prevention strategy in which people at risk of becoming exposed to HIV take antiretroviral drugs to reduce their chance of becoming infected (often referred to as pre-exposure prophylaxis or PrEP), may be a cost-effective method

Published
13 March 2013
From
Science Daily
The search for a cure
Gene therapy studies show potential for HIV control without drugs

Gene therapy approaches that involve the genetic modification of human haematopoietic stem cells have the potental to engineer HIV control by introducing cells resistant to

Published
13 March 2013
By
Gus Cairns
Infectiousness and treatment as prevention
Changing my mind on treatment as prevention

Bob Leahy used to be a strong opponent on treatment as prevention. But times change and there has been a sea change in his view.

Published
12 March 2013
From
Positive Lite
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