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PrEP
Mitchell Warren: Listening to Women's Voices on HIV Prevention

The VOICE trial results show that we still have a lot to learn about what women really want and need in HIV prevention. The women in the trial are telling us something that is true for every group at risk for HIV: to help more people avoid infection, we need to offer prevention tools they will actually want, demand and use.

Published
12 March 2013
From
Huffington Post
Behaviour change interventions
Puppets Now Apparently Most At Risk For HIV

HIV/AIDS has almost completely fallen off the radar as a TV subject. Leave it to some puppets to rise to the occasion - Logo and Avenue Q recently teamed up for a series of public service announcements (PSAs).

Published
12 March 2013
From
After Elton
HIV prevention policy
Craig Timberg and Daniel Halperin: Five myths about AIDS

1. The case of the Mississippi baby means we’re close to curing AIDS. 2. AIDS is the leading killer of babies worldwide. 3. Mothers with HIV should never breast-feed. 4. Drugs are the key to preventing HIV’s spread. 5. AIDS can’t be defeated.

Published
12 March 2013
From
Washington Post
Medical procedures and other blood-borne exposure
NY aims to prevent unsafe injections

The Safe Injection Practices Coalition, a group of healthcare-related organizations including the CDC indicated since 2001, more than 150,000 patients in the U.S. were told they may have been exposed to hepatitis B, hepatitis C, or human immunodeficiency virus because providers followed unsafe injection procedures.

Published
12 March 2013
From
UPI.com
Sexually transmitted infections
Outbreaks and incidents relating to sexually transmitted or sexually transmissible infections in England

Outbreak and incident management is a core element of sexual health commissioning and this briefing provides information on recent incidents across England and sets out recommendations for commissioners in local authorities.

Published
11 March 2013
From
Health Protection Agency
Women
In the Arab world, women aren't supposed to talk about sex - let alone enjoy it. But that might be changing.

Politics, religion and sex are the three “red lines” of the Arab world: subjects you’re not supposed to tackle in word or deed. But just as people in countries across the region are busy contesting received wisdoms in politics, and are starting to challenge of the role of religion in public policy, I hope they will start asking them same hard questions of sexual life.

Published
11 March 2013
From
The Independent
HIV prevention policy
Comment: HIV policy has collapsed and gay men will not escape the legacy

Against a backdrop of ever rising HIV infection rates and squeezed statutory funding, the wholly unrealistic expectations on Terrence Higgins Trust to change the UK’s current health prognosis concerning gay men and HIV is coming under renewed strain from both within and outside of the gay community. Regardless of whether it is appropriate or not, the failure to curb HIV infections is increasingly being dumped at the trust’s door.

Published
11 March 2013
From
Pink News
Prisoners
Defusing Scotland's HIV prison timebomb

Twenty years after Glenochil’s notorious outbreak, Roy Kilpatrick looks at how progress has been made to help inmates.

Published
11 March 2013
From
Herald Scotland
Microbicides
Bee Venom Destroys HIV And Spares Surrounding Cells

Nanoparticles containing bee venom toxin melittin can destroy human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) while at the same time leaving surrounding cells unharmed, scientists from Washington University School of Medicine reported in the March 2013 issue of Antiviral Therapy.

Published
10 March 2013
From
HIV / AIDS News From Medical News Today
Contraception
Contraceptive injections and HIV infection risk – a public health conundrum

The concerns about a possible increase in risk of HIV acquisition with some hormonal contraceptive methods need to be understood in the context of the

Published
10 March 2013
By
Roger Pebody
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