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Condoms and lubricant
Putting the Nail in the Coffin of Condom-Only HIV Prevention

Dearly beloved, we gather here to say our goodbyes. For over thirty years, condoms have been our only lifesavers in the face of HIV. But as if we needed any additional evidence of the need to turn the page, it came in the form of a seemingly banal conference presentation this week in Atlanta at the 20th Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections.

Published
08 March 2013
From
Frontiers LA
Women
Link between violence and HIV must be made explicit, say African ministers

The link between gender-based violence and HIV infections needs to be explicit in the outcome document of the UN Commission on the Status of Women (CSW), delegates said this week.

Published
08 March 2013
From
The Guardian
The search for a cure
Behind the miracle child a broken system lurks

While we celebrate this week’s story of an HIV-miracle cure, let’s not forget the story of injustice that made it possible. How is it possible for a pregnant woman in the world’s wealthiest country to not receive prenatal care? Why were the mother and child “lost to care” for over 6 months?

Published
07 March 2013
From
AIDS Foundation of Chicago
Sexual transmission
HIV exploits a human cytokine in semen to promote its own transmission

A new report suggests that the concentration of one human cytokine, interleukin 7 (IL-7), in the semen of HIV-1-infected men may be a key determinant of the efficiency of HIV-1 transmission to an uninfected female partner.

Published
07 March 2013
From
EurekAlert (press release)
PrEP
CROI 2013: iPrEx Update—A Q&A with Dr. Robert Grant

What happens when access to PrEP is interrupted? Will PrEP prove to have merely delayed HIV acquisition in people at high risk for infection?

Published
07 March 2013
From
BETA blog
Circumcision
Slow progress in expansion of voluntary circumcision coverage

Progress towards greater coverage of voluntary male circumcision (MC) in Africa remains slow, and is due as much to men’s fear of the operation as it is

Published
07 March 2013
By
Gus Cairns
Injecting drug users
Heroin and crack use 'plummeting'

The number of heroin and crack users in England is "plummeting", according to the National Treatment Agency for Substance Misuse.

Published
06 March 2013
From
BBC Health
Adherence
CROI 2013: The VOICE Results—A Social Scientist’s Perspective

To social scientist Judith D. Auerbach, PhD, a consultant to the NIH Office of AIDS Research and San Francisco AIDS Foundation, the VOICE results raise a number of questions—but not the ones you might think.

Published
06 March 2013
From
BETA blog
Sexual transmission
Black gay men run higher risk of HIV infection despite fewer partners

An analysis of four studies of sexual risk and HIV infection in US gay men, presented at the 20th Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI

Published
06 March 2013
By
Gus Cairns
Retention and linkage to care
Falling Through the Cracks

We can strengthen two of the weakest links in the U.S. health care chain for people with HIV/AIDS—linking people to care and retaining them in care—but doing so requires a collective approach.

Published
05 March 2013
From
Poz
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