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Injecting drug use
Injecting Rooms: Have we progressed since the 1970’s?

As the debate heats up in Brighton over the introduction of injecting rooms, there is a feeling of déjà vu at Blenheim and our long history documents similar debates in the 1960’s and 1970’s.

Published
20 May 2013
From
Blenheim CDP
Men who have sex with men (MSM)
Higher rates of HIV in US black gay men may be due to smaller choice of partners and more age mixing

Limited partner choice, wider age gaps between partners, and mistaken beliefs about HIV status in regular partners are all driving the substantially higher rates of HIV in

Published
18 May 2013
By
Gus Cairns
Vaccines
Competing antibodies may have limited the protection achieved in HIV vaccine trial in Thailand

Continuing analysis of an HIV vaccine trial undertaken in Thailand is yielding additional information about how immune responses were triggered and why the vaccine did not protect more people.

Published
17 May 2013
From
Eurekalert Inf Dis
HIV prevention policy
Russia has 'no anti-AIDS strategy': official

There is no government strategy to fight the spread of AIDS in Russia, where the number of deaths caused by the disease continues to grow, a senior healthcare official said on Thursday.

Published
17 May 2013
From
AFP
Medical procedures and other blood-borne exposure
HIV nurse slams Australia needle danger

AUSTRALIA is way behind the US and Europe in protecting medical workers from sharp objects, says a former US nurse who contracted HIV and hepatitis C through a needle injury.

Published
17 May 2013
From
The Australian
PrEP
UK: Are you willing to take part in research that aims to reduce your risk of HIV?

PROUD is a two-year study to recruit gay and bisexual men across England, who will be placed at random into one of two groups. One group will use PrEP from the start of the study, and the other group will receive PrEP after 12 months.

Published
16 May 2013
From
PROUD study, UK Medical Research Council
HIV prevention policy
HIV organisations silent on safe-sex discord

Both the NZ AIDS Foundation and Body Positive are remaining tight-lipped regarding the cover story of the most recent issue of HIV NZ which questions the NZAF's safe-sex promotion strategy.

Published
16 May 2013
From
Gay NZ
Infectiousness and treatment as prevention
Terrence Higgins Trust unveils It Starts With Me HIV campaign video

Terrence Higgins Trust (THT) has released a short video clip outlining the science behind It It Starts With Me, HIV Prevention England’s new campaign for gay and bisexual men. The clip shows how a combination of testing, treatment and condoms would lead to a significant reduction in HIV transmissions within the gay community.

Published
15 May 2013
From
PinkNews.co.uk
Infectiousness and treatment as prevention
It Starts with Me

We are at the start of a new era in stopping the spread of HIV. We know that the combination of regular testing, HIV treatment and condom use is the key to success. But tests, treatment and condoms are just tools – it is down to all of us as individuals to make it happen. It is what you do everyday that really makes a difference. You can stop HIV harming you and the ones you care about.

Published
15 May 2013
From
Terrence Higgins Trust
Circumcision
Circumcision plans go awry in Swaziland

It was an ambitious plan to circumcise the majority of men in Swaziland, an effort to reduce the risk of HIV transmission in a country with the world's highest HIV prevalence. How could it have gone wrong?

Published
15 May 2013
From
IRIN Plus News
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