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Sex workers
Right to remain silent

The US Supreme Court should overturn the 2003 law that requires federally funded HIV/AIDS programmes abroad to denounce prostitution.

Published
09 May 2013
From
Nature
Infectiousness and treatment as prevention
Herpes viruses associated with shedding of HIV in the semen of gay men taking suppressive antiretroviral therapy

Low level HIV replication in semen persists in almost 10% of gay men taking antiretroviral therapy, investigators from the United States report in the online edition of

Published
09 May 2013
By
Michael Carter
Epidemiology and behaviour
Little cross-border spread of HIV seen in 26-country European study

Despite international travel and fluid population movement across Europe, three quarters of clustered new infections in a 26-country study involved people from the same country and another 10% involved people from a neighboring country.

Published
07 May 2013
From
International AIDS Society
Epidemiology and behaviour
Lack Of Data On Gay Men Impedes HIV Fight In Central Asia

In recent years, the countries of Central Asia have experienced some of the fastest growing rates of HIV infection in the world. One of the key populations at risk is men who have sex with men (MSM). However, an acute lack of data on the health of that population -- due in large part to intense stigmatization of homosexuality – may be obscuring the region's HIV epidemic.

Published
07 May 2013
From
RadioFreeEurope / RadioLiberty
HIV prevention policy
England: Joint directors of public health will be weak in the job

In principle, I support the handover of public health to local authorities. But, in practice, because the government has become so preoccupied with reform of the NHS, this handover spells real danger.

Published
03 May 2013
From
The Guardian
Injecting drug use
The World's Best Drug Laws

What are the best and worst countries to live in if you're a drug user? What is a really good set of drug laws, anyway? One man's view: as provocative and contentious as you'd expect.

Published
03 May 2013
From
The Fix
Promoting HIV testing
Alicia Keys launching HIV campaign aimed at women

She has teamed up with Greater Than AIDS, a national public information group founded by the Kaiser Family Foundation and the Black AIDS Institute, to launch her latest initiative -- a campaign aimed at reaching out specifically to American women.

Published
02 May 2013
From
CNN
Men who have sex with men (MSM)
Blackmail, violence and stigma restrict access to sexual health services for gay men, Global Health and Rights Study reports

The Global Forum for MSM and HIV has released an analysis of its 2012 Global Men’s Health and Rights Study (GMHRS) concentrating on young men under 30 who

Published
01 May 2013
By
Gus Cairns
Young people
Personal, social, health and economic education requires improvement in English schools

Today, Ofsted is publishing ‘Not yet good enough’, a report which evaluates the strengths and weaknesses of personal, social, health and economic (PSHE) education and makes recommendations on how the subject can be taught well in English schools.

Published
01 May 2013
From
OFSTED press release
Young people
New survey on HIV education: Progression, regression or stagnation?

There is room for optimism in the overall progress of the global education sector's response to HIV, says a new in-depth study of 39 countries around the world. However, a worrying degree of stagnation in some areas still exists and much more needs to be done if the sector is to fulfil its critical role in helping to intensify HIV prevention.

Published
01 May 2013
From
UNAIDS
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