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Behaviour change interventions
Comedians enlisted to spread key sexual health messages with dirty jokes

Family Planning Queensland is working with 11 Brisbane comedians to make short videos that address sexual health. "Sexual health information is traditionally presented in ways your mother would approve of - and young men simply don't respond to that," Professor McKee said. "But they are online and they are responsive to dirty jokes."

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TB services
US: TB programs affected by isoniazid shortage

A shortage of isoniazid interfered with patient care and may contribute to the spread of tuberculosis in the United States, according to a report by the CDC. “Interruptions in the supply of second-line anti-TB medications have been ongoing in the United States for several years,” the researchers wrote in Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. “But since November 2012, TB control programs have experienced the first sustained generalized supply interruption of a first-line anti-TB medication.”

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HIV and criminal law
Lawyer: NY man at center of HIV scare not positive - Wall Street Journal

Nushawn Williams, a New York drug dealer imprisoned amid accusations he infected 13 young women with HIV in the 1990s, does not have the virus that causes AIDS, according to his attorney, who said he arranged for a new blood test as part of efforts to get him released from prison. But state officials have questioned the validity of the testing procedure used.

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Confidentiality, consent and medical ethics
US: Blue Cross To Allow HIV/AIDS Patients to "Opt-Out" of Mandatory Mail-Order Rx Drug Program

Anthem Blue Cross patients with HIV/AIDS may "opt-out" of a program that would have required them to obtain their medications by mail order under a settlement announced today by Consumer Watchdog and Whatley Kallas LLC. Blue Cross members who opt-out can continue purchasing such medications at a retail pharmacy.

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PR Newswire (press release)
Global health initiatives
The Big Push to Defeat HIV & AIDS in Ghana

An opinion piece by John Dramani Mahama, President of Ghana

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Huffington Post
Prisoners
Zimbabwe: HIV Test Case Heard By Zimbabwe's New Constitutional Court

A rights activist, who is living with HIV, filed a test case in the newly constituted Constitutional Court on Thursday to highlight the challenges and ill treatment facing people living with the virus in the country's prisons.

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AllAfrica
Medical procedures and other blood-borne exposure
CANADA: Stop Paid Blood Donor Clinics in Toronto, Victims Say

Canadians who contracted HIV and hepatitis C virus through tainted blood transfusions during the 1980s and the victims’ families are protesting the proposed licensing of three private plasma clinics in Toronto.

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CDC National Prevention Information Network
Medical procedures and other blood-borne exposure
CANADA: Celibate Homosexual Men Now Allowed to Donate Blood in Canada

Health Canada is lifting the lifetime ban on blood donations from men who have had sex with other men. Starting July 22, 2013, men who have abstained from sexual intercourse with other men for at least five years will be able to donate blood.

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CDC National Prevention Information Network
The search for a cure
HIV cure: scientific reality or media hype?

Dr John Frater of the University of Oxford comments on recent HIV cure research.

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The Conversation
UK health services
Small fall in new HIV diagnoses in London, but rate of new diagnoses among gay men continues to increase

There was a modest fall in the number of new HIV diagnoses in London in 2011, new figures show. A total of 2637 new diagnoses were made

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Michael Carter
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