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Structural factors
Many poor heterosexuals in US cities at risk for HIV infection

Some 2.3 percent of 8,500 poor heterosexuals living in cities with high rates of HIV infection tested positive for the virus that causes AIDS, and nearly half of those who were infected said they had never had an HIV test before the study, health officials said on Thursday.

Published
15 March 2013
From
Reueters
Access to medicines and treatment
Uganda government under pressure to boost ARV funding

The Ugandan government's draft 2013/2014 budget allocates US$38.5 million to enrol a further 100,000 people living with HIV on life-prolonging antiretroviral (ARV) drugs. But activists say the money, while welcome in a country still largely dependent on donor funds for its HIV programmes, is not sufficient to meet treatment needs.

Published
15 March 2013
From
IRIN Plus News
The search for a cure
More HIV 'cured': first a baby, now 14 adults

Two weeks after the revelation that a baby has been "cured" of HIV, reports suggest that a similar treatment can cure some adults too. Early treatment seems crucial, but does not guarantee success.

Published
15 March 2013
From
New Scientist
Epidemiology and behaviour
South Africa: '28% of schoolgirls are HIV positive'

AT LEAST 28% of schoolgirls are HIV positive while only 4% of young boys are infected with the virus in the country. Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi said this was a clear indication that old men were sleeping with young girls - a statistic he said "destroyed my soul".

Published
15 March 2013
From
The Sowetan
The search for a cure
AIDS treatment Visconti’s coup

If the common factor between so-called post-treatment controllers can be identified, it will allow doctors to offer treatment withdrawal to those likely to benefit from it. It will also show researchers a chink in AIDS’s armour. If they can find something which they can insert into that chink to clear the disease in other people, too, the Visconti trial may come to be seen as a turning point in the war on AIDS.

Published
15 March 2013
From
The Economist
Clinical trials
Testing HIV Prevention Tools: Other Ways Up the Alley

We need to design prevention trials that ask, “Is this test product better than nothing?” rather than, “Is this test product better than the best available prevention combination we have?”

Published
15 March 2013
From
Poz
Hepatitis C
Conference Highlights: EASL Monothematic Conference: HIV and the Liver

This was the first conference of its kind bringing together hepatologists and infectious disease specialists to address one of the critical issues in the management of HIV-infected patients: the rising mortality from liver disease. The Conference Highlights report features the key topics discussed and presented during the EASL Monothematic Conference. Email to a friend // // EASL would like to thank everyone who attended the EASL Monothematic Conference HIV and the Liver in London, UK, at the beginning of December 2012 and also thanks the European AIDS Clinical Society (EACS) for co-sponsoring the [...]

Published
14 March 2013
From
European Association for the Study of the Liver (EASL)
Tuberculosis and HIV
Report of the HIV/TB Research meeting held in conjunction with the 20th Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI 2013)

The World Health Organization and the Consortium to Respond Effectively to the AIDS/TB Epidemic (CREATE) convened their 7th CROI-affiliated HIV/TB research meeting on behalf of the TB/HIV Working Group of the Stop TB Partnership in Atlanta, Georgia USA on 3 March, 2013. The meeting discussed critical knowledge and research gaps on TB prevention among children and adults and drug interactions between new TB drugs and ART.

Published
14 March 2013
From
Stop TB Partnership
Women
Sex work, violence and HIV: experience from rural Karnataka

Working with women in sex work for the last 10 years in rural South India has taught me that it is not HIV that is a priority in their lives but issues like violence, stigma and discrimination and uncertainties related to their children’s future. We organised a participatory workshop with sex workers to understand the extent of violence in these intimate relationships, including causes of violence.

Published
14 March 2013
From
Open Democracy
History of HIV and AIDS
The Battle for Needle Exchange, as AIDS Raged

In the '80s, HIV was killing tens of thousands of heroin addicts. Yet swapping clean needles for dirty ones remained illegal—until a ragtag group of AIDS activists put their bodies on the line.

Published
14 March 2013
From
The Fix
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