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Condoms and lubricant
Times of South Africa | 2 hours ago
The rate at which South Africans contracted HIV fell by 30%
between 2000 and 2008, mostly due to increased condom use, according to a new
study published in the Royal Society journal Interface last month.
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Women
Mapping Pathways | 5 hours ago
“If a woman, for whatever reason, is unable to negotiate the use of a condom during sex, at least she can have something else to protect herself with – something that can help put her in control.”
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Men who have sex with men (MSM)
IRIN Plus News | 6 hours ago
If caught, any Swazi engaged in a same-sex relationship will be arrested
and jailed. But public health officials are using Valentine's Day to
urge gays to trust promises of confidentiality and test for HIV.
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PrEP
Wall Street Journal | 10 hours ago
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration granted Gilead Sciences Inc.'s antiretroviral drug Truvada a priority-review schedule, advancing
what could become the first treatment labeled for HIV prevention.
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Confidentiality, consent and medical ethics
Wall Street Journal | 16 hours ago
Health officials in southern China are proposing new legislation to require real-name registration for HIV testing, a move aimed at lowering infection rates that has sparked controversy over personal privacy.
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AIDS Free World | 13 February 2012
Invitees who attended back-to-back World Health Organization (WHO) consultations at the start of February were required to sign confidentiality agreements prohibiting them from talking about the meetings. WHO’s gag order is just the latest in a years-long effort by the United Nations’ AIDS apparatus to limit how much women know about possible links between HIV and injectable hormonal contraceptives.
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Global health initiatives
Science Speaks: HIV & TB News | 13 February 2012
The Obama Administration released its fiscal year 2013 budget today with
a proposed $1.65 billion funding level—an increase of 26.9 percent –
for the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria to meet the
US pledge of $4 billion over 3 years. This substantial and welcome
budget request for the Global fund clearly came at the expense of
PEPFAR, the U.S.’s flagship bilateral program which is slated for a
stunning cut of $542.9 million—a reduction of almost 13 percent.
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New and experimental hepatitis C treatment
The Street | 13 February 2012
Why is everyone obsessed with hepatitis C? Since the early 1990s, routine screening of donated blood has drastically reduced the incidence of new HCV cases; there is no ongoing epidemic of new infections to explain the excitement. Moreover, successful HCV treatment leaves patients cured, and cured patients don't need expensive drugs. Yet despite these dynamics, drug companies large and small are spending hundreds of millions of dollars seeking new HCV drugs; investors are rewarding these efforts with multi-billion-dollar market valuations.
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Activism
The Body | 13 February 2012
When I think about the future of this epidemic 30 years from now, it scares the
hell out of me. Who is molding the next generation of black HIV leaders? If it's
progressive thinkers, then I can be somewhat hopeful. But if it's mostly the
vocal, intolerant people who attended the town hall at USCA, then we are in for
an extremely bumpy and dangerous ride.
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Testing policies and guidelines
China Daily | 13 February 2012
Real-name HIV testing will allow health care personnel to maintain contact with HIV carriers and help carriers to prevent their intimate partners from being infected, an official with the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention was quoted as saying in the Monday edition of Health News, the Ministry of Health's affiliated newspaper.
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