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Filters Content type: News, Editors' picks, About HIV Topic: The biology of HIV transmission

Research and information about the biology and mechanisms of HIV transmission, including the precise conditions in which HIV can or cannot be passed on.

Contraception

Rethinking contraception and infection risk

Editor's pick
IRIN Plus News
7 October 2011
Men who have sex with men (MSM)

Unprotected sex eight times more common in serious relationships than casual ones, US gay youth study finds

News
26 August 2011
Vaginal rings & topical PrEP

Scientists Use Live Bacteria to Fight HIV

Editor's pick
Press release
18 July 2011
The biology of HIV transmission

Bacterial vaginosis raises women's risk of transmitting HIV

News
18 July 2011
Epidemiology & behaviour

Concurrent partnerships in men do not explain HIV incidence in women: number of partners does

News
16 July 2011
The biology of HIV transmission

UK: One-in-five don't know HIV is transmitted through unsafe sex

Editor's pick
NAT
18 February 2011
How HIV works

'Sleepy' immune system might fight HIV

Editor's pick
CBC News
16 February 2011
The biology of HIV transmission

Using soap in vagina ups HIV infection risk

Editor's pick
Times of India
16 February 2011
The biology of HIV transmission

Antiviral gene helps suppress jumping of AIDS viruses between host species

Editor's pick
Science Daily
24 August 2010
Vaginal rings & topical PrEP

Microbicides, vaccines may need to repel HIV contact at mucosa

News
9 April 2010
How HIV works

Scientists learn why even treated genital herpes sores boost the risk of HIV infection

News
5 August 2009
The biology of HIV transmission

Risk reduction strategies are safer for Sydney gay men than other unprotected sex practices - but less safe than consistent condom use

News
16 January 2009
Transmission & prevention

Model suggests only 9% of new HIV infections due to those with acute HIV infection

News
20 August 2007
Transmission & prevention

BHIVA: Recent gay seroconverters explain why they became HIV-infected

News
6 April 2006
The biology of HIV transmission

Genital shedding of HIV fluctuates with a woman's menstrual cycle

News
7 June 2004
Contraception

Contraception and women's HIV risks

News
22 January 2003
Sexual transmission

Oral sex has near-zero HIV risk according to new San Francisco study

News
8 November 2002
Sexual transmission

US study finds genital herpes near doubles risk of acquiring HIV in gay men

News
29 September 2002
Circumcision

Cells in foreskin vulnerable to HIV infection

News
5 September 2002
Sexual transmission

Recent infection with genital herpes increases chances of HIV seroconversion

News
5 September 2002
Sexual transmission

Oral sex cannot be linked to new HIV infection in 10 year Spanish couples study

News
5 June 2002
Sexual transmission

'Bareback' sex ten times more risky for passive partner of HIV+ man than active partner

News
5 March 2001
Undetectable viral load & treatment as prevention

Viral load critical in heterosexual transmission

News
5 March 2001