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HIV disproportionately affects individuals and communities who face challenges in terms of poverty, employment, housing, education, racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, and gender-based violence. These social forces limit engagement with health care, create vulnerability to HIV infection and drive the HIV epidemic.

Women

HIV rates lower in states that target intimate partner violence

Editor's pick
Yale News
16 November 2018
Heterosexual men

Adolescent girls’ male partners are not all much older, much wealthier ‘sugar daddies’

News
4 October 2018
Economic & social inequality

Racial segregation associated with new HIV infections among black heterosexuals living in the US

News
24 September 2018
Economic & social inequality

Hunger is linked to testing positive for HIV in South Africa

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Avert
20 September 2018
Clinical trials

FRESH program combines basic science with social benefits for women at risk of HIV

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Eurekalert Inf Dis
16 September 2018
Money

Unstable housing associated with low CD4 cell count and detectable viral load for HIV-positive women in US

News
6 September 2018
Transgender people

Work to improve the HIV care continuum for black transgender women should concentrate on HIV diagnosis

News
5 September 2018
Retention & linkage to care

Social Determinants of Health Debated at USCA 2018

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Medscape (requires free registration)
4 September 2018
Harm reduction

Series of HIV outbreaks in people who inject drugs shows that ‘complacency is the new problem’

News
27 July 2018
Self-testing & home testing

Kenyan women can distribute HIV self-test kits to their sexual partners without a significant risk of intimate partner violence

News
17 July 2018
Economic & social inequality

The fall-out of war: women are twice as likely to be living with HIV in post-conflict Uganda

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AVERT
4 July 2018
PrEP

Will a pill be enough to end the HIV epidemic?

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Open University
27 June 2018
Economic & social inequality

Social Network Support Decreases Risk for HIV Seroconversion in Black MSM

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Infectious Disease Advisor
15 June 2018
Experiences of stigma

It’s not just HIV stigma – sexism, racism and poverty stigma commonly reported by women living with HIV in the United States

News
7 June 2018
Economic & social inequality

No more victim blaming: Preventing HIV in young women

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Health-e
15 May 2018
Money

The Housing Crisis Is So Bad That Men Are Having To Sleep In Gay Saunas

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Buzzfeed
6 May 2018
Money

This Is What Happens To Men Forced To Offer Sex To Avoid Sleeping On The Street

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Buzzfeed
6 May 2018
Health services & systems

HIV response in Nigeria buckles under pressure of continued conflict with Boko Haram

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AVERT
5 May 2018
Adherence

Violence a major driver for teens not taking their HIV treatment

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AVERT
6 April 2018
Undetectable viral load & treatment as prevention

South Africa: women may have higher rates of HIV than men because fewer men are on treatment

News
26 March 2018
Women

Cash transfers reduce risk of intimate partner violence for young girls in South Africa

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AVERT
8 March 2018
PrEP programmes & uptake

PrEP use growing in US, but not reaching all those in need

News
7 March 2018
Chemsex & recreational drug use

Why high rents and loneliness are driving chemsex in London

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Gay Star News
23 February 2018
Experiences of stigma

Strong link found between gay-related stigma and HIV prevalence in Nigeria

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AVERT
23 February 2018