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Social forces which drive the HIV epidemic and create vulnerability to HIV infection. They include gender inequality and violence, economic and social inequality, and the legal environment.

Ethnic & cultural minorities

Gentrification and declining Black population may be a key factor behind San Francisco’s declining HIV rates

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28 December 2020
Experiences of stigma

“We forget that we're human. We are. We are human beings”: long-term HIV survivors living on society’s margins

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9 November 2020
Coronavirus

Unstable housing explains higher rates of COVID-19 in people with HIV in San Francisco

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5 November 2020
Retention & linkage to care

Homeless people with HIV can benefit from person-centred care

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11 July 2020
Epidemiology & behaviour

Geographic, racial and other disparities in HIV diagnoses and PrEP uptake by gay and bisexual men in England

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10 July 2020
Structural factors

MSM living in African countries that criminalise gay sex are at a much higher risk of getting HIV

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5 July 2020
Retention & linkage to care

A walk-in clinic with social care improves HIV outcomes for patients with complex social needs

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2 July 2020
Structural factors

Large HIV testing gap between rich and poor living in African countries

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12 June 2020
Mental & emotional health & wellbeing

Stigma and negativity from within the community increases HIV risk-taking by gay men

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30 April 2020
Structural factors

Cash payments to stay in school reduce HIV incidence in girls and young women, eSwatini study finds

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12 August 2019
Structural factors

Punitive laws associated with HIV infections in female sex workers

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9 August 2019
Transgender people

HIV outcomes for transgender women improved by addressing social and structural issues

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29 July 2019
Drug policy & policing

Policing practices are consistently associated with HIV and risk behaviours among people who inject drugs

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27 July 2019
Heterosexual men

Older, out-of-school and anonymous partners pose more HIV infection risk for adolescent girls in South Africa

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28 June 2019
Combatting stigma

What works against self-stigma? First systematic review aims to find out

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24 May 2019
Epidemiology & behaviour

Managing sexual and survival risks: the impact of inequity and stigma on Jamaican MSM and trans women

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14 December 2018
Heterosexual men

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

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4 October 2018
Structural factors

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

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24 September 2018
Money

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

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6 September 2018
Transgender people

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

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5 September 2018
Harm reduction

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

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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

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17 July 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

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7 June 2018
Undetectable viral load & treatment as prevention

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

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26 March 2018