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Filters Content type: News, Editors' picks Topic: Women

News and information about HIV in women. The heightened vulnerability of women and girls to HIV is closely linked to gendered power relations and social, legal, economic and cultural inequalities.

Retention & linkage to care

HIV-positive postpartum women who rapidly re-engage with HIV care more likely to have viral suppression in longer term

News
19 August 2015
Sexually transmitted infections prevention

'HIV gel' effective against herpes

Editor's pick
Independent Online (South Africa)
13 August 2015
Treatment for women

WAVES shows elvitegravir regimen beats boosted atazanavir for women with HIV

News
6 August 2015
PrEP programmes & uptake

Open-label PrEP in Botswana: very high adherence and no HIV infections seen

News
5 August 2015
PrEP science

Intermittent PrEP may be a robust strategy for anal sex – vaginal much less certain

News
22 July 2015
PrEP

The pros and cons of PrEP: trial volunteers recount their experience of the ADAPT study

News
22 July 2015
PrEP science

Non-daily PrEP regimens provide extra options, but adherence is often better with daily dosing

News
21 July 2015
PrEP

Study sheds light on how tenofovir is processed in different body tissues

Editor's pick
HIVandHepatitis.com
17 July 2015
Transmission & prevention

The sexual and reproductive health issue you’ve probably never heard of….

Editor's pick
50.50
6 July 2015
Economic & social inequality

More secondary schooling reduces HIV risk

Editor's pick
Eurekalert Inf Dis
29 June 2015
Vaginal rings & topical PrEP

Vaginal microbicide ring study releases first data on participants

News
19 June 2015
Experiences of stigma

South Africa: Almost 10 percent of HIV-positive women report forced sterilisation

Editor's pick
Health-e
10 June 2015
Young people

When Sex Ed Discusses Gender Inequality, Sex Gets Safer

Editor's pick
The Atlantic
1 June 2015
Pregnancy and vertical transmission

Many South African women become infected with HIV during pregnancy posing high risk of transmission to their infants

News
1 June 2015
Access to healthcare

Fighting HIV where no-one admits it's a problem

Editor's pick
BBC
20 May 2015
Young people

Anal sex study reveals climate of 'coercion'

Editor's pick
Independent
19 May 2015
Cardiovascular disease

HIV infection and low CD4 count associated with hardening of arteries

News
6 May 2015
Women

Condom use higher in young HIV-positive women with gender-equal views

Editor's pick
Medical News Today
5 May 2015
Support issues for children & young people

Québec researchers call for interventions to support HIV-positive mothers

Editor's pick
CATIE
14 April 2015
Condoms & lubricant

Zimbabwe’s female condom success story takes new form

Editor's pick
Key Correspondents
13 April 2015
PrEP

Women in PrEP trial feared they would have to leave study if they reported low adherence

News
10 April 2015
Improving HIV care

Uganda: women and girls bear burden of HIV caregiving

Editor's pick
Key Correspondents
7 April 2015
Neurological & cognitive problems

Predictors of HIV-related peripheral neuropathy in the modern era

Editor's pick
CATIE
1 April 2015
The biology of HIV transmission

Menopause linked to decreased anti-HIV activity

Editor's pick
2 Minute Medicine
30 March 2015