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aidsmap.com » aidsmap.com news feed : aidsmap news - 16 hours ago
HIV-positive gay men who have unprotected anal intercourse think of themselves as being in settings where ‘everybody knows the rules of the game’, but these understandings are not shared by all gay men, report Barry …
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aidsmap.com » aidsmap.com news feed : aidsmap news - Nov 7, 2008
Australian gay and bisexual men who have not recently tested for HIV often believe that they have not taken enough risks to justify a test or that the psychological impact of a positive diagnosis would be too great …
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aidsmap.com » aidsmap.com news feed : aidsmap news - Nov 6, 2008
The prevalence of HIV infection among injecting drug users in the UK appears to be stable, the Health Protection Agency reported last week. Nonetheless, prevalence among newer injectors is rising, with one in one …
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aidsmap.com » aidsmap.com news feed : aidsmap news - Nov 3, 2008
Rates of HIV testing were extremely low in US emergency departments for the period between 1993 and 2005, according to a cross-sectional analysis published in the October edition of AIDS. In the course of 867 million …
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aidsmap.com » aidsmap.com news feed : aidsmap news - Oct 30, 2008
Superinfection among heterosexual couples in sub-Saharan Africa may be surprisingly frequent, according to findings from Zambia presented on Tuesday at the 48th Interscience Conference on Antimicrobial Agents and …
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aidsmap.com » aidsmap.com news feed : aidsmap news - Oct 15, 2008
About four in every ten gay men in the UK who have HIV are undiagnosed, the British HIV Association’s Autumn Conference heard on 10 October, for the most part because they don’t test often enough rather than because …
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aidsmap.com » aidsmap.com news feed : aidsmap news - Oct 14, 2008
Small declines in viral load achieved without anti-HIV drugs by treating infections can reduce the risk of heterosexual HIV transmission and HIV disease progression, according to a review article published in the …
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aidsmap.com » aidsmap.com news feed : aidsmap news - Oct 9, 2008
HIV post-exposure prophylaxis, even when it fails to prevent infection, may still have benefits, a case report in the Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes suggests.
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aidsmap.com » aidsmap.com news feed : aidsmap news - Oct 8, 2008
A meta-analysis of studies of circumcision in gay men and men who have sex with men (MSM) has not found sufficient evidence to show that being circumcised reduced their risk of acquiring HIV. Although it finds a small …
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aidsmap.com » aidsmap.com news feed : aidsmap news - Oct 2, 2008
Over half the people who decline to take an HIV test would do so if they had the option to take a test that gave the result in 20 minutes, report researchers in the August 2008 issue of the International Journal of STD …
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