HIV/AIDS Topics Health and Human Rights Advocates Call for Repeal of Syringe Funding Ban
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- Category: Injection Drug Use
- Published on Thursday, 03 July 2014 00:00
- Written by HIVandHepatitis.com
More than 140 organizations involved in HIV and viral hepatitis advocacy, public health, harm reduction, and human rights sent an open letter last week calling on legislators to lift the federal ban on funding for needle and syringe exchange programs intended to curb the transmission of blood-borne diseases among people who inject drugs.
Atlanta Principles Call for Stepped Up HIV Prevention, Focus on Vulnerable Groups
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- Category: HIV Prevention
- Published on Wednesday, 11 June 2014 00:00
- Written by Liz Highleyman
ACT UP, the Treatment Action Group (TAG), and local advocates this week launched the Atlanta Principles, calling on the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to increase HIV prevention efforts -- including antiretroviral treatment-as-prevention and pre- and post-exposure prophylaxis -- to lower HIV incidence rates that have remained stable overall for several years and actually risen for heavily affected groups such as young black gay men and transgender women.
San Francisco HIV Forum Asks: Is Undetectable the New Negative?
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- Category: Treatment as Prevention
- Published on Friday, 23 May 2014 00:00
- Written by Liz Highleyman
More than 100 participants packed the Eureka Valley Recreation Center in San Francisco on May 20 for the latest Real Talk discussion of new HIV prevention strategies including pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) and antiretroviral treatment as prevention.
New Studies Offer More Insight on HIV Sexual Transmission and Prevention
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- Category: Pre-exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP)
- Published on Wednesday, 04 June 2014 00:00
- Written by Liz Highleyman
A new estimate puts the likelihood of HIV transmission via receptive anal sex at 138 per 10,000 acts, but looking at probabilities over a longer period provides a better understanding of risk than per-act probabilities, according to a pair of studies in the May 6 advance online edition of AIDS. Mathematical models showed that combining prevention methods -- especially those that include antiretroviral treatment-as-prevention or PrEP -- can greatly reduce the risk of transmission.
Is HIV Transmission Risk Really Near Zero If HIV+ Heterosexual Partners Are on ART?
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- Category: HIV Sexual Transmission
- Published on Tuesday, 20 May 2014 00:00
- Written by Liz Highleyman
Serodiscordant heterosexual couples in which the positive partner has been on combination antiretroviral therapy (ART) for more than 6 months may have an HIV transmission risk as high as 13 per 100,000 sex acts -- but the risk could also be zero -- according to an estimate based on a systematic review described in the April 9 online edition of Clinical Infectious Diseases.
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