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US: Racial gap exists when docs talk to patients about HIV meds

Conversations between doctors and patients about taking HIV medication as prescribed may differ depending on the patient’s race or ethnicity, research shows. Providers talked more with minority patients than with whites about adherence and tended to give directives rather than engage in problem solving.

Published
29 January 2014
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Futurity
Sexually transmitted infections
Australia: Aborigines Sexually Transmitted Disease Rates High

Aborigines suffer far higher rates of sexually transmitted disease than other Australians. But the HIV infection rate is not much higher than Australia's national average.

Published
29 September 2011
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Huffington Post
Kenya: Stigma Keeps Asian Population from Accessing HIV Services

When 20-year-old Jenna,* a Kenyan of Asian descent, told her family two years ago she had tested positive for HIV, they forced her to terminate her pregnancy, forbad her to seek treatment and kept her locked in the house because of the shame she had brought on the family.

Published
10 March 2011
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AllAfrica
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Community Consensus Statement on Access to HIV Treatment and its Use for Prevention

Together, we can make it happen

We can end HIV soon if people have equal access to HIV drugs as treatment and as PrEP, and have free choice over whether to take them.

Launched today, the Community Consensus Statement is a basic set of principles aimed at making sure that happens.

The Community Consensus Statement is a joint initiative of AVAC, EATG, MSMGF, GNP+, HIV i-Base, the International HIV/AIDS Alliance, ITPC and NAM/aidsmap
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