News from AIDS 2014

The 20th International AIDS Conference (AIDS 2014) is taking place in Melbourne, Australia, 20-25th July 2014.

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aidsmap news from AIDS 2014

Intimate partner violence intervention reduces HIV incidence and violence against women

Integrating intimate partner violence (IPV) prevention strategies into HIV prevention programming led to a significant reduction in HIV incidence and in women’s experience of physical and sexual violence

Published
07 August 2014
By
Carole Leach-Lemens
Mothers starting antiretrovirals in Malawi lost from care more frequently, revealing weaknesses in Option B+ implementation

Although Malawi’s policy of offering lifelong antiretroviral therapy (ART) to women living with HIV who are pregnant or breastfeeding resulted in a sevenfold increase in women

Published
30 July 2014
By
Carole Leach-Lemens
Harm reduction prevents HIV, national evidence from Ukraine and Greece shows

Two presentations given at the 20th International AIDS Conference (AIDS 2014), held in Melbourne, Australia, provide significant evidence that harm reduction programmes successfully prevent HIV infection among people

Published
30 July 2014
By
Mara Kardas-Nelson
Need for scaled up combination prevention for sex workers, Indian and Central American studies show

Presentations given at a session considering HIV prevention strategies among female sex workers, which took place at the 20th International AIDS Conference (AIDS 2014) in Melbourne, Australia, show

Published
30 July 2014
By
Mara Kardas-Nelson
Switching from first-line ART with suppressed viral load linked to treatment failure

People who switch away from their initial antiretroviral therapy (ART) regimen when their viral load is undetectable may have a higher likelihood of subsequent virological failure, researchers reported

Published
29 July 2014
By
Liz Highleyman
Gay men interested in taking PrEP already report high-risk behaviour

Surveys of gay men in the Netherlands and Australia suggest that some would use condoms less frequently if they were taking PrEP – but that these men

Published
29 July 2014
By
Roger Pebody
Young people with HIV respond well to human papillomavirus vaccine

The quadrivalent human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine worked as well for teens and young adults living with HIV as it did for their HIV-negative counterparts, according to study

Published
29 July 2014
By
Liz Highleyman
What needs to be done to make HIV self-testing a reality?

Self-testing for HIV has great potential to broaden access to HIV testing, the 20th International AIDS Conference in Melbourne heard last week. But for self-testing to play

Published
28 July 2014
By
Roger Pebody
Half of young gay men in Bangkok who aren't consistent condom users acquire HIV within five years of starting sex

A survey of young gay men and transgender women in Bangkok has found that HIV incidence is running at 9% a year in those who don’t use

Published
28 July 2014
By
Gus Cairns
Of guidelines, targets and resources: the documents that defined the 2014 International AIDS Conference

If there was a phrase that defined the 20th International AIDS Conference (AIDS 2014), one that surfaced in every few presentations and kept turning up in documents,

Published
26 July 2014
By
Gus Cairns
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