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Public health advocates push for safer sex in pornographic film industry

Sex sells, but can it educate?

Published
16 February 2011
From
Canadian Medical Association Journal
Epidemiology and behaviour
Huge decline in HIV rates in Zimbabwe driven by fear of infection

The big drop in the numbers of people infected with HIV in Zimbabwe is because of mass social change, driven by fear of infection, according to an international

Published
09 February 2011
By
Keith Alcorn
HIV prevention: does scaring people work?

A new 30-second HIV prevention advert,1 from the New York City Health Department (NYC Health) and aimed at gay men, has caused a lot of controversy and

Published
09 February 2011
From
HIV treatment update
Behaviour change interventions
KENYA: Fidelity campaigns could take years to see results

Your secret lover probably has a secret lover - Kenyans regularly hear this message through a campaign aimed at reducing the high rate of new infections occurring within marriage.

Published
02 February 2011
From
IRIN Plus News
Behaviour change interventions
UK: It'll take more than a nudge, say public health experts

The evidence that people can be "nudged" to better health is "weak", the experts write today in the British Medical Journal.

Published
26 January 2011
From
The Telegraph
Epidemiology and behaviour
United States: They Report Abstinence, but S.T.D. Says Otherwise

About 10 percent of young adults in a large study who tested positive for a sexually transmitted disease reported that they had been abstinent for the past year, and half of those said they had never had sex at all.

Published
17 January 2011
From
New York Times
Behaviour change interventions
New York's graphic ads on HIV are lauded, divisive

To music that telegraphs calamity, the advertisement warns of osteoporosis, "a disease that dissolves your bones," flashes a gory picture of anal cancer and delivers a punch line about the importance of using condoms.

Published
09 January 2011
From
San Francisco Chronicle
Transmission and prevention
Young gay men talk to their friends about sexual health, but they don’t always get the best advice

Young gay men in California frequently discuss sexual risk with their best friends, new research shows. While these conversations have the potential to encourage and influence safer sex

Published
06 January 2011
By
Roger Pebody
Behaviour change interventions
'It's Never Just HIV' Ad Campaign Oversimplifies the Issue

The New York City Department of Health's "It's Never Just HIV" advertising campaign, targeted to encourage HIV negative gay and bisexual men to use condoms, has prompted a conversation that is profoundly important and speaks directly to the heart of the problems with HIV prevention.

Published
05 January 2011
From
Huffington Post
Behaviour change interventions
KENYA: Grace*, "I finally found the courage to ask, 'Are you gay’?”'

NAIROBI, 30 December 2010 (PLUSNEWS) - Grace is an attractive brunette working in Nairobi. Until recently, she was dating Will, a stylish 20-something Kenyan. She told IRIN/PlusNews how the relationship broke down, leaving her with fears about HIV.

Published
30 December 2010
From
Plus News
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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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