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02 November 2010
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HIV/AIDS: Concurrency debate heats up

An academic dispute about whether concurrent sexual partnerships are really a major factor behind high rates of HIV in sub-Saharan Africa could affect the future of prevention programmes.

Published
18 October 2010
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IRIN Plus News
Epidemiology and behaviour
HIV/AIDS: Tracing the multiple concurrent partner debate

As the debate heats up about whether or not multiple concurrent partnerships (MCPs) are major drivers of Africa's HIV epidemics, IRIN/PlusNews takes a look at the evolution of the theory behind MCPs.

Published
18 October 2010
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IRIN Plus News
Epidemiology and behaviour
Small Houses fuel HIV

Multiple Concurrence Relationships (MCP), otherwise known as small houses in Zimbabwe, have been castigated as a major contributing factor to the spread of HIV and AIDS.

Published
07 October 2010
From
The Zimbabwean
Behaviour change interventions
KENYA: Training health workers on HIV prevention for positives

Kenyan health workers have been missing the opportunity to prevent HIV-positive people from infecting others because they lack the skills and knowledge to counsel this population, say specialists.

Published
04 October 2010
From
IRIN Plusnews Service
Behaviour change interventions
School-based program reduces risky sexual behaviors in South African teens

A school-based, six-session program targeting sexual risk behaviors appeared to reduce rates of unprotected sex and sex with multiple partners among South African sixth-graders, according to a new report.

Published
04 October 2010
From
Science Daily
Behaviour change interventions
KENYA: Targeting older people in HIV prevention

KAKMEGA, 17 September 2010 (PLUSNEWS) - Older Kenyans, often neglected by HIV programmes that assume they are no longer sexually active and therefore not at risk, are slowly becoming more visible in the fight against the pandemic.

Published
01 October 2010
From
IRIN Plus News
Behaviour change interventions
Can cash incentives improve our health?

People could be given cash incentives to encourage them to give up smoking or to lose weight under proposals being considered by the health watchdog for England and Wales.

Published
27 September 2010
From
BBC Health
People who inject drugs
What Britain could learn from Portugal's drugs policy

A decade ago Portugal took a radical new approach to illegal drugs by treating users as people with social problems rather than as criminals. Could it work in the UK?

Published
05 September 2010
From
The Observer
Condoms and lubricant
AIDS group files workplace complaint vs porn king Flynt

Anti-AIDS campaigners have filed a workplace-safety complaint against porn king Larry Flynt after watching 100 of his movies and noting that performers wear condoms in only one scene.

Published
27 August 2010
From
Reuters
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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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