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Sexual health
What is safe sex now? Does it include undetectable viral load and PrEP?

Treatment as prevention and pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) provide new ways to safely avoid HIV, but this poses challenges to the ways in which communities understand

Published
28 February 2017
By
Roger Pebody
HIV testing programmes
How should HIV self-testing services be provided?

Chairing a session on HIV self-testing at the 2017 Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI) in Seattle this week, Joanne Stekler said that much is already known about

Published
17 February 2017
By
Roger Pebody
Access to medicines and treatment
A benign circle: how a combination of factors has reduced HIV infections in one of the hardest-hit parts of Africa

HIV incidence has started to tumble in one of the best-studied groups of people in Africa, the Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI 2017) heard

Published
14 February 2017
By
Gus Cairns
Behaviour change interventions
New ACON campaign shows there's now more to safe sex than just condoms

Whilst condoms are mainstay of preventing HIV infections, ACON is sending a message that with options such as PrEP (pre-exposure prophylaxis) becoming more commonplace and UVL (undetectable viral load) a common catchphrase, there are other approaches to preventing transmission that don’t always involve a condom.

Published
13 February 2017
From
Gay News Network
Behaviour change interventions
Why Nobody's Funding the HIV-Prevention Strategy Ten Times More Effective than PrEP

"I've seen funding go towards PrEP, and reluctance to fund programs that promote the full benefits of viral suppression," Bruce Richman says. "Funders don't want to do something that's risky. We were told by one foundation they wouldn't fund us because they were concerned about being sued." Richman says that a major goal of undetectability awareness campaigns is to educate healthcare professionals.

Published
23 January 2017
From
Vice
PrEP
Blunt new PrEP campaign urges folks to 'F*ck Without Fear'

The Los Angeles LGBT Center is using raw and real language in its latest safe-sex campaign: ‘F*ck w/out Fear, PrEP Here.’ The bold new campaign includes a billboard in the heart of West Hollywood.

Published
09 January 2017
From
Gay Star News
Behaviour change interventions
French HIV-prevention campaign for gay men heads to court

Conservative mayors are trying to censor a French government campaign advocating safe sex among gay men, and the country’s health minister is taking them to court.

Published
23 November 2016
From
Politico
Behaviour change interventions
Apps and Social Media Can Reach High-Risk HIV Populations

Mobile applications and social media platforms can be cheap and effective ways to deliver messages about HIV testing and adherence to therapy to people at high risk for HIV, experts said here at HIV Drug Therapy 2016.

Published
31 October 2016
From
Medscape (requires free registration)
Young people
Young people say that sex and relationships education in schools is negative and out of touch

A review of 55 separate studies of sex and relationships education (SRE) in schools shows that young people have many criticisms of its narrow approach and its

Published
04 October 2016
By
Roger Pebody
Undetectable viral load and treatment as prevention
Why some organizations are slow to adopt the undetectable = uninfectious message

We need to somehow get a grip on what these messages mean for people, and the implications of our messaging. That, I think, will involve some reflection on how we use and interpret scientific findings and our comfort levels with risk.

Published
06 September 2016
From
Positive Lite
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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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