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Younger injecting drug users and gay men optimistic about HAART likely to have safer sex fatigue

Younger injecting drug users and gay men who are optimistic about the success of HAART are more likely to express fatigue with HIV prevention messages,

Published
11 March 2004
By
Michael Carter
Chemsex and recreational drug use
Methamphetamine use by New York gay men risks epidemic of resistant HIV warns opinion piece

Use of the recreational drug methamphetamine by gay men is leading to an increase in unsafe sex and many new cases of HIV, warn HIV

Published
10 March 2004
By
Michael Carter
Chemsex and recreational drug use
Methamphetamine is a 'new challenge in HIV treatment and prevention' concludes review article

Methamphetamine is a new and serious challenge to HIV treatment and prevention, according to an article to be published in the March 15th edition of

Published
03 March 2004
By
Michael Carter
Chemsex and recreational drug use
Saunas and drugs linked with rectal gonorrhoea in gay men in San Francisco study

For HIV-positive gay men in San Francisco, having anonymous sex in a sauna is associated with an increased risk of rectal gonorrhoea, according to a

Published
28 January 2004
By
Michael Carter
Chemsex and recreational drug use
Injecting drug users more likely to progress to AIDS even if taking HAART

HIV-positive injecting drug users are significantly more likely to develop an AIDS defining illness, even when they are taking HAART, than HAART-treated HIV-positive individuals who

Published
08 January 2004
By
Michael Carter
Chemsex and recreational drug use
Does methamphetamine affect HIV viral load?

The viral loads of HIV-positive people who use the recreational drug methamphetamine are significantly higher than those of individuals who do not take the drug,

Published
17 December 2003
By
Michael Carter
Mental and emotional health and wellbeing
Methamphetamine use worsens the damage to brain cells in patients with HIV encephalitis

Methamphetamine (‘crystal meth’) exacerbates the HIV-mediated damage to brain cells, according to research published by American investigators in the December 15th issue of the Journal

Published
17 December 2003
By
Christopher Gadd
Chemsex and recreational drug use
Potential fatal interaction between protease inhibitors and crystal meth

Australian doctors have reported what they believe to be a fatal interaction between ritonavir and methamphetamine, commonly known as crystal or crystal meth. Crystal is

Published
05 March 2001
By
Keith Alcorn
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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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