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Mental and emotional health and wellbeing
Help when you're troubled: getting the right psychological support

Gus Cairns looks at the new Standards for psychological support for adults living with HIV.

Published
13 October 2011
From
HIV treatment update
Mental and emotional health problems
Consistent relationship between depression and poor adherence to HIV therapy

Depression has a significant impact on adherence to antiretroviral therapy, according to a meta-analysis published in the online edition of the Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes. The results

Published
01 September 2011
By
Michael Carter
Mental and emotional health problems
Exercise can substitute effectively as second 'medication' for people with depression

Exercise can be as effective as a second medication for as many as half of depressed patients whose condition have not been cured by a single antidepressant medication.

Published
24 August 2011
From
Eurekalert Medicine & Health
Mental and emotional health problems
The epidemic of mental illness: why?

Is the prevalence of mental illness really that high and still climbing? Or are we learning to recognize and diagnose mental disorders that were always there? On the other hand, are we simply expanding the criteria for mental illness so that nearly everyone has one? And what about the drugs that are now the mainstay of treatment? Do they work? If they do, shouldn’t we expect the prevalence of mental illness to be declining, not rising?

Published
28 June 2011
From
New York Review of Books
Mental and emotional health problems
The illusions of psychiatry

How objective is the American Psychiatric Association’s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM)? Why is the pyschiatric profesison so dependent on the pharmaceutical industry for status? Why is the behaviour of  American children increasingly the trigger to medicate them?

Published
28 June 2011
From
New York Review of Books
Side-effects
Switch from efavirenz to raltegravir improves mood and lipid profiles

Switching from efavirenz (Sustiva) to raltegravir (Isentress) is associated with improvements in mood and lipid profiles, Swiss investigators report in the online edition of AIDS. Efavirenz is a

Published
07 June 2011
By
Michael Carter
Mental and emotional health problems
High levels of mental distress, unprotected sex, needle sharing, unmet prevention needs found among HIV-infected patients in St Petersburg

Risky sex and drug use are common among HIV-positive people in Russia, investigators report in AIDS and Behavior. Discrimination was a common experience, and there was

Published
12 May 2011
By
Michael Carter
Mental and emotional health problems
Experiencing violence in childhood increases HIV risk for men

Experiencing stressful violent events in childhood is associated with an increased risk of infection with HIV for adult men, US investigators report in the advance online edition

Published
04 May 2011
By
Michael Carter
Men who have sex with men (MSM)
It Gets Better Because We Grow Stronger: An Interview With Leading Gay Men's Health Expert Dr. Ron Stall

"I'm part of a research group that has conducted a set of investigations into syndemic production among gay men, and we were able to show that epidemics of substance use, depression, childhood sexual abuse and violence victimization are intertwining and making each other worse and in the process raising risk for HIV transmission."

Published
03 May 2011
From
Huffington Post
Epidemiology
Why isn't there a global movement to combat noncommunicable diseases?

In Moscow on Thursday, health ministers from around the world gathered to discuss a serious global health crisis: the rise of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) like heart disease, stroke, depression, and cancer. Their goal is to replicate the successes of a similar meeting held nearly a decade ago, when the United Nations General Assembly convened a special session to combat HIV/AIDS.

Published
29 April 2011
From
New Republic
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Launched today, the Community Consensus Statement is a basic set of principles aimed at making sure that happens.

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