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Transgender people
American College of Physicians Releases Comprehensive Transgender Care Guide

For the first time, the American College of Physicians has released a comprehensive guide for transgender care -- a significant endorsement of gender-affirming care from the nation's second-largest physician group.

Published
03 July 2019
From
The Body Pro
Epidemiology
HIV rates rise among Middle East sex workers and clients

Poor access to HIV services for Middle East female sex workers is contributing to the spread of infection.

Published
02 July 2019
From
Nature Middle East
Men who have sex with men (MSM)
In Haiti, gay men infected with HIV are targets of discrimination

Despite many public health interventions in the region, people in Haiti that are infected with HIV are vulnerable to stigmatisation, particularly sexual minorities. The latter suffer considerable ostracism, which prevents access to care.

Published
01 July 2019
From
The Conversation
Transgender people
Once Engaged in Care, Trans Women Have High Rates of HIV Suppression

Continuum of care review finds 80% of transgender women in care achieve an undetectable viral load.

Published
01 July 2019
From
POZ
Epidemiology
Young sex workers and gay men in Cameroon – at-risk, but with no services

New study highlights unmet HIV prevention and treatment needs of young key affected populations in Cameroon.

Published
01 July 2019
From
Avert
Heterosexual men
Older, out-of-school and anonymous partners pose more HIV infection risk for adolescent girls in South Africa

South African research has found that adolescent girls and young women (aged 13-23) were more than twice as likely to be infected with HIV by older men

Published
28 June 2019
By
Krishen Samuel
PrEP programmes and uptake
Transgender women tell researchers how to increase the uptake of PrEP in their community

Transgender women and transfeminine nonbinary individuals suggested a number of key issues that health services need to address in order to increase the uptake of pre-exposure prophylaxis

Published
27 June 2019
By
Roger Pebody
Transgender people
High awareness but low uptake of PrEP among black and Hispanic transgender women in US study

There is high awareness but low uptake of HIV PrEP (pre-exposure prophylaxis) among black and Latina transgender women in Baltimore and Washington DC, investigators report

Published
27 June 2019
By
Michael Carter
PrEP programmes and uptake
Is the “PrEP4Love” Campaign Reaching African Americans?

The Chicago-based HIV-prevention effort garnered about 41 million views in its first four months alone. And that’s not all.

Published
26 June 2019
From
Poz
Side-effects
Cases of hair loss among African-American women reported after switch to new tenofovir formula

Hair loss (alopecia) occurred in six African-American women living with HIV after switching to the new formula of tenofovir, clinicians report in Open Forum Infectious Diseases. The

Published
26 June 2019
By
Michael Carter
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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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