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Transgender people
Work to improve the HIV care continuum for black transgender women should concentrate on HIV diagnosis

Less than half of black transgender women living with HIV in the United States are aware of their HIV status, but most of those who have

Published
05 September 2018
By
Roger Pebody
Retention and linkage to care
Social Determinants of Health Debated at USCA 2018

To enroll and retain people with HIV in treatment, physicians and HIV care providers need to acknowledge the social determinants of health and the barriers that keep patients, especially young people of color, out of care.

Published
04 September 2018
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Medscape (requires free registration)
Harm reduction
Series of HIV outbreaks in people who inject drugs shows that ‘complacency is the new problem’

There have been outbreaks of rapid HIV transmission among people who inject drugs in Athens, Bucharest, Dublin, Glasgow, Luxembourg, Tel Aviv, Saskatchewan (Canada) and Scott County (Indiana,

Published
27 July 2018
By
Roger Pebody
Self-testing and home testing
Kenyan women can distribute HIV self-test kits to their sexual partners without a significant risk of intimate partner violence

The distribution of HIV self-testing kits by women to their sexual partners doesn't increase women's risk of intimate partner violence, according to Kenyan research published

Published
17 July 2018
By
Michael Carter
Structural factors
The fall-out of war: women are twice as likely to be living with HIV in post-conflict Uganda

Women who survived the war in Northern Uganda are almost twice as likely to be living with HIV compared to their male peers, and are also disproportionately impacted by trauma and depression, reveals new research.

Published
04 July 2018
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AVERT
PrEP
Will a pill be enough to end the HIV epidemic?

We have a pill that can stop us getting infected, a pill that can stop us getting ill and perhaps one day, we’ll have a pill that can cure HIV. But there will never be a pill that cures poverty, inequality, stigma, discrimination and human rights abuses and because of this, no pill will ever be enough to end the HIV epidemic.

Published
27 June 2018
From
Open University
Structural factors
Social Network Support Decreases Risk for HIV Seroconversion in Black MSM

In black men who have sex with men (BMSM) in the United States, the increased presence of social network support can help protect against HIV acquisition, according to results published in the Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome.

Published
15 June 2018
From
Infectious Disease Advisor
Experiences of stigma
It’s not just HIV stigma – sexism, racism and poverty stigma commonly reported by women living with HIV in the United States

Women living with HIV perceive many forms of stigma in addition to HIV-related stigma, according to a qualitative study published in the July edition of Social Science

Published
07 June 2018
By
Roger Pebody
Structural factors
No more victim blaming: Preventing HIV in young women

An estimated 2 000 new HIV infections occur in young women and girls every week in South Africa. Two high-profile programmes are aiming to address this crisis.

Published
15 May 2018
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Money, benefits and housing
The Housing Crisis Is So Bad That Men Are Having To Sleep In Gay Saunas

Gay saunas are now at a new frontier of the homelessness epidemic, mopping up the capital’s acute shortage of affordable rental properties and social housing. The scale of the problem is so great that some saunas are having to change their admission policies, fearful of contravening licensing laws.

Published
06 May 2018
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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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