HIV prevention news: Europe

From 2012 to 2016, NAM published a monthly bulletin that covered HIV prevention news and research in Europe, and of relevance to Europe. It aimed to strengthen knowledge of new prevention options and share the latest HIV prevention news and research.

In that period, HIV prevention evolved rapidly, with landmark research developments in new prevention technologies and approaches, including HIV treatment as prevention (TasP), pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP), expanded testing programmes and advocacy for proven approaches that remain unprovided, such as syringe and needle exchange and condoms in prisons.

An archive of the bulletin is available in English, Spanish, Portuguese, French and Russian.

Archive

Issue #15 - December 2013

  • NAM prevention survey: first results
  • Rise in HIV testing in UK, but only a quarter of gay men test yearly
  • Condomless sex increasing in US gay men
  • Partner notification highly effective at finding new HIV cases
  • People off treatment contribute most transmitted drug resistance
  • HPV increases HIV risk in men – gay and straight
  • Other recent news headlines
  • Editors' picks from other sources
  • HIV prevention bulletin
  • Acknowledgements

Issue #14 - November 2013

  • Urgent need to improve sexual health screening for gay men in Europe
  • Gay men who don't have anal sex still at high risk of bacterial STIs
  • New HIV outbreaks appearing in people who inject drugs, conference told
  • Pre-test counselling does not reduce sexual risk taking
  • Researchers and advocates discuss the microbicides pipeline in Europe
  • Other recent news headlines
  • Editors' picks from other sources
  • We think you're amazing…
  • World AIDS Day
  • European HIV testing week
  • 14th European AIDS Conference
  • New prevention bulletin
  • Acknowledgements

Issue #13 - October 2013

  • Eastern European governments fail to take action
  • EACS guidelines – treatment as prevention
  • Making treatment as prevention a reality for people who inject drugs
  • Who will take PrEP?
  • Late HIV diagnosis is a Europe-wide problem
  • Vaccine research
  • Female condom choices are expanding
  • Other recent news headlines
  • Editors' picks from other sources
  • HIV prevention webinar
  • European HIV testing week
  • 14th European AIDS Conference
  • IAPAC evidence summit
  • New prevention bulletin
  • Acknowledgements

Issue #12 - September 2013

  • One-in-five US gay men don’t test for HIV while in a relationship
  • Intravenous AZT still useful to stop HIV if women giving birth have high viral load
  • Few HIV-negative gay men stick to one role, but they do attempt to ‘seroposition’
  • Young gay men catch HPV early in sexual history, but vaccine could still help
  • PrEP acceptable to Kenyan gay men and sex workers, but stigma and gossip may be barriers
  • Other recent news headlines
  • Editors' picks from other sources
  • Free webinar: HIV prevention in people who inject drugs
  • IAPAC evidence summit
  • We want to know what you think about HIV prevention methods
  • New prevention bulletin
  • Acknowledgements

Issue #11 - August 2013

  • People start treatment no earlier than they did 20 years ago
  • Considerable increase found in unprotected sex in French gay survey
  • European women with HIV still having unnecessary caesareans
  • 'Bareback' sex has the lure of the forbidden for gay men
  • Rectal STIs predict imminent HIV infection
  • Evidence is not yet sufficient to recommend universal treatment, clinicians and community writers say
  • European HIV prevention webinars: rectal microbicides
  • Other recent news headlines
  • Editors' picks from other sources
  • Webinar: rectal microbicides
  • We want to know what you think about HIV prevention methods
  • New prevention bulletin
  • Acknowledgements

Issue #10 - July 2013

  • A third of new HIV infections may come from people who are not in continuous care
  • PrEP news: recruitment and adherence in open-label trial; adherence and risk factors in drug users’ trial
  • Cancer vaccination could help older gay men too
  • Eastern European and migrant gay men have poorer access to HIV prevention
  • Malaysia’s harm reduction is working, but reaching too few people who inject drugs
  • Nearly one-in-four HIV-positive gay men cured of hepatitis C is reinfected
  • European HIV prevention webinars: rectal microbicides
  • Other recent news headlines
  • Editors' picks from other sources
  • We want to know what you think about HIV prevention methods
  • New prevention bulletin
  • Acknowledgements

Issue #9 - June 2013

  • PrEP reduces infections in injecting drug users
  • Best to target combination prevention to highest-risk groups
  • European gay men crossing borders
  • European gay men buying and selling sex
  • Critique of ‘community viral load’
  • European HIV prevention webinars – next-generation condoms
  • Other recent news headlines
  • Editors' picks from other sources
  • Statement on treatment as prevention
  • We want to know what you think about HIV prevention methods
  • New prevention bulletin
  • Acknowledgements

Issue #8 - May 2013

  • EU project maps how HIV crosses borders
  • Global gay survey: blackmail, stigma and poverty blight lives and health
  • Many Dutch men with HIV take viral load into account in condom decisions
  • Getting viral load as low as possible may pay prevention dividends
  • Steroid injectors: an under-studied HIV risk group
  • European HIV prevention webinars – an HIV cure
  • Other recent news headlines
  • New prevention bulletin
  • Acknowledgements
  • Editors' picks from other sources

Issue #7 - April 2013

  • Self-testing is feasible, acceptable and accurate, studies find
  • ‘Test and treat’ not enough to end gay epidemic, US model finds
  • More women than men on treatment have detectable genital HIV
  • Little change in English gay men’s sexual risk behaviour from 2001 to 2008
  • Most gay couples have ‘extramarital sex’ agreements – but don’t always agree what they are
  • European HIV prevention webinars – pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP)
  • Other recent news headlines
  • New prevention bulletin
  • Acknowledgements
  • Editors' picks from other sources

Issue #6 - March 2013

  • How effective are condoms in anal sex – really?
  • Why did PrEP and microbicides not work for African women?
  • US gay young people find taking PrEP hard, too
  • Majority with HIV ‘undetectable’ in France, UK – and sometimes in the US
  • Scientists study possible four-times-a-year anti-HIV drug
  • Many people in the UK don’t disclose HIV at sexual health check-ups
  • European HIV prevention webinars – treatment as prevention
  • Other recent news headlines
  • Editors' picks from other sources
  • AVAC/NAM webinar series
  • New prevention bulletin
  • Acknowledgements

Issue #5 - February 2013

  • UK statement: treatment "as effective as condoms" in reducing HIV transmission
  • Condoms used in a quarter of heterosexual encounters in the US
  • HIV infections in gay men unchanged or increasing in England and Wales, despite more testing
  • No HIV infections from partners on treatment in Ugandan couples
  • Circumcision makes no difference to HIV infection in UK gay men
  • European HIV prevention webinars – microbicides
  • Other recent news headlines
  • AVAC/NAM webinar series
  • New prevention bulletin
  • Acknowledgements
  • Editors' picks from other sources

Issue #4 - January 2013

  • High infection rates in men who have previously used PEP
  • How to raise awareness of biomedical interventions for HIV: PEP evaluation
  • French youth study: knowledge about HIV and trust in condoms has decreased
  • Low use of behavioural interventions in English STI clinics
  • European HIV prevention webinars
  • Other recent news headlines
  • Editors' picks from other sources
  • AVAC/NAM webinar series
  • New prevention bulletin
  • Acknowledgements
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This project has been supported via a grant from Gilead Sciences Europe Ltd, Merck & Co., Inc. and ViiV Healthcare.

Gilead Sciences Europe Ltd, Merck & Co., Inc. and ViiV Healthcare have provided funding for this project and have had no editorial control over the content of the materials.

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