HIV prevention news: Europe

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Issue #24 - December 2014

• Two European PrEP trials report high effectiveness
• Progress on HIV vaccines: new human trials by 2016?
• UNAIDS: We can end HIV, but only if we treat nearly everyone
• What could stop treatment working as prevention?
• Europe “is falling behind” in its HIV response
• Injectable PrEP drug might work better for men than women
• Other recent news headlines
• Editors' picks from other sources
• Survey: HIV dialogue
• HIV prevention bulletin
• Acknowledgements

Issue #23 - October 2014

• European study shows that less education is associated with late diagnosis and treatment
• PrEP will need high adherence, high effectiveness and high coverage in high-risk populations to be affordable
• Learning about additional HIV prevention methods doesn’t undermine gay men’s intentions to use condoms
• Expanded harm reduction in Scotland achieves impressive drop in hepatitis C among people who inject drugs
• Novel immune-suppressant vaccine completely blocks HIV infection in monkeys: human trials planned
• HIV testing rates are improving in African people in England
• Gay men in London getting younger at diagnosis
• Other recent news headlines
• Editors' picks from other sources
• Survey: HIV prevention and apps
• HIV prevention bulletin
• Acknowledgements

Issue #22 - September 2014

• Melbourne special – news from the 20th International AIDS Conference
• A tale of two cities: why is HIV incidence in gay men falling in San Francisco but not in London?
• New HIV in people who use drugs in Europe is related to economic decline: can be contained with good programmes
• Fifty per cent efficacy in open-label PrEP study, but 100% with adequate adherence
• Doing it together: couple counselling may be a vital component of HIV prevention in Africa
• Nearly one in five gay men in eastern Europe has been arrested for being gay – only one in fifty in western Europe
• Sex workers need support for condom use with regular partners
• Other news headlines from Melbourne
• Of guidelines, targets and resources
• AIDS 2014
• European HIV testing and counselling survey
• Community survey on migrant access to health services
• HIV prevention bulletin
• Acknowledgements

Issue #21 - July 2014

• European community prevention advocates prioritise testing; increased interest in treatment as prevention
• Gay men who discuss HIV status with sexual partners are less likely to acquire HIV
• High proportion of ‘heterosexual’ men with HIV probably got it from other men
• European CDC cautious about PrEP
• Signs of new needle-led HIV epidemic in Middle East and North Africa
• High levels of adherence to study medication among women who conceived during HIV PrEP study
• Drug-resistant gonorrhoea rates plummet in US and UK
• Other recent news headlines
• AIDS 2014
• European HIV testing and counselling survey
• Community survey on migrant access to health services
• HIV prevention bulletin
• Acknowledgements
• Editors' picks from other sources

Issue #20 - June 2014

• US public health department recommends PrEP
• Impossible to rule out risk of infection from someone on treatment
• HIV infection on PrEP will probably not cause drug resistance
• STI diagnoses much higher in people not taking HIV treatment
• Tenofovir as PrEP causes no long-term harm to kidneys
• Other recent news headlines
• Community survey on migrant access to health services
• Community consensus statement
• HIV prevention bulletin
• Acknowledgements
• Editors' picks from other sources

Issue #19 - May 2014

• UK PrEP study completes enrolment
• Expanded HIV testing may find more acute infections as well as late ones
• 'Chemsex' not common in London gay men; more so in men with HIV
• HIV diagnoses in French gay men up 14%, mainly due to more testing
• HIV genital viral load: undetectable in women on treatment, can vary hourly in men
• Taiwan harm reduction programme cuts HIV in drug users by 80%
• Rwanda cuts HIV incidence by 90% as it goes for universal HIV treatment
• Other recent news headlines
• Community survey on migrant access to health services
• Community consensus statement
• HIV prevention bulletin
• Acknowledgements
• Editors' picks from other sources

Issue #18 - March 2014

• No-one with an undetectable viral load transmits HIV in two years of study
• STIs greatly increase risk of acquiring HIV in pregnancy
• Very different levels of PrEP uptake and adherence in three US cities
• Not having sex with serodiscordant partners is HIV prevention strategy for 40% of gay men
• One-in-ten HIV-positive gay men report using viral load to decide on condom use
• More HIV testing and treatment on diagnosis needed to curtail UK gay epidemic
• NAM/AVAC webinar: the prevention needs of people who use drugs in Europe
• Other recent news headlines
• Editors' picks from other sources
• Community consensus statement
• HIV prevention bulletin
• Acknowledgements

Issue #17 - February 2014

• Home testing
• Risk factors for LGV identified
• Gay men’s mental health
• Attrition in the treatment cascade
• The limits of individual responsibility
• Online press conference: HIV treatment as prevention community consensus statement
• Other recent news headlines
• HIV treatment as prevention – launch of community consensus statement
• HIV prevention bulletin
• Acknowledgements
• Editors' picks from other sources

Issue #16 - January 2014

• Gay men run very different risks of HIV; implications for PrEP
• Big reduction in drug injecting in people who test positive for hepatitis C
• English study looks at male sex workers
• Young newly diagnosed gay men in US have high viral loads
• Testing on hospital admission picks up many new diagnoses
• Computerised counselling achieves reductions in viral load and risk behaviour
• NAM/AVAC webinar – HIV prevention research update: what to watch in 2014
• Other recent news headlines
• Webinar: what to watch in 2014
• HIV prevention bulletin
• Acknowledgements
• Editors' picks from other sources