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December 4, 2014 5:08 PM
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December 2, 2014 3:57 PM
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Dr Bethany Young Holt: Right now, if women want to protect themselves from HIV and pregnancies, condoms are the only option. But technology is about to change all that
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Giuseppe Fattori
November 21, 2014 12:59 AM
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En France, une personne sur quatre atteinte du sida est discriminée, selon un rapport de l'Institut national d'études démographiques (Ined). Les traitements contrôlent l'infection mais cela ne suffit pas à leur assurer une vie normale.
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November 10, 2014 1:00 PM
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The AIDS Council of New South Wales (ACON) placed a 60-foot pink prophylactic on a monument in Sydney, Australia, to raise HIV awareness.
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November 9, 2014 4:01 PM
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Poor little crumb’s got fever and red spots. I feel so sorry.” Or: “Coughed the whole night. I got it bad. Flu.” With concise statements like these, a growing number of people are keeping not only their closest friends up to date on their current state of health via the social network Twitter; Healthcare researchers and informaticians, too, have recognized the value of information about infectious diseases posted openly on the web. They aim to identify epidemic outbreaks earlier and make better predictions of the course they will take. What can Big Data do for the epidemiology of infectious diseases?
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November 8, 2014 5:21 AM
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I was recently invited to a meeting on HIV/AIDS that was hosted in Athens by the European Commission. Although the grass is greener on the EU side, the epidemic still poses relevant challenges. Contrary
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November 3, 2014 12:50 AM
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In addition to providing other potential benefits to public health, all of those tweets and Facebook posts could help curb the spread of HIV.
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October 23, 2014 1:43 PM
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October 23, 2014 1:42 AM
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October 19, 2014 2:00 AM
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Since the advent of smartphone technology, people worldwide of all sexualities have been using various downloadable apps to help them meet people for dates, casual sex, and in some cases, group sex. For many (but by no means all) men who have sex with men (MSM), smartphone apps such as Grindr, Hornet, FindFred, Growlr, Scruff, and many others have become part of daily life. These MSM will look at a list of other men in their area, start up a conversation, and can ultimately end up engaging in casual sex. Thus, such apps have become a vital window of opportunity for health-related organisations to help MSM protect their sexual health, by, for example, letting them know where their nearest testing centre for sexually transmitted infections (STIs) is, where they can obtain post-exposure prophylaxis if they have been exposed to HIV, and other health promotion messages.
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Giuseppe Fattori
September 8, 2014 5:08 PM
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How to Use a Condom Consistently and Correctly: - Use a new condom for every act of vaginal, anal and oral sex throughout the entire sex act (from start to finish). Before any genital contact, put the condom on the tip of the erect penis with the rolled side out.
- If the condom does not have a reservoir tip, pinch the tip enough to leave a half-inch space for semen to collect. Holding the tip, unroll the condom all the way to the base of the erect penis.
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December 4, 2014 5:01 PM
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Antiretroviral drugs reduce viral replication and can reduce mother-to-child transmission of HIV either by lowering plasma viral load in pregnant women or through post-exposure prophylaxis in their newborns. In rich countries, highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) which usually comprises three drugs, has reduced the mother-to-child transmission rates to around 1-2%, but HAART is not always available in low- and middle-income countries. In these countries, various simpler and less costly antiretroviral regimens have been offered to pregnant women or to their newborn babies, or to both.
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November 28, 2014 4:24 PM
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Results Women assigned to traditional or multimedia WORTH were significantly more likely than women assigned to the control condition to report an increase in the proportion of protected sex acts (β=0.10; 95% CI=0.02–0.18) and a decrease in the number of unprotected sex acts (IRR=0.72; 95% CI=0.57–0.90). Conclusion and Relevance The promising effects of traditional and multimedia WORTH on increasing condom use and high participation rates suggest that WORTH may be scaled up to redress the concentrated epidemics of HIV/STIs among drug-involved women in the criminal justice system.
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November 13, 2014 12:46 AM
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The conversation about what to teach and when shifted in the 1980s
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November 10, 2014 12:45 AM
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In addition to providing other potential benefits to public health, all of those tweets and Facebook posts could help curb the spread of HIV. Although public health researchers have focused early applications of social media on reliably monitoring the spread of diseases such as the flu, Sean Young of the Center for Digital Behavior at the University of California, Los Angeles, writes in the journal Trends in Microbiology of a future in which social media might predict and even change biomedical outcomes.
High-risk groups who are transparent on social media can increase the likelihood of HIV testing.
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November 8, 2014 5:58 AM
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November 6, 2014 4:37 PM
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For those of us who lived through the early days of the U.S. AIDS epidemic, the current national panic over Ebola brings back some very bad memories. The toxic mix of scientific ignorance and paranoia on display in the reaction to the return of health care workers from the front lines of the fight against Ebola in West Africa, the amplification of these reactions by politicians and the media, and the fear-driven suspicion and shunning of whole classes of people are all reminiscent of the response to the emergence of AIDS in the 1980s.
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Giuseppe Fattori
October 26, 2014 4:12 PM
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Conclusions In this multicentre randomised controlled trial among ART naïve patients initiating first line ART within the Indian national programme, we found no significant effect of the mobile phone intervention on either time to virological failure or ART adherence at the end of two years of therapy.
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October 23, 2014 2:21 AM
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October 23, 2014 12:41 AM
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For the first time ever, representatives from seven of the largest gay dating and hook-up websites and apps came together with HIV and STI prevention leaders from around the country to discuss how to create healthier online communities for gay and bisexual men.
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October 5, 2014 1:56 PM
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Editor's Note: There are, unfortunately, many myths going around about pre-exposure prophylaxis, or PrEP — the use of an antiretroviral drug by HIV-negative people to prevent them from being infected with HIV during sex. This month we’ll look at one myth per day and offer evidence why it’s not true. Myth 1: PrEP will lead gay men to give up condoms.
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