HIV Populations
April 10 is National Youth HIV and AIDS Awareness Day
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- Category: Children & Adolescents
- Published on Wednesday, 06 April 2016 00:00
- Written by HIVandHepatitis.com
April 10 is National Youth HIV and AIDS Awareness Day (NYHAAD), an opportunity to promote education and raise awareness about the epidemic among young people in the U.S. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), youth age 13 to 24 accounted for just over a quarter of all new HIV infections in 2010 -- rising to nearly 40% if those up to age 29 are included -- with an especially high burden among young gay and bisexual black and Latino men.
CROI 2016: Cotrimoxazole Prophylaxis Provides No Benefit for HIV-Exposed Uninfected Children
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- Category: Pregnancy & HIV MTCT
- Published on Monday, 14 March 2016 00:00
- Written by Carole Leach-Lemens
Challenging current guidelines, prolonged use of cotrimoxazole may not be necessary for HIV-exposed but uninfected children in low-mortality, non-malarial settings with low risk for late mother-to-child transmission throug breastfeeding, Roger Shapiro told participants at the recent Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI 2016) in Boston.
CROI 2016: Transgender People at High Risk for HIV, But Little Is Known About Prevention and Treatment
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- Category: Transgender People
- Published on Tuesday, 08 March 2016 00:00
- Written by Liz Highleyman
Transgender women have among the highest rates of HIV infection, but little is known about HIV prevalence among trans men, Tonia Poteat from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health said in a plenary lecture on transgender health and HIV at the recent Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI 2016)in Boston -- the first ever on this population at CROI. A growing number of studies and prevention and treatment programs are addressing transgender populations, but more research is needed.
March 10 Is National Women and Girls HIV/AIDS Awareness Day
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- Category: Women & HIV
- Published on Tuesday, 08 March 2016 00:00
- Written by HIVandHepatitis.com
Thursday, March 10, is National Women and Girls HIV/AIDS Awareness Day (NWGHAAD), an annual opportunity to call attention to the impact of HIV and AIDS on women and girls worldwide. This year's theme is "The Best Defense Is a Good Offense."
CROI 2016: High Levels of Chemsex and Slamsex Seen Among HIV+ Men at U.K. HIV Clinics
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- Category: Gay & Bisexual Men/MSM
- Published on Monday, 07 March 2016 00:00
- Written by Gus Cairns
A survey of HIV-positive clients attending 30 HIV clinics in England and Wales, presented at the Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI 2016)last month in Boston, has found that nearly a third (29%) of gay male patients reported engaging in "chemsex" (defined by the researchers as "the use of drugs to increase disinhibition and arousal") in the past year and that 1 in 10 reported "slamsex" (injecting or being injected with such drugs). Figures were higher for some subgroups: 37% of Londoners reported chemsex and nearly 1 in 5 (19%) of men on antiretroviral therapy (ART) reported slamsex.
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