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HIV testing: know, treat, prevent
Spotlight 2010 der European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC)
30 years and still 30% of those infected are unaware - HIV testing is the key
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UNITED STATES: "Oral Sex Linked to Cancer Risk
Agence France Presse, 02.20.11
Data supports the connection of oral sex to cancer, announced US scientists during Sunday's American Association for the Advancement of Science meeting in Washington.
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CANADA: "Health Outcomes Associated with Methamphetamine Use Among Young People - A Systematic Review"
Addiction Vol. 105; No. 6: P. 991-1002, 06.2010
The authors noted that methamphetamine (MA) use among young people is a significant social, economic, and public health concern for affected communities as well as policymakers. A strong base of scientific evidence is needed to craft effective public health interventions in response.
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AFRICA: "AIDS Funding Squeeze Puts Lives at Risk"
Reuters
05.27.2010
HIV care in Africa is beginning to "deteriorate" as traditional funding sources dry up, says a new report from Doctors Without Borders (DWB).
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ART Associated With Reduced Risk Of HIV Transmission To Sexual Partners, Study Shows
Kaiser Daily Global Health Policy Report, May 27, 2010
Research published in the Lancet online Thursday "provides the strongest evidence to date" that antiretroviral therapy (ART) might also be used to prevent transmission of HIV, Agence France-Presse reports. The observational study found that treating HIV-positive patients with ART reduced the risk of HIV transmission to their sexual partners by 92 percent (5/26).
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Anti-HIV drugs slash risk of virus transmission by 92 percent
YAHOO! News, May 26
People with HIV reduced the risk of handing on the AIDS virus by an astonishing 92 percent while they were taking antiretroviral drugs, according to a trial reported on Thursday.
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At Front Lines, Global War on AIDS Is Falling Apart
New York Times (05.10.10):: Donald G. McNeil Jr.
During the last decade, the per-patient cost of AIDS treatment fell to less than $100 a year in poor countries, and donors stepped up to make the drugs available to some patients there.
However, the global recession has sparked a collapse in donor support.
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Youth and HIV: For my Right to Know and Decide
CONCASIDA 2010 – VI Central American Congress of People with HIV/AIDS
In this sixth edition, CONCASIDA 2010 makes a special call to the young people so that they take the information like an instrument of power, as well as they abandon prejudices and groundless stigmas assuming their sexual and reproductive life responsibly.
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National Gay Men's – HIV/AIDS awareness day
CDC, September 2009
Statement by Dr.J. Mermin Director Division of HIV/AIDS Prevention - CDC
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Effect of Antiretroviral Therapy on Risk of Sexual Transmission of HIV Infection and Superinfection
CDC, September 2009
The past decade has seen substantial advances in the development of antiretroviral therapy (ART), medications used in combination to reduce the replication of HIV virus and treat HIV-infected persons.
Because of these medications, many HIV-infected persons are able to reduce levels of virus in the bloodstream (plasma viral load) to undetectable levels.
Data suggest that HIV-infected persons with undetectable viral load are less infectious, and may be less likely to transmit HIV via sexual contact.
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