I had been meaning to post on the topic of HIV in migrant and mobile populations much, much earlier, but was unable to get to a session until today. My interest was piqued on Saturday as I stood in line...
Posted on August 17, 2006 6:48 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
If one thing has been hammered home this week (and, indeed, over the past 25 years) regarding HIV/AIDS, it's that prevention is key. Treatments, while improving, are still a distant second place to preventing primary infection as far as...
Posted on August 17, 2006 2:40 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
This week's issue of the New England Journal of Medicine contains two articles on AIDS that are available free of charge. The first article, Changing the Paradigm for HIV Testing -- The End of Exceptionalism, goes over content I blogged...
Posted on August 17, 2006 1:15 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
During an panel on Global Trends in HIV Risk Behaviors, BM Ramesh presented some interesting research on female sex wokers in three districts in the state of Karnataka in India. A sex worker's vulnerability to becoming infected with HIV may...
Posted on August 16, 2006 4:30 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
In the United States, approximately a third of those who are HIV-positive don't even realize it. Worldwide, that number can be much higher. Because of this, and because those who don't know their HIV status can play a large...
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Posted on August 16, 2006 11:30 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Via Feministing, the leader of South Africa's Inkatha Freedom Party, Mangosuthu Buthelezi, is claiming women have a duty to carry out "virginity testing" to fight the AIDS pandemic....
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Posted on August 15, 2006 1:06 AM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
...goes to Bill Gates. "A woman should never need her partner's permission to save her own life," said Gates, who gave tonight's keynote address with wife Melinda. They emphasized the need for science to deliver microbicides and oral prevention therapies...
Posted on August 13, 2006 11:18 PM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
A blog about the 16th International AIDS Conference, Toronto, Canada, August 13-18, 2006.
