POZ, October 20 2014
World Health Organization (WHO) guidelines cautioning against oral birth control for HIV-positive women taking antiretrovirals may be overly broad, according to new research.
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Opinion: The latest attempt to scare the public about sex education is obscene
The Guardian, Thursday 6 November 2014 03.10 AEST
Reactionary campaigners are kicking up a storm about a tool that helps teachers identify abuse. This hinders efforts to protect children.
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Former magistrate calls for more explicit sex education classes for Indigenous communities
ABC News, 5/11/12
More explicit sexual education classes are needed, an Aboriginal sexual health forum has been told.
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‘Elite controllers’ may provide clues for HIV cure (NHS Analysis)
NHS Choices, Wednesday November 5 2014
“Scientists have uncovered the genetic mechanism which appeared to have led two HIV-infected men to experience a ‘spontaneous cure’,” the Mail Online reports.
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Australia performs best in HIV treatment cascade – 62% with undetectable viral load
nam, 04 November 2014
Australia and northern European countries are doing far better than North America at retaining people living with HIV in care and achieving viral suppression, according to a comprehensive survey of `treatment cascades` in high-income countries presented on Tuesday at the International Congress on Drug Therapy in HIV Infection in Glasgow.
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New training resource in cross-cultural communication for sexual health & blood borne viruses
Metropolitan Migrant Resource Centre, Western Australia, 2014 Your Cultural Lens is a recently developed free training resource in cross cultural communication about sexual health and blood borne viruses. It is a mixed-media online learning package combining videos of scenarios, pictures, text, and links to resources. This training was developed because talking about sex is not always easy, and...