HealthDay, Wednesday, November 12, 2014
Men are at increased risk for oral human papillomavirus (HPV) infection if their female sex partners have oral and/or genital HPV infections, a new study shows.
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People with mental illness more likely to be tested for HIV
Science Daily, December 4, 2014
People with mental illness are more likely to have been tested for HIV than those without mental illness, according to a new study from a team of researchers in the USA.
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HPV vaccine, riskier sexual activity not linked, Canadian researchers say
Science Daily, December 8, 2014
Sexual behaviour of teenage girls does not appear to be impacted by the human papilloma virus (HPV) vaccine, according to Queen’s researchers Drs. Leah Smith and Linda Lévesque.
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HIV survivors now expect long lives and even help train aged care workers
By Simon Royal and Gary Rivett, ABC
Posted Monday 1 December 2014
As World AIDS Day is marked globally, three South Australians have reflected on living with HIV and the joys and challenges of lifespans they once never dreamed of.
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Living with HIV (in Adelaide)
7.30 SA, 28.11.2014 When HIV emerged in the early 1980s it almost certainly meant an early death from AIDS. The advent of effective treatments changed that, it isn’t curable but its manageable. That’s meant both an emerging sense of complacency amongst young people about the risks of HIV and for at least three South Australians the joys and challenges of living beyond the years they...