ArchiveDecember 2015

HIV rates in Indigenous communities described as a looming crisis

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PM, ABC Radio,Tuesday, December 1, 2015 18:25:52 Infectious disease experts are worried that HIV rates are rising in Indigenous communities because education campaigns are having little impact. New HIV cases among Aboriginal people are occurring at one-and-a-half times the rate of the non-Indigenous population. Doctors say injecting drug use is becoming more common in Aboriginal communities, and...

Ipergay PrEP study results published

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NAM , 02 December 2015 The results from the Ipergay study of intermittent pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) were published in the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) on 1 December, World AIDS Day. The journal-published results are little changed from those presented at the CROI conference last February by principal investigator Jean-Michel Molina, but the researchers make a number of additional...

Sex beyond the genitalia: The human brain mosaic

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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, November 2015 Significance Sex/gender differences in the brain are of high social interest because their presence is typically assumed to prove that humans belong to two distinct categories not only in terms of their genitalia, and thus justify differential treatment of males and females. Here we show that, although there are sex/gender differences...

Sexual & reproductive health and human rights of women living with HIV

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December 1, 2015 The Journal of the International AIDS Society (an open access, peer-reviewed journal), has published a new supplement: Sexual and reproductive health and human rights of women living with HIV. Women and girls are particularly vulnerable to HIV infection as a result of a variety of biological, cultural, social, and economic factors, including gender inequality within the context...

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