Healthline News, 24 February 2015
Results of the PROUD and IPERGAY trials show that taking Truvada before and after sex makes gay and bisexual men 86 percent less likely to contract HIV.
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Medical Daily, Mar 10, 2015 12:04 PM
A possible “functional cure” for HIV has recently been granted FDA approval for further human testing.
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New York Times, Feb 4, 2015
The surprising failure of a large clinical trial of HIV prevention methods in Africa — and the elaborate deceptions employed by the women in it — have opened an ethical debate about how to run such studies in poor countries and have already changed the design of some that are now underway.
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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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ABC Background Briefing, Sunday 26 October 2014 8:05AM
With HIV infections in Australia at a 20-year high, there’s a push to subsidise a daily pill that can stop transmission, but health professionals and the gay community are split over the drug, which some say will encourage risky sexual behaviour and could place a huge burden on the public health purse.
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nam, Published: 16 October 2014
The Steering Committee* of the PROUD trial of pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) in gay men in England announced today that participants currently on the deferred arm of the study, who have not yet started PrEP, will be recalled to their clinics and offered the opportunity to begin PrEP ahead of schedule.
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