Saturday, August 30th, 2008
Abstinence and faithfulness are often promoted as the only and best forms of protection against HIV infection. If the theory is true, in the real world abstinence and faithfulness have shown an impressive rate of failure. In a couple it takes two for it to work, and when single it ...
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Wednesday, August 27th, 2008
The criminalisation of HIV transmission or exposure has been a recurrent topics of the XVII International AIDS Conference with five major sessions and at least 20 different oral or poster presentations.
“Criminal HIV transmission and exposure laws spreading around the world ‘like a virus’” write Edwin J. Bernard at Aidsmap where ...
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Tuesday, August 19th, 2008
Reporting on the role of circumcision in the “combination prevention” discussed during the 2008 AIDS conference, Roger Peabody from Aidmaps noted that “In response to several criticisms of the recommended roll-out of circumcision, Catherine Hankins from UNAIDS insisted that circumcision had to be seen as part of combination prevention” ...
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