Monday, November 24th, 2008
This piece was written in September 2006. The AIDS conference it mentionned was the one before that of 2008 where vulnerable groups where at last put under the spotlights. Names, places and minor details have been modified to protect people’s privacy.
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Wat, my neighbour has a new lodger, a 35-year ...
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Thursday, November 6th, 2008
Lack of funds and misused thereof are the two main causes of a failing HIV prevention. As noted by Emily Geminder, HIV prevention does not attract as much financial attention as a quest for an HIV treatment, and when funds are committed to prevention, they end up financing interventions that ...
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Thursday, October 30th, 2008
Alex in Phnom Penh
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In a comment published in the Phnom Penh Post, independent consultant Michael De Guzman, put forward a few reasons why interventions aiming at reducing HIV infection and transmission amongst Men who have Sex with Men (MSM) are failing in a developing country such as Cambodia where an ...
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Tuesday, October 21st, 2008
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Canada/Ontario March of Dimes
In an opinion piece published in The Wall Street Journal, Prof Luc Montagnier co-discoverer with Francoise Barré-Sinoussi of the HIV virus that causes AIDS, proposed “using vaccination against HIV antigens not for prophylaxis, but as additional therapy following a short antiviral treatment”
Following a wave ...
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Thursday, October 2nd, 2008
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The Glam Reaper 2008
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