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News and information about HIV in specific social groups and communities.

The biology of HIV transmission

Genital shedding of HIV fluctuates with a woman's menstrual cycle

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7 June 2004
Contraception

Contraceptive choices of HIV-positive women are dependent on the partner’s HIV status

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27 May 2004
Cancer

Pap smears may not accurately detect high-grade pre-cancerous anal lesions

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10 May 2004
People who inject drugs

Improvement in CD4 cell count with HAART associated with more unsafe sex, but not injecting in IDUs

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14 April 2004
Bone & joint problems

Women with HIV have reduced bone density, may benefit from regular checks

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15 March 2004
Sexually transmitted infections prevention

Younger injecting drug users and gay men optimistic about HAART likely to have safer sex fatigue

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11 March 2004
Pregnancy and vertical transmission

Rapid HIV tests should be used on women in labour

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28 January 2004
HIV testing programmes & uptake

Swiss close to introducing voluntary HIV tests for asylum seekers

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26 January 2004
Migrants, refugees & displaced people

Labour warned to think again on compulsory HIV tests for immigrants

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4 January 2004
Ethnic & cultural minorities

UK Health Protection Agency publishes figures on ethnicity and new HIV diagnoses since 2000

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4 September 2003
HIV treatment for children & young people

Child survival strongly linked to maternal survival in Uganda

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5 August 2003
Ethnic & cultural minorities

Women have larger increase in CD4 cell count after six months of HAART, but no racial differences

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22 July 2003
Confidentiality, consent & medical ethics

Asylum seekers should not be forced to take HIV test, say MPs

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10 July 2003
Weight gain & lipodystrophy

HIV-positive teenagers with lipodystrophy have lower growth hormone secretion

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1 July 2003
PEP

PEP is feasible in prisons

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3 June 2003
Young people

HIV-positive boys and girls enter puberty later

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7 May 2003
African migrants

HIV-positive asylum seeker loses appeal against dispersal from London

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4 April 2003
People who inject drugs

Psychologically distressed injecting drug users progress to AIDS quicker

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26 March 2003
People who inject drugs

Pakistani and Afghani drug users at high HIV risk

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25 March 2003
Epidemiology & behaviour

Sexual attitudes and practices of Africans in UK: Padare study findings released

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6 March 2003
African migrants

HIV information needs of Africans in UK revealed by new study

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5 March 2003
The search for an HIV prevention vaccine

HIV vaccine fails in first large trial; may protect Blacks, Asians only

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24 February 2003
Women

Male domination of women hinders HIV prevention

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14 February 2003
Ethnic & cultural minorities

Closeted black men in US might play significant role in HIV transmission to partners

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8 February 2003