HIV/AIDS Topics EACS 2017: HIV Diagnoses in English Gay Men Have Been Falling Since 2014
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- Category: HIV Prevention
- Published on Thursday, 09 November 2017 00:00
- Written by Gus Cairns
A new analysis by Public Health England of testing rates and HIV diagnoses from all of England’s sexual health clinics shows that the decline in diagnoses is England-wide, started at least a year before the decline was first noticed at London's 56 Dean Street clinic, and is not restricted to gay men who test frequently.
EACS 2017: High HIV Incidence from Non-Primary Partners and Low PEP and PrEP Use Seen in PARTNER Study
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- Category: Treatment as Prevention
- Published on Tuesday, 07 November 2017 00:00
- Written by Gus Cairns
HIV incidence among the HIV-negative gay men in the PARTNER 1 and 2 studies, due to sex with partners outside their main relationship, was high, and very high among partners who admitted having condomless anal sex with non-primary partners, researchers reported at the recent 16th European AIDS Conference (EACS 2017) in Milan.
EACS 2017: Survey of Dating App Users Finds that PrEP Usage Has Not Increased in Europe in the Last Year
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- Category: Pre-exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP)
- Published on Thursday, 02 November 2017 00:00
- Written by Gus Cairns
A study of men who have sex with men (MSM) conducted by the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) in collaboration with the gay contact site Hornet has found that pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) usage has not increased, on average, among its respondents over the proportion reported last year, when a similar survey was carried out. The results were presented recently at the 16th European AIDS Conference (EACS 2017) in Milan.
EACS 2017: Swiss Study Examines When Gay Men Decided to Stop Consistent Condom Use
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- Category: HIV Sexual Transmission
- Published on Sunday, 05 November 2017 00:00
- Written by Gus Cairns
An innovative study presented at the 16th European AIDS Conference (EACS 2017) in Milan in October used a machine-learning algorithm (originally developed to help astronomers classify galaxies) to tease out whether there were specific groups of gay men within a large national cohort whose sexual risk behaviors followed similar trajectories over time, and if so, whether they were influenced by external factors such as new scientific data.
Virally Suppressed People Have "Effectively No Risk" of Transmitting HIV, Says CDC
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- Category: HIV Prevention
- Published on Thursday, 12 October 2017 00:00
- Written by Gus Cairns
The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced on September 27, National Gay Men’s HIV/AIDS Awareness Day, that HIV diagnoses had fallen among white gay and bisexual men and remained stable among African-American gay men between 2010 and 2014, its last complete year of figures.
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