http://phys.org/ en-us Phys.org internet news portal provides the latest news on science including: Physics, Nanotechnology, Life Sciences, Space Science, Earth Science, Environment, Health and Medicine. HIV-related research and programming has excluded same-sex attracted men in Africa for three decades. Their exclusion cannot be accounted for by the assertion that they are unreachable, says Norwegian researcher. http://phys.org/news280651287.html Other Sciences Thu, 21 Feb 2013 06:41:34 EST news280651287 (AP) -- Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon called for global action Wednesday to put an end to AIDS by 2020 and relegate the killer disease to the history books. http://phys.org/news226813178.html Medicine & Health Thu, 09 Jun 2011 04:39:51 EST news226813178 A trial of an oral pill aimed at preventing HIV infection in African women has been halted due to poor results, the trial operator Family Health International announced this week. http://phys.org/news222439478.html Medicine & Health Tue, 19 Apr 2011 14:10:01 EST news222439478 Youngsters are, on average, 16 years old and sober when they make their sexual debut with somebody they have known for a while. However, condoms feature in just half of sexual encounters with new or casual partners, reveals a major survey on the sexual habits, attitudes and knowledge of young people carried out by the University of Gothenburg on behalf of the Swedish Institute for Communicable Disease Control. http://phys.org/news222424699.html Medicine & Health Tue, 19 Apr 2011 09:38:31 EST news222424699 A gel developed to protect against HIV during vaginal sex produced a strong antiviral effect when used in the rectum, according to an early-phase study presented today at the 18th Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI). The results, based on rectal tissue biopsies sampled from HIV-negative men and women who used the product daily for one week, provide the first-ever evidence that tenofovir gel could help reduce the risk of HIV from anal sex, even though the vaginal gel formulation may not be optimal for rectal use. http://phys.org/news218104602.html Medicine & Health Mon, 28 Feb 2011 08:37:02 EST news218104602 A new report from the Women's HIV Prevention Tracking Project (WHiPT), a collaborative initiative of AVAC and the ATHENA Network, features an unprecedented collection of voices from Kenya, Namibia, South Africa, Swaziland and Uganda reflecting on what male circumcision for HIV prevention means for women. It highlights women's perspectives, advocacy priorities and recommendations on this new prevention strategy. http://phys.org/news211482055.html Medicine & Health Mon, 13 Dec 2010 17:01:45 EST news211482055 The total number of reported AIDS deaths in China has jumped by nearly 20,000 since an official estimate last year, state media said Monday. http://phys.org/news210226722.html Medicine & Health Mon, 29 Nov 2010 04:40:02 EST news210226722 (AP) -- AIDS prevention advocates are hailing a pill newly shown to protect against HIV as a great tool for disease prevention. http://phys.org/news209797370.html Medicine & Health Wed, 24 Nov 2010 05:03:03 EST news209797370 University of Alberta research has discovered a strong link between depression and risky sexual behaviours such as improper condom use, transactional sex and relationship violence among young people in South Africa. http://phys.org/news209136430.html Medicine & Health Tue, 16 Nov 2010 14:00:01 EST news209136430 Significant progress has been made in several low- and middle-income countries in increasing access to HIV/AIDS services, according to a new report released today. The report Towards Universal Access by the World Health Organization (WHO), the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) and the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) is the fourth annual report for tracking progress made in achieving the 2010 target of providing universal access to HIV prevention, treatment and care. http://phys.org/news204890140.html Medicine & Health Tue, 28 Sep 2010 10:55:57 EST news204890140 The appalling lack of access to scientifically proven interventions for key populations at risk -- including sex workers, men who have sex with men and people who use drugs - and the lagging scale up of simple and inexpensive treatment regimens to prevent vertical transmission of HIV reflect persistent, underlying human rights violations that threaten future progress on AIDS, according to organizers of the XVIII International AIDS Conference taking place in Vienna this week under the theme of Rights Here, Right Now. http://phys.org/news199011758.html Medicine & Health Thu, 22 Jul 2010 10:02:57 EST news199011758 Adult circumcision has been proposed as a possible HIV prevention strategy for gay men, but a new study by the University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health presented at the XVIII International AIDS Conference suggests it would have a very small effect on reducing HIV incidence in the United States. http://phys.org/news198936878.html Medicine & Health Thu, 22 Jul 2010 05:00:01 EST news198936878 A new study examining the relationship dynamics of gay male couples finds that couples make "sexual agreements" -- rules about whether sex with outside partners is allowed -- primarily because they want to strengthen and improve their relationship rather than for protection against HIV. Published today in the journal AIDS Care, the study explores how sexual agreements affect both HIV risk and a relationship's satisfaction and quality, and contains insights for HIV prevention. http://phys.org/news198257985.html Medicine & Health Tue, 13 Jul 2010 18:10:01 EST news198257985 Implementing a program of universal HIV testing and immediate antiretroviral treatment (ART) for infected individuals could have a major impact on the HIV/AIDS epidemic in Washington, DC, but a new study finds that it would not halt the epidemic, something that a previous report had projected. In a paper that will appear in the August 15 issue of Clinical Infectious Diseases and has been released online, researchers find that the so-called "test-and-treat" strategy could reduce new HIV infections by 15 percent over the next five years while conferring large survival benefits to HIV-infected patients. http://phys.org/news197912776.html Medicine & Health Fri, 09 Jul 2010 16:49:43 EST news197912776 In a policy report published in Science, an internationally recognized peer-reviewed journal, leading experts in HIV/AIDS research have warned that failure to meet a pledge for universal access to HIV therapy and funding cuts to prevention and treatment programs are poised to deliver a major setback in the fight against HIV/AIDS. http://phys.org/news197816095.html Medicine & Health Thu, 08 Jul 2010 14:00:11 EST news197816095 Only 56 percent of young Swedes always use a condom when having casual sex, a study published Monday showed, as health authorities launched a campaign to promote condom use in an attempt to halve new HIV infections. http://phys.org/news192707006.html Medicine & Health Mon, 10 May 2010 10:43:42 EST news192707006 A comprehensive population-based study, conducted by the BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS (BC-CfE) and presented at the 17th Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections in San Francisco, shows that expanded highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) coverage was associated with a 50% decrease in new yearly HIV infections among injection drug users. http://phys.org/news185724235.html Medicine & Health Thu, 18 Feb 2010 14:30:02 EST news185724235 Circumcising newborn boys as a way to prevent HIV infection in later life is more cost-effective than circumcising adult males, finds a new Rwandan study in this week's PLoS Medicine. http://phys.org/news183130293.html Medicine & Health Tue, 19 Jan 2010 13:32:15 EST news183130293 A Ryerson University HIV researcher has found a link between social anxiety and unsafe sexual activities among gay and bisexual men, some of whom are HIV-positive. http://phys.org/news178904602.html Medicine & Health Tue, 01 Dec 2009 16:20:01 EST news178904602 A new, large-scale clinical trial is examining whether antiretroviral medications normally used to treat HIV infection can also prevent HIV infection in women when applied as a vaginal gel or taken as oral tablets once daily. http://phys.org/news172318077.html Medicine & Health Wed, 16 Sep 2009 11:08:29 EST news172318077 Circumcision of men with HIV does not reduce the risk of infection for women, according to a study published on Friday by The Lancet. http://phys.org/news167032148.html Medicine & Health Fri, 17 Jul 2009 06:50:53 EST news167032148 Three recent African trials support male circumcision for reducing the risk of contracting HIV in heterosexual men. After including new data from these trials in their review, Cochrane Researchers have changed their previous conclusions that there was insufficient evidence to recommend circumcision as an intervention to prevent HIV infection in heterosexual men. http://phys.org/news158992038.html Medicine & Health Wed, 15 Apr 2009 05:27:55 EST news158992038 Most parents hate text messaging. Adults find it annoying because teenagers text constantly - during dinner, in class, while they are doing homework, while the parent is trying to talk to them. Judith Cornelius, assistant professor of nursing at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, sees texting differently. She thinks that text messaging might, just might, be the way to get teenagers to really listen to vital information. http://phys.org/news158936038.html Medicine & Health Tue, 14 Apr 2009 13:54:36 EST news158936038