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[From aidsmap, July 20, 2015] In addition to recommending that routine HIV testing in medical settings be expanded to reach new groups of patients, the World Health Organization’s new guidance on HIV testing also recommends the delivery of HIV testing by non-medical ‘lay providers’, often in community settings. The guidance urges planners to make careful, […]

[From The Vancouver Sun, July 7, 2015] VICTORIA — At risk boys and young men may soon get the HPV vaccine for free, the government announced Tuesday. The Ministry of Health said it is extending the publicly funded HPV vaccination program — already provided to girls — to gay men or those who are involved

[From UAB News, June 17, 2015] Researchers at the University of Alabama at Birmingham continue efforts to find safe and effective HIV-prevention methods with a new study in female U.S. teens. HIV/AIDS is the leading cause of death worldwide for women ages 15-44 years, and young women ages 15-24 years are twice as likely to

[From ECDC, June 17, 2015] Many European countries have had specific prevention programmes for men who have sex with men (MSM) since the early years of the HIV epidemic. But sex between men is still the predominant mode of HIV transmission across the EU/EEA. In its new guidance HIV and STI prevention among men who

The CIHR Canadian HIV Trails Network in partnership with the International AIDS Society are hosting the 2nd International HIV/Viral Hepatitis Co-infection Meeting in Vancouver July 17th and 18th. This years meeting will set out a strategic research road-map in HIV and HBV/HCV co-infection and attempt to address the significant gap in our current understanding and