Many HIV-positive people’s understanding of the law on HIV transmission is “weak and patchy”
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Many people living with HIV in England have a limited
understanding of the law which leaves them either at risk of prosecution for
HIV transmission or with an overestimation of their legal obligations,
according to a small qualitative study published online ahead of print in the Journal of Family Planning and Reproductive Health

US guidelines on prevention with people living with HIV now emphasise engagement with care, HIV treatment and social factors
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The American public health agency, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has published new recommendations on the HIV
prevention interventions and advice that should be offered to people who are
HIV positive.  The CDC last issued guidelines on what is sometimes called
‘prevention with positives’ in 2003. Those guidelines ran to

UK government halves the budget of HIV prevention programme for England
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The Department of Health’s funding for HIV Prevention
England, the national HIV prevention programme in England, will be cut by 50%
from April 2015. This will have a significant impact on local prevention and
testing services and on the dozens of organisations that act as local delivery
partners.NAT (National AIDS Trust) has described the

UK government halves the budget of HIV prevention programme for England
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The Department of Health’s funding for HIV Prevention
England, the national HIV prevention programme in England, will be cut by 50%
from April 2015. This will have a significant impact on local prevention and
testing services and on the dozens of organisations that act as local delivery
partners.NAT (National AIDS Trust) has described the

HIV most often passed on by younger gay men who have undiagnosed HIV, are not on treatment, and have an ongoing partnership
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A modelling study based on the UK’s HIV epidemic among gay
men estimates that two-thirds of infections originate in men with undiagnosed
HIV, 85% in men who are not taking treatment and 90% within the context of an
ongoing sexual partnership. Moreover, HIV transmissions most frequently involve
men under the age of 35 who

Safer injecting practices would be better promoted by focusing on pleasure and practical concerns – not the risk of infection
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Harm reduction interventions often fail to engage people who
inject drugs because they over-emphasise infection and risk, Magdalena Harris
of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine told the recent HIT Hot
Topics conference in Liverpool. Her interviewees frequently adopted safer
injecting practices, but were more motivated by a desire to have a

Safer injecting practices would be better promoted by focusing on pleasure and practical concerns – not the risk of infection
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Harm reduction interventions often fail to engage people who
inject drugs because they over-emphasise infection and risk, Magdalena Harris
of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine told the recent HIT Hot
Topics conference in Liverpool. Her interviewees frequently adopted safer
injecting practices, but were more motivated by a desire to have a

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