http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. Combination therapies for AIDS are becoming increasingly effective, but they cannot protect against other sexually transmitted illnesses. It is unsafe for patients taking antiretroviral drugs to stop using condoms. This is one of the findings of research conducted in the Swiss HIV Cohort Study, which is supported by the SNSF. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-caution-ever-improving-hiv-drugs.html HIV & AIDS Fri, 30 Nov 2012 10:34:27 EST news273494058 (AP)—Andrei Mandrykin, an inmate at Prison No. 85 outside Kiev, has HIV. He looks ghostly and much older than his 35 years. But Mandrykin is better off than tens of thousands of his countrymen, because is he receiving treatment amid what the World Health Organization says is the worst AIDS epidemic in Europe. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-ukraine-hiv-epidemic.html HIV & AIDS Fri, 30 Nov 2012 06:55:43 EST news273480932 Chile will soon cover sex change surgeries under its public health plan in order to allow citizens of limited means to "recover their true sexual identity," Health Minister Jaime Manalich said. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-05-chile-sex.html Other Fri, 25 May 2012 08:00:01 EST news257150859 Russia in 2011 saw a rise of five percent in the number of new HIV infections to 62,000 cases amid worrying signs that heterosexuals and women are increasingly at risk, its chief doctor said Monday. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-03-russia-hiv-infections.html HIV & AIDS Mon, 12 Mar 2012 13:46:20 EST news250778774 Brazil said Monday its AIDS epidemic was under control, with a 0.61 percent cut in new cases between 2009 and 2010, although a rise among young homosexuals was a cause for concern. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-11-brazil-aids.html HIV & AIDS Tue, 29 Nov 2011 02:20:01 EST news241755032 About 7,000 people are being infected with AIDS each day and about half of the 33 million people with HIV do not know they have it, according to a UN report released to mark the disease's 30th anniversary. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-06-people-day-aids.html HIV & AIDS Fri, 03 Jun 2011 14:10:03 EST news226326880