http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. Cambodia is on track to become one of the few countries in the world to successfully reverse its HIV epidemic and may eliminate new infections by 2020, the World Health Organization said Friday. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-05-cambodia-hiv-infections.html HIV & AIDS Fri, 10 May 2013 07:34:46 EST news287390079 In Kenya, women face a cervical cancer mortality rate that is approximately 10 times as high as in the United States. A study by researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill suggests that training women to self-collect genital samples to test for human papillomavirus (HPV), the causative agent of cervical cancer, can increase the coverage rates of cervical cancer screening. Higher screening coverage helps increase rates of detection of cervical lesions and ultimately treatment of the disease. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-05-self-collection-samples-hpv-cervical-cancer.html Cancer Wed, 01 May 2013 15:24:56 EST news286640574 The results of two important studies have been published in the March issue of AIDS, the official journal of the International AIDS Society. One study notes that screening for HIV should be performed more frequently—up to every three months for the highest-risk patients, while low-risk groups to be tested every three years. A second study demonstrates a link between heavy drinking and risky behaviors for men who have sex with men (MSM). http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-03-aids-journal-publishes-important.html HIV & AIDS Mon, 04 Mar 2013 11:31:17 EST news281619065 Studies have found that conditional cash transfer programs, in which governments pay citizens if they consistently practice societally beneficial behaviors, have improved pediatric health care and education in Mexico, increased HIV testing in Malawi, and reduced sexually transmitted infections in Tanzania. Public health researchers therefore investigated whether the idea could be applied to HIV risk behaviors among gay men and male sex workers in Mexico City. A new study reports not only that some members of those populations would change behavior for conditional cash payments, but the exact prices they would accept. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-02-incentive-price-hiv-mexico.html HIV & AIDS Mon, 04 Feb 2013 11:31:28 EST news279199881 (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 Secretary of State Hillary Clinton unveiled Thursday an ambitious US blueprint on how to realize the dream of an AIDS-free generation, aiming to see virtually no babies born with HIV by 2015. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-unveils-road-aids-free.html HIV & AIDS Thu, 29 Nov 2012 11:52:19 EST news273412326 While it is commonly believed that men who pay for sex are attempting to avoid emotional commitment, a new study finds that men who become regular clients of sex workers often develop feelings of romance and love. This study is published in a recent edition of Men and Masculinities. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-08-clients-real-sex-workers.html Psychology & Psychiatry Wed, 08 Aug 2012 12:50:50 EST news263649041 Researchers from Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) in partnership with Indian researchers and HIV positive networks groups, have found that in India, non-disclosure of HIV serostatus to sex partners among both HIV-infected female sex workers (FSWs) and HIV-infected clients of FSWs is exceedingly common. These findings currently appear online in the journal AIDS and Behavior. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-07-non-disclosure-hiv-serostatus-common-india.html HIV & AIDS Mon, 23 Jul 2012 12:43:25 EST news262266143 People at high risk of HIV infection can reduce their risk of acquiring the disease by taking antiretroviral drugs, according to Cochrane researchers. In an update of a systematic review first published in 2009, the researchers found that uninfected people in relationships with HIV-infected partners, men who have sex with men and those in other high risk groups are at a lower risk of becoming infected with the virus if they regularly take drugs that are normally prescribed to treat people with HIV. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-07-drugs-hiv-infection.html HIV & AIDS Tue, 10 Jul 2012 19:00:02 EST news261160988 Safer indoor sex work spaces provide important and potentially life-saving benefits to sex workers including reduced exposure to violence and HIV and improved relationships with police, according to a study published by the Gender and Sexual Health Initiative of the BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS (BC-CfE) and the University of British Columbia (UBC). http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-05-safer-sex-spaces-violence-hiv.html Health Thu, 10 May 2012 10:26:21 EST news255863828 Female sex workers in low- and middle-income countries are nearly 14 times more likely to be infected by HIV compared to the rest of country's population, according to an analysis by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. The findings suggest an urgent need to scale up access to quality HIV prevention programs in these countries. The study was published online in The Lancet Infectious Diseases. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-03-countries-female-sex-workers-infected.html HIV & AIDS Wed, 14 Mar 2012 19:00:25 EST news250955267 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