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Saturday, 24 March 2012
Prevention

Time to get beyond the sex act: Reflections on three decades of AIDS reductionism

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Alison Katz debunks the thinking, widely prevalent, that individual behaviour, particularly sexual behaviour, is the main explanatory model for understanding the epidemiology of HIV infection and its spread. Instead we should be looking at poverty as a determining factor of extreme susceptibility and infectiousness

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Time for action towards universal access to prevention, treatment, care and support

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A group of independent experts advising UNAIDS on HIV and human rights, responds to a much-discussed article in The Lancet that advocates universal voluntary HIV testing and immediate antiretroviral therapy to eliminate HIV transmission

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HIV and the health professions: universal precautions are required

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Protection of health personnel and patients from HIV transmission is difficult in a healthcare setting in which nurses may be permitted only two pairs of gloves a day and needles are reused after a perfunctory wash. The answer is not special precautions for HIV-positive patients, but universal precautions for all health workers who come into contact with blood and body fluids, says Sandhya Srinivasan

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HIV transmission from blood exposure: Serious risk

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We know that HIV is transmitted through unsafe sex and contaminated blood. In fact, the virus transmits many hundreds times faster through the blood than through heterosexual coitus. Why then does the 'sex route' dominate our policies and work, and the 'blood route' remain mostly neglected, especially in a country where non-sterile healthcare is so common, ask Mariette Correa and David Gisselquist

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20 years on, a reality check on HIV messaging

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Why is AIDS awareness so limited, despite 20 years of national and international efforts? Is it time to devise more creative and innovative measures, such as having one health worker in each primary health centre dedicated to spreading awareness on HIV/AIDS? Bharathi Ghanashyam checks out the level of information among a cross section of people in Karnataka

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Prevention in high-risk groups

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It is possible to prevent or lessen the risk of HIV infection even in high risk groups. Mariette Correa describes the practices that can reduce one’s risk of HIV infection

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