AIDS Alert Archives – October 1, 2010
October 1, 2010
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Poverty — not race — driving HIV epidemics in urban communities
Perhaps the most surprising news in the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC's) recent report linking poverty to a generalized HIV epidemic in urban communities across the United States was that race played far less of a role than many people would imagine. The biggest factor was poverty in an urban community. -
DC group reaching teens on HIV prevention
Metro TeenAIDS of Washington, DC, works to reduce HIV risk among youth in a city that is among the hardest hit areas of the country in terms of the HIV epidemic. -
Clinic interventions help reduce risk in MSM
A recent study has found that men who have sex with men (MSM) will reduce their risk-taking behavior when they're given brief prevention education at their regular HIV clinic visits. -
Behavioral assessment and risk reduction planner
Researchers have found that this simple three-to-five minute behavioral assessment screener with discussion prompts and a risk reduction plan for providers can help reduce risk behaviors among HIV patients. -
Promoting safe sex in African-American couples
Despite the HIV epidemic's impact on poor, urban African Americans nationwide, there have been few prevention interventions targeting this population specifically. -
An HIV prevention advance for women
The search for a female-controlled form of HIV prevention just took a giant step. Results of a Phase IIB trial of a tenofovir gel indicate that use of the gel before and after sex provided moderate protection against sexually transmitted HIV. -
New research boosts HIV vaccine quest
Scientists have discovered two potent human antibodies that can neutralize more than 90% of known global HIV strains from infecting human cells in the laboratory, and they have demonstrated how one of these disease-fighting proteins achieves this action. -
CDC ponders HIV future scenarios
The U.S. HIV epidemic has claimed more than 575,000 lives, and 56,300 Americans were newly infected with HIV in 2006.