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  1. Cost-Effectiveness of HIV Preexposure Prophylaxis for People Who Inject Drugs in the United States, Cora L. Bernard, MS et al., Annals of Internal Medicine (2016)

    Many trials have shown daily oral preexposure prophylaxis (PrEP) can prevent HIV transmission. PrEP treatment is expensive, however, costing $10,000 annually even without regular HIV screening and adverse effects assessment recommended by the CDC. This em ...

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  2. Changing Patterns of Diagnoses and Prevalence of HIV Infection Among Latinos Indicate Need for More Effective Prevention Intervention Strategies for Targeted Communities

    Latinos are disproportionately affected by HIV infection in the United States. The rate of HIV infection in 2013 was nearly three times that of non-Hispanic whites according to the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) published by the Centers for ...

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  3. An HIV Cure and Vaccine within the Next 15 Years?

    Early in 2015, Bill Gates expressed optimism that a vaccine and a cure for HIV would be developed within the next fifteen years. There are certainly grounds for such optimism, with a number of studies, spanning back to 2009, providing promising results. On ...

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  4. Southern HIV Infrastructure Study

    The Southern HIV/AIDS Strategy Initiative, a broad-based coalition of HIV/AIDS Advocates lead by the Duke AIDS Legal Project, has published an in depth analysis of the HIV/AIDS epidemic in a severely affected city in Louisiana. Released in April, 2014, the ...

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  5. Social Discrimination and Resiliency Are Not Associated with Differences in Prevalent HIV Infection in Black and White Men Who Have Sex with Men, John L. Peterson et al., Journal Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (2014)

    This study examined and sought to verify the possible association between social discrimination, resiliency, and HIV prevalence in black and white men who have sex with men (MSM). Specifically, the authors sought to determine whether experiences of perceiv ...

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  6. Likely Female-to-Female Sexual Transmission of HIV – Texas, 2012, Shirley K. Chan et al., Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) (2014)

    This report describes a case of HIV transmission likely by sexual contact between female partners. It describes the likely female-to-female transmission of HIV in a lesbian couple who had unprotected sex during a six-month monogamous relationship. ...

    admin - 10/22/2015 11:34am

  7. HIV/AIDS Policy Fact Sheet: Latinos and HIV/AIDS, The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation (2013)

    The Kaiser Family Foundation provides resources on national health issues. This fact sheet outlines the disparities in HIV infections among Latinos in the United States, particularly “Latino youth and gay and bisexual men,” as of 2010. Among other finding ...

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  8. HIV/AIDS Policy Fact Sheet: Latinos and HIV/AIDS, The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation (2013)

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  9. HIV and Viral Hepatitis Fact Sheet, Centers for Disease Control (March 2014)

    People with HIV are disproportionately affected by viral hepatitis, with about a 25% coinfection rate with hepatitis C virus (HCV) and a 10% coinfection rate with hepatitis B virus (HBV). This CDC HIV and Viral Hepatitis fact sheet provides an overview of ...

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  10. Letter – The Trouble with MSM, Shivananda Khan and Omar A. Kahn, American Journal of Public Health, 2006

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