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Africa: Why Young Women Lie About Sex
What'sUpHIV, 30 October 2014
Wednesday was the day we were finally going to be seen and heard: the day that young women from Burundi, South Africa Uganda and Kenya were going to make it all about us. Read more »
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Africa: HIV Self-Test Kit Coming Soon
What'sUpHIV, 30 October 2014
If you like movies at all, by now you will have seen - many times - the scene in romantic comedies in which a woman walks into her bathroom to perform a simple test which will tell… Read more »
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Africa: Ebola, HIV & Ethics
What'sUpHIV, 30 October 2014
Suppose that a research team of scientists came up with an AIDS vaccine that was 50% effective. What would you recommend that they do with it? Read more »
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Africa: Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis for a New Era
What'sUpHIV, 29 October 2014
It was an exciting morning for pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) using daily oral TDF/FTC (brand-name Truvada). In the morning plenary session, Chris Beyrer, of Johns Hopkins… Read more »
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Africa: The Way We Were - and the Way We Should Be
What'sUpHIV, 29 October 2014
This blog reads best with a Gladys Knight and the Pips singing "The Way We Were" in the background. Read more »
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South Africa: Sex Workers - the Struggle Continues
What'sUpHIV, 29 October 2014
Particularly in South Africa were sex work hasn't been legalised, sex workers are at risk of contracting the virus every day and those who have contracted it struggle to access… Read more »
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Africa: Young Women Influence HIV Agenda
What'sUpHIV, 29 October 2014
In a session on Reproductive hormones and HIV risks, the data showed the need for the ECHO trial, which is a proposed trial that would evaluate three different contraceptive… Read more »
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Africa: The Inaugural Desmond Tutu Award Goes to... Archbishop Desmond Tutu
What'sUpHIV, 29 October 2014
The inaugural Desmond Tutu Award for HIV Prevention Research and Human Rights has been awarded - to Archbishop Desmond Tutu. Read more »
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South Africa: Leading From the Front, Finally
What'sUpHIV, 29 October 2014
Attending the opening plenary session of this conference, I listened to the South African Minister of Science and Technology, Naledi Pandor MP, talk about on-going efforts by her… Read more »
Why Young Women Lie About Sex
The HIV Research for Prevention 2014 conference taking place in Cape Town, South Africa is "the first global scientific meeting focused exclusively on the challenging and rapidly evolving field of biomedical HIV prevention research".
InFocus
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Researchers are still at a loss when it comes to what appears to be some level of protection from HIV infection observed in sex workers, writes Wycliffe Muga at the HIV Research ... Read more »
