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Dan Kuritzkes, MD Rodger MacArthur,
MD Paul Sax,
MD Joe Eron, MD
Lillian Thiemann, HIV Community Representative
Recent News in HIV
updated 8/18/2008
Summary of this
week's selected articles
August 18, 2008
All this week’s selects come from
last week’s
XVII International AIDS Conference
(AIDS2008) in Mexico
City. Visionary Health Concepts is
one of only 100 HUBS or centers
around the globe selected by the
conference to make data available
for those not otherwise able to
attend an international conference.
“HUBs”.
In light of the
recent article from The New York
Timesabout
the dramatically underestimated
number of HIV cases in the US and
how HIV disproportionately affects
African Americans and
Men who have Sex with Men (MSM),
we will be focusing on the following
relevant research: HIV: (1) Researchers
conclude, “If
gay men experience erection loss
when they use condoms for insertive
anal sex, they are both less likely
to use condoms over the following
six months, and less likely to
intendto
use
condoms.
So called COINED - COndom INduced
Erectile Dysfunction – was such a
strong independent predictor of
subsequent premeditated, as opposed
to unpremeditated, unprotected sex
that it could be used as a
‘surrogate marker’ for it.
…Read more.
HIV: (2)
The
protective effect of circumcision
against HIV infection remains
unchanged for at least 42 months
after the operation, the lead
investigator from the randomised
controlled trial (RCT) in Kenya
stated. In an accompanying
presentation, one of the researchers
from another of the RCTs, added that
circumcision also offered a
significant degree of protection
against the genital wart virus HPV,
some forms of which can cause anal
and cervical cancer
…Read
more.HIV: (3) To the question, ‘Where
do we need to be by 2031?’, UNAIDS
executive director listed a number
of desirable developments: 1)
The
majority of individuals in
communities at risk, or in
generalised epidemics, need to know
their HIV status; 2) Drug
development needs to keep in step
with the global evolution of drug
resistance, and more durable and
better tolerated first and
second-line drugs will need to be
available to all who need them; 3)
Use of effective pre-exposure
prophylaxis with antiretroviral
drugs, and the appropriate
application of ART for prevention
purposes…Several doctors added that
“Given
that it is unlikely we will have the
logistical and financial
capacity to reach and treat everyone
for life who requires
treatment…there is a need to expand
research into how HIV infection
might
be eradicated – or at least
contained so that it does not
require lifelong treatment”
…Read more.
HIV in Other Countries: (4)
“The
largest study to date on ethnic
minority gay men and men who have
sex with men (MSM) in the UK has
found significant variations in
rates of HIV infection between
ethnic groups despite similar rates
of sexual risk behaviour
“…Read
more.
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AFRICAN AMERICANS.
Editor— Isis Chen Lan Lum
