Tag Archives: MSM

#HIVBigIdea to end #AIDS

The day after the day HIV/AIDS is in the news. A collection of short messages sent as part of a big Tweetup to find a “Big Idea to end AIDS”.  The following messages have been organised in broad categories that often overlap. About the “Big

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PrEP and MSM: Ready for each other?

A survey conducted by SIGMA Research is the first to provide some insights into the prospective attitude of gay and bisexual men towards PrEP in England following the release of the iPrEX study in 2010. Knowledge of PrEP, its acceptability, dosage preference and potential effects

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Of course Africa is ready for PrEP!

Stella Nyanzi Whether or not Africa is ready for PrEP interests me because of several underlying assumptions in some of the answers about how we define Africa. Africa’s MSM, Africa’s people who engage in anal sex and Africa’s public health prevention campaigns have been desperately in need of new

PrEP: for whom are these pills?

The results of the iPrEX study announced in November 2010 have brought some hope back into the field of HIV prevention. The clinical trial,which investigated the effectiveness of Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis mostly amongst men who have sex with men (MSM), showed that daily dosing of the

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