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Mum-to-baby transmission rate now below one per cent

Herpes and STIs aid gay HIV transmission

Half of all HIV transmitted by people infected for less than a year

Fuzeon could prevent transmission to babies

Big herpes trial fails

Immune therapy produces long-term CD4 increases, few side effects

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More money in Scotland for sexual health

HIV positive journalist cleared of rape

Health & Social Care Bill ‘gives draconian powers’

Health insurance milestone

‘Wrong to blame immigrants for TB epidemic’

Heavy boozing and unsafe sex on the South Coast

THT offers grants to young leaders

Insurers still refusing people with HIV

Insurers Is gay wedding honeymoon over?

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UK promises more Aids funding

Thailand to keep generic HIV drugs scheme

Chinese activist faces subversion trial

‘Women of Africa bear the brunt of human rights abuses’

India & Saudi Arabia back HIV marriage tests

Eire lowers tax on condoms

Preparing for Mexico...

Zimbabwe facing HIV drug shortages

Homophobic mob abuse in Jamaica

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Parents and Children New DVD

Sexy star Dita Von Teese gets lippy and raises funds for HIV

Crusaid: Make sure you play your part in World Aids Day

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Hepatitis News

NHS “failing” patients who catch hepatitis C

“Healthcare providers are failing our patients. They are becoming infected with hepatitis C not once, but multiple times.”

Faster hep C damage in people who already have HIV

Hepatitis C infection causes liver damage five times faster if people catching it already have HIV, an American study suggests.

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NHS “failing” patients who catch hepatitis C

Faster hep C damage in people who already have HIV

Tenofovir works better for hep C patients

Continued interferon doesn’t help

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Abacavir implicated in heart attacks

Gay men with HIV have near-normal death rates

One shot a month – the next stage in HIV therapy?

Resistance rates tumble – but there may be more there than meets the eye

Does undetectable mean uninfectious?

Compiled by Gus Cairns

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Is it time to give up the search for an Aids vaccine?

New report on guidance for professionals on Asylum Seekers and HIV

Researchers developing breath test which could monitor adherence to treatment

Scotland takes action on sexual health

New ‘rough sex’ website for gay men launched

Nurse’s death prompts needle stick concerns

‘Hepatitis C linked to hard sex’

‘If you can’t get up, get down. If you can’t get down, get out!’

Manchester HIV prosecution dismissed but more on way

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Charity honours African community activists

Queen breaks HIV taboo in Uganda

HIV activists join the US election campaign trail

Elton & David ride to the rescue in Lesotho

‘Egypt is torturing people with HIV’

Stick to condom advice, say experts

European HIV cases ‘have doubled since 1999’

‘Kenyan civil war fuelling HIV crisis’

British man gets prison in Sweden for HIV transmission

Compiled by Martin Flynn

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