March 16, 2009

OPINION: Snipping away at HIV: male circumcision and HIV prevention

In this opinion piece Nathan Geffen and Paul Booth make the case for the male circumcision debate to put to rest and for the urgent development of an ethical national voluntary male medical circumcision policy.

Hope in attempts to find alternatives to ARV therapy as a prevention tool

A lecture given at the 16th Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI) held in Montreal, Canada, recently highlighted the extent to which Antiretroviral therapy (ARV) has become central to today's attempts to prevent HIV infection.

Sexual offence victims need immediate health care

Apart from the physical, psychological and emotional pain that comes with being raped, survivors still deal with being stigmatised and cast out of their families and communities. A report by MÃ©decins Sans FrontiÃ¨res (MSF) reveals that sexual abuse victims, especially in countries facing humanitarian crises, do not receive emergency medical attention.

OPINION: Snipping away at HIV: male circumcision and HIV prevention

Hope in attempts to find alternatives to ARV therapy as a prevention tool

Sexual offence victims need immediate health care

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