A new study at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health in Ontario, Canada, confirms drinking too much alcohol can lead to unsafe sex.
The more alcohol the participants drank, the more willing they were to engage in unsafe sex, the study authors said. Alcohol use has long been associated with HIV incidence. However, it hasn’t […]

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Researchers at Moffitt Cancer Center in Tampa, Fla., say early circumcision in males may be a positive step in slowing the spread of both HIV and the human papillomavirus (HPV) In South Africa.
They also concluded male circumcision is important for reduction of not only HIV infection but also HPV infection in HIV-negative men and their […]

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A new study at Northwestern University in Chicago finds methamphetamine abuse by young adult gay and bisexual males raises their risk of HIV exposure and infection.
Prior research has suggested that up to 43 percent of gay or bisexual males age 18 or older have used methamphetamine, which increases the likelihood of sexual behaviors that boost […]

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An international study led at the University of North Carolina shows that among Kenyan men, circumcision is associated with a lower prevalence of human papillomavirus-associated precancerous lesions of the penis.
Human papillomavirus - HPV - is a sexually transmitted virus that plays an important role in genital cancers in men and women, including cancers of the […]

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Three years after the start of the male circumcision roll-out in the South African township of Orange Farm (110 000 adults), a study conducted at University of Versailles has concluded that circumcision has led to a reduction in HIV prevalence and incidence.
The findings demonstrate for the first time that male circumcision roll-out is effective at community level […]

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A new study on HIV transmission in Australia reveals an alarming culture shift in which younger gay men appear more willing to take sexual risks and so become infected with the virus earlier. When comparing older men who have sex with men (MSM) with those aged under 35, the younger ones were found to be […]

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According to recent reports from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), 1 in 5 sexually active gay and bisexual men in America are HIV-positive and 44% of them are unaware of it.
The CDC findings fall close to the third National Gay Men’s HIV/AIDS Awareness Day being observed Monday, September tha 27th.

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According to a new study St Vincent’s Hospital Alcohol and Drug Service, Australia, male circumcision can be seen as a “surgical vaccine” in the fight against heterosexual HIV transmission and against a wide variety of infections and adverse medical conditions over a lifetime.
Study authors explained that a wealth of research has shown that the foreskin […]

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Scientists from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have found HIV-1 in semen is different than HIV-1 in blood, possibly due to changes it undergoes in the genital tract.
They found two mechanisms that significantly altered the virus population in the semen, showing that virus can grow in the seminal tract in two different […]

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Researchers at University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health report at the XVIII International AIDS Conference, that most older gay and bisexual men enrolled in a long-term study of HIV used recreational drugs infrequently over a 10-year period.
Previous studies have linked drug use in gay men to risky sexual behaviors and to higher rates […]

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