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Looking where you should't or wouldn't, peripheries reports on Science, health and society issues with a particular interest in HIV, AIDS and and Asia.
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HIV Prevention Clinical Trials: Size Matters
In February 2009 the Microbicide Trial Network (MTN) announced the main finding of its Phase II/IIb Safety and Effectiveness Study of the Vaginal Microbicides 0.5% PRO 2000 Gel for the Prevention of HIV Infection in Women (a.k.a HPTN 035). This study...
DART Study: Saving money on lab tests can help providing ART
The largest clinical trial of anti-retroviral therapy (ART) for people with HIV infection ever run in Africa has found that regular laboratory tests offer little additional clinical benefit to populations when compared to careful clinical monitoring....
World Aids Day 2009: The Return of the Condom
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Condoms: Can technology succeed where education has failed?
Mates® is now manufacturing and merchandising a new type of condom, “thinner, softer and much more flexible”. The objective is to make wearing condom as if wearing nothing. Made with Sensoprene (aka polyisoprene), Mates® claims that usi...
INTERMEZZO: a short guide to HIV/AIDS slang
IRIN/PlusNews has compiled a short list of the ways people refer to HIV/AIDS on the African continent. Angola (Portuguese) Pisar na mina – Contracting HIV is like having “stepped on a landmine” Bichinho - “Little bug” (...
Belle de Jour comes out as beauty and brains
After years of mystery, the blogger behind the “Diary of a London Call Girl”, later adapted on TV as “The Secret Diary of a Call Girl” with Billie Piper in the title role, came out today as a young woman with a PhD in informatics, epidemiolog...
