AIDS Alert Archives – October 1, 2003
October 1, 2003
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The Internet’s role as modern bathhouse is being scrubbed
Nearly as quickly as 21st century technology is creating a new problem in the HIV/AIDS epidemic, the same technology offers a solution. -
Interventions can ease dangers of cybersex
Successful Internet prevention programs need to reach the population most at risk for HIV and which uses the Internet as a major avenue for meeting anonymous sexual partners. -
Rapid HIV test yields counseling, referrals
Recent studies of the rapid HIV tests use among at-risk populations show that the test can be a valuable tool when combined with counseling in intervention programs because the percentage of people who stay to receive their test results is very high. -
Study: Condoms in school do not promote sex
A recent study of student behavior in high schools where condoms are available suggests that the mere fact of having condoms in schools does not increase sexual behavior among students.1 -
Rapid tests could mean trouble for ADAPS
As if AIDS Drug Assistance Program (ADAP) directors and other people monitoring the costs of providing HIV drugs to the uninsured werent worried enough, they have a new potential problem to discuss: How would t he states and ADAP programs handle a large influx of new HIV and AIDS patients if the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) succeeds in significantly increasing HIV testing rates? -
NRTI Emtriva receives FDA approval
The Food and Drug Administration has approved Emtriva (FTC, emtricitabine), a new nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitor (NRTI) to be used in combination with other antiretroviral agents. -
New skills required to operate in the world of cybersex
Research and data presented at the 2003 National HIV Prevention Conference, held July 27-30, 2003, in Atlanta suggest that community-based organizations (CBOs); health care, treatment, and prevention clinics; and other public health organizations might need to consider initiating outreach programs to reach men who have sex with men (MSM) who use the Internet as a venue for meeting anonymous sexual partners.