Mathematical modelling suggests that HIV incidence could be halved if circumcision were adopted in developing countries, however the impact would not be fully felt for many decades.

The President of the Swiss Federal AIDS Commission, which produced the controversial statement on the effect of treatment of HIV transmission earlier this year, made some qualifications to the statement on a panel of experts at the International AIDS Conference in Mexico City.

There will be no simple solution to the HIV/AIDS crisis, delegates to the 17th International AIDS Society World AIDS Conference have been told.

"Criminalisation is not and has never been an effective public health response to HIV prevention," says a statement endorsed by NAPWA and other Australian community secor organisations.

Researchers at the University of Pittsburgh will commence a clinical trial on a vaginal microbicide incorporating the antiretroviral drug tenofovir in pregnant women.

Harvard Medical School researchers have identified a gene in Asian macaque monkeys may have evolved as protection against a group of viruses that includes HIV, suggesting that the current AIDS epidemic is not unique to humans and that similar epidemics may have affected our primate ancestors.

A new survey for gay, bisexual or same-sex- attracted men is now underway and inviting participants to join the online study and provide information which is investigating how internet use relates to different aspects of men's social and sexual lives.

Is it acceptable to say that, in some situations, it is OK to look after your own interests when it comes to sex?

January and February this year were marked by a furore of sensationalist media about Hector Scott, a resident of the ACT who first appeared in the ACT Magistrates court charged with providing a commercial sexual service while knowing he was infected with a sexually transmitted disease (STD), and failing to register as a sex worker.

The announcement by a group of Swiss AIDS experts that people with undetectable viral load are sexually non-infectious needs to be treated with caution, writes Paul Kidd.