5th IAS Conference on HIV Pathogenesis, Treatment and Prevention (Cape Town, 2009)

MSM-related abstracts, by country:

Asia

• India: Involvement of vulnerable community of female sex workers, male sex with male and people living with HIV/AIDS for service delivery, protection, empowerment in Srikalahasti, Andhra Pradesh, India
  
• India: Qualitative assessment of HIV risks among MSM in South India
  
• India: Challenges in implementing targeted interventions (TIs) in female sex workers (FSW), men having sex with men (MSM) & transgender (TG) communities in Mumbai through community led structural interventions (CLSI) supported by Mumbai Districts AIDS Control
  

• Thailand: High HIV-1 genetic complexity in men who have sex with men (MSM) in Bangkok, Thailand
  

Eastern Europe and Central Asia

• Belarus: The risk factors of spreading of HIV-infections in correcting establishments of the Republic of Belarus
  
• European Union: The Everywhere Project: a methodological model of HIV prevention in men who have sex with men (MSM)
  
• European Union: Epidemiology of HIV infection and AIDS in migrant communities and in the European Union: feminisation of the epidemic in people from Sub-Saharan Africa
  
• Russian Federation: Problems of HIV prevention among homosexuals
  
• Ukraine: Multidisciplinary approach in functioning of mobile gynecological clinics providing HIV prevention services to representatives of groups, vulnerable to HIV, in Ukraine
  

Latin America

• Argentina: HIV incidence and molecular characterization of new diagnoses in Argentina - a Global Fund project
  
• Brazil: Recent trends in prevalence and incidence of HIV-1 infection in individuals seeking testing in the voluntary counseling and testing site of Nova Iguaçu city, Rio de Janeiro state, Brazil
  
• Brazil: Initial antiretroviral therapy (ART) in a 20-year observational cohort of patients followed at a reference center (São Paulo STD/AIDS reference center-CRT-DST/AIDS), in the city of São Paulo, Brazil, according to race/color
  
• Brazil: Risk factors of HIV and syphilis coinfection
  
• Chile: Identification and characterization of a new BF intersubtype circulating recombinant form (CRF44_BF) in Chile
  
• Ecuador / Peru: Feasibility, acceptability and willingness to participate in a male circumcision trial for the prevention of HIV acquisition in men who have sex with men in the Andes
  
• Ecuador / Peru: Generation of trust between study staff and trial participants enhances participants´ compliance to study procedures in a PrEP trial in the Andes
  
• Ecuador / Peru: Does knowledge mean effective prevention? The assessment of knowledge about HIV prevention and serostatus among Andean high risk men who have sex with men
  
• Honduras: Drug-resistance and BED assay testing in newly diagnosed HIV-1 individuals in Honduras to determine transmitted drug resistance in recent or established infections
  
• Peru: Sex and the Internet: an online survey among HIV-Positive men who have sex with men in Lima, Peru
  
• Peru: Sex and the River: HIV and other sexually transmitted infections in the Peruvian Amazon
  

North Africa and the Middle East

• Egypt: Programming with injecting drug users: a key entry point to other most-at-risk populations
  

• Turkey: Epidemiologic and clinical features of HIV/AIDS patients from a tertiary care centre in Turkey
  

North America, Western and Central Europe

• Canada: Eight years experience of prophylaxis after sexual exposure to HIV in Canada
  
• Canada: An investigation into the influences of sexual practices among HIV-positive individuals on HAART in Canada
  
• European Union: The Everywhere Project: a methodological model of HIV prevention in men who have sex with men (MSM)
  
• European Union: Epidemiology of HIV infection and AIDS in migrant communities and in the European Union: feminisation of the epidemic in people from Sub-Saharan Africa
  
• France: Factors associated with serosorting among HIV-positive MSM in France - results from the French VESPA ANRS study
  
• France: Post-exposure prophylaxis for preventing HIV during years 2007-2008 in an University Urban Hospital, in Paris, France
  
• Italy: Newly diagnosed HIV infection at reference centre of Northern Italy
  
• Italy: The circulation of non-B subtypes in HIV-1 positive patients in the Brescia province (Northern Italy)
  
• Italy: Syphilis infection does not have virological-immunological interferences with the course of HIV disease
  
• Lithuania: HIV infection incidence trends in Lithuania in 2004-2007
  
• Spain: 20 years of the HIV-2 registry in Spain
  
• Spain: Socio-demographic factors associated to lack of immunization against hepatitis B in the Cohort of the Spanish AIDS Research Network (CoRIS)
  
• United Kingdom: Expanding HIV testing in England: targeting high prevalence areas
  
• United States: Tenofovir DF/emtricitabine/raltegravir (TDF/FTC/RAL) appears safe and well-tolerated for non-occupational post-exposure prophylaxis (NPEP)
  
• United States: The application of existing and emerging testing technologies to more rapidly detect HIV infection among high-risk populations
  
• United States: Test and treat: strategies for both higher and lower resources settings
  
• United States: Persistent HIV-1 RNA shedding in semen of men on HAART is associated with high risk sexual behavior
  
• United States: Influence of potential symptoms and perceived efficacy on the willingness to use HIV Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) among Boston area men who have sex with men (MSM)
  
• United States: Evaluation of six years of statewide screening and testing for acute HIV infection in North Carolina
  
• United States: Seroprevalence of antibodies to HPV-16 and HPV-18, and correlation with the presence of HPV DNA and anorectal cytologic abnormalities in a cohort of HIV-positive men involved in a study of HIV-positive males receiving the quadrivalent HPV vaccine, Gardasi
  
• United States: Correlates of and reasons for and against disclosure of HIV status to sex partners
  

Oceania

• Australia: A composite transmission model to assess incident HIV-1 cases according to sexual behaviour, partner number and seminal plasma viral load
  
• Solomon Islands: HIV vulnerable groups research: the potential impact of an HIV epidemic could be devastating for the Solomon Islands
  

Sub-Saharan Africa

• Ghana: Effectiveness of national scale-up of HIV stigma and discrimination reduction in health facilities in Ghana
  
• Kenya: Identifying sexual health policy needs for men who have sexs with men (MSM) in access to quality HIV/AIDS care and prevention in Kenya
  
• Kenya: MSM sex workers maintain a high HIV-1 incidence over time in Mombasa, Kenya
  
• Liberia: HIV risk behaviors of men who have sex with men (MSM) in post-conflict Liberia
  
• Nigeria: Rates of bisexual concurrency, and bisexual practices among men who have sex with men (MSM) in Abuja, Nigeria
  
• Nigeria: Nigeria men's health network programme for the prevention of HIV and STIs among men who have sex with men (MSM)
  
• South Africa: Bisexual practices and bisexual concurrency and among men who have sex with men (MSM) in Peri-Urban Cape Town, South Africa
  
• South Africa: “If you talk about a window period of two weeks, it is worse”: HIV testing among men who have sex with men (MSM) in Johannesburg and Durban, South Africa
  
• South Africa: ´You become afraid to tell them that you are gay´: availability and utilisation of health services by men who have sex with men (MSM) in the Johannesburg/eThekwini Men's Study (JEMS)
  
• South Africa: A population based estimate of the number of MSM sex-workers in Inner City Johannesburg, South Africa: implications for HIV prevention
  
• South Africa: The implementation and operation of sexual health services for men who have sex with men in Cape Town
  
• South Africa: Lower risk of HIV infection among circumcised MSM: results from the Soweto Men's Study
  
• South Africa: A novel urban clinical service targeting men who have sex with men (MSM) - an initial audit of patterns of utilisation and disease burden
  
• Sudan: Generating strategic information and assessing HIV/AIDS knowledge, attitude and behavior and practices of HIV1 among MSM in Khartoum
  
• Tanzania: Predisposing sexual and drug related risk factors among prisoners in Zanzibar
  
• Zambia: Men who have sex with men (MSM) - a sidelined population in HIV/AIDS prevention programs in Zambia