Contraceptive injections do not increase risk of contracting HIV, study finds
by Sarah Boseley Health editor from Science | The Guardian on (#4H3RN)
Research also finds scale of crisis among African women higher than expected
A landmark study has ended 30 years of anxiety that hormonal contraceptive injections may increase women's chances of infection from HIV.
But the study found a dramatically higher rate of HIV infection among women in southern Africa than was expected, which one leading campaigning organisation said signified a public health crisis".
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