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06/30/2018 / By Russel Davis

Contraceptive injection is a hormone cocktail that actually increases risk of HIV infection

An analysis published in the journal Endocrine Reviews, the flagship publication of the Endocrine Society, revealed that the contraceptive injection depot-medroxyprogesterone acetate (DMPA) may increase the risk of contracting human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) among women from sub-Saharan Africa and other high-risk regions. A team of researchers at the University of Cape Town in South Africa and the University of Alabama at Birmingham in the […]

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