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• SWAZILAND: Task-shifting could improve HIV treatment and prevention

  Posted: September 3rd, 2010, 10:33pm CDT

  Swaziland has yet to act on a 2006 World Health Organization recommendation to alleviate health worker shortages through task-shifting and according to the Ministry of Health, the failure to do so is compromising scale-up of the antiretroviral programme.

• H.I.V. Prevention Gel Hits Snag: Money

  Posted: September 3rd, 2010, 8:23pm CDT

  When scientists celebrated the announcement in July that a vaginal microbicide had finally been found that significantly reduced H.I.V. infections in women, there was still a prosaic - though essential - piece of the puzzle missing: money.

• AIDS walk for life on Sept. 19

  Posted: September 3rd, 2010, 4:13pm CDT

  A candlelit AIDS Walk for Life is set to run at Millennium Park on Sept. 19. The 19th annual fundraiser starts with registration at 6 p.m. and the walk begins at 7:15 p.m., states a release from the Peterborough AIDS Resource Network.

• Commitments To Global HIV/AIDS Programs Falter For 'First Time In 15 Years,' UNAIDS Chief Says

  Posted: September 3rd, 2010, 12:59pm CDT

  Main Category: HIV / AIDS Also Included In: Aid / Disasters Article Date: 03 Sep 2010 UNAIDS Executive Director Michel Sidibe "said Thursday that global contributions to fighting [HIV/AIDS] are dropping off for the first time in 15 years amid tough economic times," Agence France-Presse reports.

• US, India share best practices to combat HIV/AIDS in Africa

  Posted: September 3rd, 2010, 12:59pm CDT

  India and the United States joined forces to showcase the strengths of India's HIV/AIDS prevention and control program for a delegation from Ghana, a real-life example of the bilateral partnership on global issues.

• First Symptoms of HIV

  Posted: September 3rd, 2010, 12:59pm CDT

  The first symptoms of HIV looks more similar to that of other illnesses. This makes it difficult to diagnose it in the initial stages, hence it is extremely important to do an HIV test.

• Eight HIV/AIDS Treatment Patents Challenged

  Posted: September 3rd, 2010, 11:54am CDT

  Questionable drug patents that put lives at risk are finally starting to get more scrutiny.

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• Commitments To Global HIV/AIDS Programs Falter For 'First Time In 15 Years,' UNAIDS Chief Says

  Posted: September 3rd, 2010, 8:00am CDT

  UNAIDS Executive Director Michel Sidibe "said Thursday that global contributions to fighting [HIV/AIDS] are dropping off for the first time in 15 years amid tough economic times," Agence France-Presse reports. "The world economic recession is pushing countries ...

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• Researchers find role of Vpr protein in HIV infection

  Posted: September 3rd, 2010, 7:48am CDT

  Dr. Eric A. Cohen, Director of the Human Retrovirology research unit at the Institut de recherches cliniques de Montreal , and his team published yesterday, in the online open-access journal PLos Pathogens , the results of their most recent research on the role of the Vpr protein in HIV infection and AIDS .

• Reverend: Jesus had HIV

  Posted: September 3rd, 2010, 6:48am CDT

  A churchman in Cape Town has angered Christians in his community by preaching that Jesus Christ was HIV-positive, South Africa's Mail & Guardian newspaper reports.

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• Are HERVs An Answer To AIDS Mysteries?

  Posted: September 3rd, 2010, 6:00am CDT

  Why is it so hard to isolate and purify human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)? Why has no one been able to see, by electron microscopy, a single HIV particle in the blood of AIDS patients, even those who have a "high viral load"? Why does HIV seem to mutate with startling rapidity? AIDS researchers have not been able to come up with answers to these questions...

• Research At GHESKIO Leads To Update In WHO Guidelines For HIV Treatment

  Posted: September 3rd, 2010, 6:00am CDT

  Prompted by clinical research into the early initiation of antiretroviral therapies for HIV performed at the GHESKIO clinic in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, the World Health Organization (WHO) has revised its treatment protocols for HIV patients...

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• Unprotected sex: HIV accused wants to leave

  Posted: September 3rd, 2010, 2:43am CDT

  Defendant John Choul Chan at the Adelaide Magistrates Court who is charged with deliberately attempting to infect 5 women with HIV.

• Ryan White program launches campaign to promote free HIV/AIDS support services

  Posted: September 3rd, 2010, 1:38am CDT

  The Shelby County Ryan White Program, which provides free primary medical and support services to people living with HIV/AIDS in Shelby and surrounding counties, has launched a new campaign to raise awareness about the program in the Memphis area and to promote treatment.

• Vitamin Supplements May Increase Amount of HIV in Breast Milk and Raise Risk of Breast Infection

  Posted: September 2nd, 2010, 9:19pm CDT

  SUMMARY: Use of certain vitamin supplements may increase the risk of mother-to-child HIV transmission during breast-feeding, according to 2 recently published studies.

• Pepsi challenge: HIV/AIDS activists compete for $50,000

  Posted: September 2nd, 2010, 6:02pm CDT

  Married HIV/AIDS activists Shawn Decker and Gwenn Barringer are hoping to win a Pepsi sponsored $50,000 grant to take their safe sex presentation on the road to 50,000 teens in all 50 states.

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• Cheap And Accurate Tuberculosis Test Gives Results In Under Two Hours

  Posted: September 2nd, 2010, 6:00pm CDT

  A tuberculosis test, called Xpert® MTB/RIF, can successfully identify 98% of all culture-confirmed TB cases, including more than 90% of those with smear-negative disease, a study published in NEJM (New England Journal of Medicine) reveals...

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• Jamaica: Not positive on HIV

  Posted: September 2nd, 2010, 1:43pm CDT

  AIDS in Jamaica looks very similar to AIDS in America. On Monday evening, The Pulitzer Center and St.Thomas Parish in northwest DC presented five brief documentaries entitled The Glass Closet: Homophobia, Violence, and the Spread of HIV in Jamaica .

• Patent pooling deal to reduce costs of AIDS drugs

  Posted: September 2nd, 2010, 9:34am CDT

  Antiretroviral drugs are pictured in a file photo. The international health funding agency UNITAID has approved a plan to make treatment for AIDS more widely available in poor countries by pooling patents for drugs, the French-sponsored initiative says.

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• Also In Global Health News: China's First HIV Discrimination Case; Congo Mass Rape; S. Sudan Flooding; Kenya's Population Growth; Family Planning

  Posted: September 2nd, 2010, 7:00am CDT

  Court Accepts China's First HIV Discrimination Case, State Media Reports "A municipal court in central China has accepted the country's first lawsuit alleging work discrimination because of HIV status, state media reported Tuesday," the Associated Press reports (8/31)...

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• The Richmond/Ermet AIDS Foundation (REAF) presents a special One Night Only Cabaret

  Posted: September 2nd, 2010, 5:19am CDT

  Cast members from the touring cast of the hit Broadway musical DREAMGIRLS plus special guest stars SHERYL LEE RALPH, jazz star TIM HOCKENBERRY, cabaret star JASON BROCK and SYESHA MERCARDO from American Idol are joining together to present a one-time, one-night only benefit to raise funds for The Richmond/Ermet AIDS Foundation and Broadway ...

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• Revaccination Could Benefit HIV-Infected Children

  Posted: September 2nd, 2010, 2:00am CDT

  HIV-infected children receiving highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) may require revaccination to maintain immunity against preventable diseases. There remains no standard or official recommendation on revaccination of children receiving HAART, an effective intervention in reducing morbidity and mortality in HIV-infected children...

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• Routine HIV Testing

  Posted: September 2nd, 2010, 1:04am CDT

  There are more than 107,000 people in New York City living with HIV/AIDS, and thousands more don't know their status.

• Out Impact Professional Series: Conscious, AIDS Activist, Fearless Performer

  Posted: September 1st, 2010, 8:50pm CDT

  Play Now Play in Popup Our latest in the Out Impact Professional Series is featuring Conscious , an acclaimed speaker, HIV/AIDS activist, author, and performer.A Conscious is the former manager of The Queen Latifah Show , and a former host and producer of Oprah Winfrey's Oxygen Mediaa s talk show, She-Commerce . A passionate, leading HIV/AIDSA ...

• 2 hrs. ago - HIV discrimination case settled

  Posted: September 1st, 2010, 8:50pm CDT

  A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit that accused a North Little Rock retirement community of violating civil rights laws by evicting a resident because he was HIV-positive, after a settlement was reached in the case.

• Latino Aids Dance Benefit Concert

  Posted: September 1st, 2010, 5:45pm CDT

  Sep. 01, 2010-- Baila Society, a leading New York Salsa dance company, announced today their fall dance showcase "Bailando Por Una Causa": A Night of Dancing to Benefit the Latino Commission on AIDS.

• Revaccination could benefit HIV-infected children

  Posted: September 1st, 2010, 4:40pm CDT

  There remains no standard or official recommendation on revaccination of children receiving HAART, an effective intervention in reducing morbidity and mortality in HIV-infected children.

• Sharp drop in U.S. circumcisions

  Posted: September 1st, 2010, 3:35pm CDT

  Decline seen despite worldwide campaign. Roni Caryn Rabin New York Times September 1, 2010 sns-health-men-circumcisions-decrease Despite a worldwide campaign for circumcision to slow the spread of AIDS, the rate of circumcision among U.S. baby boys appears to be declining.

• Gay Navajo man poised to join Ariz. Senate

  Posted: September 1st, 2010, 11:21am CDT

  Former Arizona Rep. Jack Jackson, Jr., is poised to join the state Senate after he defeated his two primary opponents on Aug.

• Reginan heading off to Kenya to help with HIV/AIDS programming

  Posted: September 1st, 2010, 7:16am CDT

  REGINA a ' Jaime McGrane is hoping to learn Swahili - and much more - during her six-month internship in Bungoma, Kenya.

Medical News Today - HIV/AIDS News

• After Needle Accidents, Hospitals Face Legal Dilemma If They Test Incapacitated Patients

  Posted: September 1st, 2010, 7:00am CDT

  Anaesthetists are calling for greater clarity on the legal implications of testing incapacitated patients for blood-borne viruses, after a survey found that this is often done following staff needlestick injuries, in possible breach of UK legislation...

• U.N. Secretary-General, UNAIDS Executive Director Highlight Role NGOs Can Play In Achieving MDGs

  Posted: September 1st, 2010, 6:00am CDT

  During the 63rd U.N. Department of Public Information/NGO Conference on Monday in Melbourne, Australia, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon "call[ed] on delegates to do more to save the lives of mothers and babies," the Australian Associated Press/Sydney Morning Herald reports (Alexander/Rose, 8/30)...

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• Govts urged to redouble poverty efforts

  Posted: September 1st, 2010, 3:10am CDT

  A gathering of the world's aid and charity groups in Melbourne has called on governments to redouble their efforts to the "poorest and least politically powerful people", and replenish the $US20 billion fund required to do so.

• One in 100 in PNG is living with HIV, says UN

  Posted: August 31st, 2010, 11:01pm CDT

  NEARLY ONE PERCENT of the adult population in PNG is living with HIV, according to new estimates from the Department of Health and the AIDS Council Secretariat.

• HK reports 105 HIV cases in second quarter

  Posted: August 31st, 2010, 6:56pm CDT

  Hong Kong's Department of Health Tuesday announced that 105 cases of Human Immunodeficiency Virus infection were recorded in the second quarter of 2010 in the city.

• UGANDA: HIV superinfection spreading in fishing communities

  Posted: August 31st, 2010, 5:56pm CDT

  A study of HIV-positive people in fishing communities on the shores of Lake Victoria in central Uganda has found that more than a quarter have "superinfections" that threaten both treatment and prevention efforts.

• Chinese Court Will Hear HIV Case

  Posted: August 31st, 2010, 3:46pm CDT

  A Chinese court will hear a discrimination case brought by a man who claimed he was fired from his job because he is HIV-positive - likely a first-of-its-kind lawsuit in the country.

• Elton John AIDS Foundation To Honor Tamara Mellon

  Posted: August 31st, 2010, 3:46pm CDT

  Tamara Mellon at the 18th Annual Elton John AIDS Foundation Academy Award party on March 7, 2010 in West Hollywood, California.

• Award for life-saver doctor

  Posted: August 31st, 2010, 12:42pm CDT

  A KwaZulu-Natal doctor who has reduced HIV transmission rates in new-born babies by almost 70% and spearheaded a successful circumcision drive has scooped the Rural Doctor of the Year award.

• More needs to be done to end HIV/AIDS stigma

  Posted: August 31st, 2010, 8:22am CDT

  THE sad story of a young HIV-positive mother's experience, as related by her mother in our AllWoman publication yesterday, is proof that there still exists a fair degree of ignorance about HIV/AIDS in the country.

Medical News Today - HIV/AIDS News

• U.N.-NGO Conference On MDGs Kicks Off In Australia

  Posted: August 31st, 2010, 5:00am CDT

  Ahead of next month's U.N. Summit in New York, a joint U.N.-NGO conference tracking the world's progress toward reaching the U.N. Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) kicked off in Melbourne, Australia, on Monday, ABC News reports (8/30)...

• Also In Global Health News: GM Mosquitoes; Iodine Deficiency In Nepal; South African Health Workers Strike; Novartis To Build Vaccine Plant In Brazil;

  Posted: August 31st, 2010, 5:00am CDT

  Malaysia Considers GM Mosquito Release To Control Dengue Fever Malaysia is still "considering releasing" up to 3,000 mosquitoes that are genetically modified to "combat dengue fever, in a landmark field trial that has come in for criticism from environmentalists," Agence France-Presse reports...

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• Vanuatu's first HIV patient speaks out

  Posted: August 31st, 2010, 4:17am CDT

  When Irene Malachi became the first person in Vanuatu to be diagnosed with HIV, people spat on her on the street.

• Validity Of Patents On HIV/AIDS Treatment Challenged

  Posted: August 31st, 2010, 3:18am CDT

  The Relationship Between IP, Technology Transfer, and Development An analysis of practices and policies involving intellectual property, technology transfer and development shows the difficulties of achieving a positive correlation between those areas.

• Job seeker files case on HIV discrimination

  Posted: August 30th, 2010, 11:13pm CDT

  A court in Anhui province said on Monday that it accepted a case filed by a college graduate who had been denied a teaching job because he was HIV positive.

• Senator visits Edmond Rotary

  Posted: August 30th, 2010, 10:13pm CDT

  Edmond Rotary Club will feature Sen. Tom Coburn Wednesday at its regular weekly meeting.

• Number of deaths due to AIDS has dropped

  Posted: August 30th, 2010, 6:07pm CDT

  BACHOK: The number of deaths due to Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome has dropped from 900 in 2008 to 805 last year said Malaysian AIDS Council president Datuk Mohd Zaman Khan.

• HIV virus may hide in brain

  Posted: August 30th, 2010, 1:53pm CDT

  The brain can be a convenient hiding place for HIV, the virus that causes AIDS. That's the finding of Swedish researchers who analyzed samples from about 70 HIV-infected patients who'd been taking anti-HIV drugs.

• South African Strike Puts Thousands of HIV-Infected Patients at Risk

  Posted: August 30th, 2010, 12:48pm CDT

  Health experts in South Africa say many HIV-positive people in the country could get very sick and even die as a result of the strike by 1.3 million public service workers, including state nurses and pharmacists.

• Southern Africa: More sterilizations of HIV-positive women uncovered

  Posted: August 30th, 2010, 10:48am CDT

  Veronica* did not realize she had been sterilized while giving birth to her daughter until four years later when, after failing to conceive, she and her boyfriend consulted a doctor.

• FDA to alter rules for cancer drug cocktails

  Posted: August 30th, 2010, 6:38am CDT

  Joseph Jimenez is CEO of Novartis, which is testing experimental drugs with GlaxoSmithKline.

Medical News Today - HIV/AIDS News

• Recent Releases In Global Health

  Posted: August 30th, 2010, 5:00am CDT

  Lancet Infectious Diseases Reflects On TB Diagnosis In Children "[N]ew diagnostic techniques [for tuberculosis] need to be studied in children," according to a Lancet Infectious Diseases Reflection...

• Elsevier And KIT Sign MoU To Provide ScienceDirect And Scopus To 150 Developing Country Researchers

  Posted: August 30th, 2010, 5:00am CDT

  Elsevier and the Royal Tropical Institute (KIT) in Amsterdam announced on 26th of August the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) providing 150 researchers working in least-developed and low-income countries (for example Benin, Mozambique, Ethiopia, Togo etc...

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• Ban Ki-Moon addresses Melbourne summit

  Posted: August 30th, 2010, 2:28am CDT

  UNITED Nations chief Ban Ki-moon has called on a Melbourne conference to do more to "keep the promise" of saving the lives of women and children.

• Ban Ki-Moon addresses Melbourne summit

  Posted: August 30th, 2010, 2:28am CDT

  UNITED Nations chief Ban Ki-moon has called on a Melbourne conference to do more to "keep the promise" of saving the lives of women and children.

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• HIV Virus May Hide in Brain

  Posted: August 30th, 2010, 2:00am CDT

  Title: HIV Virus May Hide in Brain
  Category: Health News
  Created: 8/27/2010 4:10:00 PM
  Last Editorial Review: 8/30/2010

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• The 2010 Louisville AIDS walk

  Posted: August 29th, 2010, 10:14pm CDT

  The 2010 Louisville AIDS walk will be September 26, 2010 at 1:00 P.M. at the Belvedere.A The 5K run will start at 2:00 PM.A There is no cost to participate.A Individuals and groups will be responsible for securing monetary pledges.A This is the largest AIDS fundraiser for the state of Kentucky.A For more information or to volunteer, please call ...

• The 2010 Louisville AIDS walk

  Posted: August 29th, 2010, 10:14pm CDT

  The 2010 Louisville AIDS walk will be September 26, 2010 at 1:00 P.M. at the Belvedere.A The 5K run will start at 2:00 PM.A There is no cost to participate.A Individuals and groups will be responsible for securing monetary pledges.A This is the largest AIDS fundraiser for the state of Kentucky.A For more information or to volunteer, please call ...

• UAB collaborative research closes in on cure for HIV/AIDS

  Posted: August 29th, 2010, 5:54pm CDT

  Researchers at the Departments of Medicine and Microbiology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, and a host of other schools published research at the Public Library of Science on August 27, 2010, that defines a potential path to a cure for HIV/AIDS. Background from the research introduction indicates: HIV-1 emergence into the human population ...

• UAB collaborative research closes in on cure for HIV/AIDS

  Posted: August 29th, 2010, 5:54pm CDT

  Researchers at the Departments of Medicine and Microbiology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, and a host of other schools published research at the Public Library of Science on August 27, 2010, that defines a potential path to a cure for HIV/AIDS. Background from the research introduction indicates: HIV-1 emergence into the human population ...

• Zambia: Task Force on HIV/Aids Includes Traditional Healers

  Posted: August 29th, 2010, 1:50pm CDT

  THE inclusion of traditional healers in the Copperbelt Province AIDS Task Force signifies the important role they play in health care services.

• Circumcision rate on the decline in ...

  Posted: August 29th, 2010, 9:44am CDT

  News Circumcision rate on the decline in U.S.: NYT 2010-08-29 16:38 The rate of circumcision among American baby boys appears to be declining, the New York Times reported.

• Local MP Stephen Lloyd To Visit HIV And Sexual Health Centre In Eastbourne, UK

  Posted: August 29th, 2010, 5:30am CDT

  Main Category: Sexual Health / STDs Also Included In: HIV / AIDS Article Date: 29 Aug 2010 Eastbourne MP Stephen Lloyd will be visiting HIV and sexual health charity Terrence Higgins Trust's centre on Wednesday 1 September at 11am.

Medical News Today - HIV/AIDS News

• Local MP Stephen Lloyd To Visit HIV And Sexual Health Centre In Eastbourne, UK

  Posted: August 29th, 2010, 3:00am CDT

  Eastbourne MP Stephen Lloyd will be visiting HIV and sexual health charity Terrence Higgins Trust's (THT) centre on Wednesday 1 September at 11am. During his visit, Stephen will meet staff and local service users to find out first hand about the issues facing people in the region when it comes to HIV and sexual health...

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• Aids group sues porn king

  Posted: August 29th, 2010, 1:10am CDT

  LOS ANGELES: An Aids activist group has filed a workplace safety complaint against Larry Flynt, accusing the porn king of creating an unsafe environment for his stable of sex stars by not requiring they use condoms.

• New project to pay pupils to abstain from sex

  Posted: August 28th, 2010, 8:55pm CDT

  Pupils will be paid to abstain from sex, take HIV tests and do well academically.

• Fire Destroys Detroit HIV/AIDS Center for Young Black Gay/Bi Men

  Posted: August 28th, 2010, 4:46pm CDT

  Very unfortunate news to report from Detroit. A fast-moving electrical fire has severely damaged the R.E.C. Boyz Center .

• Don't gamble with HIV

  Posted: August 28th, 2010, 12:26pm CDT

  LESS than 1 per cent of people are immune to contracting the human immunodeficiency virus or HIV.

• HIV And Other Tests Will Be Offered At Free Health Clinic For Uninsured Gulf Coast Residents

  Posted: August 28th, 2010, 8:17am CDT

  Free HIV/AIDS tests, other significant tests and medical exams will be available to uninsured residents of the area when the National Association of Free Clinics holds a massive free clinic in New Orleans on Aug.

• To Reduce HIV Risk Among Men Who Have Sex With Men, Better Interventions Are Needed

  Posted: August 28th, 2010, 4:12am CDT

  Although a cognitive-behavioral intervention to encourage men who have sex with men to reduce their substance use and sexual risk behavior was partially successful, a similar reduction was achieved in comparison groups who did not receive the intervention suggesting that better methods for changing behaviors are needed.

Medical News Today - HIV/AIDS News

• HIV And Other Tests Will Be Offered At Free Health Clinic For Uninsured Gulf Coast Residents

  Posted: August 28th, 2010, 3:00am CDT

  Free HIV/AIDS tests, other significant tests and medical exams (including physicals) will be available to uninsured residents of the area when the National Association of Free Clinics holds a massive free clinic in New Orleans on Aug. 31 and Sept...

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• South Africa: Strike Threatens Lives' of Aids Patients

  Posted: August 28th, 2010, 12:03am CDT

  People taking life-long antiretroviral therapy have been left stranded and are being forced to skip crucial treatment as the public sector strike continues.

• HIV Virus May Hide in Brain

  Posted: August 27th, 2010, 7:53pm CDT

  The brain can be a convenient hiding place for HIV, the virus that causes AIDS. That's the finding of Swedish researchers who analyzed samples from about 70 HIV-infected patients who'd been taking anti-HIV drugs.

• Miss Universe through the years | 1952 to 2010

  Posted: August 27th, 2010, 4:43pm CDT

  Newly-crowned Miss Universe 2004, 20 year old Jennifer Hawkins from Sydney, Australia, poses in Quito, Ecuador on the first day of her year-long reign making appearances on behalf of the Miss Universe Organization, its sponsors and her official cause of HIV/AIDS awareness and education.

• How the 'Ex-Gay' Movement Fosters HIV Infection

  Posted: August 27th, 2010, 12:34pm CDT

  A news outlet dedicated to HIV issues says that the "ex-gay industry," whcih is predicated on the claim that gays and lesbains can be "cured" and "converted" to heterosexuality, relies on a fear of AIDS to help spread its message--but that in practical effect, such groups contribute to the spread of the virus.

• HIV/AIDS: the fight for prevention must go on

  Posted: August 27th, 2010, 12:34pm CDT

  It is no secret that Michigan had an increase in HIV/AIDs rates in from 2004 to 2007; since then, the rate seems to have plateaued, but that is still 900 new diagnoses a year.A A The rate among teenagers in Michigan has increased every year for the last four years.

• Thou ShaltFear AIDS

  Posted: August 27th, 2010, 10:29am CDT

  Leaders of the ex-gay movement have long used the threat of HIV/AIDS to recruit people struggling with their sexuality.

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• THT Response To Verdict In Trial Of Nadja Benaissa, UK

  Posted: August 27th, 2010, 7:00am CDT

  German pop star Nadja Benaissa, on trial for reckless transmission of HIV to a former partner, has been given a two year suspended sentence. Lisa Power, Policy Director at Terrence Higgins Trust, responds: "It's vital that we stop the onward transmission of HIV, but we don't believe that prosecutions like this help...

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• Drop HIV restrictions, UN official says

  Posted: August 27th, 2010, 6:19am CDT

  A senior United Nations official has called for the removal of immigration restrictions that can prevent HIV-positive people from relocating to Australia.

Medical News Today - HIV/AIDS News

• Scientific American Features Series On HIV/AIDS: Prevention Strategies, MSM, IDUs

  Posted: August 27th, 2010, 6:00am CDT

  A Scientific American series examines how recent scientific advances will guide future efforts to thwart HIV/AIDS and also looks at the epidemic among men who have sex with men (MSM) and injecting drug users (IDUs)...

• Also In Global Health News: Disaster Preparedness In Asian Health Sector; PEPFAR In Uganda; Malnutrition In Chad

  Posted: August 27th, 2010, 6:00am CDT

  IRIN Examines Disaster Preparedness In Asian Health Sectors IRIN reports on disaster preparedness in Asian health sectors. According to the news service, nine countries working with Bangkok-based Asian Disaster Preparedness Center (ADPC) "have emergency preparedness plans in place for their health sectors...

• Vitamin A Increases The Presence Of The HIV Virus In Breast Milk

  Posted: August 27th, 2010, 5:00am CDT

  Vitamin A and beta-carotene supplements are unsafe for HIV-positive women who breastfeed because they may boost the excretion of HIV in breast milk-thereby increasing the chances of transmitting the infection to the child, a pair of new studies suggest...

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• Francis House looks to expand to help HIV-AIDS-poz clientele

  Posted: August 27th, 2010, 2:15am CDT

  Sister Anne Dougherty was counseling AIDS patients at St. Joseph's Hospital in the late 1980s when a friend died of the disease.

Medical News Today - HIV/AIDS News

• To Reduce HIV Risk Among Men Who Have Sex With Men, Better Interventions Are Needed

  Posted: August 27th, 2010, 2:00am CDT

  Although a cognitive-behavioral intervention to encourage men who have sex with men to reduce their substance use and sexual risk behavior (as both are linked) was partially successful, a similar reduction was achieved in comparison groups who did not receive the intervention suggesting that better methods for changing behaviors are needed...

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• AIDS agency clashes over historic church

  Posted: August 26th, 2010, 10:00pm CDT

  An historically designated Catholic church owned by a local AIDS service agency moved closer to oblivion this week, as a city advisory board recommended its demolition.

• Vitamin A increases the presence of the HIV virus in breast milk

  Posted: August 26th, 2010, 5:50pm CDT

  Vitamin A and beta-carotene supplements are unsafe for HIV-positive women who breastfeed because they may boost the excretion of HIV in breast milk---thereby increasing the chances of transmitting the infection to the child, a pair of new studies suggest.

• Nadja Benaissa Found Guilty For Infecting Man With HIV

  Posted: August 26th, 2010, 3:51pm CDT

  Nadja Benaissa From the German Band No Angels Was Found Guilty of Having Unprotected Sex With a Former Boyfriend and Giving Him HIV Videos Loading videos... The singer received a two-year suspended sentence for having unprotected sex with the man even though she knew she was HIV positive at the time.

• German Singer Receives Suspended Sentence for HIV Sex

  Posted: August 26th, 2010, 11:36am CDT

  Nadja Benaissa sits in the court room and smiles at the Regional Court in Darmstadt, Germany.

• German court finds HIV singer guilty

  Posted: August 26th, 2010, 9:31am CDT

  A German court has found a girl-band singer guilty of causing bodily harm to an ex-boyfriend by having unprotected sex with him despite knowing she was infected with HIV but she won't spend any time in prison.News agency ddp reported the Darmstadt administrative court on Thursday handed 28-year-old Nadja Benaissa a two-year suspended sentence after ...

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• German HIV Pop Star Gets Two Year Suspended Sentence For Having Unprotected Sex

  Posted: August 26th, 2010, 8:00am CDT

  Nadja Benaissa, 28, who had admitted having unprotected sex with three men when she knew she was HIV positive, and infecting a former partner, has received a two-year suspended sentence. She had been charged with dangerous bodily harm. Under German law, a person can be sued if they are HIV positive and have (unprotected) sex with a partner without telling them about their HIV status...

• Also In Global Health News: U.N. Investigates DRC Rape Allegations; HIV Aid To Botswana; HIV Discrimination In Nigeria; Circumcision In Kenya; More

  Posted: August 26th, 2010, 7:00am CDT

  U.N. Sends Top Aides To Investigate Alleged Mass Rapes In DRC "The United Nations is investigating claims that rebel fighters raped more than 150 women and baby boys in the Democratic Republic of Congo," the BBC reports. U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is "sending two top aides" to the country and "also urged the Congolese government to investigate the attacks...

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• Pitts: Why I like Mike Huckabee

  Posted: August 26th, 2010, 5:22am CDT

  I'm writing this to say just one thing: I like Mike. That would be Michael Dale Huckabee, former Baptist preacher, former governor of Arkansas, former GOP presidential candidate, Fox News personality, the guy quoted above being flagrantly reasonable during an interview on "The Daily Show." I like Mike.

• Older adults get HIV diagnosis later, die sooner

  Posted: August 26th, 2010, 1:21am CDT

  A lab worker runs an HIV test in a file photo. Delpech said everybody should consider getting tested if they are gay, have been abroad and had sex with locals, or have started a new relationship.

• Gay Youth Center Destroyed by Fire

  Posted: August 25th, 2010, 9:12pm CDT

  Detroit's R.E.C. Boyz Center, a gay youth center and organization for HIV prevention, was ravaged by an electrical fire August 17, destroying counseling and testing supplies as well as what was for some a home away from home.

• Lakhs counselled on AIDS, says Azad

  Posted: August 25th, 2010, 5:02pm CDT

  A total of 143 lakh people have been counselled on HIV/AIDS, Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad said Wednesday.

• Merck Provides New Funding To Fight HIV/AIDS In Botswana

  Posted: August 25th, 2010, 12:52pm CDT

  Merck announced the Merck Company Foundation and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation are committing an additional $60 million to support Botswana's African Comprehensive HIV/AIDS Partnerships .

• Miss Mexico plans to promote country

  Posted: August 25th, 2010, 8:38am CDT

  Every Miss Universe is asked to use her title to champion HIV/AIDS prevention, particularly among adolescents.

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• Also In Global Health News: IDUs In Kenya; Haiti Recovery; Pandemic Preparedness; Somalia Hunger; HIV In Mozambique; Strengthening Immune System Again

  Posted: August 25th, 2010, 8:00am CDT

  Kenya Drafts Policy To Address HIV In IDUs In Kenya, "[i]ntravenous drug users (IDUs) have been largely ignored by the government's HIV programmes on the basis that drug-taking is illegal, but a new policy is being drafted with the aim of reducing HIV transmission among this high-risk group," IRIN/PlusNews reports...

• Merck Provides New Funding To Fight HIV/AIDS In Botswana

  Posted: August 25th, 2010, 7:00am CDT

  Merck announced the Merck Company Foundation and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation are committing an additional $60 million to support Botswana's African Comprehensive HIV/AIDS Partnerships (ACHAP). Merck is known as MSD outside the US and Canada...

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• Potential HIV Drug Keeps Virus out of Cells

  Posted: August 25th, 2010, 4:33am CDT

  Michael S. Kay, M.D., Ph.D., associate professor of biochemistry in the University of Utah School of Medicine and senior author of the study published on Aug.