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A discovery about how the HIV-1 virion packages genomic (g)RNA may help researchers to improve the efficacy of gene therapy.

A study involving people co-infected with HIV and hepatitis B virus (HBV) shows that antiretroviral therapy that combines tenofovir with FTC or 3TC has the best chance of suppressing HBV replication to undetectable levels.

New York City this week marked the fifth anniversary of a groundbreaking free condom program that has distributed tens of millions free rubbers, under the racy slogan "NYC Condoms - Get Some!"

The eminent politician turned health and mental health advocate Natasha Stott Despoja has become the latest ambassador for the Living Positive Victoria (LPV) ENUF campaign.

The NSW government, HIV/AIDS advocacy organisation ACON and Sydney Health have all announced major new initiatives to drastically lower the rate of new HIV infections in Sydney and across the state.

The British HIV Association (BHIVA) and the British Association for Sexual Health and HIV (BASHH) have produced updated guidance on HIV Transmission, the Law and the Work of the Clinical Team.

Pope Benedict XVI, who has announced his intention to resign this month, will be remembered as a staunch defender of Roman Catholic orthodoxy, a diehard traditionalist and a lightning rod for controversy.

A new education program aimed at ending the HIV epidemic by 2020 has been launched to coincide with the 35th Mardi Gras festival.

Gay health advocates believe the end of the HIV epidemic in NSW is in sight, with a major education campaign being launched in time for Mardi Gras and a dozen new rapid testing locations expected within months.

On February 5, 2013, ViiV Healthcare announced that the company has decided to stop the development program investigating its experimental non-nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitor (NNRTI) lersivirine.

A paper in The Lancet Infectious Diseases by scientists from the UK’s Medical Research Council and the Health Protection Agency (HPA) has calculated that the number of gay men in England and Wales who become infected with HIV each year remained unchanged between 2001 and 2010. This is despite a considerable increase in testing and, they estimate, a 40% reduction in the proportion of gay men with HIV who are undiagnosed.

Prince Harry will visit Lesotho and South Africa this month on behalf of a charity that he co-founded.

West Australians are continuing to pick up nasty infectious diseases in Bali, with new figures showing increases in the number of sexually transmitted infections and mosquito-borne diseases brought back from the popular holiday island.

A new report provides highlights of the information exchanged and a synthesis of the key discussion points from the joint satellite session on HIV and the public health response relating to the health in migrants at the AIDS 2012 conference in Washington DC last year.