A roundup of HIV-related news from Australian and selected international media.
In this edition:
Australia
Adelaide Advertiser/AAP, 25 Mar
Tags: Derryn Hinch IDU prisons organ-donors organ-transplant HCV HIV
BROADCASTER Derryn Hinch says he was warned he risked contracting hepatitis or AIDS before he was given a new liver last year from a long-term drug user who had committed suicide.
ABC News, 26 Mar
Tags: Vince Lovegrove activists HIV
Tributes are flowing for Australian rock music pioneer, journalist, band manager, television producer and AIDS activist Vincent Lovegrove.
Gay News Network, 23 Mar
Tags: Martin Walsh David Riddell BGF HIV-sector
The Bobby Goldsmith Foundation have announced David Riddell as their new Chief Executive Officer.
Adelaide Advertiser/Herald Sun, 26 Mar
Tags: Vince Lovegrove activists HIV
MUSIC pioneer and AIDS activist Vince Lovegrove, who had a life touched by tragedy, was killed in a car accident at the weekend.
Adelaide Advertiser/Herald Sun, 26 Mar
Tags: IDU prisons HCV Derryn Hinch organ-transplant organ-donors HIV
LAW and order crusader Derryn Hinch has revealed he was told in the hours before his life-saving liver transplant that the donor organ could kill him.
Our Region
Fiji Times (Fiji), 25 Mar
Tags: Joeli Colati FNP+ Fiji disclosure HIV
PEOPLE who are aware that they are HIV positive are reluctant to come out about their status because of the fear of rejection.
Shaun Robinson, New Zealand Herald (New Zealand), 26 Mar opinion
Tags: criminal-law NZAF NZ HIV
New Zealand's legislation around HIV transmission aligns public health and human rights but it must be matched by a culture that supports safe sexual behaviours and ethical personal choices.
International
San Francisco Chronicle (US), 23 Mar
Tags: sexual-abuse women HIV
Diagnosed with HIV in the late 1980s, Cassandra Steptoe didn't tell anyone for years, and she didn't get any treatment.
Chicago Tribune (US)/Reuters, 23 Mar
Tags: Jim-Young Kim World-Bank HIV
The United States' nominee for president of the World Bank has taken on some formidable challenges: from tuberculosis in Peruvian slums and Russian prisons to HIV/AIDS on a global scale to students at an Ivy League school.
HIV Prevention
Aidsmap (UK), 23 Mar
Tags: diagnosis recent-infection RITA testing HIV
Results from the Recent Infection Testing Algorithm (RITA) can be discussed with newly-diagnosed patients, UK clinicians say. Although RITA was designed for use in monitoring at a population level and does not give consistently accurate results to individuals, sharing the results with patients has not led to any adverse outcomes, officials report.
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