A roundup of HIV-related news from Australian and selected international media.
In this edition:
Australia
Wentworth Courier (NSW), 12 Apr
Tags: HHARD supervised-injecting John Della Bosca conferences NCHSR social-research HIV
JOHN Della Bosca will speak at the Social Research Conference on HIV, hepatitis and related diseases this week.
Star Observer Online, 12 Apr
Tags: Robert Mitchell treatment as prevention early-intervention starting-treatment NAPWHA treatment-guidelines HIV
New international HIV treatment guidelines which recommend people with HIV should consider going on HIV treatment from first diagnosis have been applauded by a peak Australian HIV body.
Star Observer Online, 12 Apr
Tags: stigma AFAO Rob Lake Ron Penny anniversaries grim-reaper HIV
Last week marked the 25th anniversary of the screening of Australia’s notorious 1987 Grim Reaper commercial which went to air on April 5 during a year with the highest rate of HIV infection in Australian history.
Our Region
The Star (Malaysia)/Straits Times, 12 Apr
Tags: sentencing Malaysia criminal law HIV
A judge exercised judicial mercy on a HIV-positive man by jailing him for two months for having proceeds arising from the criminal activity of his brother.
Chicago Tribune (US), 10 Apr
Tags: Thailand condoms HIV
Bangkok has plenty of offbeat restaurants, from a supper club with beds instead of tables to a Japanese diner where robots do the serving, but the cafe with a cause is Cabbages & Condoms. The restaurant is uniquely decorated with condoms from around the world in support of family planning.
International
Aidsmap (UK), 12 Apr
Tags: tuberculosis mortality treatment as prevention Kenya HIV
Expansion of HIV programme services over a five year period in a high HIV prevalence area of rural Kenya resulted in close to a third of HIV-positive adults getting care and over 60% starting ART, coinciding with a 30% decline in overall adult death rates according to an analysis of health, demographic and mortality data published in the advance online edition of AIDS.
Huffington Post (US), 12 Apr opinion
Tags: sex-work fishing fair trade food-security Africa women HIV
Importantly, the overfishing crisis is not just about food. It is, perhaps surprisingly, about HIV/AIDS. When a mom runs out of food and cannot feed her children and her children have stopped growing because they have not had protein in months, she will do anything she can to remedy the situation. As a last resort, she will trade sex for food.
Chicago Tribune (US)/Bloomberg, 12 Apr
Tags: lawsuit patents generics Roxane Labs Abbott Labs business pharma
North Chicago-based Abbott Laboratories has filed suit against German drug maker Boehringer AG's Roxane Laboratories Inc. accusing it of infringing three patents for the HIV drug Norvir with its generic version of Norvir tablets
The Guardian (UK), 12 Apr
Tags: Ban Ki-moon UN David Cameron Millennium Development Goals
David Cameron has been asked by the UN secretary general, Ban Ki-moon, to chair a new UN committee tasked with establishing a new set of UN millennium development goals to follow the present goals, which expire in 2015.
The Guardian (UK), 11 Apr
Tags: circumcision PEPFAR Swaziland HIV
Swaziland has the miserable distinction of the highest HIV rate in the world, with more than one in four adults estimated to be carrying the virusA small infective organism which is incapable of reproducing outside a host cell.. It accounts for nearly half the deaths of children under five.
HIV Prevention
Star Observer Online, 11 Apr
Tags: PrEP conferences microbicides M2012 prevention HIV
The past 18 months have seen important developments in new HIV prevention technologies, organisers of the Seventh International Conference on Microbicides (M2012) say.
GLBTI News
Sydney Morning Herald/AAP, 12 Apr
Tags: marriage Shelley Argent PFLAG catholic-church incest Family Voice Australia senate-inquiry same-sex-marriage GLBT
A Christian opponent of gay marriage has likened homosexuality to the forbidden practice of incest and says same-sex attraction can be cured.
Star Observer Online, 11 Apr
Tags: VAC/GMHC staying-negative-campaign mental-health GLBT health GLBT isolation social-inclusion
The social season has ended. With Midsumma, ChillOut and Melbourne Queer Film Festival all behind us, we are now left to relax and wind down.
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