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• Could North Africa and the Middle East be a new hotspot for HIV in gay men?

  Men who have sex with men (MSM)
  Gus Cairns | 10 August 2012

  HIV experts are concerned that the largely Islamic countries of the middle east and north Africa may be set to follow east and south-east Asia in seeing sharp rises in HIV infections ...

• How to tackle HIV stigma among health care workers

  Experiences of stigma
  Mara Kardas-Nelson | 02 August 2012

  Stemming in part from negative associations with the virus itself, and in part from marginalisation of populations highly impacted by the virus, stigma and discrimination has long dissuaded people from accessing HIV-related services. ...

• Deportations of people with HIV widespread; activists' tactics differ

  Immigration
  Roger Pebody | 21 July 2010

  Across the globe, 31 countries have policies of deporting HIV-positive citizens of other countries, the Eighteenth International Conference in Vienna was told on Tuesday. Moreover, speakers from three European countries explained that while ...

• Global progress on maternal deaths slowed by HIV

  Keith Alcorn | 20 April 2010

  Maternal deaths worldwide could be reduced by 60,000 per year if women received appropriate HIV diagnosis and treatment, researchers report in an analysis of global progress towards Millenium Development Goal ...

• Survey shows less than 25% getting ARVS in many countries, despite growth in international funding

  HIV treatment
  Keith Alcorn | 18 September 2008

  An analysis by Global Fund Observer published this week shows that just under half of the countries eligible to apply to the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria ...

• Justice Edwin Cameron calls for a campaign against 'misguided criminal laws and prosecutions'

  Transmission and prevention
  Edwin J. Bernard | 26 August 2008

  “HIV is a virus, not a crime,” argued South African Supreme Court Justice Edwin Cameron during his impassioned call for “a campaign against criminalisation” on the final day of the ...

• Invisible men: action urged for gay men in the global South

  Transmission and prevention
  Gus Cairns | 04 August 2008

  “This epidemic never ceases to surprise us. In every major city in Asia we have looked at, there are now epidemics of HIV among men who have sex with men ...

• Uganda: factory to boost ARV rollout

  HIV treatment
  Reproduced from PLUS NEWS | 10 October 2007

  A new Ugandan pharmaceutical factory has begun producing antiretroviral medication drugs locally, something the government says will significantly increase the number of HIV-positive people accessing the life-prolonging drugs across the ...