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• Mass rape and HIV in conflict-affected countries: despite relatively low incidence, researchers stress urgency of interventions for thousands of women in need

  Delivery of care
  Kelly Safreed-Harmon | 30 September 2010

  Mass rape during armed conflict may account for several thousand new cases of HIV per year in sub-Saharan Africa, according to an article in the journal AIDS. Researchers drew this conclusion after analysing data from ...

• Parliamentarians, UNAIDS, call for removal of HIV travel bans

  Travel
  Michael Carter | 29 March 2010

  Parliamentarians have joined with UNAIDS to call for the removal of travel restrictions for people with HIV. Governments were urged to action by parliamentarians from around the world, meeting at ...

• 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 ...

• New data to help target HIV prevention for Africans in England

  Transmission and prevention
  Roger Pebody | 10 August 2008

  The largest ever study of sexual health and HIV prevention needs among African people living in England shows that monogamy is more common amongst women than men, that six out ...

• 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 ...

• 200,000 die each year because world still failing to treat HIV and TB together

  Tuberculosis and HIV
  Keith Alcorn | 09 November 2007

  HIV programmes are still failing to integrate TB prevention and care into their work, and TB remains the biggest killer among HIV-positive people as a result, experts and advocates said ...

• 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 ...

• Australia: HIV transmission prosecutions and migrants controversy set stage for IAS conference

  Transmission and prevention
  Sally Cameron | 10 July 2007

  Australia’s response to HIV is complicated by the division of governance between the Commonwealth (the national government) and the States. Health care is jointly funded by both levels of ...