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APCOM, one on the many organisations he helped to found, honours pioneering HIV and MSM activist Shivananda Khan, who died on 20 May.
21 May 2013 | APCOM (Asia Pacific Coalition on Male Sexual Health)
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State lawmakers could prevent homelessness for thousands of people living with HIV/AIDS by passing an affordable housing bill that would also save taxpayer’s money, according to a new report released on May 17th, 2013 by VOCAL-NY and the Community Development Project at the Urban Justice Center. The report includes new data about the causes of homelessness in New York City’s shelter system for people with HIV/AIDS and documents negative impacts that homelessness has on their health.
20 May 2013 | Vocal New York
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Bahrain citizens suffering from a hereditary or incurable disease – such as sickle cell anaemia, HIV, and hepatitis – will need to get permission from the courts to get married under a new draft bill currently being considered by the government, it has been reported.
16 May 2013 | Arabian Business News
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What are the best and worst countries to live in if you're a drug user? What is a really good set of drug laws, anyway? One man's view: as provocative and contentious as you'd expect.
03 May 2013 | The Fix
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Austerity measures adopted in Europe in response to the public debt crisis have a devastating impact on healthcare services, resulting in rising xenophobia in countries like Greece and Spain, the humanitarian group Doctors of the World said Tuesday (9 April).
Rising unemployment and poverty across Europe have generated extreme-right statements stigmatising migrants,...
11 April 2013 | EurActiv
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The Swiss Federal Supreme Court has ruled that HIV infection may no longer be automatically considered a serious assault, due to improved outcomes in life-expectancy on antiretroviral therapy.
05 April 2013 | HIV Justice Network
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A bill that a leading gay rights advocate says will lead to the harassment of people with AIDS appears headed toward approval. House Bill 2183 would repeal a 25-year-old law that prohibits state and local health officials from quarantining people with AIDS or HIV, the virus that causes AIDS.
04 April 2013 | Lawrence Journal-World
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A recent study conducted at a free clinic in Houston found undocumented Latinos with HIV infections enter care with more advanced disease than other patients. Despite getting medical care at later dates, however, undocumented Latinos with HIV achieved similar success in treatment as documented Latino and white patients.
04 April 2013 | ColorLines
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I recently attended the criminal HIV exposure trial of two young men in Kitchener, Ontario. Each was found guilty of two counts of Aggravated Sexual Assault for exposing (but not infecting) two other men to HIV. They are now liable for a Life Sentence
02 April 2013 | AIDS Action Now
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The Center for HIV Law and Policy (CHLP), the National Organization of Black Law Enforcement Executives (NOBLE) and the American Association of Prosecuting Attorneys (AAPA) today released a new fact sheet that they hope will bring law enforcement officers up to speed on the real risks of HIV that they face from possible exposure to the bodily fluids of those they police.
02 April 2013 | HIV Justice Network
Get set for HIV treatmentA tool to help you decide whether you are ready to start taking HIV treatment.
HIV, GPs & other primary careThis booklet explains the services GPs offer, how this fits with HIV specialist care, and how to make the most of primary care services.
New resources to support shared decision making in HIV care 21 May 2013There’s been lots of interest
recently in the concept of shared...
Pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) – free webinar 18 April 2013As part of its European HIV prevention work, NAM is
collaborating...
Learning the basics about hepatitis C 05 April 2013If you are familiar with NAM’s
patient information materials, hopefully you...