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  • Pets help women manage HIV/AIDS: Study

    A spoonful of medicine goes down a lot easier if there is a dog or cat around. Having pets is helpful for women living with HIV/AIDS and managing their chronic illness, according to a new study from the Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing at Case Western Reserve University.

    24 January 2012 | Moreover.com HIV/AIDS feed

  • Public Service award winner - myhiv.org.uk

    The website myhiv.org.uk is part of Terrence Higgins Trust's (THT) LifePlus package of services, which is helping to transform the lives of people living with HIV in the UK.

    23 November 2011 | The Guardian

  • Dead scared of taking the HIV/AIDS test

    It is a well- known fact that more women than men know their HIV status and that it would be great if more men went for testing. What is not so well known, and I speak from personal experience, are the inner struggles that men have to confront before going for testing.

    05 November 2011 | The Zimbabwean

  • New Technologies May Increase Adherence to HIV Drugs

    New technologies may help HIV-positive people adhere to their pill regimens, The Minnesota Daily reports. Keith Horvath, a University of Minnesota researcher, built a “Facebook-like” website last spring that allowed participants to network with other people with HIV.

    05 November 2011 | AIDSMeds.com

  • HIV/Aids directory will help needy

    NOSIPHO LUTHULI THE contact details of about 300 organisations dealing with HIV/Aids have been released. The 280-page directory, published by the Centre for HIV/Aids Networking, was launched at Temple David in Overport in Durban, on Thursday, and is the

    05 September 2011 | Daily News

  • Assisted Living with HIV: A New Reality as Treatments Improve

    With HIV striking the aging population at an alarming rate and with survivors living beyond their expectancy, assisted living communities and skilled nursing facilities may begin to see an influx of HIV-positive residents.  Not only are these communities going to need to be prepared for the medical needs of such patients but also for the psycho-social needs of the aging survivors.

    06 June 2011 | Senior Homes

  • UK: Disabled people stage protest over spending cuts

    Disabled people and their families have held a protest in central London against government spending cuts.

    12 May 2011 | BBC

  • New UK government plans for social care

    Speaking in Parliament yesterday the Secretary of State for Health (Mr Andrew Lansley) announced that he has laid before Parliament the Government's response to the Health Select Committee's report on social care.

    15 July 2010 | Disability Alliance
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