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Careless talk: politicians and HIV

Uganda's recently appointed health minister, Ms Christine Ondoa, has been berated by Aids activists for comments she allegedly made in an interview with a local newspaper on August 1. According to The Observer, Ms Ondoa claimed to know three people who had been cured of HIV through prayer.

Published
13 August 2011
From
The Citizen Daily
PrEP
I haven't given up, I've taken charge - one man's story of taking HIV meds for prevention

Recently, I was surprised to learn that I had allegedly “given up on gay men.” According to Michael Weinstein, president and founder of the so-called “AIDS Healthcare Foundation,” I now consider the lives of gay men, including my own, “disposable.” What great crime have I committed to deserve Mr. Weinstein’s condemnation?

Published
02 August 2011
From
Positively Aware
UK health services
Talking to the Lords

Keith Alcorn, NAM’s Senior Editor, recently testified to the House of Lords Select Committee on HIV and AIDS in the UK. He hopes their Lordships can exert some

Published
25 July 2011
From
HIV treatment update
HIV treatment
Funding for HIV treatment research exceeded US$ 2.4 billion in 2009

Data collected for the first time on global investments in HIV treatment-related research and development showed that at least US$ 2.46 billion was available in 2009. The Treatment Action Group, AVAC, and the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) issued the report which was released today at the International AIDS Society's 6th Conference on HIV Pathogenesis, Prevention, and Treatment in Rome, Italy. 

Published
19 July 2011
From
Treatment Action Group / AVAC / UNAIDS
Infectiousness and treatment as prevention
Call for human rights-based guidance on PrEP and ART as prevention

GNP+ calls on the World Health Organization and Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS to ensure guidance is developed and published for individuals and couples on how to make informed decisions about the HIV prevention options that work best for them, as well as guidance for those providing services to those in need to access ART and PrEP. This guidance should be developed in collaboration with networks of people living with HIV and key populations.

Published
18 July 2011
From
GNP Plus
Women
There is still much work to do

Positively UK’s Silvia Petretti speaks up at the United Nations. The UN High Level Meeting on AIDS (HLM) took place in New York in June, to coincide

Published
17 July 2011
From
HIV treatment update
Activism
International AIDS Conference 2012: No Progress on Visas for Drug Users or Sex Workers

One year from the International AIDS Conference in Washington, D.C., prospects are looking dim for sex workers and drug users who want to attend.

Published
15 July 2011
From
Housing Works
Activism
To Universities and Students: Step Up!

When a research university licenses a drug to a biotech or pharmaceutical company, it can take actions to ensure that the drug will be made affordable to people living in developing countries. It is the imperative of the university and affiliated students and faculty to make certain that universities adopt such “Global Access Licensing,” since pharmaceutical firms, as profit-driven entities, will likely not propose such measures unilaterally.

Published
15 July 2011
From
Results for Development Institute blog
Activism
China: AIDS patients held by police as they try to visit activist Hu Jia

Two AIDS patients said Beijing police detained them briefly on Wednesday for trying to visit Hu Jia, a social activist who was recently freed after serving a three-and-a-half-year sentence for inciting subversion.

Published
11 July 2011
From
Global Times
Men who have sex with men (MSM)
Gay equality in Africa: Moving with courage

Pride season is upon us – and we think it’s high time to recognise the under-reported progress Africa is making towards lesbian, gay, bi and trans equality.

Published
06 July 2011
From
See Africa Differently
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