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Safer sex
Young people know less about HIV and are less trustful of condoms, French survey finds

The first survey for six years of attitudes to HIV and sexual risk behaviour among the general public in France has found that young people are less

Published
10 January 2013
By
Gus Cairns
Activism
AIDS Activist Spencer Cox Dies of AIDS-related Causes

Spencer Cox, a leading AIDS activist who played a key role in the development of effective antiretroviral therapy, died of AIDS-related causes at Columbia Presbyterian Hospital in New York City last Tuesday, December 18. He was 44.

Published
03 January 2013
From
HIVandHepatitis.com
HIV treatment
Top 12 HIV and Hepatitis Stories of 2012

HIVandHepatitis.com reviews some the year's major HIV and viral hepatitis news highlights. On the HIV front, U.S. treatment guidelines recommended antiretroviral therapy (ART) for all HIV positive people, Truvada was approved for pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP), and HIV criminalization and cure research were highlighted at the International AIDS Conference in July. Promising findings were reported for several interferon-free oral regimens for hepatitis C, experimental tuberculosis (TB) drugs showed good results, and the Affordable Care Act remained on track.

Published
03 January 2013
From
HIVandHepatitis.com
Recreational drug use
The Private War That Killed Spencer Cox

When Spencer Cox died on December 18, 2012, in New York City, the official cause of death was AIDS-related complications, which is understandable if post-traumatic stress, despair and drug addiction are complications related to AIDS. Spencer believed that this connection exists.

Published
03 January 2013
From
My Fabulous Disease
Activism
Early and highly influential AIDS activist Spencer Cox dies aged 44

Spencer Cox, one of the most significant AIDS activists in America has died aged 44 of AIDS related causes.

Published
20 December 2012
From
Pink News
Activism
HIV/AIDS Activist Spencer Cox Dies

The veteran of ACT UP and the Treatment Action Group has died of pneumonia.

Published
19 December 2012
From
Poz magazine news
History of HIV and AIDS
Tracking the origins of HIV: many early crossovers into humans may have been possible

Human immunodeficiency virus may have affected humans for much longer than is currently believed. Alfred Roca, an assistant professor in the College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences at the University of Illinois, thinks that the genomes of an isolated West African human population provide important clues about how the disease has evolved.

Published
19 December 2012
From
Eurekalert Medicine & Health
History of HIV and AIDS
Life Behind the Picture: The Photo That Changed The Face Of AIDS

In November 1990 LIFE magazine published a photograph of a young man named David Kirby — his body wasted by AIDS, his gaze locked on something beyond this world — surrounded by anguished family members as he took his last breaths. The haunting image of Kirby on his death bed quickly became the one photograph most powerfully identified with the HIV/AIDS epidemic.

Published
03 December 2012
From
Life
Combatting stigma
What can we learn from disease stigma’s long history?

Sara Gorman from Harvard University takes a look at the history of infectious disease stigma.

Published
30 November 2012
From
PLOS Blogs
History of HIV and AIDS
Out At The New York Times: Gays, Lesbians, AIDS and Homophobia Inside America’s Paper of Record

“Out at The New York Times: Gays, Lesbians, AIDS and Homophobia Inside America’s Newspaper of Record” is an article I wrote for The Advocate 20 years ago which began as an interview with a man who chose to speak out.

Published
28 November 2012
From
Huffington Post
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