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Money, benefits and housing
New Report on HIV/AIDS & Homelessness in New York

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.

Published
20 May 2013
From
Vocal New York
Injecting drug use
Injecting Rooms: Have we progressed since the 1970’s?

As the debate heats up in Brighton over the introduction of injecting rooms, there is a feeling of déjà vu at Blenheim and our long history documents similar debates in the 1960’s and 1970’s.

Published
20 May 2013
From
Blenheim CDP
Men who have sex with men (MSM)
Higher rates of HIV in US black gay men may be due to smaller choice of partners and more age mixing

Limited partner choice, wider age gaps between partners, and mistaken beliefs about HIV status in regular partners are all driving the substantially higher rates of HIV in

Published
18 May 2013
By
Gus Cairns
Vaccines
Competing antibodies may have limited the protection achieved in HIV vaccine trial in Thailand

Continuing analysis of an HIV vaccine trial undertaken in Thailand is yielding additional information about how immune responses were triggered and why the vaccine did not protect more people.

Published
17 May 2013
From
Eurekalert Inf Dis
HIV prevention policy
Russia has 'no anti-AIDS strategy': official

There is no government strategy to fight the spread of AIDS in Russia, where the number of deaths caused by the disease continues to grow, a senior healthcare official said on Thursday.

Published
17 May 2013
From
AFP
Activism
New AIDS group debuts as NAPWA successor

A newly created national coalition called Pozitively Healthy will advocate for people with HIV and AIDS following the closing in February of the 30-year-old National Association of People With AIDS (NAPWA), according to the coalition’s organizers.

Published
17 May 2013
From
Washington Blade
Pharmaceutical industry
The epic inside story of long-term criminal fraud at Ranbaxy, the Indian drug company that made generic ARVs

The confidential report laid bare systemic fraud in Ranbaxy's worldwide regulatory filings. It found that "the majority of products filed in Brazil, Mexico, Middle East, Russia, Romania, Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam, Malaysia, African Nations, have data submitted which did not exist or data from different products and from different countries ..."

Published
17 May 2013
From
Fortune
Outcomes and prognosis
People with HIV pay more for life insurance – if they can get it

Their life expectancy is almost as high as those who are HIV free, yet they pay much more.

Published
17 May 2013
From
Mail & Guardian Online
Promoting HIV testing
South Africa: Public HIV tests for MPs?

The country’s lawmakers could find themselves having to publicly test for HIV if Parliament heeds a call by Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi.

Published
17 May 2013
From
Independent Online
Testing policies and guidelines
Complaints over Kaiser Permanente's involuntary HIV screening may hint of things to come: critics

For some people HIV testing remains a touchy subject, while others only want to be tested anonymously for privacy reasons. But Kaiser says that despite member complaints, the test records won't be deleted. Critics say the episode is a taste of things to come.

Published
17 May 2013
From
Oregon Live
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