Global Fund Axes Myanmar, Uganda Monday, August 29, 2005—Two of the world’s AIDS-neediest countries just got snipped from the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, putting a range of treatment programs at risk.
When to Start Meds: How’s Your Math? Monday, August 29, 2005—If your CD4 count is over 350, you don't need to start meds yet, right? Not so fast, says a new study in the September 15 Journal of Infectious Diseases...
Nunsense in Taiwan Monday, August 29, 2005—The Taiwanese government yanked an AIDS campaign poster last week, under pressure from the local Catholic Church, featuring the smiling face of a nun grasping a condom with both hands.
August 25, 2005
Prison Break: Illinois Gets Serious About HIV
Thursday, August 25, 2005—Prisoners in the state of Illinois won access this week to HIV testing and help finding treatment and support when they are released, thanks to a bill signed into law by Gov. Rod Blagojevich that targets African-Americans.
Too Churchy for Bush? Thursday, August 25, 2005—The Bush administration was out separating church and state on Monday—suspending the flow of taxpayer dollars to the teenage virginity pledge group Silver Ring Thing because, officials said, its Christian activities overlap with the rest of its work.
Marsha, Marsha, Marsha
Thursday, August 25, 2005—Following a week of speculation, Marsha Martin was named Wednesday to the tricky job of running Washington, DC’s AIDS administration, to start work September 7.
August 22, 2005
Shhh, We're Prostitutes! Monday, August 22, 2005—In a stunning sequel to Brazil's rejection last May of a $40 million U.S. AIDS grant because of its anti-sex-worker strings, a U.S.-based HIV-prevention group is suing the feds and claiming the policy is a violation of free speech.
HIV Made Me Steal! Monday, August 22, 2005—An HIV positive Danish man charged with stealing nearly 100 pieces of art valued at $165,000 from a Copenhagen museum told a judge last week that he had been "distressed" after learning his status.
Circumcision Flap
Monday, August 22, 2005—Just as a groundbreaking new study is
triggering interest in circumcision as a public-health strategy for slowing the spread of HIV, the
United Nations and the U.S. Congress are being lobbied to condemn the
practice as mutilation.
August 18, 2005
Watts Wrong in Our Capital? Thursday, August 18, 2005—Washington, DC, has not only the nation's highest HIV rate—one in 20 people is infected—but possibly the nation's worst HIV services. The growing scandal made news this week when Lydia Watts, head of the city health department's AIDS administration, got pink-slipped after just a year on the job.
Mixed News for Hep Cats Thursday, August 18, 2005—Liver cancer and the other scourges of hepatitis C infection put HIVers carrying around both viruses at greater risk of dropping dead than folks with HIV alone, according to three new studies out this week.
What a Croc, Mate! Thursday, August 18, 2005—Australian researchers, wading through that country's swampy outback, announced this week that crocodile blood might hold a key to boosting the human immune system.
August 16, 2005
AIDS Cure No. 9 Tuesday, August 16, 2005—A new HIV study that dares to drop the C-word (cure) is giving rise to the sort of headlines not seen since the dawn of the protease era...
Hit The Dirt—Here Comes Medicaid Reform! Tuesday, August 16, 2005—Mississippi HIVers on Medicaid thought they
had dodged the bullet when advocates blocked a recent statewide attempt
to limit their access to brand-name drugs...
Post-Traumatic PEP Disorder Tuesday, August 16, 2005—In South Africa, where both rape and AIDS are rampant, fewer than four out of 10 women who are sexually assaulted and treated for possible HIV exposure take the emergency prevention correctly.
August 11, 2005
Spitting With Intent Thursday, August 11, 2005—On Monday, a homeless, possibly mentally ill HIVer named Robert Murray pleaded guilty to five counts of attempted second-degree murder for spitting on four cops in a New York City police station in 2003 while being booked for allegedly pimping his girlfriend.
Three's (Still) a Crowd Thursday, August 11, 2005—On Tuesday, HIV med maker Gilead Sciences announced that its second attempt at the first-ever one-pill-once-a-day triple combo therapy had failed.
All Eyes on the Thyroid
Monday, August 8, 2005—Two studies from the just-concluded
International AIDS Society conference in Rio de Janeiro suggest that
HIVers should be looking a little closer at their thyroid glands—or
risk a range of sometimes serious weight and mood changes.
Ensuring HIVer Insurance Monday, August 8, 2005—As new treatments become available for HIVer side effects (think lipodystrophy), a growing problem is figuring out how to get insurance to pay up.
Dirrty and the Rev: A Celebrity AIDS Update Monday August 8, 2005—Canary-throated Christina Aguilera and the mother hen of black politics, Reverend Al Sharpton, both chirped up last week to campaign for AIDS awareness.
August 04, 2005
Alabama Prison Scandal Revisited Remember that Alabama prison where HIVers were getting such horrendous health care that inmates sued and the feds had to step in? Well, not a lot has changed at Limestone Correctional Facility—and then there are the rats in the examination rooms—according to a lengthy, front-page investigation published in the New York Times on Monday.
Gloves Off in California Boxing Inquiry Thursday, August 4, 2005—The boxing community is picking a fight with the California Athletic Commission (CAC) for allowing an HIV positive boxer, super-featherweight Tommy Perez, to go three rounds with Guillermo Ruiz on June 3 in the Southern California city of Ontario.
Terror Escape Plan for HIVers: Head for the Hills? Thursday, August 4, 2005—If you’ve found any comfort in the government’s plans for responding to a terrorist attack, you can forget all that now if you happen to have HIV.
August 01, 2005
Central America Loses a Round With Pharma
Monday, August 1, 2005—Drug prices in the string of nations bordered by
Belize and Panama are expected to shoot way up as a result of the
Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA)...
What Tommy Doesn’t Have Won’t Hurt Him
Monday, August 1, 2005—When asked if AIDS jitters had taken the sex out
of rock ’n’ roll, Motley Crüe drummer Tommy Lee told Germany’s Spiegel
magazine last week, “You’d be amazed how little the groupies care about
using condoms during sex, even today.”
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