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 December 30, 2005
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Chinese Boy Loses Blood Claim
December 30, 2005—A Chinese appeals court has rejected the claim of a 9-year-old boy whose family says he got HIV from a 2002 blood transfusion at a Peking University hospital.
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A Pick-Me-Up for Tired Immune Cells?
December 30, 2005—A new study suggests tinkering with CD8 immune cells may rejuvenate them when they’ve grown pooped from fighting chronic HIV infection.
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Global Fund Drops South Africa Youth Program
December 30, 2005—The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria has stopped supporting South Africa’s loveLife HIV prevention program, a six-year-old project celebrated for its wide reach among young people.
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December 29, 2005
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Herpes During Pregnancy Increases Babies’ HIV Risk
December 29, 2005—HIV positive women who are diagnosed with herpes during pregnancy may be five times as likely to pass on the HIV to their babies, according to a study reported in the journal Obstetrics and Gynecology.
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December 27, 2005
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Death Penalty Overturned in Libya AIDS Case
December 27, 2005—The Libyan Supreme Court ordered a retrial over the weekend for five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor sentenced to death on charges of purposefully infecting Libyan children with HIV.
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December 23, 2005
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Nigerians Get Free Meds For Christmas
December 23, 2005—It’s a merry, merry time for Nigerians with HIV, thanks to a “Christmas gift” from President Olusegun Obasanjo, who announced the government will start paying for all HIV meds in 2006.
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Brit Couple Suing Gov’t Over Morning-After Pills
December 23, 2005—Two gay, positive men are taking legal action against Britain’s Department of Health for the government’s lack of a clear policy on non-occupation post-exposure prophylaxis (NPEP).
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December 22, 2005
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Medicaid Cuts Hit People With HIV
December 22, 2005—Congress approved a 2006 spending package Wednesday
night that slashes $39.7 billion from a number of federal programs and
will boost premiums and co-pays for low-income positive people on
Medicaid.
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Positive Russian Woman Busted After 40-Man Sex Spree
December 22, 2005—A 24-year-old Russian woman with HIV has been
arrested and accused of “deliberately” trying to infect 40 men with the
virus, according to a Moscow newspaper—a crime punishable by up to five
years in prison.
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December 21, 2005
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US OKs Generic Imports to Poor Countries
December 21, 2005—The United States signed on to a World Trade Organization amendment allowing developing countries to import generic versions of much-needed patented HIV meds.
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Study: C’mon Get Happy
December 21, 2005—Thirty people living with HIV in Staten Island, New York have something to be happy about: Next Friday, they’ll graduate from a nine-week course in improving overall contentment.
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December 20, 2005
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Viread Hits the Clubs
December 20, 2005—Anti-AIDS med tenofovir, also known by its brand name Viread, is being dealt in clubland alongside ecstasy and crystal meth as an alleged quick fix for preventing HIV, according to the Los Angeles Times.
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Bono, Bill and Melinda are 'Persons of the Year'
December 20, 2005—Rich AIDS activists make a world of difference, according to Time magazine, which has named U2 frontman Bono, Microsoft founder Bill Gates and his wife Melinda Gates as persons of the year.
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December 16, 2005
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GMHC Director Steps Down
December 16, 2005—Gay Men’s Health Crisis Executive Director Ana
Oliveira announced her departure from the New York-based AIDS service
organization yesterday.
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Rocker Pete Doherty’s HIV Scare
December 16, 2005—British rock star Pete Doherty’s former heroin buddy and dealer tested HIV positive recently, and immediately sounded the alarm that Doherty, the hard partying ex-boyfriend of Kate Moss, might also have the virus.
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December 15, 2005
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Cleve Jones Wins Back AIDS Quilt
December 15, 2005—AIDS quilt founder Cleve Jones won back 280 pieces of the 40,000-paneled memorial from the NAMES Project Foundation, which oversees the quilt and has been in a legal dispute with Jones for two years.
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A Positive Take On Yoga
December 15, 2005—People living with HIV and other chronic illnesses are increasingly turning to yoga for relief from med side effects and pain, as well as for emotional support, according to today’s New York Times.
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December 14, 2005
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Tijuana’s Sex Workers Get HIV ID Cards
December 14, 2005—A new law in Tijuana, Mexico goes a long way toward
regulating the busy sex trade in the border town by tracking
prostitutes’ HIV and STD test results, according to yesterday’s New York Times.
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Drug-Resistant HIVers Don’t Progress Faster
December 14, 2005—People with drug-resistant HIV do not progress to
AIDS any faster than others or show an impaired reaction to first-line
meds, according to a long-term study appearing in the January 1 issue
of AIDS.
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| December 13, 2005
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December 12, 2005
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Study: Sustiva Dreams Usually Go Away After 4 Weeks
December 12, 2005—HIV positive people who take Sustiva and experience
nightmares say the bad visions mostly go away after four weeks of
treatment, according to a new study published in the November 15 issue
of Annals of Internal Medicine.
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Africa: Where Are The New Meds?
December 12, 2005—Some new AIDS meds are not available in Africa
because pharma companies choose not to sell them there, says
the international humanitarian group Doctors Without Borders/Médecins
Sans Frontières (MSF).
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December 09, 2005
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Oral HIV Test in Trouble?
December 9, 2005—San Francisco health officials have discovered 47 false positives after examining the results of 6,000 OraQuick Advanced HIV tests.
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HIV Denialist Goes Primetime On Daughter’s Death
December 9, 2005—HIV skeptic Christine Maggiore appeared on the TV show Primetime last night defending her decision not to have her late daughter, Eliza Jane, tested for HIV despite Maggiore’s own positive status.
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December 08, 2005
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New TV Ad: Drugs Cause HIV?
December 8, 2005—A national campaign of public service announcements hits so
hard with its warning against risky behavior that it seems to say
recreational drugs in general, not just injectables such as heroin,
can cause HIV.
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FDA Fast-Tracks Hep C Protease Inhibitor
December 8, 2005—The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has fast-tracked the first protease inhibitor (PI) to treat the hepatitis C virus, which affects at least one-third of people living with HIV.
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December 07, 2005
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Long-Term Meds Reduce TB Risk
December 7, 2005—People taking HIV meds appear to have a lower risk of developing tuberculosis (TB) than previously thought, according to a South African study published in the December 2 journal AIDS.
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Indian Highways Drive Up Transmission Rates
December 7, 2005—Truckers’ contact with sex workers along
India’s national highway system may be an important link in the spread
of HIV on the subcontinent, according to an article in the New York Times yesterday.
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December 06, 2005
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Twins React Differently to HIV
December 6, 2005—A pair of Los Angeles-born twins infected with the
same HIV strain during simultaneous blood transfusions in 1983 have
shown different T-cell reactions to the virus.
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Singapore Notifies HIV Spouses
December 6, 2005—Singapore health officials are notifying marriage
partners about their HIV positive spouses in order to reduce
transmission rates, the health minister announced yesterday.
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December 05, 2005
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State Department HIV Case Back on Appeal
December 5, 2005—Lambda Legal filed a challenge today to the State
Department’s ban on hiring HIV positive Foreign Service officers,
appealing a spring 2005 ruling on a case known as Taylor v. Rice.
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Four Arrested in Miami AIDS Drug Scam
December 5, 2005—Federal and local Miami authorities Thursday announced the arrests of four fraudsters—including two docs—for allegedly scamming Medicare and Medicaid.
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UK Gays Get Partner Rights & Disability Act Covers HIV
December 5, 2005—Gay couples in the United Kingdom began registering for civil partnerships today, as the country’s Civil Partnership Act took effect, allowing same-sex partners to share health benefits and hospital visitation rights, among other gains.
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December 02, 2005
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Jamaica HIV Activist Shot Dead
December 2, 2005—Steve Harvey, who offered support to gay men and sex workers living with HIV in Jamaica, was found dead on the eve of World AIDS Day.
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That’s a Wrap
December 2, 2005—City officials unfurled an enormous, pink condom yesterday over Buenos Aires’ most famous landmark, the obelisk, in honor of World AIDS Day.
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December 01, 2005
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World AIDS Day 2005 Picks (and a Nix)
December 1, 2005—The Chinese government handed out condoms, the Russians held a beauty pageant and people filled streets and muscled for microphones all over the world today to mark World AIDS Day.
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