 May 31, 2006
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UN Assembly Tackles HIV
May 31, 2006—The second UN General Assembly Special Session on HIV/AIDS opened today in New York to wrestle with the goal of treating all who need it by 2010, among other targets set in 2001.
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Kenyan Healer Faces Prison
May 31, 2006—A Kenyan woman accused of selling prayers with promises of an HIV cure went on trial this week to answer charges that she used fake test results to con money out of people with HIV.
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May 30, 2006
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HIV Slowing Down?
May 30, 2006—The rate of new HIV infections stabilized in the late 1990s, according to a UNAIDS report released today, although rates in young people and children are still increasing.
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Poverty Feeds African-American HIV Rate
May 30, 2006—Poverty is one of the main factors behind African Americans’ high rate of HIV infection through heterosexual sex, reports a study in the Journal of Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndromes.
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May 26, 2006
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Scientists Prove Origin of HIV
May 26, 2006—Genes taken from forest chimpanzees in the central African nation of Cameroon confirm that the HIV-1 virus, the source of human infection, developed from chimps, according to a report in today’s online edition of the journal Science.
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PBS Tackles HIV Line by Line
May 26, 2006— PBS’ Frontline will examine a quarter century of HIV in its two-part documentary “The Age of AIDS” on May 30 and 31 at 9 p.m.
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May 25, 2006
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An Indian Bill’s High HIV Cost
May 25, 2006—Indian health officials announced today that proposed legislation banning having sex with victims of human trafficking in brothels will drive sex workers underground and hike HIV rates.
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Just the Fax: Man Sues Doc for Disclosure
May 25, 2006—A positive North Carolina man is suing his doctor for allegedly faxing his medical records to his place of employment—an act the man says cost him a promotion when his supervisor caught a peek and discriminated against him.
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May 24, 2006
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Russia May Lose Global Funds
May 24, 2006—The World Bank has reclassified Russia as an upper-middle-income country, a status that may lose it millions in international AIDS funds.
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May 23, 2006
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Cambodian Sex Workers Protest Trials
May 23, 2006—The Washington Post reports today on protests in Cambodia against trials exploring the use of HIV med tenofovir to prevent HIV infection.
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Nike Just Does It
May 23, 2006—Nike and three other super-sized corporations agreed to donate more to the HIV cause this week as part of an effort to support the Global Fund and to address the disease’s growing effects on the companies’ operations.
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May 22, 2006
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WHO Leader Dies Suddenly
May 22, 2006—Dr. Lee Jong-Wook, 61, who put the World Health Organization (WHO) at the forefront of the fight against HIV after taking over in 2003, died today after emergency surgery to remove a blood clot in his brain.
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Kenya’s First Lady Bashes Condoms
May 22, 2006—Kenyan First Lady Lucy Kibaki said last week that high school and college kids should not be given access to condoms and should instead choose abstinence.
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May 19, 2006
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HPV Vaccine Nears FDA Approval
May 19, 2006—An FDA panel recommended yesterday that Gardasil, a vaccine to prevent human papilloma virus (HPV), receive FDA approval.
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SF Drops Written Consent for HIV Tests
May 19, 2006—San Francisco this week became the first U.S. city to stop requiring that everyone taking an HIV test give written consent and participate in pre-test counseling—hoping to spur more people to find out their status.
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May 18, 2006
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HIV Rate Falls in Kenya
May 18, 2006—New HIV infections in Kenya have fallen dramatically from 200,000 annually to 90,000, the New York Times reports today.
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Boy George Hits the Circuit (Court)
May 18, 2006—Boy George, the androgynous lead singer of the ‘80s pop band Culture Club, has been ordered to volunteer at an HIV hospice as punishment for making a false burglary report in New York City last year.
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May 17, 2006
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Routine Tests Could Mean Big Bucks
May 17, 2006—The CDC’s push to routinely test all Americans between the ages of 13 and 64 for HIV could boost stock prices for rapid test manufacturers and pharmaceutical companies, according to Fortune magazine.
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A Home at the End of Mt. Everest
May 17, 2006—Nepal’s first HIV clinic for gay and transgendered men gets a closer look in a new report from IRIN, a humanitarian news agency.
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May 16, 2006
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HIV Stigma High Among Asian Americans
May 16, 2006—The Asian Pacific AIDS Intervention Team launched a public service campaign yesterday to address findings that HIV stigma is particularly high among Asian Americans.
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May 15, 2006
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South African Activist to Address the U.N.
May 15, 2006—Nkhensani Mavasa, the deputy head of South Africa’s Treatment Action Campaign (TAC), will give a keynote address at a United Nations AIDS meeting in New York later this month—thwarting efforts by the South African government to block TAC and the AIDS Law Project from attending.
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CDC Pressured to Rename Abstinence Panel?
May 15, 2006—The federal Centers for Disease Control (CDC) changed the name last week of a special panel on abstinence-only education from “Are Abstinence-Only-Until-Marriage Programs a Threat to Public Health?” to “Public Health Strategies of Abstinence Programs for Youth.”
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May 12, 2006
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Brazil, HIV Superstar
May 12, 2006—A New England Journal of Medicine commentary looks today at the effectiveness of prevention and treatment policies in Brazil, where the epidemic might otherwise have developed on par with South Africa’s.
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Gilead Sued in India
May 12, 2006—Patients' rights groups in India are suing Gilead Sciences to prevent the company from patenting HIV med tenofovir (branded Viread in the U.S.).
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May 11, 2006
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STD Rates Up in Gay Men
May 11, 2006—Rates of syphilis and a rare strain of chlamydia called lymphogranuloma vereum (LGV) are up among men who have sex with men (MSMs), increasing their chances of HIV infection.
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Pregnant Women With HIV Are Depressed
May 11, 2006—Fifty-three percent of pregnant HIV positive women reported being depressed in a study presented at the Annual Clinical Meeting of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists.
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May 10, 2006
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U.S. AIDS Policy Ruled Unconstitutional
May 10, 2006—A federal judge ruled yesterday that the Bush Administration is violating the First Amendment by requiring that overseas AIDS groups denounce prostitution in order to get U.S. funds.
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A New Way to Block HIV?
May 10, 2006—Scientists have discovered a new cellular protein that HIV uses to take over human DNA, sparking hopes that the discovery will lead to a completely new kind of HIV treatment.
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May 09, 2006
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CDC to Propose Testing for All
May 9, 2006—The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) plans to recommend HIV tests for everyone between the ages of 13 and 64, citing findings that the 250,000 positive Americans who don’t know their status are responsible for most new infections.
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Conservative Church Repents
May 9, 2006—Kay Warren, the wife of a prominent conservative evangelical minister, is apologizing that it took her and other conservative evangelical churches two decades to start helping people with HIV.
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May 08, 2006
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South Africa Politician Acquitted of Rape
May 8, 2006—Jacob Zuma was found not guilty today of raping an HIV positive activist, sparking concern that the ruling and his testimony in the case may damage South African prevention efforts.
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Newsweek Marks HIV’s 25th Anniversary
May 8, 2006—Newsweek dedicates the issue out today to the 25th Anniversary of HIV, looking at how the virus transformed America and activism and where it’s heading now.
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May 05, 2006
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Surviving Disclosure Just Fine
May 5, 2006—HIV positive gay men rarely have post-disclosure regrets about revealing their status, according to an Ohio State University study, the first of its kind.
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Michael Onstott Dies
May 5, 2006—Michael Onstott, co-founder of the AIDS Nutrient Bank in Guerneville, CA, died of a heart attack last week at the age of 55.
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May 04, 2006
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U.S. Updates Treatment Guidelines
May 4, 2006—The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services released new HIV treatment guidelines today, including new recommendations on drug-resistance testing, treatment interruptions and hepatitis B coinfection.
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HIV Panic at San Diego Hospital
May 4, 2006—Three hundred obese Scripps Memorial Hospital patients are being tested for HIV and other infections after undergoing surgery involving an instrument that may not have been sterilized properly.
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May 03, 2006
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The Abstinence Option
May 3, 2006—Eleven percent of HIV positive gay and bisexual men and 18% of positive straight people choose to abstain from sex, according to a study in the American Journal of Public Health.
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Moms Develop Med Resistance
May 3, 2006—One-fifth of positive women in a small South Africa study by the U.S. National Institutes of Health developed continued resistance to nevirapine after taking it as single-dose monotherapy during pregnancy to prevent mother-to-child transmission.
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May 02, 2006
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Positive Boxer Punches Back
May 2, 2006—Heavyweight boxing champ Tommy Morrison is aiming to kickstart his career after a decade-long hiatus prompted by his 1996 HIV diagnosis.
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Native Americans and HIV
May 2, 2006—American Indians and Alaska Natives from over 600 sovereign nations are convening in Anchorage this week for the first ever international look at the impact of HIV on their often isolated communities.
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May 01, 2006
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States Vie For AIDS Funds
May 1, 2006—Northern and Western states could lose out on a Bush administration proposal to change Ryan White Care Act funding rules—shifting as much as $20 million a year each away from California and New York.
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Logging Wipes Out Medicinal Plants
May 1, 2006—Logging is wiping out plants in the rainforests of Borneo that scientists believe may help treat HIV, cancer and malaria, according to a report by the WWF-World Wide Fund for Nature.
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