 November 30, 2006
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World AIDS Day Events, 2006
Friday, December 1, is World AIDS Day. This year, the 25th anniversary of AIDS, the theme is accountability. Here’s just a glimpse of what’s going on around the country and around the globe...
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Obama and Warren Play Nice To Fight AIDS
Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) has agreed to speak tomorrow, World AIDS Day, at Evangelical pastor Rick Warren’s second international AIDS conference in Lake Forest, California.
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Price Cut on Children’s Meds
Two Indian pharmaceutical companies, Cipla Ltd. and Ranbaxy Laboratories Ltd., have agreed to cut the price of 19 AIDS meds by a whopping 50% to make them more accessible to children worldwide.
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November 29, 2006
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MTV Rules On World AIDS Day
Seven of the world’s most powerful advertising agencies are teaming up with MTV on World AIDS Day this week by creating 24 ads for television, web and mobile phones in dozens of countries around the globe.
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Kenya Pardons Positive Prisoners
Kenyan Vice President Moody Awori announced this week that prisoners with HIV who have two years or less to complete of their sentences will be considered for release.
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November 28, 2006
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AIDS Will Be Global Killer #3
AIDS is on track to join heart disease and stroke as one of the top three causes of death globally within the next 25 years, according to a study published yesterday in the Public Library of Science’s Medicine journal.
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Murder by Mistake
An Australian teenager has been charged with killing his mother’s lover because he falsely believed the man to be HIV positive.
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November 27, 2006
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Chinese AIDS Activist Nabbed
Beijing security forces detained Wan Yanhai, the organizer of a Chinese AIDS conference scheduled to begin yesterday, after inquiring if he was responsible for the planning.
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November 22, 2006
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Money for Microbicides
The Netherlands pledged to give $15.2 million over four years to the U.S.-based International Partnership for Microbicides.
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HIV Up 30% in China
Reported cases of HIV in China have jumped 30% so far this year, according to health officials.
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November 21, 2006
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Pasteurize Your Breast Milk
Pasteurizing breast milk by placing a jar of it in boiling water may prevent it from transmitting HIV while still retaining nutrients, according to a California study.
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Pasteurize Your Breast Milk
Pasteurizing breast milk by placing a jar of it in boiling water may prevent it from transmitting HIV while still retaining nutrients, according to a California study.
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A Saint Passes in Kenya
Father Angelo D’Agostino, 81, who founded Kenya’s largest AIDS orphanage in 1992, died yesterday after a heart attack.
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November 20, 2006
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African Ladies Choose Latex
Condom usage among African females ages 15 to 24 has more than tripled since 1993, although it’s still only 19%, reports the British journal The Lancet.
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ADAP Protests in South Carolina
Hundreds marched through downtown Columbia, South Carolina, today to demand an increase in AIDS Drug Assistance Program (ADAP) funding and an end to the waiting list for medication.
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November 17, 2006
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Yup, Crystal Meth Fuels HIV
HIV positive men who have sex with men (MSMs) are much more likely to have unprotected sex when using recreational drugs, especially crystal methamphetamine, according to a California study.
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A Few Risky Rituals
The International Herald Tribune looked this week at some traditional African practices that transmit HIV but have been largely ignored in prevention strategies.
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November 16, 2006
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‘AIDS in America Is a Black Disease’
An alliance of black leaders from around the nation released a five-point plan today to fight rising HIV rates in the black community, addressing issues ranging from affordable housing to sex “on the down low.”
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In the UK, Immigrants Have it Worst
Seventy percent of HIV, tuberculosis and malaria cases in the UK are among Britons not born in the country, according to the Health Protection Agency, which called for more ethnically sensitive medical services and for immigrants’ health to be tracked.
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November 15, 2006
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Philly Man Wins $50,000
The City of Philadelphia has agreed to pay an HIV positive man $50,000 to settle a lawsuit he filed in 2003 after paramedics refused to touch him or help him into an ambulance.
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Fishing for HIV
In the Lake Victoria region of Kenya, fishermen often give women their catch in exchange for sex, in an established system called jaboya that coincides with the country’s highest rates of HIV.
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November 14, 2006
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Congress To Do Battle on AIDS
The San Francisco Chronicle predicts a fight between the newly Democratic Congress and the Bush administration over Ryan White Care Act funding, unless Republicans push it through the lame duck Congress before January.
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November 13, 2006
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The U.S. Goes Generic
Seventy percent of AIDS meds purchased by the U.S. government for poor nations this year will be generic—up from just 11% last year.
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The U.S. Goes Generic
Seventy percent of AIDS meds purchased by the U.S. government for poor nations this year will be generic—up from just 11% last year.
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Condoms Get a Chile Reception
A new HIV prevention campaign in Chile aimed at the under-30 crowd advocates condom use without mentioning abstinence—riling the powerful Catholic Church and conservative politicians.
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November 10, 2006
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Docs Don’t Mention the Price of Meds
Doctors only mention the price of HIV meds and generic options about one-third of the time when prescribing them to patients, according to a new study by the University of California at Los Angeles.
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November 09, 2006
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HIV Counselors Kicked Off Rikers Island
A dozen HIV counselors at New York City’s Rikers Island penitentiary were laid off yesterday, sparking protests that the decision put prisoners’ health at risk.
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SF Embraces Serosorting
The San Francisco Department of Health this week unveiled a new HIV prevention campaign promoting disclosure and serosorting—dating someone of the same HIV status—featuring psychedelic photos of entwined naked men.
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November 08, 2006
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Margaret Chan to Head WHO
The World Health Organization’s governing board has selected China’s Margaret Chan as its new leader, in a nod to her accomplishments directing Hong Kong’s response to the bird flu and SARS epidemics.
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November 07, 2006
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Ugandan Teens Are Cyber Savvy
Rural teens in Uganda would learn everything they need to know about HIV if internet access were free, according to a study in PLoS Medicine.
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Too Cool For Condoms
Social pressures prevent the under-25 crowd from using condoms, says a study released by the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, such as the idea that demanding safe sex reflects a lack of trust or promiscuity.
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November 06, 2006
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Arab Leaders Talk Religion and AIDS
Hundreds of religious leaders from across the Arab region are strategizing this week in Cairo about raising HIV awareness and fighting stigma fueled by conservative religious views of sex and drug use.
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A Million HIV Tests, Coming Right Up
Mexico has ordered almost a million rapid HIV tests for pregnant women under a plan spearheaded by the William J. Clinton Foundation to get the tests into 50 developing countries.
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November 03, 2006
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Why Does Global Fund Still Lack a Leader?
The Global Fund to Fight AIDS Malaria and Tuberculosis failed to elect a new executive director at this week’s board meeting due to a divide between developing and developed nations over which finalist to support.
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Get Out of Jail, Get a House
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services gave Oregon a $1.3 million grant to help get HIV positive people just released from jail find a job and a home.
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November 02, 2006
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North Carolina ADAP Shares the Wealth
North Carolina’s AIDS Drug Assistance Program (ADAP) can serve 800 more residents now that it has raised enrollees’ income cap from $12,250 to $19,600.
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November 01, 2006
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Ryan White Delay Hurts Positive People in Baltimore
If Congress fails to renew the Ryan White CARE Act by the end of the year, Baltimore risks losing more than half of the federal funds providing treatment and care for its positive residents, the Baltimore Sun reports.
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Ryan White Delay Hurts Positive People in Baltimore
If Congress fails to renew the Ryan White CARE Act by the end of the year, Baltimore risks losing more than half of the federal funds providing treatment and care for its positive residents, the Baltimore Sun reports.
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