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 November 30, 2007
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A New Clinic to Fight Pediatric AIDS
Pharmaceutical leader Bristol-Myers Squibb announced earlier today the opening of a children’s clinical center at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital, which will focus on researching and treating immune disorders afflicting children—including those living with HIV.
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Senator Clinton Talks AIDS With the Church
After pledging earlier this week that she would spend at least $50 billion to fight HIV/AIDS by 2013, U.S. Senator and presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton restated her AIDS battle plan in Lake Forest, South Carolina, yesterday, November 29.
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WAD 2007: Leaders Warn Against Complacency
As World AIDS Day approaches, health experts and AIDS advocates are warning people around the world against becoming complacent in the fight against AIDS and reiterating that though infections are dropping in some communities and people are accessing lifesaving drugs, 6,000 people still die of AIDS each day.
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510-Mile Run to Fight AIDS
Three men—Mike Sacco, Lejon Boudreaux and ultra-marathoner Dean Karnazes—have joined with the Black AIDS Institute to raise awareness for World AIDS Day, December 1, by participating in the Run-in-a-Million Run from San Francisco to Los Angeles.
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November 29, 2007
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Pope Calls for Fiercer AIDS Fight
On Wednesday, November 27, Pope Benedict XVI called for increased efforts to stop the spread of HIV and said that he felt “spiritually close” to people suffering from AIDS.
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Spreading Scotland’s Safer Sex Message
On Monday, November 26, Scotland health officials launched a campaign to curb the rise of new HIV infections in the country’s heavily populated Lothian region, which includes the capital city of Edinburgh.
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U.S. ASOs Critically Underfunded
According to a new study by the AIDS Taskforce of Greater Cleveland, AIDS service organizations across the United States are suffering from “signs of financial and operational vulnerability” due to such issues as massive federal budget cuts and overwhelming caseloads.
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POZ and NAPWA World AIDS Day 2007 Statement
On the occasion of this World AIDS Day, Dec. 1, 2007, The National Association of People with AIDS (NAPWA) and POZ magazine ask Americans to celebrate the enormous progress that has been made in treating HIV/AIDS and to remember those we have lost to the disease.
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November 28, 2007
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HIV Among MSM Up 13 Percent
HIV/AIDS cases among men who have sex with men have increased by 13 percent in the last four years, according to a new Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) article.
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New Campaign Fights for Universal Access to HIV Meds
Following a three-day meeting last week in Bangkok, AIDS activists and public health officials from around the world devised a comprehensive global campaign aimed at bridging the gap between impoverished nations and major pharmaceutical companies, which hold the patents on several lifesaving HIV medications.
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South Africa's "Lethal Cocktail"
According to a new report by the Institute of Security Studies and Transparency International, South Africa’s HIV/AIDS fight has been a “potentially lethal cocktail of mismanagement."
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November 27, 2007
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Former Inmate Sues for Lack of HIV Treatment
Kevin Suave, a former inmate, has filed a lawsuit against Florida’s Broward County Sheriff’s Office and Armor Correctional Health Services, a prison health care contractor, for denying him HIV treatment while he was in prison.
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Should Parents Disclose Son’s HIV Status?
A pending lawsuit in front of the Illinois Supreme Court has raised a debate surrounding the responsibility of family members to disclose their loved one’s HIV status.
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Housing Works Reaches Out to Hurricane Victims
From now until World AIDS Day, December 1, New York-based AIDS service organization Housing Works will be collecting goods such as first aid kits, clothing and canned items to send to those affected by Hurricane Noel in Haiti and the Dominican Republic.
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Senator Clinton to Propose AIDS Policy
Following the announcements of AIDS strategies from her two Democratic rivals Barack Obama and John Edwards, Hillary Clinton is expected to reveal today in South Carolina her policy on fighting the epidemic both at home and abroad.
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November 26, 2007
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Italian Ad Uses the “C” Word: Condom
A new TV advertising campaign created by well-known Italian movie director Francesca Archibugi to raise awareness of HIV/AIDS in Italy is the first ever there to include the word “condom,” challenging a longstanding taboo in the predominantly Roman Catholic country.
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DC’s Staggering AIDS Stats
New statistics on HIV infection rates in the District of Columbia released by the District’s HIV/AIDS Administration on Monday, November 26, reveal what it calls a modern AIDS epidemic—one that reaches into all parts of the city and disproportionately affects African-Americans.
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HIV Stigma Spans the Globe
An international study conducted by the British Red Cross revealed this week that HIV stigma knows no boundary.
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Canada’s Underfunded AIDS Fight
According to Canadian activists, leaders in the national capital of Ottawa, Ontario, have been financially apathetic in fighting HIV/AIDS.
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November 20, 2007
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HIV Med Market Boom
A new financial analysis of the HIV drug market highlights the potential reshuffling of market positions as the patents of AIDS drugs expire.
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Expanding Treatment in Cambodia
AIDS Healthcare Foundation—the largest and most comprehensive provider of HIV/AIDS services in the United States—will open its seventh AIDS treatment facility in Cambodia tomorrow, November 21.
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U.N. Overestimated Global AIDS Numbers
The United Nations’ UNAIDS agency reports today that the number of people living with HIV worldwide is not as high as previously believed. While the organization reported last year that 39.5 million people were currently living with the virus across the globe, new data reveals that the actual number is closer to 33.2 million.
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November 19, 2007
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HIV-Positive Indian Women Face Stigma at Clinics
Some HIV-positive women in India who seek treatment at local government hospitals say they’ve suffered verbal abuse from hospital personnel; others claim they have been forced to have abortions if they are pregnant.
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European Union Adopts WTO Plan for Generic Meds
The European Union has adopted a World Trade Organization (WTO) plan to allow poor countries to import cheaper, generic versions of patented drugs for diseases like HIV/AIDS and tuberculosis, thus increasing poor people’s access to lifesaving medications.
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Brazil Commended for Its AIDS Policy
Researchers at the Harvard School of Public Health applaud Brazil’s AIDS policy—which has included lowering the price of HIV/AIDS medications and making generic versions more available—in a new study published in the November 13 Public Library of Science journal.
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November 16, 2007
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American AIDS Leaders Discuss the Domestic Epidemic
Today on AIDS.gov, a governmental Web-based AIDS resource, an interactive webcast brought together the top minds in the HIV/AIDS field to discuss the state of the domestic epidemic just weeks before World AIDS Day.
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Fashion With Compassion in NYC
Thursday, November 15, marked the beginning of this year’s 7th on Sale AIDS fund-raising shopping event, an online auction that offers 30,000 individual items—valued at over $9 million—with opening bids at one-tenth retail value beginning yesterday and continuing through December 6.
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Literacy Levels Affect Medication Adherence
HIV-positive people who have low literacy levels are less likely than people with higher literacy levels to adhere to their medication regimens because they often don’t understand medication instructions, according to a new study,
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Gay and Bisexual Men in Florida Face High HIV Rates
Florida health officials announced Tuesday, November 13, that approximately one in 22 gay and bisexual men in the state were HIV positive last year, with the rates being higher in some counties and among certain subgroups.
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November 15, 2007
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Giuliani to Renew PEPFAR if Elected
Former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani revealed in a speech at his campaign headquarters last week that, if elected president, he would renew George W. Bush’s President’s Plan for Emergency AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), which is scheduled to expire in 2008.
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Raising HIV/AIDS Awareness in Haiti
The Caribbean Broadcast Media Partnership on HIV/AIDS (CBMP) and the Global Media AIDS Initiative (GMAI) have announced a new partnership initiative to make HIV/AIDS content and information available in Haitian Creole on radio and television programs in the country.
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Stigma Affects 20 Percent of HIV Vaccine Trial Participants
HIV vaccine researchers need to place more emphasis on protecting vaccine trial participants’ privacy and reducing the negative social consequences to them. Stigma affects nearly 20 percent of trial participants, suggests a report in the November issue of Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes.
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November 14, 2007
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Gates Foundation Teams With China for HIV/AIDS Prevention
On Tuesday, November 13, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation announced the launch of a partnership with the Chinese government to step up HIV/AIDS prevention programs, committing $50 million to fight infection among at-risk populations—such as men who have sex with men, sex workers and intravenous-drug users—working with both the central government and nongovernment organizations.
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Long Island Doc Reuses Needles, Endangers Patients
A Nassau County, Long Island, anesthesiologist has put 630 of his patients at risk for HIV and hepatitis B and C infections after reusing needles and syringes, health officials said Monday, November 12.
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Activists “Die-In” to Save Lives in Puerto Rico
Activists, people living with HIV and employees of the New York-based AIDS service organization Housing Works convened earlier today, November 14, in Foley Square in downtown Manhattan to call for immediate federal control of Puerto Rico’s AIDS funding.
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Nigerian Governors’ Wives Speak Out
The wives of the governors of the 19 northern states in Nigeria have agreed to work together to address problems such as HIV infection and child abuse in the country.
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November 13, 2007
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HIV Prevention Research Training Workshop, 12/2
The Community HIV/AIDS Mobilization Project (CHAMP), in collaboration with several other activist and HIV/AIDS advocacy groups, announced today that it will hold a free HIV prevention research advocacy training workshop on December 2 in Atlanta.
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November 12, 2007
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GSK Sues Abbott Over Norvir Price Hike
GlaxoSmithKline Plc filed a lawsuit against Abbott on Friday, November 9, over the price of Norvir, a boosting agent that works in conjunction with protease inhibitors.
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Leaders Use Facebook to Cut Europe’s Condom Costs
Members of European Parliament launched a social-networking campaign on Thursday to call for the reduction of value-added taxes (VAT) on condoms throughout the continent, which can be as high as 25 percent in countries such as Sweden and Denmark. Ireland charges 21 percent, despite imposing no taxes on oral contraceptives.
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Enclosures: Condoms and a Note
Some women in Nepal’s Pang village have been sending letters to their husbands who work overseas, encouraging them not to have extramarital affairs—and enclosing condoms in the envelopes in case the men decide to anyway.
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November 09, 2007
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Ohio Reconsiders HIV Funding for Youth
After an outcry from advocates of HIV/AIDS education in schools, the Ohio Department of Education has decided to apply for federal funds intended to tackle infections among teens.
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Scott Hitt, 49, Dies
Prominent AIDS doctor and activist Dr. R. Scott Hitt, the first openly gay head of a presidential advisory board, died Thursday, November 8 of colon cancer at the age of 49.
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PEP in High Demand Following Risky Sex
People seeking post-exposure prophylaxis, or PEP—HIV medications that prevent the virus from taking hold within the body—are likely to complete the month-long regimen, say researchers at University of California Los Angeles’ AIDS Institute.
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November 08, 2007
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Florida AIDS Clinic Closes After 10 Years
Some HIV-positive people in Florida have been forced to go elsewhere, or to multiple outlets, to receive treatment after the University of Miami’s Project Outreach center closed on October 31.
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HIV Targeting South Africa’s Thirtysomethings
According to new data released Wednesday, November 7 by the South African Institute of Race Relations, mortality rates for young adults in the region have increased by 213 percent in the last decade—attributed mostly to HIV/AIDS.
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China Easing Its HIV Travel Ban
China will be eliminating its immigration laws, which restrict people living with HIV/AIDS from entering the country, say health officials and the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria.
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November 07, 2007
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Second-Line ART for Indian AIDS Activists
AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF) has announced that it is increasing its efforts to provide second-line antiretroviral treatment (ART) to Indian AIDS activists whose first-line regimens have failed them.
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Nursing Honor Society Honors HIV Prevention Innovator
The Honor Society of Nursing—Sigma Theta Tau International—honored Loretta Sweet Jemmott this week for her continued work in developing risk-reduction strategies among African-American, South African and Latino youth.
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November 06, 2007
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Condoms, the “Must-Have” Formal Accessory
A U.K.-based sexual health group, Marie Stopes International (MSI), is encouraging Australian high school students to pick up the latest “must-have school formal accessory”—condoms.
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November 05, 2007
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Ashley Judd Makes Film About AIDS in India
In an interview Sunday, November 4, about her new documentary film on HIV/AIDS in India, India’s Hidden Plague, actress Ashley Judd said that education and prevention are key to fighting the epidemic, and that the cost of educating a person about HIV and protecting them from the virus is just $10 a year.
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A Life of Stress May Speed Up HIV Progression
Long-term psychological distress may speed up HIV disease progression and lead to early death, according to a new study led by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine.
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November 02, 2007
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HIV-TB Co-Epidemic Spreads in Africa
According to a report issued today by the Forum for Collaborative AIDS Research, a co-epidemic of HIV and tuberculosis is ravaging sub-Saharan Africa, with about one-third of the world’s 40 million people with HIV also carrying TB.
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HIV-Positive Texans Lose Dental Services
Dallas’ Baylor College of Dentistry will no longer accept referrals of clients living with HIV, as services are “temporarily suspended” due to Ryan White Act funding cutbacks.
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Better Services for Alabama Inmates
HIV-positive prisoners in Alabama will now have access to many services and programs that have for years been available only to HIV-negative inmates. The improvements stem from actions by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), AIDS Alabama and state legislators.
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HIV: Grounds for Divorce?
A court in Delhi, India, has granted a man the right to divorce his wife because she is HIV positive.
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November 01, 2007
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Bush Talks Trade and HIV With Ugandan President
President George W. Bush opened the doors of the White House Tuesday night for Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni to discuss trade strategies and how best to combat the AIDS epidemic in the African nation.
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Fighting HIV and Mental Illness on the Oregon Trail
Thanks to a $1.2 million federal grant, the Oregon Department of Human Services is poised to assist people living with both HIV/AIDS and mental illness. The grant will provide housing and mental health services for these individuals.
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Black Church Leaders Issue Testing Challenge
At their national conference in Las Vegas on Tuesday, national leaders from the Christian Methodist Episcopal (CME) Church were tested for HIV in front of their congregations in an effort to encourage their 800,000 members and all African Americans nationwide to receive an HIV test.
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Bono’s “Two Hearts Beat as One”
Two anti-poverty groups, both cofounded by renowned rock star Bono, will merge to form one organization in the United States that will tackle poverty as well as HIV/AIDS in Africa and around the world.
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Ohio to Forgo HIV/AIDS Funds for Youths
The state of Ohio is not accepting federal money intended to tackle HIV/AIDS rates in teenagers because it doesn’t have the staff or HIV prevention program to effectively utilize it, say state education officials.
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