The United Nations plans to hold a meeting June 9 to examine the links between HIV and tuberculosis, Reuters reports (reuters.com, 3/25).
“What we need…is to come…up with a common strategy to scale up efforts to systematically address HIV–TB coinfection,” Jorge Sampaio, the UN secretary general’s special envoy to stop TB, said on March 25.
The meeting, which will be held in New York, will examine the best ways to address the needs of people who living with both HIV and TB. According to Sampaio, there are between 12 and 15 million people battling both infections around the world—about a third of all people living with HIV.
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Beth Benne, RN, is HIV negative, but
the virus has impacted her life. She currently supervises a biannual HIV/AIDS awareness week as
the director of the student health center at Pierce College, a
community commuter school in Woodland Hills, California.
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Overheard in the Women's Forum
"I recently met a guy who is negative. I did tell him about my status and he decided to kiss me anyway (we didn't go further than that). But a day later, he called and said that he actually had a mouth ulcer that time when we kissed and he was very worried. Asked if he can get the virus from me that way. For that moment, I felt so insulted and yet I felt so bad. It was my first time having a contact with a "negative" guy."
