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The United Nations (U.N.) is urging Asian countries to step up efforts to increase access to HIV treatment, the Voice of America (VOA) reports.

Merchants and advocates are in talks with the family that owns the vacant Market and Noe Center near the Castro neighborhood in San Francisco to put on public view 40 sections of the AIDS Memorial Quilt during the week of Valentine’s Day, The Bay Area Reporter (BAR) reports. 

The Latino Commission on AIDS (LCOA) and Aid for AIDS International have established a strategic partnership to improve delivery of HIV services in the United States and Latin America, according to an LCOA statement. 

On February 7, the last 88 paintings from the late Dame Elizabeth Taylor's private collection—a mix of Impressionist, Surrealist and modern works—were auctioned at Christie's International in London for $21.9 million, Bloomberg Businessweek reports.

A coalition of business and social media moguls aims to eliminate mother-to-child HIV transmission by 2015, The Associated Press (AP) reports.

The World Health Organization (WHO) is evaluating a range of experimental devices to make male circumcision faster and easier, The New York Times reports.

The Milton Hershey School has filed a petition asking the court to decide if it violated the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) when it denied admission to a student because he has HIV, The Patriot News reports.

A member of the Italian Journal of Anatomy and Embryology editorial board has resigned over the publication of a paper written by longtime AIDS denialist Peter Duesberg that says there is no link between HIV and AIDS, Nature reports.

Having pets may be helpful for women living with HIV/AIDS and trying to manage their condition, according to a study published in the journal Women’s Health Issues and reported by News-Medical.Net

Two Planned Parenthood groups have filed a lawsuit against the State of Tennessee for withholding funding for HIV and syphilis prevention programs, The Tennessean reports. 

An Australian man was sentenced to two and a half years in prison for attempting to extort thousands of dollars from neighbors using the threat of HIV and hepatitis infection, The Sydney Morning Herald reports.

The Canadian Supreme Court will hear two cases on Wednesday, February 8, to determine whether it is a crime for a person to withhold his or her HIV-positive status from a sexual partner if the risk of transmission is low, Huffington Post Canada reports.

A U.S. Court of Appeals has overturned a lower court ruling against the claim of a 40-year-old Georgia man who was denied employment to be a police officer with the Atlanta Police Department (APD) because of his HIV-positive status, according to a Lambda Legal statement.

A military panel sentenced Staff Sergeant Ray Girouard to 180 days of confinement, reduced his rank, restricted him to his post and reprimanded him, but did not discharge him from the Army, for the cover-up of war crimes after he testified he needed military medical benefits because he is HIV positive, WHAS11.com reports. 

Tuesday, February 7, marks the 12th annual National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day (NBHAAD), a national HIV testing, treatment and awareness initiative focusing on African Americans.

Rebecca Haag, president and CEO of the AIDS Action Committee (AAC), and Marjorie Hill, CEO of Gay Men’s Health Crisis (GMHC), are raising HIV awareness by placing a friendly bet on Super Bowl XLVI, Boston.com reports. 

New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s preliminary fiscal year 2013 (FY2013) budget proposal fails to restore funding that was cut in FY2012 for housing,  nutrition and prevention services for homeless and low-income people with HIV/AIDS, according to a VOCAL-NY statement.