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In this edition:

• HIV -- Australia (1 item)
• HIV -- Region (4 items)
• HIV -- International (1 item)
• HIV -- Treatments (3 items)
• HIV -- Prevention (1 item)
• Health Policy (1 item)
• Sexual Health (3 items)
• GLBTI News (1 item)

 

HIV -- Australia

United for gay youth

Sydney Star Observer, 10 Feb

Tags: hiv youth acon twenty10 orr,mark page,jude

ACON and gay and lesbian youth service Twenty10 will pool research and resources to provide better services and health promotion material for young people.

Continues: http://www.starobserver.com.au/news/2010/02/10/united-for-gay-youth/2143...

HIV -- Region

Lateral thinking needed on foreign aid

Bill Bowtell/SMH, 10 Feb (OPINION)

Tags: hiv aid bowtell,bill op-ed joyce,barnaby lowy-institute politics gfatm gates-foundation kazatchkine,michel

Senator Barnaby Joyce is doing his job by asking sensible questions about the level and purpose of the almost $4 billion we spend each year on bilateral and multilateral aid.

Continues: http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/politics/lateral-thinking-needed-on-foreig...

Cops also vulnerable to HIV - police

AsiaOne (Singapore)/Phillipine Daily Inquirer/Asia News Network, 3 Feb

Tags: hiv phillipines police

Aside from call center agents, policemen are also vulnerable to getting infected with the human immunodeficiency virusA small infective organism which is incapable of reproducing outside a host cell. (HIV) due to the nature of their work, the Philippine National Police revealed.

Continues: http://news.asiaone.com/News/Latest%2BNews/Asia/Story/A1Story20100203-19...

Jakarta's STIGMA Foundation Reaches Out to Drug Users

Jakarta Globe (Indonesia), 9 Feb

Tags: hiv idu indonesia drugs stigma-foundation heroin

Baby Virgarose Nurmaya started using heroin in high school when she was just 15 years old. Now 29, her long black hair falls across her soft features as she quietly recalls the past.

Continues: http://www.thejakartaglobe.com/home/jakartas-stigma-foundation-reaches-o...

Aids foundation turns 25

Stuff (NZ)/Auckland City Harbour News, 10 Feb

Tags: hiv nz nzaf anniversaries

Working with one of the country's most at-risk groups is the next step in a lifetime of community work for Cherry Sonderer.

Continues: http://www.stuff.co.nz/auckland/local-news/auckland-city-harbour-news/33...

HIV -- International

HIV/AIDS patients die more from discrimination and stigmatization

Ghana News Agency (Ghana), 9 Feb

Tags: hiv africa ghana stigma discrimination

Rev Monsignor Bobby Benson, the Director of Mathew 25, an HIV/AIDS centre, has said many people living with HIV/AIDS die early because of the stigma and discrimination that they suffer at the hands of families and relatives.

Continues: http://www.ghananewsagency.org/s_health/r_12252/

HIV -- Treatments

Gilead Quad Pill May Overtake Atripla, Milligan Says

Bloomberg (US), 9 Feb

Tags: hiv treatments drug-development coformulations gilead pharma business atripla quad-pill

Gilead Sciences Inc., the world’s biggest maker of AIDS medicines, will begin three final-stage tests in 2010 for a four-drug combination pill against HIV that has the potential to generate $4 billion a year.

Continues: http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=aqxC.UKbkZDo

Less resistance with FTC than 3TC when combined with tenofovir

Aidsmap (UK), 8 Feb

Tags: hiv treatments resistance 3tc ftc

Amongst patients experiencing a rebound in viral loadA measurement of the quantity of HIV RNA in the blood. Viral load blood test results are expressed as the number of copies (of HIV) per milliliter of blood plasma., those taking 3TC in combination with tenofovir were more likely than those taking FTC and tenofovir to develop a number of key resistance mutations, report investigators in the online edition of AIDS.

Continues: http://www.aidsmap.org/en/news/3B103106-B13B-493B-91C4-D40B57AED51D.asp

HIV treatment responses in everyday care matching clinical trial levels

Aidsmap (UK), 9 Feb

Tags: hiv treatments clinical-trials viral-load efficacy

Patients receiving routine HIV care through a large US hospital had treatment responses that matched responses rates seen in recent clinical trials, indicating that very high rates of undetectable viral load are achievable in everyday clinical care.

Continues: http://www.aidsmap.org/en/news/9486A04C-3698-4FE8-A316-D547182835E2.asp

HIV -- Prevention

Higher viral load during early pregnancy, poor adherence, associated with increased risk of HIV infection for infants

Aidsmap (UK), 9 Feb

Tags: hiv mtct viral-load prevention adherence

A higher viral load during the earlier stages of pregnancy is an important risk factor for mother-to-child transmission of HIV, even when a woman’s viral load is below 500 copies/ml at the time of delivery, French investigators report.

Continues: http://www.aidsmap.org/en/news/09E2AEE6-C99B-424C-9FD1-13699EF1B1F1.asp

Health Policy

Benefits scheme to cost $13B by 2018

Herald Sun (Melbourne)/AAP, 9 Feb

Tags: pbs roxon,nicola health-economics health-spending

HEALTH Minister Nicola Roxon has suggested further reforms to the pharmaceutical benefits scheme[Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme] The federal government program which subsidises medication costs in Australia. Anti-HIV drugs are part of a special part of the PBS called Section 100 (S100) which is used for expensive, highly specialised drugs. (PBS) may be necessary, with independent modelling showing costs could blow out to $13 billion in 2018.

Continues: http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/breaking-news/benefits-scheme-to-cost-1...

Sexual Health

Plug in vacuum and turn wife on

Northcote Leader (VIC), 10 Feb

Tags: sexuality men relationships local-story

A RESERVOIR father who knows that a clean house is one way to get his wife in the mood has started the search for ‘Australia’s Most Mentally Sexy Dad’.

Continues: http://northcote-leader.whereilive.com.au/news/story/plug-in-vacuum-and-...

Complacent middle-aged women match teenagers for unplanned pregnancy

The Times (UK), 9 Feb

Tags: pregnancy women contraception fertility abortion uk

Complacency about contraception and fertility in middle age is resulting in similar rates of unplanned pregnancies among over-40s as in the under-16s, fertility campaigners warn.

Continues: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/health/article7019912.ece

Sentence stands: sex braggart to receive 1000 lashes

SMH/AFP, 10 Feb

Tags: sexuality saudi-arabia censorship

A Saudi appeals court upheld a verdict against an airline sales clerk sentenced to five years in prison and 1000 lashes for boasting on a television program about his sexual exploits, media reports said on Tuesday.

Continues: http://www.smh.com.au/world/sentence-stands-sex-braggart-to-receive-1000...

GLBTI News

Surrogacy Bill ‘could lead to same-sex parenting’

Courier-Mail, 9 Feb

Tags: same-sex-relationships parenting surrogacy queensland politics family-council baker,alan qahc martin,paul

CONTROVERSIAL laws giving same-sex couples and sole parents the right to have a child through surrogacy are set to divide State Parliament in a landmark debate today.

Continues: http://www.news.com.au/couriermail/story/0,,26701495-3102,00.html