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HIV -- Australia
The Age, 12 Feb
Tags: hiv research modelling
MELBOURNE has its first super computer. It's big and powerful - the fifth most powerful super computer in the world - and the only one dedicated to studying human diseases.
Continues: http://www.theage.com.au/technology/sci-tech/supercomputer-set-to-take-o...
Geelong Advertiser (VIC), 11 Feb
Tags: hiv citrofresh disinfectants advertising misleading-or-deceptive-conduct
A FORMER boss of disinfectant producer Citrofresh International faces possible financial penalties after the Federal Court found a 2005 claim that a biocide spray could kill HIV, influenza, SARS[Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome] A new respiratory illness which was first reported in Asian countries during late 2002 and early 2003. The symptoms include high fever, cough, malaise and difficulty in breathing. Several laboratory tests for the SARS virus are now available. and the common cold on contact was misleading or deceptive.
Continues: http://www.geelongadvertiser.com.au/article/2010/02/11/145161_news.html
City News (Brisbane), 11 Feb
Tags: hiv youth patten,john queensland sexual-health stis chlamydia syphilis grim-reaper gonorrhoea safe-sex safe-sex-fatigue sex-education
VETERAN sexual health expert Dr John Patten is still haunted by the memory of his most devastating HIV diagnosis a Year 12 boy.
Continues: http://city-news.whereilive.com.au/news/story/lets-talk-about-sex/
HIV -- Region
Jakarta Post (Indonesia), 10 Feb
Tags: hiv indonesia women sex-workers idu drugs
The overlap between injecting drug use and sex work is a driving force in the ‘feminization’ of Asia’s HIV/AIDS epidemic.
Continues: http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2010/02/10/the-feminization-hiv-epide...
Jakarta Post (Indonesia), 11 Feb
Tags: hiv indonesia plhiv empowerment jothi legal
A group living with HIV/AIDS under the flag of the Indonesian Network of HIV-Infected People (JOTHI) will carry out program to empower others living with the virusA small infective organism which is incapable of reproducing outside a host cell. to fight discrimination and mistreatment.
Continues: http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2010/02/11/people-with-hivaids-empowe...
HIV -- International
SMH/AFP, 11 Feb
Tags: safrica mandela,nelson zuma,jacob hiv
Nelson Mandela will make a rare public appearance Thursday to hear South Africa's state-of-the-nation address, 20 years after his release from apartheid prison triggered the fall of white rule.
Continues: http://news.smh.com.au/breaking-news-world/safrica-celebrates-mandela-re...
BBC News (UK), 10 Feb
Tags: hiv china mystery-illness sex-workers hiv-phobia
Hundreds of people in China believe they might have a new disease with HIV-like symptoms, but doctors suggest their illness could be the result of a mental rather than a physical condition.
Continues: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/8505998.stm
New York Times (US), 11 Feb
Tags: hiv safe-sex condoms nyc
The Department of Health and Mental Hygiene announced today the five finalists in its design competition for condom wrappers. The finalists’ designs are displayed above in the slide show. And now the vote is on.
Continues: http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/02/11/five-finalists-picked-in-co...
News.com.au, 10 Feb
Tags: hiv china sex-workers mystery-illness hiv-phobia epidemic-hysteria
HUNDREDS of Chinese believe they have a mysterious new disease with HIV-like symptoms but doctors suggest it is just "HIV phobia" caused by guilt from having sex with prostitutes.
Continues: http://www.news.com.au/world/new-hiv-just-prostitute-guilt-say-doctors/s...
Vancouver Sun (Canada), 5 Feb
Tags: hiv canada treatments-access treatments-uptake seek-and-treat montaner,julio idu sex-workers bc-center-for-excellence modelling treatments-prevention
The B.C. government announced Thursday a $48 million pilot project to find and treat sex trade workers and injection drug users who are undiagnosed or untreated for HIV in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside and Prince George, B.C.
Continues: http://www.vancouversun.com/health/will+take+AIDS+treatment+workers+drug...
Jamaica Gleaner (Jamaica), 11 Feb
Tags: hiv jamaica criminal-law deliberately-infected
Labour Minister Pearnel Charles has served a stern warning to sexual predators that he could push for legislation to impose criminal sanctions on persons who knowingly spread HIV/AIDS.
Continues: http://www.jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20100211/news/news4.html
Billboard (US), 10 Feb
Tags: hiv awareness women celebrities usa mac-cosmetics
Cross-generational eccentric pop divas Lady Gaga and Cyndi Lauper sat side by side on ABC's "Good Morning America" Wednesday to talk about a major women's health issue as the new faces of an AIDS awareness campaign.
Continues: http://www.billboard.com/news/lady-gaga-cyndi-lauper-spread-aids-awarene...
HIV -- Treatments
Aidsmap (UK), 10 Feb
Tags: hiv treatments efavirenz resistance nnrtis transmitted-resistance
Very small amounts of transmitted drug resistance can increase the risk of efavirenz treatment failure, US investigators report in the March 1st edition of the Journal of Infectious Diseases (now online).
Continues: http://www.aidsmap.org/en/news/94D579D9-543E-40BE-A5E7-E30514980720.asp
HIV -- Prevention
ScienceDaily (US), 11 Feb
Tags: hiv origin-of-aids msm semen phylogenetic-analysis virology rna dna
A team of scientists, led by a virologist from the University of California, San Diego's Center for AID Research (CFAR), has discovered the origin of strains of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) among men who have sex with men.
Continues: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/02/100210141649.htm
HIV Criminalisation
CBC News (Canada), 10 Feb
Tags: hiv criminal-law canada sexual-assault disclosure underage-sex appeal consent african-immigrants
Manitoba's Court of Appeal heard oral arguments Wednesday in the case of an HIV-positive man serving a 14-year prison sentence for having sex with six girls and women from Winnipeg without disclosing his medical condition.
Continues: http://www.cbc.ca/canada/manitoba/story/2010/02/10/man-mabior-appeal-hiv...
Friday Viral Video
YouTube, 8 Feb
Tags: video advertising condoms
UK car advertisement affirms condom use by young people.
Continues: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NvHdLZtDTbw
YouTube, 8 Feb
Tags: india video hiv
Music video for "Theme Song on HIV/AIDS" from Orissa (India). In Oriya, no subtitles.
Continues: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I36X7LhkD98
Sexual Health
Bundaberg News Mail (QLD), 11 Feb
Tags: sexual-health valentines-day queensland stis hiv condoms martin,patrick
BUNDABERG sexual health professionals are determined to ensure all that is shared on Valentine’s Day is love.
Continues: http://www.news-mail.com.au/story/2010/02/11/remember-safety-first-this-...
GLBTI News
John Birmingham/SMH/National Times, 11 Feb (OPINION)
Tags: glbt same-sex-relationships op-ed birmingham,john parenting queensland
I would have thought that wooden-headed conservatives like the Queensland LNP's Ray Hopper would have been all in favour of gay parenting.
Continues: http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/blogs/blunt-instrument/why-should-gay-coup...
The Australian, 12 Feb
Tags: glbt same-sex-relationships parenting surrogacy queensland conroy,stephen bligh,anna politics religion catholic-church bathersby,john families
A QUEENSLAND bid to bring uniformity to surrogacy laws has sparked a debate over what it means to be a family and whether same-sex couples should ever be allowed to raise children.
Continues: http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/nation/same-sex-surrogacy-bill-set-...
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