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Note: HIV Media Digest will not be published on Monday, 8 March, due to the public holiday in Victoria.

In this edition:

• Top story (1 item)
• HIV -- Region (1 item)
• HIV -- International (4 items)
• HIV -- Treatments (3 items)
• HIV -- Prevention (1 item)
• Friday Viral Video (2 items)
• Health Policy (2 items)
• Sexual Health (3 items)
• Science & Medicine (1 item)
• GLBTI News (2 items)

 

Top story

UN warns HIV/Aids leading cause of death in women

BBC News (UK), 3 Mar

Tags: hiv women mortality unaids sidibe,michel

HIV has become the leading cause of death and disease among women of reproductive age worldwide, the UN programme on HIV/Aids says.

Continues: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/8546655.stm

HIV -- Region

Philippines HIV cases spike

Straits Times (Singapore), 4 Mar

Tags: hiv phillipines

THE Philippines diagnosed 143 people with HIV in January - a national high - and the country's health secretary said on Thursday she would seek more public funds to distribute condoms among high-risk groups.

Continues: http://www.straitstimes.com/BreakingNews/SEAsia/Story/STIStory_498018.ht...

HIV -- International

Senators: Lift ban on gays donating blood

Washington Post (US)/AP, 4 Mar

Tags: hiv prevention blood-supply blood-donors gay-men usa kerry,john hrc fda

The time has come to change a policy that imposes a lifetime ban on donating blood for any man who has had gay sex since 1977, 18 senators said Thursday.

Continues: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/03/04/AR201003...

Company creates small condoms for 12yos

The Australian/Fox News, 5 Mar

Tags: hiv condoms youth switzerland

A LEADING condom manufacturer in Switzerland has created extra-small condoms for boys as young as 12 years old.

Continues: http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/breaking-news/company-creates-small...

UNAIDS launches action framework for women, girls and HIV

Aidsmap (UK), 3 Mar

Tags: hiv women unaids gender human-rights

UNAIDS has launched an Agenda for Accelerated Country Action for Women, Girls, Gender Equality and HIV, which has been developed to address gender inequalities and human rights violations that continue to put women and girls at risk of HIV infection.

Continues: http://www.aidsmap.org/en/news/0E55E6FA-DF8C-435C-B8F0-DCB8AF663CFB.asp

Ugandans who think they have HIV are less likely to refer family members for testing

Aidsmap (UK), 4 Mar

Tags: hiv testing uganda

A study presented at the recent Seventeenth Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections founds that Ugandans presenting at a TB clinic grossly overestimated the likelihood that they had HIV.

Continues: http://www.aidsmap.org/en/news/7B0F912D-77E7-479C-B302-72321CEB1EEC.asp

HIV -- Treatments

Pfizer pneumonia shot helps HIV-infected patients

Reuters, 3 Mar

Tags: hiv vaccines pneumonia pneumococcosis prevnar africa

Results of a trial of Pfizer's Prevnar 7 vaccine against a major cause of pneumonia and meningitis showed on Wednesday that it can prevent three out of four cases of re-infection in HIV-infected adults in Africa.

Continues: http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSLDE6210J320100303

Smoking is sole risk for lung cancer for women with HIV

Aidsmap (UK), 3 Mar

Tags: hiv cancer women lung-cancer smoking

Cigarette smoking was the sole risk factor for the development of lung cancer in women with or at risk of HIV in a study published in the online edition of the Journal of ClinicalPertaining to or founded on observation and treatment of participants, as distinguished from theoretical or basic science. Oncology.

Continues: http://www.aidsmap.org/en/news/0E1CAC02-6E9F-4D09-9299-AFCA593F562E.asp

HIV associated with poorer sexual function for women

Aidsmap (UK), 3 Mar

Tags: hiv sexual-dysfunction women

Sexual function is poorer in HIV-positive women than in women who are HIV-negative, US investigators report in a study published in the online edition of the Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes.

Continues: http://www.aidsmap.org/en/news/2050FBC9-86FC-4217-9B1B-B392EB0BC513.asp

HIV -- Prevention

Beliefs about reduced infection risk on ART linked to STI risk

Aidsmap (UK), 4 Mar

Tags: hiv prevention viral-load infectivity stis

People who believed that having undetectable 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. reduces the risk of passing on HIV were more likely to have a sexually transmitted infection in a US study, published this week in HIV Medicine.

Continues: http://www.aidsmap.org/en/news/1F40EFAE-463C-4354-8BB5-B465E9587ABE.asp

Friday Viral Video

Human Rights and HIV/AIDS: Now More Than Ever

YouTube, 28 Feb

Tags: hiv human-rights

HIV Experts and activist from all around the world explain why human rights are so important in the fight against the HIV epidemic.

Continues: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ts-cZ9gYrZY

Lady Gaga takes time out to promote HIV awareness

YouTube, 3 Mar

Tags: video celebrities hiv awareness mac-aids-fund

Queen of pop Lady Gaga takes time out to raise HIV awareness with Cyndi Lauper, a cause close to hear heart.

Continues: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=29C0nkAseX0

Health Policy

Health shake-up 10 years overdue

ABC TV 'Lateline', 3 Mar (TRANSCRIPT)

Tags: federal-state hospitals roxon,nicola nhhrc health-spending

Health Minister Nicola Roxon says the Federal takeover of Australia's health system is a fundamental change that is worth waiting for.

Continues: http://www.abc.net.au/lateline/content/2010/s2835922.htm

Rudd's hospital reform more radical than 1984 Medicare revamp

SMH, 3 Mar

Tags: federal-state hospitals health-spending medicare nhhrc

The Prime Minister's $30.9 billion overhaul to integrate Australia's health system goes much further than his simple pledge before the last election to "fix" the public hospitals.

Continues: http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/politics/rudds-hospital-reform-more-radica...

Sexual Health

Kinsey Institute study finds no consensus in definitions of 'had sex'

Aidsmap (UK), 4 Mar

Tags: kinsey-institute sex survey social-research

When people say they "had sex," what transpired is anyone's guess. A new study from the Kinsey Institute at Indiana University found that no uniform consensus existed when a representative sample of 18-to-96-year-olds was asked what the ter

Continues: http://www.aidsmap.org/en/news/31387719-ED28-401B-BFF8-752C23FD01E9.asp

School sex education too focused on mechanics, teenagers say

New Zealand Herald (NZ), 4 Mar

Tags: sex-education nz

Sex education is too much about the mechanics of sex and not enough about relationships, the Families Commission says.

Continues: http://www.nzherald.co.nz/education/news/article.cfm?c_id=35&objectid=10...

Let's talk about...cling wrap

ABC News, 4 Mar

Tags: youth sexuality tasmania family-planning stis sex-education pregnancy teenagers

Puberty is bad enough, dealing with pimples, hormones and teenage crushes, let alone the embarrassment of talking about sex in public. But that is what five teenagers did at a recent forum in northern Tasmania.

Continues: http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/03/04/2836746.htm

Science & Medicine

Pain 'should be viewed as a disease in its own right'

BBC News (UK), 1 Mar

Tags: pain

Chronic pain needs to be recognised as a disease in its own right, experts say.

Continues: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/8543561.stm

GLBTI News

Handling issues of homosexuality in Uganda’s rural media

BBC World Service Trust (UK), undated

Tags: glbt homosexuality homophobia uganda media

As BBC World Service Trust staff wrap up their project ‘Strengthening democracy through media in rural Uganda’, international trainer Rachael Borlase explains the difficulties in tackling one of the country’s most contentious human rights issues.

Continues: http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/trust/whatwedo/where/africa/uganda/201...

Gay marriage legalised in Washington

ABC News, 4 Mar

Tags: glbt same-sex-relationships marriage dc usa

Same-sex marriage is now legal in the capital of the United States, although opponents are still attempting to overturn the law in court.

Continues: http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/03/04/2836962.htm?section=world