In this edition:
HIV -- Australia
News.com.au/AAP, 13 Mar
Tags: hiv immigration china dessaix,robert smith,stephen brown,bob
GREENS leader Bob Brown has urged the Foreign Minister to intervene in the case of an Australian author denied China entry as he is HIV-positive.
Continues: http://www.news.com.au/national/greens-leader-bob-brown-urges-help-for-a...
HIV -- Region
Fiji Times (Fiji), 15 Mar
Tags: hiv fiji media
SECOND-Year University of the South Pacific student, Semaima Lagilagi, recently joined the Fiji Association of Sports and National Olympic Committee's STOP HIV team to assist in Media and Communications.
Continues: http://www.fijitimes.com/story.aspx?id=142237
HIV -- International
Aidsmap (UK), 12 Mar
Tags: hiv immigration china dessaix,robert korea-south
A spotlight has fallen on China?s continued entry ban for HIV-positive foreigners after HIV-positive Australian novelist Robert Dessaix was refused entry to the country.
Continues: http://www.aidsmap.org/en/news/686EDFE5-1D03-4037-8BC5-AC9556051091.asp
Xinhua (China), 12 Mar
Tags: hiv immigration china dessaix,robert
China is considering overturning the ban that prohibits HIV-positive foreigners from entering the country, an official said here Friday.
Continues: http://news.xinhuanet.com/english2010/china/2010-03/12/c_13208640.htm
New York Times (US), 11 Mar
Tags: obama,barack nobel-prize philanthropy africare hiv
President Barack Obama plans to donate the $1.4 million from his Nobel Peace Prize to helping students, veterans' families and survivors of Haiti's earthquake, among others, drawing attention to organizations he said ''do extraordinary
Continues: http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2010/03/11/us/politics/AP-US-Obama-Nobel...
Atlanta Journal-Constitution (US), 14 Mar
Tags: hiv testing churches usa rapid-testing
The senior pastor of historic Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta took an HIV/AIDS test during Sunday's worship service.
Continues: http://www.ajc.com/news/atlanta/ebenezer-pastor-takes-aids-369705.html
HIV -- Treatments
Science Daily (US), 9 Mar
Tags: hiv treatments basic-science drug-development pd-1 il-10
New findings from a Canadian-US study may lead to an expansion of the drug arsenal used to fight HIV. The study examines the pivotal role of two molecules, PD-1 and IL-10, in influencing CD4/T-helper cells? ability to fight HIV.
Continues: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/03/100308095828.htm
Health Policy
The Australian, 12 Mar
Tags: medicare privacy e-health privacy-commissioner
MEDICARE Australia's eBranch head Sheila Bird has told a Senate inquiry that there were 70 substantiated privacy breaches from investigations into around 950 employees suspected of having had unauthorised access to client records.
Continues: http://www.theaustralian.com.au/australian-it/substantiated-privacy-brea...
News.com.au/AAP, 12 Mar
Tags: roxon,nicola apg pbs prescription pharmacy
FEDERAL Health Minister Nicola Roxon says the government is a step closer to a $15 billion agreement that will deliver cheaper medicines and improve access to pharmacies.
Continues: http://www.news.com.au/breaking-news/national/deal-for-cheaper-medicines...
The Australian, 13 Mar
Tags: medicare dental
RUNAWAY uptake of the scandal-plagued Medicare dental scheme is spreading nationwide, with latest figures showing claims for expensive crowns and bridges soaring in Victoria, Queensland and South Australia.
Continues: http://www.theaustralian.com.au/politics/medicare-dentistry-full-of-hole...
Welfare & Work
SMH, 15 Mar
Tags: welfare newstart unemployment jobs-australia
THOUSANDS of unemployed people have gained exemptions from the obligation to look for work under Labor government policies that some believe are too compassionate.
Continues: http://www.smh.com.au/national/thousands-of-unemployed-win-jobhunt-exemp...
Sexual Health
The Australian, 13 Mar
Tags: sexuality hypersexualisation walter,natasha feminism
Natasha Walter once urged other feminists to stay out of women's sex lives. Now, writes Rosemary Neill, the British author says our hypersexual culture has gone too far.
Continues: http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/arts/valley-of-the-dolls/story-e6fr...
The Australian, 13 Mar
Tags: sexuality women chile hypersexualisation culture pornography hamilton.clive australia-institute freedman,mia
A DECADE ago, Mia Freedman was one of the country's most powerful and provocative magazine editors. Today, at 38, Freedman is deeply concerned about the harmful effects on children of what feminists have dubbed "hypersexual" or "raunch
Continues: http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/nation/feminists-in-anti-raunch-cul...
SMH/AAP, 12 Mar
Tags: stis microbicides vivagel starpharma
Biotech Starpharma Holdings Ltd says the first trial of its VivaGel vaginal microbicide in sexually-active women has shown Vivagel to be as safe as the placebos used in the trial.
Continues: http://news.smh.com.au/breaking-news-business/starpharma-sees-positive-s...
The Age, 15 Mar
Tags: sex-education schools education
AFTER finishing year 12 at a Melbourne state high school last year, Zoe Davies has plenty to say on what she didn't learn about sex at school: "We learned about pregnancy, about how babies grow. We didn't really learn about sex."
Continues: http://www.theage.com.au/victoria/students-missing-out-on-lessons-about-...
The Age, 15 Mar
Tags: sex-education women sexual-assault
SEX education expert Debbie Ollis is asking a room of trainee teachers to debate a contentious statement: Do young women invite sexual abuse by being provocative?
Continues: http://www.theage.com.au/national/education/learning-to-break-the-awkwar...
Hepatitis
BBC News (UK), 13 Mar
Tags: hcv idu stis treatments
When hepatitis C was first discovered 21 years ago, Nafeica Wafaquani was herself just 21. She knew nothing of the virusA small infective organism which is incapable of reproducing outside a host cell. and was by her own admission living a high-risk lifestyle - injecting drugs and not practising safe sex.
Continues: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/8561617.stm
Science & Medicine
SMH, 14 Mar
Tags: genes
WHY do some people succumb to whatever illness is going around while other soldier on, seemingly unaffected? It's all in the genes.
Continues: http://www.smh.com.au/national/the-genes-that-show-why-some-beat-infecti...
GLBTI News
ABC News, 13 Mar
Tags: same-sex-relationships glbt mexico marriage catholic-church
Five same-sex couples were married today in Mexico City after a recent change to the city's laws.
Continues: http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/03/13/2844988.htm?section=justin
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