A roundup of HIV-related news from Australian and selected international media.
In this edition:
Australia
Sydney Morning Herald/AAP, 29 Nov
Tags: hiv iac Melbourne 2014 Sharon Lewin asia-pacific treatments-access
Australia has been chosen to host the world's biggest conference on HIV and AIDS in 2014.
West Australian/AFP, 29 Nov
Tags: hiv ias iac melbourne Melbourne 2014 Françoise Barré-Sinoussi
Melbourne in Australia will host a major conference on HIV and AIDS in 2014, the International AIDS Society (IAS) said on Tuesday
Melbourne Community Voice, 28 Nov
Tags: World AIDS Day ACON Nic Parkhill afao Fear Less Live More Rob Lake prevention prep biomedical-prevention red-ribbon
The struggle against HIV/AIDS is now in its 30th year, as reflected in this year’s World AIDS Day theme, ‘HIV is still here’. Jason Barlett reports.
Brisbane Times, 28 Nov
Tags: World AIDS Day fashion hope-fund fundraising queensland
World AIDS awareness day is on December 1 and if you’re a fashion lover who only makes a donation to charity once a year, this is your perfect opportunity.
Star Observer Online, 28 Nov
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Stage actress Jasmine Certoma has been named the Youth Ambassador for the World AIDS Day Dinner at Sydney’s Paddington Town Hall on December 1.
Radio Australia, 28 Nov audio
Tags: hiv australia Bill Bowtell
Like much of the developed West, the first case of AIDS in Australia was diagnosed in Sydney in 1982.
The Age, 29 Nov
Tags: hiv adoption disclosure discrimination orphans halc Alexandra Stratigos immigration health-waiver
OF THE 2.5 million HIV-positive children in the world, only seven have been adopted by Australian families.
Sally Goldner, Star Observer Online, 29 Nov opinion
Tags: hiv World AIDS Day op-ed idu discrimination vglrl veohrc gay-men transgender sex-workers
Thursday, December 1 marks World AIDS Day, a day for reflection in so many ways for so many people.
Melbourne Community Voice, 29 Nov
Tags: hiv south-australia personal-stories ACSA Positive Life SA
About 50 people gathered in the Lounge at the Feast Hub for the premiere of five digital stories created by HIV positive storytellers as part of the Positive Stories project.
Sunshine Coast Daily (Qld), 30 Nov
Tags: hiv World AIDS Day gay-men queensland qahc Paul Martin
A COMMUNITY organisation called yesterday for "safe sex" education in high schools to be made compulsory to help prevent the spread of HIV.
Sunshine Coast Daily (Qld), 30 Nov
Tags: hiv STIs chlamydia queensland World AIDS Day
SOARING chlamydia rates among Generation Y Queenslanders could lead to an increase in HIV diagnoses.
Central Western Daily (NSW), 30 Nov
Tags: hiv World AIDS Day grim-reaper Mark Bayliss local-story nsw
IN recognition of tomorrow’s World AIDS Day, health experts will be on hand to help raise awareness of the virusA small infective organism which is incapable of reproducing outside a host cell..
West Australian, 30 Nov
Tags: hiv prevention vaccines western-australia Lloyd D'Orsogna
Perth researchers hope to develop a new way of triggering an immune reaction in the body that could lead to a vaccine against the virus that causes AIDS.
Our Region
Radio Australia, 29 Nov
Tags: hiv indonesia Zubari Djoerban
The first recorded case of HIV-AIDS in Indonesia was in 1987 when a Dutch tourist in Bali died of the disease, although there's evidence Indonesia was touched by AIDS much earlier.
Radio Australia, 29 Nov
Tags: hiv pacific Maire Bopp The Global Fund
A prominent HIV-Aids campaigner in the Pacific says the region faces HIV funding uncertainty after its major donor, the Global Fund changed its funding system.
Gay NZ (New Zealand), 29 Nov
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One of the NZ AIDS Foundation's top executives is leaving "to pursue new challenges and opportunities."
International
Aidsmap (UK), 29 Nov
Tags: hiv uk gay-men incidence epidemiology
Against a background of fewer diagnoses among heterosexuals infected abroad, the number of gay men diagnosed with HIV in the UK continues to rise, the Health Protection Agency announced today. Moreover, one quarter of them had recently acquired their infection, suggesting a high level of risk taking in this group.
The Guardian (UK), 23 Nov
Tags: hiv The Global Fund economic crisis Hillary Clinton msf treatments-access Michel Kazatchkine
The Global Fund to Fight Aids, TB and Malaria says it is unable to hand out new grants to countries for disease-fighting programmes because of an acute shortage of money, but will support "essential needs".
The Guardian (UK), 29 Nov
Tags: hiv uk prevalence undiagnosed-hiv late-diagnosis
More than 100,000 people in Britain are predicted to be living with HIV by the end of this year, according to an official report that warns that the virus is on the rise again in the UK.
The Guardian (UK), 29 Nov
Tags: hiv uk treatments-access immigration bhiva Norman Fowler
Chair of British HIV Association says law stopping visitors to UK and asylum seekers from getting drugs must be changed
The Independent (UK), 29 Nov
Tags: hiv testing uk universal-testing
Universal testing for HIV should be introduced in areas of the country with the highest rates of the disease, the UK's public health agency says.
BBC News (UK), 29 Nov
Tags: hiv testing uk universal-testing msm incidence nat Deborah Jack
As UK experts call for universal HIV testing in a bid to reduce infections, latest figures reveal a fifth offered the test at a sexual health clinic refused to have it.
BBC News (UK), 29 Nov
Tags: hiv safrica Jacob Zuma treatments-access
South Africa has one of the world's highest HIV rates but for many years was accused of ignoring the problem. Two years ago, President Jacob Zuma introduced some radical changes to the country's Aids policy. To marks World Aids Day, the BBC's Pumza Fihlani in Johannesburg asks what has changed.
San Francisco Chronicle (US), 28 Nov
Tags: hiv The Global Fund msf gates-foundation
A $22 billion fund to fight the world's three deadliest infectious diseases canceled its next round of grants because of declining donations, according to Doctors Without Borders.
Washington Post (US)/AP, 24 Nov
Tags: The Global Fund fundraising economic crisis Michel Kazatchkine treatments-access
The world’s biggest financier in the fight against three killer diseases says it has run out of money to pay for new grant programs for the next two years — a situation likely to hit poor AIDS patients around the world.
Washington Post (US)/AP, 29 Nov
Tags: hiv saudi-arabia
A Saudi health official says 1,121 new HIV cases were detected in the kingdom last year.
Washington Post (US)/AP, 30 Nov
Tags: hiv usa treatments-access undiagnosed-hiv Thomas Frieden cdc
Only about 1 in 4 Americans with the AIDS virus have the infection under control with medications, federal health officials said Tuesday.
HIV Treatment and Care
Aidsmap (UK), 28 Nov
Tags: hiv treatments bone-density fractures
Patients taking antiretroviralA medication or other substance which is active against retroviruses such as HIV. therapy have an increased risk of fractures typically associated with low bone mineral density, Danish investigators report in the online edition of AIDS.
Aidsmap (UK), 28 Nov
Tags: hiv treatments raltegravir bone-density boosted-pis lipodystrophy
Raltegravir (Isentress)-based treatment appears to have a more favourable impact on fat accumulation and bone metabolism compared to therapy based on a ritonavir-boosted protease inhibitor, according to Spanish research published in the online edition of AIDS.
San Francisco Chronicle (US), 23 Nov
Tags: hiv cancer
People with HIV infections have a higher risk of developing certain cancers than those who aren't infected, and the sicker they are, the greater their risk, according to a large study of Kaiser Permanente members.
New York Times (US), 28 Nov
Tags: hiv cure berlin-patient gene-therapy amfar Kevin Frost
Medical researchers are again in pursuit of a goal they had all but abandoned: curing AIDS.
HIV Prevention
Aidsmap (UK), 25 Nov
Tags: hiv prevention microbicides tenofovir VOICE study mtn prep
HIV prevention researchers and campaigners reacted with disappointment today when a trial of a tenofovir-containing microbicide gel was stopped because it had not prevented any more HIV infections than a placeboA dummy medical treatment, designed to have no pharmacological effect, administered to the control group of a clinical trial. gel.
Sexual Health
Aidsmap (UK), 29 Nov
Tags: STIs lgv gay-men uk shigella serosorting hcv
The number of gay men infected with the sexually transmitted infection lymphogranuloma venereum (LGV) has almost tripled in one year, and the UK now has the world’s worst epidemic of LGV, the Health Protection Agency reported today. At the same time, the agency is tracking an outbreak in gay men of shigellosis, a bacterial infection that is transmitted through contact with tiny amounts of human faeces.
Hepatitis
Hobart Mercury, 28 Nov
Tags: hcv prisons needle-exchange tasmania
RISDON Prison needs a needle exchange program to reduce hepatitis infections, a conference in Hobart has been told.
Sydney Morning Herald, 27 Nov
Tags: hcv violence heroin
A former Gold Coast surf lifesaver has been forced to abandon his passion for sport and volunteering after he contracted hepatitis C in a glassing attack by a heroin addict six years ago.
Infectious Diseases
ABC News, 26 Nov
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The World Health Organisation is warning of the potential for an untreatable form of tuberculosis to develop on Australia's doorstep.
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