A roundup of HIV-related news from Australian and selected international media.
A technical gremlin caused Friday's HIV Media Digest to be sent out with no content. We are re-sending the newsletter today.
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Top story
Star Observer Online, 1 Dec
Tags: hiv World AIDS Day napwa Robert Mitchell prevention ACON Mark Orr biomedical-prevention treatment as prevention
The National Association of People Living with HIV/AIDS (NAPWA) has used World AIDS Day to call for Australia to commit to adopting new technology to fight HIV transmission, with the goal of eliminating transmission and new diagnoses before the end of the decade.
Australia
Melbourne Community Voice, 30 Nov
Tags: World AIDS Day AIDS-free generation pfgfatm Wendy McCarthy unaids
Sydney’s Opera House and Harbour Bridge Pylons and Canberra’s New and Old Parliament Houses and Black Mountain Tower will turn red tonight and tomorrow night in honour of World AIDS Day.
Radio Australia, 30 Nov
Tags: World AIDS Day pfgfatm AIDS-free generation James Chau unaids china
Landmark Australian buildings will be illuminated in red for the global launch of World AIDS Day on December 1. The Sydney Opera House, the Harbour Bridge and Canberra's Parliament House will turn red in support of an AIDS-free generation by 2015.
Radio Australia, 30 Nov
Tags: iac Melbourne 2014 Sharon Lewin
Australia is to host the world's biggest conference on HIV and AIDS in 2014.
Rouse Hill Times (NSW), 30 Nov
Tags: hiv World AIDS Day red-ribbon local-story nsw
Twenty years ago, a small group of New York artists created a simple design which is now one of the most iconic symbols worldwide the red ribbon.
Star Observer Online, 30 Nov
Tags: hiv Fear Less Live More afao Rob Lake stigma prevention
Australia’s peak HIV body will launch a new HIV prevention campaign in time for World AIDS Day tomorrow.
Star Observer Online, 30 Nov
Tags: hiv World AIDS Day AIDS-free generation Quentin Bryce Nicola Roxon Wendy McCarthy Bill Bowtell Robert Mitchell Clover Moore napwa pfgfatm
A bold vision to end mother to child transmission of HIV and create an AIDS free generation by 2015 was unveiled at a World AIDS Day event at the Sydney Opera House which saw it’s sails and the pylons of the Sydney Harbour Bridge lit red.
ABC Sydney, 30 Nov
Tags: hiv schools yeah youth STIs Alischa Ross complacency Anne Mitchell arcshs condoms safe-sex national curriculum
A sexual health group is raising the alarm about the level of risky sexual behaviour among young people, saying ignorance on the subject could make young Australians vulnerable to HIV/AIDS.
Jane Fynes Clinton, Courier Mail (Brisbane), 1 Dec opinion
Tags: hiv World AIDS Day queensland qahc Paul Martin
HIV is still here. In 1981, the first cases of HIV/AIDS were reported and, with startling speed, word seeped out and fear took hold.
Toowoomba Chronicle (Qld), 1 Dec
Tags: hiv World AIDS Day queensland local-story
REPORTED cases of HIV are increasing in Queensland but two Darling Downs experts say the virusA small infective organism which is incapable of reproducing outside a host cell. is no longer the death sentence it was once considered to be.
Gladstone Observer (Qld), 1 Dec
Tags: hiv World AIDS Day local-story queensland qpp Simon O'Connor
HIV is still here. That is the theme of World AIDS Day today, reminding people that it is not a disease that disappeared in the 1980s.
Ori Golan, National Times, 1 Dec opinion
Tags: hiv World AIDS Day op-ed dementia Bill Whittaker napwa afao ankali
Derek is in his late 40s, but looking at him you'd be forgiven for thinking he is in his 60s; a kind, gentle soul with sunken eyes and sallow cheeks. In his younger days he worked as a nurse and led a happy-go-lucky existence. He now lives in a hospice in western Sydney.
Same Same, 1 Dec
Tags: hiv World AIDS Day red-ribbon ACON Mark Orr Fear Less Live More
Countries across the globe use December 1 each year to remember those lost to the epidemic and unite to work towards treatment and prevention services. Australia is no exception.
Pro Bono Australia, 1 Dec
Tags: World AIDS Day pwd sex-education Matthew Bowden
As part of World AIDS Day, advocacy group, People with Disability Australia (PWD) has called for more appropriate and accessible sexual education for people with disability.
Q News (Qld), 1 Dec
Tags: hiv social-research hiv-futures Jeffrey Grierson Rachel Koelmeyer
The lives of people living with HIV have certainly been changing over the years and Australian based researchers are again reaching out to the community to take part in a study which for years has aimed to improve HIV living.
Northern Rivers Echo (NSW), 1 Dec
Tags: hiv World AIDS Day nsw local-story knitting
Following on from their successful attack on Lismore for International Yarn Bombing Day in June, those renegades with knitting needles, the Lismore Yarn Guerrillas, are planning another surprise for World AIDS Day today (Thursday, December 1).
St George & Sutherland Shire Leader (NSW), 1 Dec
Tags: hiv World AIDS Day nsw youth
YOUNG people are encouraged to test their knowledge of sexual health at a World Aids Day event in Hurstville Memorial Square today.
Stonnington Leader (Vic), 1 Dec
Tags: hiv World AIDS Day memorials plc VAC/GMHC Michael Williams
TO coincide with World Aids Day, a memorial in remembrance of those who have passed away from the HIV/AIDS epidemic will be held in South Yarra.
ABC Radio, 1 Dec audio
Tags: hiv heterosexuals south-australia
December 1 is World AIDS Awareness Day, and the latest figures suggest the heterosexual transmission of AIDS is rising.
Australia Network News, 1 Dec
Tags: hiv World AIDS Day unaids James Chau Steve Kraus Françoise Barré-Sinoussi asia-pacific
The Sydney Opera House and the Harbour Bridge will be bathed in red lights on Thursday to mark World AIDS Day.
ABC News, 1 Dec
Tags: hiv World AIDS Day nsw local-story Dermot Ryan ACON
Residents in the Northern Rivers region have been urged to 'go red' to commemorate World AIDS Day.
Star Observer Online, 1 Dec
Tags: hiv treatments nsw pharmacy EMAS Jillian Skinner bgf positive-life-nsw Malcolm Leech albion-street-centre treatments-access Nic Parkhill ACON Sonny Williams
The NSW Government today announced two groundbreaking initiatives to dramatically slash the number of visits to hospitals needed by HIV positive people.
news.com.au, 2 Dec
Tags: World AIDS Day Elton John sydney stigma Anthony Albanese Jillian Skinner hiv
SIR Elton John has declared a new war on AIDS and the "fascists, idiots and assholes" who continue to stigmatise the disease.
Adelaide Advertiser, 2 Dec
Tags: World AIDS Day fashion south-australia
HATS off to the SA fashion designers who took part in a World AIDS Day challenge in Rundle Mall yesterday.
Our Region
Radio Australia, 1 Dec
Tags: hiv png children mtct
A medical specialist who has been treating children with HIV in Papua New Guinea has outlined her experiences of dealing with the virus at an event in the Australian city of Sydney last night ahead of World Aids Day today.
Radio Australia, 1 Dec
Tags: hiv World AIDS Day asia-pacific unaids Steve Kraus
At last month's 19th ASEAN summit leaders committed to the lofty goal of zero new HIV infections, zero discrimination and zero HIV-related deaths. The 2011 Declaration detailed specific commitments by the 10 member nations to try to achieve that goal in four years.
Radio Australia, 1 Dec
Tags: hiv discrimination kiribati piaf Laitai Tamata
In Kiribati there's just 54 reported cases of HIV infection, but health workers believe the true figure is likely to be higher.
Radio Australia, 1 Dec
Tags: hiv png World AIDS Day unaids Stuart Watson
Papua New Guinea, has the largest number of HIV positive people in the Pacific and one of the poorest health systems, has adopted the theme "Zero HIV in PNG! Protect yourself, protect your family".
International
news.com.au/AAP, 1 Dec
Tags: hiv The Global Fund save-the-children World AIDS Day Margaret Schuler australia
AUSTRALIA is being urged to take the lead in securing billions of dollars worth of international donations to fight HIV/AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis.
West Australian/AFP, 30 Nov
Tags: hiv china
The number of new HIV/AIDS cases in China is soaring, state media said on Wednesday, citing health officials, with rates of infections among college students and older men rising.
West Australian/AFP, 1 Dec
Tags: hiv asia poverty undp
Tens of thousands of HIV-affected households in Asia are facing "irreversible poverty" because of the cost of living with the disease, with women and children hardest hit, a UN report said Thursday.
Sydney Morning Herald/AFP, 2 Dec
Tags: hiv safrica Jacob Zuma prevention
President Jacob Zuma has unveiled a plan to halve the number of HIV infections over the next five years, cementing South Africa's turnaround from years of denial.
Sydney Morning Herald/AP, 2 Dec
Tags: hiv World AIDS Day Barack Obama Bill Clinton George W Bush bono Alicia Keys celebrities The Global Fund
US President Barack Obama has added $US50 million ($A49 million) to fight AIDS in the United States and launched new efforts to treat two million more people abroad, at an event to mark World AIDS Day.
HIV Prevention
The Australian/AFP, 1 Dec
Tags: hiv prevention vaccines gene-therapy neutralising-antibodies
TESTS on lab mice have opened up a new path towards a vaccine against HIV, one of the most frustrating quests in the 30-year history of AIDS, scientists have reported.
Sexual Health
Sunshine Coast Daily (Qld), 1 Dec
Tags: sex-education queensland schools education qahc Paul Martin
EVERY Queensland high school student could receive standardised age-appropriate safe sex education if a national curriculum is adopted.
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