A broad variety of events to mark World AIDS Day will occur around Australia this year to raise awareness throughout Australia about HIV/AIDS issues, including providing an opportunity for the broader community to show support for positive people, and increase knowledge of prevention initiatives, as well as support services available in the community.

TB remains the biggest killer among HIV-positive people, experts estimated on the opening day of the 38th World Lung Health conference in South Africa.

This year’s World AIDS Day theme presents an opportunity for people living with HIV to talk about our role in response to the HIV epidemic in this country, writes NAPWA President Robert Mitchell.

Caritas Australia is in charge of rolling out a new partnership in Papua New Guinea, aimed at preventing sexually transmissible infections, particularly HIV.

While newer antiretrovirals do not appear to cause lipoatrophy, the disfiguring side effect characterised by loss of fat from the face and limbs, the problem is still very much with us. David Menadue examins the latest research and treatments.

World AIDS Day may remind us of the illness and death associated with living with HIV, but it serves an important purpose in raising awareness, writes David Menadue.

Many HIV-positive people struggle with depression. Graham Douglas-Meyer shares his strategies for dealing with this most common form of mental illness.

Both the United States and China have announced possible changes to existing restrictions on HIV-positive visitors.

HIV-positive people need to be targeted for heart disease screening and treatment, according to one of the largest studies of HIV and cardiac health ever conducted; published in the October 15th edition of Clinical Infectious Diseases.

Half of new HIV infections by 2015 could be prevented if UNAIDS targets for HIV expenditure are met and evidence-based prevention programs are implemented, according to a new report.