HIV Media Digest 5 Mar
Note: HIV Media Digest will not be published on Monday, 8 March, due to the public holiday in Victoria.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 [1]
BBC News (UK), 3 Mar
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 [7]
HIV -- Region
Philippines HIV cases spike [8]
Straits Times (Singapore), 4 Mar
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... [10]
HIV -- International
Senators: Lift ban on gays donating blood [11]
Washington Post (US)/AP, 4 Mar
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... [20]
Company creates small condoms for 12yos [21]
The Australian/Fox News, 5 Mar
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... [25]
UNAIDS launches action framework for women, girls and HIV [26]
Aidsmap (UK), 3 Mar
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 [29]
Ugandans who think they have HIV are less likely to refer family members for testing [30]
Aidsmap (UK), 4 Mar
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 [33]
HIV -- Treatments
Pfizer pneumonia shot helps HIV-infected patients [34]
Reuters, 3 Mar
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 [40]
Smoking is sole risk for lung cancer for women with HIV [41]
Aidsmap (UK), 3 Mar
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 Clinical [45]Pertaining 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 [46]
HIV associated with poorer sexual function for women [47]
Aidsmap (UK), 3 Mar
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 [49]
HIV -- Prevention
Beliefs about reduced infection risk on ART linked to STI risk [50]
Aidsmap (UK), 4 Mar
People who believed that having undetectable viral load [54]A 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 [55]
Friday Viral Video
Human Rights and HIV/AIDS: Now More Than Ever [56]
YouTube, 28 Feb
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 [57]
Lady Gaga takes time out to promote HIV awareness [58]
YouTube, 3 Mar
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 [63]
Health Policy
Health shake-up 10 years overdue [64]
ABC TV 'Lateline', 3 Mar (TRANSCRIPT)
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 [70]
Rudd's hospital reform more radical than 1984 Medicare revamp [71]
SMH, 3 Mar
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... [73]
Sexual Health
Kinsey Institute study finds no consensus in definitions of 'had sex' [74]
Aidsmap (UK), 4 Mar
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 [79]
School sex education too focused on mechanics, teenagers say [80]
New Zealand Herald (NZ), 4 Mar
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... [83]
Let's talk about...cling wrap [84]
ABC News, 4 Mar
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 [90]
Science & Medicine
Pain 'should be viewed as a disease in its own right' [91]
BBC News (UK), 1 Mar
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 [93]
GLBTI News
Handling issues of homosexuality in Uganda’s rural media [94]
BBC World Service Trust (UK), undated
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... [99]
Gay marriage legalised in Washington [100]
ABC News, 4 Mar
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 [104]
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