HIV Media Digest 17 Mar
In this edition:
- HIV -- Australia (5 items)
- HIV -- Region (1 item)
- HIV -- International (2 items)
- HIV -- Prevention (3 items)
- Welfare & Work (1 item)
- Sexual Health (2 items)
- Drugs (1 item)
HIV -- Australia
HIV-AIDS data prompts new warning on safe sex [1]
Brisbane Times/AAP, 16 Mar
Queensland has recorded its highest number of HIV-AIDS cases on record. New data shows 178 people were diagnosed with HIV-AIDS in the state last year, 12 more than in 2008.
Continues: http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/queensland/hivaids-data-prompts-new-warn... [9]
HIV infections increasing in Queensland [10]
ABC News, 16 Mar
Queensland Health says the number of reported HIV (human immunodeficiency virus [11]A small infective organism which is incapable of reproducing outside a host cell.) cases in the state is climbing.
Continues: http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/03/16/2847205.htm [12]
Manager who tried to leave 'was distressed' [13]
SMH, 16 Mar
A former Macquarie fund manager under investigation for suspicious trades has told a court he used cocaine, is HIV positive and was in a state of emotional distress when he tried to illegally leave the country to seek treatment earlier this month.
Continues: http://www.smh.com.au/business/manager-who-tried-to-leave-was-distressed... [18]
Ex-Macquarie banker Oswyn de Silva pleads guilty to contempt [19]
Daily Telegraph (Sydney), 16 Mar
FORMER Macquarie banker had attempted to flee Australia to return to his native Malaysia to seek "urgent medical treatment", that he had abused cocaine, was HIV positive, was suffering from depression and panic attacks and had tried to harm hims
Continues: http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/business/ex-mac-banker-oswyn-de-silva-p... [20]
Government’s net filter ‘may stifle HIV prevention’ [21]
Sydney Star Observer, 17 Mar
A peak Australian HIV organisation has raised concerns the federal Government’s proposed mandatory internet filter may hamper HIV prevention efforts.
Continues: http://www.starobserver.com.au/news/2010/03/17/government%E2%80%99s-net-... [27]
HIV -- Region
US Stops Funding for AIDS [28]
Tempo Interactif (Indonesia), 15 Mar
The United States has stopped funding the Stop AIDS Action program in Indonesia, which could result in many patients being neglected.
Continues: http://www.tempointeractive.com/hg/nasional/2010/03/15/brk,20100315-2326... [30]
HIV -- International
New HIV infections increasing among homosexuals [31]
Washington Post (US)/AP, 16 Mar
New HIV infections are increasing among homosexuals, drug users and prostitutes who don't seek help because of laws that criminalize these practices, the head of the U.N. AIDS agency said Monday.
Continues: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/03/16/AR201003... [37]
AIDS Fight Targets Laws Against Homosexuality, UN’s Sidibe Says [38]
Bloomberg, 16 Mar
The battle against AIDS will include a push to overturn laws that criminalize homosexuality in 85 nations, said the head of the coalition of United Nations agencies formed to fight the disease.
Continues: http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=aCWyKVY9lfkE [40]
HIV -- Prevention
Genital ulcers frequently associated with HIV shedding in men [41]
Aidsmap (UK), 16 Mar
HIV was detected in the lesions of almost 50% of HIV-positive men with genital ulcer disease, investigators report in the April 1st edition of Clinical [44]Pertaining to or founded on observation and treatment of participants, as distinguished from theoretical or basic science. Infectious Diseases.
Continues: http://www.aidsmap.org/en/news/1DE2D4DD-B648-4556-8B94-7BF4CAC77317.asp [45]
Bananas help fight against HIV [46]
ABC News/BBC, 16 Mar
Scientists say a plant protein found in bananas could be a powerful weapon in the fight against HIV. A research team at an American university says the lectin found in bananas proved as potent as two current anti-HIV drugs in laboratory tests.
Continues: http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/03/16/2847283.htm?section=justin [50]
New slogan for the latest female condom: Put a ring on it [51]
Chicago Tribune (US), 15 Mar
When Zoe Lehman talks about the newest version of the female condom, she's equal parts women's health care advocate ("It's an incredible prevention tool that empowers women") and sex therapist ("we tell women the double rings
Continues: http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-100315trice-column,0,386554... [55]
Welfare & Work
Welfare recipient numbers plummet from 1996 highs [56]
The Australian, 16 Mar
HARD-HEADED policy cuts to welfare payments and the tightening of eligibility criteria drove a huge decline in income-support recipients from its 1996 peak when one in four 15- to 64-year-olds was receiving a taxpayer-funded income payment.
Continues: http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/nation/welfare-recipient-numbers-pl... [61]
Sexual Health
Rise in gonorrhoea cases in Newcastle [62]
SMH/AAP, 15 Mar
Health authorities have warned of an alarming spike in gonorrhoea cases in the NSW port city of Newcastle.
Continues: http://news.smh.com.au/breaking-news-national/rise-in-gonorrhoea-cases-i... [66]
Sex checks plea as gonorrhoea explodes in Newcastle [67]
Newcastle Herald (NSW), 16 Mar
HUNTER health authorities have urged Newcastle residents to have regular sexual health checks and to practise safe sex following a 355 per cent increase in gonorrhoea in the past year.
Continues: http://www.theherald.com.au/news/local/news/general/sex-checks-plea-as-g... [68]
Drugs
Time to clean up prisoner drug use, says Anex [69]
News.com.au/AAP, 16 Mar
AUSTRALIA'S jails are a major source of new blood-borne infection, a harm reduction group says in a call for a controlled needle exchange for inmates.
Continues: http://www.news.com.au/breaking-news/time-to-clean-up-prisoner-drug-use-... [76]
Links:
[1] http://www.napwa.org.au/redirector.php?q=05e7ce14a6055191ad85eaaf5444b530
[2] http://del.icio.us/napwa/hiv
[3] http://del.icio.us/napwa/incidence
[4] http://del.icio.us/napwa/queensland
[5] http://del.icio.us/napwa/qahc
[6] http://del.icio.us/napwa/testing
[7] http://del.icio.us/napwa/gay-men
[8] http://del.icio.us/napwa/safe-sex
[9] http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/queensland/hivaids-data-prompts-new-warning-on-safe-sex-20100316-qbow.html
[10] http://www.napwa.org.au/redirector.php?q=c81794624d922a54e81d35057ea91765
[11] http://www.napwa.org.au/glossary/term/125
[12] http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/03/16/2847205.htm
[13] http://www.napwa.org.au/redirector.php?q=b62ae1ce7cae092d8ff9e74ee92a9dde
[14] http://del.icio.us/napwa/corruption
[15] http://del.icio.us/napwa/fraud
[16] http://del.icio.us/napwa/criminal-law
[17] http://del.icio.us/napwa/asic
[18] http://www.smh.com.au/business/manager-who-tried-to-leave-was-distressed-20100315-q9rr.html
[19] http://www.napwa.org.au/redirector.php?q=73fe037229ea7e18a8b30895f46632d7
[20] http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/business/ex-mac-banker-oswyn-de-silva-pleads-guilty-to-contempt/story-e6frez7r-1225841173257
[21] http://www.napwa.org.au/redirector.php?q=27b10c86d07f6afcf98367e1479300ec
[22] http://del.icio.us/napwa/internet
[23] http://del.icio.us/napwa/censorship
[24] http://del.icio.us/napwa/afao
[25] http://del.icio.us/napwa/groves,abi
[26] http://del.icio.us/napwa/health-promotion
[27] http://www.starobserver.com.au/news/2010/03/17/government%E2%80%99s-net-filter-%E2%80%98may-stifle-hiv-prevention%E2%80%99/22777
[28] http://www.napwa.org.au/redirector.php?q=d5cef51d4868d2c89d22010399d4900f
[29] http://del.icio.us/napwa/indonesia
[30] http://www.tempointeractive.com/hg/nasional/2010/03/15/brk,20100315-232617,uk.html
[31] http://www.napwa.org.au/redirector.php?q=3bc743ca58123de594b9217e4b3824c1
[32] http://del.icio.us/napwa/unaids
[33] http://del.icio.us/napwa/sidibe,michel
[34] http://del.icio.us/napwa/decriminalisation
[35] http://del.icio.us/napwa/uganda
[36] http://del.icio.us/napwa/msm
[37] http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/03/16/AR2010031604320.html
[38] http://www.napwa.org.au/redirector.php?q=80303e4041628dd3dcc5d897b679f920
[39] http://del.icio.us/napwa/homosexuality
[40] http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=aCWyKVY9lfkE
[41] http://www.napwa.org.au/redirector.php?q=de7594ea3cfbcebcdf2c98a2560da05e
[42] http://del.icio.us/napwa/genital-ulcers
[43] http://del.icio.us/napwa/hsv
[44] http://www.napwa.org.au/glossary/term/475
[45] http://www.aidsmap.org/en/news/1DE2D4DD-B648-4556-8B94-7BF4CAC77317.asp
[46] http://www.napwa.org.au/redirector.php?q=0cab75db606bde7fd74922aaf60a1f28
[47] http://del.icio.us/napwa/treatments
[48] http://del.icio.us/napwa/microbicides
[49] http://del.icio.us/napwa/lectin
[50] http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/03/16/2847283.htm?section=justin
[51] http://www.napwa.org.au/redirector.php?q=a152ec00a66ce3b9df5d1662ccdf06f0
[52] http://del.icio.us/napwa/prevention
[53] http://del.icio.us/napwa/women
[54] http://del.icio.us/napwa/female-condom
[55] http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-100315trice-column,0,3865546.column
[56] http://www.napwa.org.au/redirector.php?q=0264a75e701ccd5337cb836f62b0dde3
[57] http://del.icio.us/napwa/welfare
[58] http://del.icio.us/napwa/dsp
[59] http://del.icio.us/napwa/newstart
[60] http://del.icio.us/napwa/howard,john
[61] http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/nation/welfare-recipient-numbers-plummet-from-1996-highs/story-e6frg6nf-1225841578444
[62] http://www.napwa.org.au/redirector.php?q=a68575666c0844422952db9c03b0459c
[63] http://del.icio.us/napwa/stis
[64] http://del.icio.us/napwa/nsw
[65] http://del.icio.us/napwa/gonorrhoea
[66] http://news.smh.com.au/breaking-news-national/rise-in-gonorrhoea-cases-in-newcastle-20100315-q702.html
[67] http://www.napwa.org.au/redirector.php?q=fa1382d3fea2e32990ed9efc1f4592fe
[68] http://www.theherald.com.au/news/local/news/general/sex-checks-plea-as-gonorrhoea-explodes-in-newcastle/1776942.aspx
[69] http://www.napwa.org.au/redirector.php?q=048ac3bbac215994eb09883f2dad908d
[70] http://del.icio.us/napwa/prisons
[71] http://del.icio.us/napwa/drugs
[72] http://del.icio.us/napwa/idu
[73] http://del.icio.us/napwa/anex
[74] http://del.icio.us/napwa/nsp
[75] http://del.icio.us/napwa/hcv
[76] http://www.news.com.au/breaking-news/time-to-clean-up-prisoner-drug-use-says-anex/story-e6frfku0-1225841149283