NAPWA positve women have recently endorsed new Terms of reference for the advisory group.

The 4th International AIDS Society (IAS) Conference on HIV Pathogenesis, Treatment and Prevention has opened in Sydney with calls for increased funding for HIV research, and a powerful rejection of the Australian Prime Minister's plans to tighten restrictions on immigration by people living with HIV/AIDS.

There are sound legal, ethical and practical reasons for protecting the human rights of people living with HIV/AIDS, a conference in Adelaide has been told.

For the first time ever the HIV-positive people of the Pacific met, during the Pan-Pacific AIDS Conference in Auckland, to discuss the priority issues that they believe need to be addressed.

The new year is upon us so I thought I’d look for a some good news stories to kick 2005 off on a positive note! Surprisingly I had little difficulty in finding examples of HIV-positive people who have fought a discriminatory policy or practice which worked against them because of their status — and who won out in the end.

With more than a hundred thousand people living with HIV, Indonesia faces an uphill struggle to roll out treatment, education and care programs. But an inspirational and dynamic national network of positive people is playing its part.

p(standfirst). Has social justice lost favour within HIV/AIDS advocacy, or are AIDS organisations just repackaging the same old social justice demands using different rhetoric? MARK CATTELL, JOHN GODWIN and TIM LEACH report on the social justice satellite session at the NAPWA conference.

On 4 and 5 December 2001, the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission (HREOC) hosted a summit for peak disability organisations. NAPWA’s HIV Living Policy Analist, John Rule, presented the following submission to the meeting.

p(standfirst). The text of the declaration of rights adopted by the NAPWA Conference in 1993.