The global HIV epidemic

Bold New Plans

Graham Stocks — Wed, 31 Aug 2011 20:50:02 -0700

In June this year, I had the opportunity to the represent HIV positive people of Australia at a UN special session on HIV. The meeting coincided with the 30th anniversary of the first public report of AIDS in June 1981.

NAPWA’s president, Robert Mitchell,reports back from the UN special session on HIV in New York.

Reviewing the global response

Graham Stocks — Wed, 02 Mar 2011 21:48:22 -0800

Late last year, The United Nations General Assembly called for a High Level Meeting to take place in June this year to review of the progress achieved so far and to promote the continued engagement of leaders in a comprehensive global response to HIV.

Fiji outlaws HIV discrimination

Graham Stocks — Thu, 24 Feb 2011 19:22:19 -0800

Fiji has made it unlawful to discriminate against people with HIV.

The HIV/AIDS Decree 2011 was adopted by the government this month, winning praise locally and internationally.

Pacific Islands AIDS Foundation legal trainer and policy analyst, Laitia Tamata, says the decree represents years of hard work by many people to give PLHIVPerson (or people) Living with HIV. This term is now preferred over the older PLWHA. a legal avenue to challenge discrimination.

Snippets from ASHM

Graham Stocks — Wed, 01 Dec 2010 17:34:41 -0800

The Australasian HIV/AIDS Conference was held in Sydney in October. Here are some of the treatment highlights:

Inaugural World AIDS Day Dinner benefit to be held in Sydney, December 1 2010

Graham Stocks — Thu, 16 Sep 2010 16:13:13 -0700

On December 1, 2010 the first World AIDS Day Dinner (WADD) charity dinner will take place at Sydney, Australia’s Royal Randwick Race Course. A glamorous evening affair, the charity dinner will largely benefit Australia’s longest-running HIV charity, The Bobby Goldsmith Foundation with a portion of the proceeds from the live auction going to St. Vincent’s Hospital Patient Support Fund.

News from IAS 2010

Graham Stocks — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 22:09:07 -0700

Adrian Ogier gives a round up of treatments news from the Vienna Conference.

Cure must be a priority

Graham Stocks — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 21:13:15 -0700

Finding a cure for HIV must be prioritised, said Sharon Lewin of Melbourne’s Monash University, in a keynote address at the opening session of the AIDS 2010 conference.

Microbicides, PrEP and treatment as prevention

Graham Stocks — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 20:05:30 -0700

Significant advances in HIV prevention were unveiled at the XVIII International AIDS Conference in Vienna, with research advancing on several fronts towards new prevention technologies. Paul Kidd reports.

Ageing, long-term complications and nutrition

Graham Stocks — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 18:50:30 -0700

Reporting back from the AIDS Conference in Vienna, DAVID MENADUE discovers that ‘HIV and ageing’ is a universal issue, that long-term complications may be more prevalent than we thought and that good nutrition really is a good idea.

AIDS 2010: microbicide breakthrough

Paul Kidd — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 00:42:16 -0700

In what is being called a major breakthrough, a trial of a vaginal microbicide gel in South African women has shown for the first time that such a product can be effective against HIV infection.