Professor Pietro Vernazza, President of the Swiss Federal Commission on AIDS wasinvited by ASHM to Australia to debate the statement as part of a panel.

The use of Viagra (sildenafil citrate) and other sexuopharmaceuticals was the subject of a paper presented at ASHM.

The President of the Swiss Federal AIDS Commission, which produced the controversial statement on the effect of treatment of HIV transmission earlier this year, made some qualifications to the statement on a panel of experts at the International AIDS Conference in Mexico City.

Is it acceptable to say that, in some situations, it is OK to look after your own interests when it comes to sex?

The announcement by a group of Swiss AIDS experts that people with undetectable viral load are sexually non-infectious needs to be treated with caution, writes Paul Kidd.

HIV infections are on the rise nationwide, and the government is planning an advertising blitz aimed at gay men. If HIV is making a comeback, should positive gay men care? And if we do care, what can we do?

Gay men are being urgently warned to be sceptical of a genetic test being marketed in Australia which purports to indicate whether an individual may be immune to HIV infection.

In a landmark decision, a New Zealand court has dismissed charges of criminal nuisance brought against a man who failed to disclose his HIV status. The accused, a 36-year-old HIV-positive man from Lower Hutt, successfully argued that by using a condom he had taken adequate precautions to protect his partner, and that he did not have to disclose his status.

If we take the time to understand how HIV is – and isn’t – transmitted, we are that much better armed to protect our partners. This issue's Backgrounder explains the ins and outs of HIV transmission.

HIV-related news in brief from the Oct-Nov 2003 edition of Positive Living.