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Latest news about HIV and Aids
HIV-related Death: Predicting Fatal Fungal Infections (Science Daily)
Researchers have identified cells in blood that predict which HIV-positive individuals are most likely to develop deadly fungal meningitis, a major cause of HIV-related death. This form of meningitis affects more than 900,000 HIV-infected people globally--most of them in sub-Saharan Africa and other areas of the world where antiretroviral therapy for HIV is not available.
3 Jul 2009, 11:36 pm | click here for more
Tanzania: Circumcision 'Key Factor' in HIV War (AllAfrica.com)
Male circumcision has become an important factor in the spread of HIV in Tanzania, health officials have said, naming regions where it is not practised as the worst affected by the pandemic.
3 Jul 2009, 1:01 pm | click here for more
Delhi HC order on gays to help fight HIV (NDTV)
The Delhi High Court order decriminalising homosexuality will help fight the spread of HIV in India. But so far, gay men and transgenders have remained underground, afraid that they will be targetted under Section 377, which will make it difficult to reach out to them for HIV treatment.
4 Jul 2009, 2:12 am | click here for more
Delhi HC order on gays to help fight HIV (NDTV)
So far, gay men and transgenders have remained underground, afraid that they will be targetted under Section 377, which will make it difficult to reach out to them for HIV treatment.
4 Jul 2009, 12:58 am | click here for more
CEO Of Black AIDS Institute Discusses HIV/AIDS At Newspaper Conference; Group Releases Report Examining HIV Testing In ... (Medical News Today)
Phill Wilson, CEO of the Black AIDS Institute (BAI), last week addressed the annual convention of the National Newspapers Publishers Association where he discussed the reasons blacks "were so slow to grasp the severity of the threat" of HIV, the NNPA/Seattle Medium reports.
3 Jul 2009, 9:08 am | click here for more
Teen accused of exposing 3 other girls to HIV (NWAnews.com)
BENTONVILLE — Police believe a Siloam Springs teenager, already accused of exposing a girl to the HIV virus through sexual contact, engaged in sexual intercourse with three other girls. (Benton County Daily Record)
4 Jul 2009, 7:39 am | click here for more
Teenager accused of exposing girls to HIV (NWAnews.com)
BENTONVILLE — Police believe a Siloam Springs teenager, already accused of exposing a girl to HIV through sexual contact, engaged in sexual intercourse with three other girls. (Northwest Arkansas Times)
4 Jul 2009, 7:36 am | click here for more
Namibia: No Coerced Sterilisation of HIV+ Women - Kamwi (AllAfrica.com)
HEALTH Minister Dr Richard Kamwi has categorically denied that HIV-positive women are "systematically coerced" to be sterilised at State hospitals.
3 Jul 2009, 12:02 pm | click here for more
America to remove HIV visa ban after Briton's protest (u.tv)
A law that has in effect banned people with HIV from visiting America for two decades is to be overturned after a Briton with the virus accused the US of hypocrisy and discrimination during a major health conference.
4 Jul 2009, 7:18 pm | click here for more
It’s time to get real-sponsible about HIV/AIDS (San Francisco Bay View)
Among youth, while only 15 percent of teens (ages 13-19) are African American, they accounted for 73 percent of the new AIDS cases reported in 2004. Comparably shocking, HIV and AIDS is the leading cause of death for African American women between the ages of 25 and 34. Where’s Black leadership on this issue? Where’s the Black church?
3 Jul 2009, 11:58 am | click here for more