Tag: AIDS and HIV
No evidence of potential HIV epidemic: Health Dept
The Health Department says there is no evidence that Kimberley Indigenous communities, in northern Western Australia, are at risk of an HIV epidemic.[MORE]
Study finds AIDS pandemic has earlier origins
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United States researchers have found the deadly AIDS virus first began spreading among humans at the turn of the 20th Century in sub-Saharan Africa, just as modern cities were emerging in the region.[MORE]
At least 3 million injecting drug users are HIV positive: research
New research is suggesting that that more than three million injecting drug users around the world are HIV positive.[MORE]
Magistrate's ruling undermines public health
For casual sex, including sex work, all people involved need to assume that everybody is, or could be, HIV positive.[MORE]
Authorities warn of AIDS surge in Aussie travellers
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Health authorities are being urged to step up safe sex education in an attempt to limit the number of Australian travellers returning home with HIV.[MORE]
Govt funding needed to combat increase in HIV infections
Researchers say governments need to come up with new strategies to address the significant rise in the number of new HIV infections in Australia. [MORE]
HIV infector 'may change plea'
The New South Wales Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) will be asked to consider an alternative charge for a man who pleaded guilty to infecting his former wife with HIV.[MORE]
Authorities fear more undetected Cairns HIV
Qld authorities say there might be more undetected cases of men in Cairns who have HIV after time in PNG.[MORE]
6 Cairns businessmen contract HIV in PNG
Health authorities say a cluster of Cairns men has contracted HIV after having unprotected sex with women in Papua New Guinea.[MORE]
Guest workers scheme under fire from AIDS groups
The Pacific guest worker scheme has been criticised by AIDS support groups in PNG.[MORE]
AIDS spreads faster in Big Apple: report
The AIDS virus spreads in New York City three times faster than in the rest of the United States, the city's health department said in a report on the deadly disease.[MORE]
Free condoms distributed in Beijing hotels: media
Beijing's health authorities have distributed 400,000 free condoms in over 400 hotels in the Olympic city in a bid to raise awareness of safe sex and AIDS prevention, state media reported.[MORE]
Gay safe sex poses low risk to blood supply, tribunal hears
A tribunal has heard Tasmania's blood supply is at an extremely low risk of infection gay men who practice safe sex donate.[MORE]
Man with HIV escapes jail time after having unprotected sex
A Melbourne man who had unprotected sex with a woman without telling her he had HIV has escaped an immediate jail term.[MORE]
UN target of 2010 will not be reached by all: AIDS leaders
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Universal access to anti-HIV drugs and care by 2010 is unlikely, experts say. [MORE]
Gay discrimination claim against blood bank
Gay man accuses Red Cross of discrimination for refusing to allow him to donate blood.[MORE]
Sex report stirs controversy at AIDS conference
Swiss researchers have suggested that patients with HIV whose infection is curbed by drugs do not pass on the virus during unprotected sex.[MORE]
Bill Clinton praises France's AIDS support
Former US president Bill Clinton has wound up a four-nation Africa tour aimed at combating HIV/AIDS in Dakar, praising France for its financial support through the agency Unitaid.[MORE]
'Homophobic attitudes' preventing action against AIDS
The director of Australia's main AIDS organisation has urged the Federal Government to provide more financial and practical aid for HIV prevention programs in developing countries.[MORE]
US HIV figures a 'wake-up call'
US health authorities have acknowledged that they have substantially underestimated the number of new HIV infections in the country.[MORE]
HIV infector runs from court
A man who pleaded guilty to infecting his partner with HIV has run from a Sydney court and tried to hide his appearance.[MORE]
Jury finds man guilty of spreading HIV
49 yo Michael Neal has been found guilty of charges including attempting to infect a person with HIV.[MORE]
US triples pandemic funding
The US has tripled its spending on a health program to fight the global pandemics of AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis. [MORE]
Worldwide AIDS deaths down slightly: UN
The numbers of people dying of AIDS and becoming infected with the HIV virus that causes it have dropped modestly in recent years amid intensified global efforts to fight the disease, a UN agency said overnight.[MORE]
Govt to axe chronic disease dental rebate
The Federal Government has sent a letter to dentists urging them not to treat patients with chronic disease under the Medicare dental rebate, because it will soon be axed.[MORE]
