HIV in the News

News June, 2009

News Sat 27 - Fri 03 July

African women with HIV 'coerced into sterilisation'. Guardian

AIDS denial: A lethal delusion. New Scientist

Travellers in the US, UK and Germany could soon find themselves donating to the fight against Aids and malaria when they buy an airline ticket over the internet under a scheme to raise hundreds of millions of dollars for healthcare in poor countries. Financial Times

Terrence Higgins Trust is launching a new campaign to encourage gay men to get tested regularly for the virus. Pink News

News Sat 13 - Fri 19 June

An international HIV conference will be held in the US in 2012 – but only if the US removes its travel ban on HIV-positive travellers. AIDSmap

UN chief warns against cutting AIDS funding.Yahoo News

Offering a rapid HIV test as part of a general check-up at a GP could help to boost testing rates and is acceptable to patients, UK research suggests.GP

Letters: NAT and other charities write about the welfare bill. Guardian

News Sat 06 - Fri 12 June

New calls to tackle HIV risk ahead of 2010 World Cup in South Africa. Observer

'Timebomb' of Britons unaware they have HIV. The Times

 

Routine, opt-out HIV testing at GPs in the UK is feasible and acceptable to large numbers of patients a study suggests. AIDSmap

The number of new HIV infections among South African teenagers has dropped significantly, prompting hope that national efforts to tackle the epidemic have finally turned a corner. Daily Telegraph

News Fri 29 - Fri 05 June

The National Children's Bureau and NAT are lobbying MPs to tackle discrimination against school children with HIV after talks with central government broke down. Children and Young People Now

The Lancet attacks UK's 'extraordinary failure' on tackling HIV. Pink News

On 4 June, THT will launch a new advertising campaign aimed at helping gay men to identify HIV seroconversion illness - the flu-like symptoms which often accompany infection. Pink Paper

Young people 'less aware of HIV dangers'. Guardian