Aug

7

Sex Workers Group Wins HIV and Rights Award

Filed Under AIDS/HIV, Human Rights |

(Mexico City, Mexico) –- The Asia Pacific Network of Sex Workers (APNSW) is the recipient of the 2008 international Award for Action on HIV/AIDS and Human Rights, the Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network and Human Rights Watch announced yesterday. Read more

Aug

7

Medicinal Marijuana Effective for Neuropathic Pain in HIV

Filed Under AIDS/HIV, Health, Research |

Medicinal Marijuana NewsSAN DIEGO, CA — In a double-blind, placebo-controlled clinical trial to assess the impact of smoked medical cannabis, or marijuana, on the neuropathic pain associated with HIV, researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine found that reported pain relief was greater with cannabis than with a placebo. Read more

Aug

6

Growing Epidemic in Gay and Bi Men in the US Heightens the AIDS Race

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AIDS/HIV News & ResearchMEXICO CITY, (PRNewswire-USNewswire) — In the wake of disturbing news about higher HIV rates in the United States, people living with HIV and allies are calling for a national AIDS strategy that confronts the homophobia, violence and bias at the heart of the U.S. epidemic. Read more

Aug

6

Male Circumcision Efforts in Africa and its Impact in Preventing HIV

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AIDS/HIV News ReportMEXICO CITY, Mexico — With millions of lives at stake over the next two decades, researchers and advocates at the AIDS 2008 Conference are calling on the global health community to ramp up male circumcision to significantly reduce risk of HIV infection in Africa, and to move quickly to integrate the life-saving procedure into other comprehensive efforts to prevent transmission of the disease in the vulnerable nations of eastern and southern Africa. Read more

Aug

5

Report Exposes Global Failure to Address HIV Among MSM

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AIDS/HIV News ReportMEXICO CITY (PRNewswire-USNewswire) — A day after leaders from the United Nations and the World Health Organization called attention to the need to combat AIDS among men who have sex with men, amfAR released the world’s first comprehensive report exposing the failure of governments and global health institutions to address this exploding epidemic. Read more

Aug

1

HIV/AIDS Activists Face Torture Threat in Uganda!

Filed Under AIDS/HIV, Human Rights |

Human Rights Watch - LGBT(Geneva) — The abduction and torture of a Ugandan HIV/AIDS activist who faces trial for holding a peaceful protest reveals the danger to those who challenge the government’s policies, Human Rights Watch, and the Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders said this week. Read more

Jul

31

Peace Corps Agrees To Stop Discriminating

Filed Under AIDS/HIV, Legal, Workplace Equality |

NEW YORK, NY — After pressure from the American Civil Liberties Union, the Peace Corps has agreed that it will no longer terminate volunteers just because they have HIV. The ACLU demanded the policy change on behalf of a volunteer who was sent home from his post in the Ukraine and terminated after he tested positive for the disease. Read more

Jul

29

Lambda Legal Urges President to Eliminate US Travel Restrictions

Filed Under AIDS/HIV, Gay Travel, Legal, Politics |

(New York, NY) — In a letter submitted on Friday, Lambda Legal urged President Bush to end the ban on visitors and immigrants who are HIV positive by signing the President’s Emergency Fund for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) reauthorization bill. Read more

Jul

25

Anti-HIV Therapy Boosts Life Expectancy

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AIDS/HIV NewsBIRMINGHAM, Ala. — The life expectancy for patients with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) has increased by more than 13 years since the late 1990s thanks to advancements in antiretroviral therapy, according to researchers at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) and Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, British Columbia. Read more

Jul

22

Release Detained HIV/AIDS Experts in Iran!

Filed Under AIDS/HIV, Human Rights, Middle East |

AIDS/HIV News(New York, NY) -– Iranian authorities should immediately release or charge two physicians who are internationally recognized for their work on HIV/AIDS, Human Rights Watch said yesterday. The men, Arash and Kamyar Alaei, who are brothers, were detained without charge by Iranian security forces in late June, and their whereabouts remain unknown. Read more

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