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Welcome to Positive Nation! When too much, is not enough Public attitudes towards HIV AIDS DRUGS RESISTANCE: The new challenge in India Benefit Reviews Causing Stress and Hardship It’s good to talk? Side Effects Step into the Future Are you affected by new changes to the Immigration Rules? Let’s get physical!

Column: Caroline Guinness-McGann Column: Russell Fleet Young Voices: Clint Walters Column: Natasha Bell Comment: Brian West Letters

‘Joints twenty times more dangerous than cigarettes’ Yoghurt fights superbugs Freedomhealth

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Luis Luna – The Healthy Chef Healthy Eating: The Vital Balance Salmon Teriyaki Serves 4 Archive: Recipes

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World AIDS Day 2007 – Let’s Be Heard

World AIDS Day, 1 December, is a time when people remember all those affected by HIV and AIDS around the world. This year, the twentieth World AIDS Day, it remains as important as ever that we take advantage of this attention to increase understanding and demand action says Deborah Jack

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	December 2007 Issue 136 Doctors against HIV testing in A&E What we don’t tell our doctors African gay men with HIV ‘face triple jeopardy’ ‘Silence on HIV still equals death’ Law is ‘reckless’ on HIV prosecutions Doctors face dilemma on treating asylum seekers Doctors face dilemma on treating asylum seekers Jan 2008 Swiss experts say individuals with undetectable viral load and no STI cannot transmit HIV during sex December 2007 Issue 136 Mental Health: 80 per cent face depression USA organ donor HIV infection HIV prevention ‘is failing’ & universal treatments ‘are a pipe dream’ The greying of HIV Compiled by Martin Flynn December 2007 Issue 136 Kivexa or Truvada? More evidence Start at 350, say new European treatment guidelines Only half of patients check to see if PEP has worked How do we get more Europeans to test for HIV? HIV test vaccine may have harmed volunteers Women more likely to be non progressors? Two STEPs Back Compiled by Gus Cairns December 2007 Issue 136 New hep C drugs strut their stuff Hepatitis C treatment improves mental health Faster liver damage in HIV/HCV patients Treatment reduces deaths – if it works High HCV, but not HIV rates in UK drug users Few patients cure themselves of HCV	December 2007 Issue 136 Parents and Children New DVD Sexy star Dita Von Teese gets lippy and raises funds for HIV Crusaid: Make sure you play your part in World Aids Day FREE LIFE-COACHING SESSIONS OFFER December 2007 Issue 136 Caroline Guinness-McGann: A missed opportunity? Russell Fleet Alive and kicking: ‘Hit me baby one more time’ Natasha Bell: Baby Talk Health & Wellbeing: Thandi Haruperi Last word: Brian West CLINT WALTERS: World AIDS Day? World AIDS Year? December 2007 Issue 136 Letters December 2007 All readers living with HIV who would like to receive Positive Nation free of charge should email info@sugarmedia.co.uk. December 2007 Issue 136 Life Coach: Get some “good” support – and offer some in return TRAVEL WITH PEACE OF MIND	December 2007 Issue 136 World AIDS Day 2007 – Let’s Be Heard LET’S GET TALKING: Voices from around the world The Elton John AIDS Foundation is all systems go around the globe... Tainted Blood HIV Scotland: Lessons learnt and the way forward Young Voices: THE POWER OF POSITIVITY African countries criminalise HIV December 2007 Issue 136 Freedomhealth Intellectual, Creative and Economic Health Newly Diagnosed: Combination therapy - What, why, when & other questions... Healthy Eating Luis Luna – the healthy chef Red Mullet Escabeche Serves 4 Butter Bean Soup Serves 4 Grilled Squid & Steamed Vegetables Ingrediants - Serves 4 For all Recipes from issues 134 - 73: Click Here

World AIDS Day 2007 – Let’s Be Heard

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