California HIV tests while-u-wait
Aiming to reduce the number of people not knowing their status, California
has approved a bill to allow rapid oral HIV testing which can yield a
result in five to 30 minutes. According to the US Centre for Disease Control,
30 per cent of the 2.5 million people tested annually for HIV never return
to get their result.
Unsafe
sex and Taiwan
More people in Taiwan have unprotected sex than anywhere else in Asia,
according to the 2001 Durex Global Sex Survey. It adds that 14 per cent
of sexually active Taiwanese use no contraceptive methods, two people
on the island contract HIV each day on average and nearly 400,000 abortions
are performed each year.
S.
Africa company nixes HIV drugs
The mining giant AngloAmerican has withdrawn free HIV drugs for positive
employees. The company said 14,000 senior staff with health insurance
would still get drugs but providing them to low-waged workers was too
expensive. The company employs 160,000 people mainly in South Africa,
21 per cent HIV positive.
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