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UK promises more Aids funding

Thailand to keep generic HIV drugs scheme

Chinese activist faces subversion trial

‘Women of Africa bear the brunt of human rights abuses’

India & Saudi Arabia back HIV marriage tests

Eire lowers tax on condoms

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Zimbabwe facing HIV drug shortages

Homophobic mob abuse in Jamaica

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More money in Scotland for sexual health

HIV positive journalist cleared of rape

Health & Social Care Bill ‘gives draconian powers’

Health insurance milestone

‘Wrong to blame immigrants for TB epidemic’

Heavy boozing and unsafe sex on the South Coast

THT offers grants to young leaders

Insurers still refusing people with HIV

Insurers Is gay wedding honeymoon over?

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Charity honours African community activists

The African HIV Policy Network recently hosted their first awards ceremony, honouring those working to raise awareness and destigmatize HIV in the African community.

The Queen shakes hands with an HIV positive patient, Uganda

Queen breaks HIV
taboo in Uganda

The Queen helped break the taboo around touching HIV positive people when she shook the hand of an HIV positive patient for the first time during the Commonwealth leaders conference in Uganda in November.

HIV activists join the US election campaign trail

HIV groups across the USA have entered the closely fought Primary stages of the US Presidential election.

In South Carolina last month, activists from the Campaign to End Aids (C2EA) joined the Democratic Primary candidates Senators Obama and Clinton.

Elton & David ride to the rescue in Lesotho

Sir Elton John and partner David Furnish have donated 120 motorcycles to help doctors and nurses to deliver health care to remote areas in the mountainous southern African republic of Lesotho.

‘Egypt is torturing people with HIV’

Using the New York based organisation Human Rights Watch (HRW) who has accused Egyptian authorities of torturing and chaining HIV positive men in the country to hospital beds before forcing them to stand trial for their alleged homosexuality.

Stick to condom advice, say experts

Using a condom is still the safest protection against HIV and Aids, UNAIDS said last month after Swiss researchers claimed patients on antiretroviral drugs do not transmit the virus.

European HIV cases ‘have doubled since 1999’

New cases of HIV and Aids have doubled since 1999, according to the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ESDC).

Displaced Kenyans now not getting the HIV treatment they need to survive.

‘Kenyan civil war fuelling HIV crisis’

Thousands of Kenyans uprooted by the ongoing ethnic and tribal violence in the country are not now getting the vital HIV medicines they need to survive.