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Sunday, August 10
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Source: Vancouver Sun , Xinhua , Wall Street Journal MEXICO CITY -- Renowned Vancouver AIDS researcher Dr. Julio Montaner has been appointed president of the world's largest independent association of HIV/AIDS professionals. Montaner assumed the position of president of the International AIDS Society (IAS) on Friday. He will serve a two-year term. Montaner will actively promote the role of the IAS as a worldwide professional force working to prevent, control and treat HIV/AIDS, Vancouver Sun reports. He will focus on the global expansion of antiretroviral-therapy programs to limit the epidemic's...
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Monday, August 04
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Source: Chicago Tribune , SABC News , Bloomberg , AFP , China Daily As thousands of HIV/AIDS researchers, health-care providers, and activists gathered for a major conference, the US Centers for Disease Control released new findings that indicate the AIDS epidemic in the U.S. is far worse than previously reported. About 56,300 people in the US are now thought to be infected with HIV annually -- a startling 40 percent jump from the government's previous estimate of 40,000. The findings were released as over 30,000 delegates joined world leaders in Mexico City at the 17th International AIDS Conference...
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Wednesday, July 30
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Source: BBC News , Reuters , AIDS Healthcare Foundation press release , AFP President Bush signed a new law today that triples America's budget for fighting Aids and other diseases in Africa and the Caribbean and which also lifts a ban on HIV-infected people from entering the US. The measure increases funding for the successful global health program from $15 billion up to $48 billion over the next five years. "Defeating HIV/AIDS once and for all will require an unprecedented investment over generations. But it is an investment that yields the best possible return -- saved lives,"...
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Saturday, July 26
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Source: Surrey Now , Xtra West Martin Rooney of Surrey was turned back at the U.S. border for being HIV-positive. photo by Brian Howell via Surrey Now An HIV-positive man from Surrey, BC who was denied entry to the US last year at the Blaine, WA border crossing cheered a Senate vote last week that is likely to remove the ban on HIV-positive visitors to the US. "It is a great day for those of us living with HIV," Martin Rooney said when told of the Senate vote, Surrey Now reports. Rooney was turned back at the American border last November for being HIV-positive, which in turn sparked...
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Sunday, July 20
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Source: TIME , AFP , Daily Dish , Associated Press , Seattle Times , IAS press release , Xtra.ca A two-decade ban on people with HIV visiting or immigrating to the United States will end soon through a Senate bill aimed at fighting AIDS and other diseases in Africa and other poor areas of the world. LGBT advocates, commentators, and international health advocates hailed a vote Wednesday by US senators to repeal the travel ban. The 80-16 vote also committed the United States to spending up to $48 billion over the next five years for the most ambitious foreign public health program ever launched...
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Wednesday, June 04
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Source: News24.com , Reuters , Advocate Kampala -- Ugandan Police arrested a group of gay activists demanding the right to HIV/AIDS treatment at an international AIDS conference in Kampala on Wednesday. "Two young women and a man stormed the conference venue uninvited and we had to arrest them," senior police commander Byakagaba Abas told Reuters at the meeting in Kampala. South Africa's News24.com reports that hundreds of activists disrupted the morning plenary session of the conference, calling for rights, recognition, and access to services and funds extended to groups involved...
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Monday, May 19
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Source: AFP , Ars Technica , Canadian Press PARIS -- The campaign against AIDS marks an important anniversary this week, bringing to mind victories of science and the human spirit but also defeats, stigma and ignorance in a combat that has claimed more lives than World War I. On May 20 1983, in a paper published in the US journal Science, a team from France's Pasteur Institute, led by Luc Montagnier, described a suspect virus found in a patient who had died of AIDS. In the absence of a known infectious agent, AIDS was truly terrifying, as an essay on the anniversary in Ars Technica points out...
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Monday, May 19
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Source: Dallas Morning News , Associated Press via Houston Chronicle Prosecutors convinced a Dallas County jury this week that HIV-positive saliva should be considered a deadly weapon. But the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and countless doctors say no one has ever contracted the virus from spit. And that's why several AIDS advocacy groups and many individuals contend that the 35-year sentence Willie Campbell received Wednesday for spitting into the mouth and eye of a Dallas police officer was excessive. Willie Campbell spit into the eye and open mouth of a Dallas police officer...
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Tuesday, April 15
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Source: BBC News , Glasgow Evening Times , Press Association Gay activists today demanded of Scottish government chiefs that they be allowed to donate blood. Gay and bisexual men in the UK are banned from giving blood because transfusion chiefs believe it poses an increased HIV risk. Campaigners appeared before Scottish Parliament's petitions committee today calling for the "blanket ban" on this group to be lifted in Scotland. Pressure on the Scottish Government comes from gay rights groups, the National Union of Students and LibDem MSP Ross Finnie - who claim the rules on blood donation...
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Thursday, April 10
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Source: Reuters , Same Same CAIRO -- An Egyptian court on Wednesday convicted and jailed five men arrested on morals charges in what rights groups have described as an escalating crackdown on Egyptians living with HIV. Court sources said the men, four of whom are HIV-positive, were sentenced to three years in jail for the "habitual practice of debauchery", a charge rights groups say is used in Egypt to criminalize consensual homosexual sex acts. "These convictions are clearly based on ignorance and fear of AIDS rather than on any crime committed," said Hossam Bahgat, head of...
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Monday, March 31
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Source: Globe and Mail , Associated Press via Cleveland Leader VANCOUVER -- A harrowing encounter between an HIV-positive Canadian traveling to the United States and a U.S. border guard at the Peach Arch crossing near Blaine, Wash. has helped thrust a long-standing but little-known law back into the political ring. Qnews update: Surrey man turned away at Blaine crossing cheers lifting of US HIV travel ban Senate votes to end HIV travel ban; triple AIDS spending The U.S. Senate is expected to vote next month on a bill proposed by Massachusetts Senator John Kerry that would lift what he calls a Draconian...
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Friday, March 21
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Source: Washington Blade , New York Times , Associated Press via Yahoo News ATLANTA -- After reaching its deathbed at the turn of the century, syphilis is once again a “significant burden” in the U.S., with gay and bisexual men making up the majority of domestic syphilis cases, according to the Centers for Disease Control & Prevention. U.S. syphilis cases climbed for the seventh straight year in 2007, and increases in the disease among gay men and blacks largely contributed, government researchers reported at a conference last week. Screening for sexually transmitted infections is a critical...
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Friday, March 21
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Source: New Republic , Stanford Daily Porn star and producer Michael Lucas spoke at Stanford last month about safe sex, but his neocon political views generated controversy both before and during the talk Stanford Daily photo by Mehmet Inonu About 50 students gathered last month at Stanford for a lively, candid discussion with gay pornographic actor, activist and entrepreneur Michael Lucas. During a lengthy question and answer session, students inquired about his personal views and challenged him on his controversial beliefs. Michael Lucas discussed sexual health and AIDS prevention in the adult...
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Wednesday, March 19
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Source: Washington Blade The influential Senate Foreign Relations Committee last week voted 18-3 to approve legislation calling for repeal of a controversial travel and immigration ban on people who test positive for HIV. A bipartisan group of senators backing efforts to eliminate the HIV ban added language securing its repeal to a sweeping and highly popular bill that would reauthorize the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, known as PEPFAR. The PEPFAR bill, which the Foreign Relations Panel passed March 13, would provide up to $50 billion for AIDS-related medical care and prevention programs...
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Tuesday, March 11
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Source: Associated Press and BBSNews Gay-rights activists are hoping to use a global AIDS relief bill supported by the Bush administration to repeal a 15-year-old law restricting travel to the U.S. by HIV-positive people. Activists oppose the near-ban as discriminatory since HIV is the only medical condition singled out in the Immigration and Nationality Act for inadmissibility. Since 1993, the INA has designated HIV as grounds for inadmissibility to the US. A cumbersome waiver option is available to those wishing to enter this country, but the process is highly restrictive. These obstacles result...
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Monday, March 10
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Source: The Age Sydney -- A NEW report on HIV predicts a more than 70% increase in new infections in the Australian state of Victoria by 2015 if nothing fresh is done to curb the spread of the disease. Many people have little recollection of the background of the epidemic in Australia, so it is worth revisiting some of these facts. In 1983 a new disease, AIDS, arrived in Australia. Its cause was unknown and there had been many deaths in the US among male homosexuals, intravenous drug users and, for some strange reason, immigrants from Haiti. There were claims of a new "black death" about...
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Friday, March 07
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Source: Reuters TUNIS, March 7 (Reuters Life!) - Homosexual men living with HIV/AIDS In the Arab world face a twin taboo, but Karim doesn't look like someone burdened by stigma. Smiling and self-assured, the healthy looking Tunisian says his peace of mind comes from accepting what he cannot change, living in the moment and taking care to present a normal face to the world. The 34-year-old draws the menace from his infection by seeing it as his offspring. "Personally, I accept the illness. I consider the virus my little baby. Together, we make up the same person," he said. Karim, one...
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Friday, February 29
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Source: Washington Blade The State Department on Feb. 15 ended its longstanding policy of automatically rejecting candidates for the U.S. Foreign Service if they test positive for HIV, saying officials will now assess each candidate on a case-by-case basis to determine if their HIV status enables them to be deployed for overseas assignments. The policy change came less than two weeks before a lawsuit filed by a gay man who was denied entry into the Foreign Service because of his HIV status was scheduled to go to trial in U.S. District Court in Washington. “Now people like me who apply to the Foreign...
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Wednesday, February 27
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Source: San Jose Mercury News , Bay Area Indymedia The Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors voted unanimously Tuesday to oppose the Food and Drug Administration's lifetime ban on blood donations by gay men and to encourage their federal lobbyists to work to overturn the ban. Supervisors said they took the largely symbolic step, proposed by openly gay Supervisor Ken Yeager, because major blood banks say they can screen for HIV infection far better now than when the ban was imposed in 1983. Current food and drug administration rules, in effect since then, prohibit any man who’s had sex with...
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Wednesday, February 20
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Source: Xinhua BEIJING, Feb. 20 (Xinhua) -- China is to work out a HIV/AIDS prevention policy this year to combat the rising incidence of HIV/AIDS in the country's gay population, the Ministry of Health said here Wednesday. The policy will incorporate detailed HIV/AIDS prevention measures for MSM (men who have sex with men) including extending the use of condoms, according to the ministry's work plan for disease prevention and control in 2008. China has decided to intensify its AIDS intervention campaign on MSM by carrying out AIDS prevention training among the gay population nationwide...
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Tuesday, February 19
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Source: Boston Globe Boston -- Saying the state ignored its own rules, the Massachusetts Appeals Court today ordered MassHealth to revisit its decision not to pay for surgery for a teenager who developed a hump on her neck from HIV medications. Ashley Shaw's doctors at Children’s Hospital Boston said in 2004 that she needed to get the large pad of fat removed from her neck because it was changing her posture, giving her headaches, and leading her to be withdrawn from others. The day before surgery, MassHealth notified Ashley’s mother, Elizabeth Shaw, that it would not pay for the liposuction...
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Friday, February 15
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Source: BBC News , Human Rights Watch press release , and Medical News Today Egyptian police have arrested four more men suspected of being HIV positive, bringing the total detained in a recent crackdown to 12, rights groups say. Human Rights Watch (HRW) said last week that HIV-positive Egyptian men had been chained to hospital beds and forced to undergo tests for the virus. The latest arrests took place after police followed up information coerced from men already detained, HRW said. The Egyptian interior ministry has not responded to the allegations. In a joint press release , Amnesty International...
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Friday, February 01
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Source: Associated Press via MSNBC , Reuters , and AFP via Google GENEVA -- Using a condom is still the safest protection against AIDS, United Nations health agencies said Friday after Swiss researchers claimed patients on retroviral drugs do not transmit the virus. UNAIDS and the World Health Organisation said in a joint statement that they "strongly recommend a comprehensive package of HIV prevention approaches, including correct and consistent use of condoms." People taking anti-retrovirals can have undetectable amounts of HIV virus in their blood "at certain stages of their treatment"...
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Thursday, January 31
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Source: San Jose Mercury News San Jose, Calif -- In a move believed to be the first by a college campus in the nation, San Jose State University President Don Kassing has suspended all campus blood drives because the U.S. Food and Drug Administration bars any man who has had sex with another man from donating blood. "The FDA's lifetime blood donor deferral affecting gay men violates our non-discrimination policy," said Kassing in an e-mail sent to faculty, staff and students. The suspension, which is effective immediately, applies to blood drives arranged by employees representing...
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Tuesday, January 15
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Source: GayWired.com Since 1983, The Food and Drug Administration has placed an absolute ban on blood donations from men who have sex with other men. In the height of a time when "killer blood" was circulating through the blood supply, the government and the public panicked, and a disease sweeping the gay community seemed to warrant a lifetime ban. The government's gay scare began in 1981, when physicians in San Francisco and New York City began to see a pattern of unusual infections and cancers in young and otherwise healthy active homosexual men. Originally thought to be contracted...
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Monday, January 14
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Source: Press release SANEPR.com Indian activist/journalist Ashok Row Kavi photo: Tribune India, 2003 The interview isn't currently available from the Indian lifestyle magazine's website , but according to a press release SUTRA magazine offers an interview with Ashok Row Kavi, described as being "virtually the only openly gay man in India to speak out on the HIV issue there." In the introduction to a 1999 interview with Row Kavi , author Perry Brass says of Row Kavi, "He has been called the 'Larry Kramer of India,' though in person and in print he is more humane,...
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Monday, January 14
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Source: Washington Post For nearly a quarter-century they have come to the first floor of Children's Hospital: teenagers infected through circumstances, always tragic, or through choices, admittedly bad ones. More than 30 new cases in 2007 alone, as the epidemic that is HIV and AIDS extended its reach through a second generation of adolescents. Fears of ostracism have kept them largely silent elsewhere. As patients, however, they've been urged to talk. Not just about their pasts, but about living and dying and coping with the possibilities of both. Encouragement was all they needed. "Before...
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Wednesday, January 09
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Source: The Age This explicit ad encouraging condom use is part of a series sponsored by Victorian AIDS Council FULL-PAGE images of men having sex will be splashed across gay newspapers in Melbourne today as part of a bold advertising campaign designed to stem rising HIV infections in Victoria. Four advertisements -- which show men having sex, with a dialogue box discussing safe sex issues covering their genitalia -- will appear in Bnews and MCV newspapers as part of the Victorian AIDS Council 's latest campaign to target gay men who have unprotected sex. Executive director Mike Kennedy said...
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Wednesday, January 09
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Source: Toronto Star , Winnipeg Sun , London Free Press A Health Canada regulation that bans most gay men from donating organs is scientifically unjustified, virtually unenforceable and could worsen critical transplant shortages, a prominent Toronto AIDS doctor says. The regulation, which took effect in December and closely resembles blood-donor guidelines, prohibits organ donations from sexually active gay men, intravenous drug users and hepatitis victims. Both strictures are unfair to thousands of conscientious gays, says Dr. Philip Berger, head of family and community medicine at St. Michael's...
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Tuesday, January 08
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Source: GayWired.com Two decades ago, the Australian Department of Public Health launched a disturbing, yet informative, ad campaign to help educate the gay community about HIV and AIDS. With the number of new infections still on the rise over the past few years, Sydney has revised a new viral video campaign which highlights the Glam Reaper and hopes to once again show the community that this is a disease that effects everyone. The original Grim Reaper campaign depicted images of death mowing down a range of victims in a bowling alley. Although the ad was widely criticized at the time, it did succeed...
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