News Sat 26 - Fri 04 February
Rupert Whitaker: 'We have to see patients as people, not collections of diseases'. Guardian
GPs oppose health reforms in survey as Lancet foresees 'end of the NHS'. More than half of family doctors in survey by Royal College of General Practitioners say reforms will not improve care. Guardian
A chance encounter at a charity ball made me sharply aware of the ordeal faced by job-seeking teenagers living with HIV.
Director
Spanish doctors unveil promising AIDS vaccine.
Telegraph,
Lying asylum seeker can stay here - because she had two children by an HIV alcoholic.
Daily Mail
News Sat 22 - Fri 28 January
HIV health staff ban to be scrapped as government call for re-think. Metro
Online service for people with HIV in the UK launched by Department of Health and THT. The Drum, MyHIV
Annual UK HIV treatment and care costs could reach £750 million by 2013. aidsmap
Irish doctor who contracted HIV settles court action. Irish Times
HIV patients three times as likely to suffer strokes. Independent
News Sat 15 - Fri 21 January
Q&A: The NHS shake-up. BBC, Guardian, Independent
Police hunt man suspected of infecting lovers with HIV.
Daily Mirror
The week of a consultant paediatrician who deals with HIV.
Guardian
The Indian prime minister's office is thought to be on the brink of sealing a trade deal with the EU, which medicines campaigners fear could stop the flow of cheap lifesaving drugs to the poorest countries in the world.
Guardian
Chechnya says couples must be HIV negative to marry.
Reuters
News Sat 08 - Fri 14 January
Get out of your comfort zone, disability living allowance cuts are relevant to all. Guardian
Thousands of the most vulnerable people - including those in social housing- could be hit by the government’s legal aid reforms, workers’ union Unite said.
Inside Housing
US politician says HIV funding should be cut for ‘perverted’ people.
Pink News
The risk of transmitting HIV to infants during breastfeeding can be halved with a triple-drug regimen taken by mothers. These findings from WHO researchers indicate that prophylaxis with a three-drug regimen can safely replace older regimens in Africa.
Medical News Today
In his forthcoming essay,
Sexuality’s Law, US Professor Marc Spindelman begins with a legal puzzle: why is it that out of the thousands of men who have been infected with HIV through consensual sex with another man who failed to disclose his HIV status, almost none have sought to use the law’s tools so as to seek redress for the injuries done to them? Jotwell
The Cook Islands government is facing international condemnation for its treatment of the first person to test HIV positive in the country.
Radio New Zealand International
News Sat 01 - Fri 07 January
Doctors are "reluctant" to test routinely for HIV in the UK. BBC
Nearly 25 years after he persuaded Margaret Thatcher's government to mount a hard-hitting and controversial publicity campaign against HIV, the former health secretary Norman Fowler is heading a House of Lords investigation into the continuing spread of the disease. Guardian
UK Gay Men’s Sex Survey: new data on age, strategic positioning, condom failure and HIV testing. aidsmap
Drug company's loss could be Africa's gain.
Guardian
An experimental gel protected female monkeys from the AIDS virus in a test designed to mimic human sexual transmission, international researchers have said.
Reuters