January

News January, 2008

News Sat 26 - Fri 01 February

Merck launches new HIV drug, Raltegravir, an integrase inhibitor that can help tackle treatment-resistant strains. BBC

Tackling HIV among the young black community. Black Britain

Sexually active middle-aged people are putting themselves at risk of infections, a Saga survey has revealed. Daily Telegraph

News Sat 19 - Fri 24 October

A record number of new cases of HIV were reported in Scotland last year including a rise in heterosexual infections, figures revealed yesterday. Scotsman

Prosecutors have dropped criminal charges against the former head of the Canadian Red Cross, clearing him of responsibility in a tainted-blood scandal that infected thousands with HIV or hepatitis and left more than 3,000 dead.
Guardian

Researchers contrite over MRSA story. Pink News

News Sat 12 - Fri 18 January

The National AIDS Trust launches its Public Attitudes to HIV 2007 report.  BBC Scotland

Researchers pinpoint human proteins HIV needs to survive in the body. Pink News

A deadly new drug-resistant strain of the superbug MRSA that could spread rapidly through the gay community, has been dubbed by the media ‘the new HIV’. San Francisco Chronicle , Metro

Report on refugee who is HIV-positive and applying for asylum in the UK. Guardian Weekly

News Sat 05 - Fri 11 January

Circumcision does not reduce sexual satisfaction and so there should be no reservations about using this method as a way to combat HIV, a study says. BBC

King's College Hospital has launch a study to discover why some people remain uninfected by HIV despite being exposed to it by their partners.  South London Press

A 36% cut in the funding for HIV prevention for gay and bisexual men is to go ahead, claims human rights campaigner Peter Tatchell. Pink News