2008

News October, 2008

News Sat 25 - Fri 31 October

People who have the HIV should start treatments sooner than current guidelines recommend, suggests a new study in the US. Reuters

Chile's health minister has resigned after a hospital failed to tell dozens of patients they had tested positive for HIV. BBC

South Africa pioneers HIV-positive transplants. Guardian
 

News Sat 18 - Fri 24 October

Sex education to become compulsory in schools. BBC, Reuters

UK conference discusses ‘disastrous’ impact of the myth of ‘HIV health tourism’. NAM

Search giant Google has announced that it will invest more than $14 million (£7 million) in the global fight against diseases such as bird flu, HIV, malaria and tuberculosis. Telegraph

Advocates oppose Ugandan bill that would criminalize deliberate spread of HIV. Medical News Today

News Sat 11 - Fri 17 October

Government clampdown on 'health tourism' to be scrapped. Observer

Wrexham boy, 9, waiting for HIV results after standing on needle Evening Leader

Johann Hari: People are dying because gay men can't give blood The Independent

Three men have gone on trial in the Netherlands accused of deliberately infecting at least 14 other men with HIV. BBC

The majority of children of immigrant HIV-positive women attending a UK HIV clinic remain untested for HIV, despite a high risk of their being HIV-positive. Aidsmap

News Sat 04 - Fri 10 October

Hollyoaks star speaks about HIV plot. Capital Radio

Young people to receive chlamydia tests through the post. Management in Practice

'Therapeutic vaccine' for AIDS within four years, Nobel Prize winner predicts. Telegraph, Daily Mail

South Africa's fight against HIV/Aids is likely to receive an important boost, following the appointment of a new health minister, Barbara Hogan. BBC

MPs and peers celebrate National AIDS Trust's 21st birthday. Pink News