News Sat 25 - Fri 31 July
NAT launches new guidance for housing officers on HIV.
A HIV activist mounted Trafalgar Square's Fourth Plinth this morning as part of Antony Gormley's One & Other exhibition. Pink Paper
HIV rates in Prague look set to pass last year's all-time high, after research found that 75 were diagnosed since January alone.>Pink Paper
News Sat 18 - Fri 24 July
Circumcising men with HIV does not reduce the risk of them transmitting the virus to their partners, a study suggests, but nonetheless the surgery may have some public health benefits. The Times
HIV rates among gay men in some African countries are 10 times higher than among the general male population, says research in medical journal the Lancet. BBC News
Joint DoH and Home Office proposals, to be published later this year, raise the possibility of changing policy for non-UK residents with HIV. Guardian
How homophobia fuels Africa's AIDS crisis. Yahoo News
News Sat 11 - Fri 17 July
Research suggests women are naturally weaker to HIV. BBC News
GlaxoSmithKline to inject £60m into HIV and AIDS drugs in Africa. Daily Telegraph
Drug firms must allow the generic production of their HIV medication if the deaths of millions of people are to be avoided, British MPs warn. BBC News
News Sat 04 - Fri 10 July
World Aids experts say the failure to act upon 25-year-old evidence that male circumcision plays a major role in preventing transmission of the human immuno-deficiency virus (HIV) may have cost "millions of lives", especially in Africa. Guardian
America to remove HIV visa ban after Briton's protest. Guardian
New research hints that the social and sexual networks of black gay men, constrained by the preferences and attitudes of non-black gay men, may explain the risk of more rapid spread of HIV and higher sustained prevalence of HIV infection in black gay men. Reuters
Carla Bruni, the wife of French President Nicolas Sarkozy, has called upon the G8 leaders to increase their investment in HIV treatment for Africa as she spoke of her concern that women and children "tend to come last in line" when it comes to tackling the virus.Guardian Comment is Free