HIV in the News

News January, 2010

News Sat 30 - Fri 05 February

Driver’s HIV stab horror.  Worried James McGowan, 40, now faces an agonising six-month wait to find out if he has contracted HIV. Scottish Sun

Pharmaceutical giant Bristol-Myers Squibb has been forced to amend the labelling of one of its HIV drug treatments following a number of reports of patients suffering from a rare, but sometimes fatal, liver disorder. Pharmacy Europe

A surgeon who claims he contracted the HIV virus during the course of his duties has brought a High Court action for damages. Irish Times
 

News Sat 23 - Fri 29 January

Terrence Higgins Trust is launching a new campaign to warn gay men that HIV can also be caught through their penises. Pink News

A survey of gay and bisexual men has found that 77 per cent of respondents would donate blood if they were allowed to. Pink News

An HIV-positive South African woman is challenging being removed from Northern Ireland by immigration authorities. BBC News

News Sat 16 - Fri 22 January

Drug-resistant strains of HIV have already been documented in San Francisco and elsewhere in the US, and Europe. Now a model of their transmission, based on studies of gay San Francisco men, forecasts a rapid upsurge in the next five years. New Scientist

The UN has deplored the jailing of nine gay men who were members of a group working to provide condoms and HIV treatment in Senegal, and said it is working with a coalition of partners to ensure their release. UN Refugee Agency

Man guilty of 'reckless' HIV sex in Scotland. BBC News

Charities concerns over HIV conviction in Scotland. BBC News

The Royal College of Nursing today welcomed the launch of new guidelines on sexually transmitted infections, produced by the Medical Foundation for AIDS and Sexual Health (MedFASH) and the British Association for Sexual Health and HIV (BASHH). Nursing Times

News Sat 09 - Fri 15 January

Around two-thirds of people do not use condoms when they have sex with a partner for the first time, according to a survey marking the launch of a new sexual health advertising campaign. Nursing in Practice

Faith schools should be legally obliged to teach that homosexuality is "normal and harmless", and gay civil partnerships should be replaced by true marriage, Nick Clegg said in an interview. The Independent

The first HIV-positive patient to be identified by NHS-funded pharmacy screening has praised the profession’s role in improving his prognosis. Chemist and Druggist

News Sat 02 - Fri 08 January

The US has lifted a 22-year immigration ban which has stopped anyone with HIV from entering the country. BBC News

David Cameron reveals Conservatives Draft Health Manifesto. The Times