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Downloadable CCO Slideset: Highlights of IAC 2008

In order to access this official online scientific conference coverage, you will need a free membership with Clinical Care Options. To register, click here or on a conference link below. For assistance, send an email to memberservices@clinicaloptions.com.

By Christabell at 03/09/2008 - 10:17 | | read more

AHPN PRESS RELEASE

28 May 2008
 
European Court turns its back on migrants living with HIV
It has taken the House of Lords and the European Court of Human Rights 10 years to come to the decision that deporting an HIV positive woman to Uganda (Case of N. v. the United Kingdom), where she would not be able to access the HIV treatment she needs to live, does not amount to ‘inhumane and degrading treatment’.
To remove a person who may, as the result of treatment, be able to work and support their family and who, if denied that treatment, will die sooner is simply cruel. There is general agreement amongst the medical and scientific community that to start a person on HIV treatment and then give them sub-standard treatment would severely compromise their health potentially leading to a premature death.
The African HIV Policy Network believes that deporting HIV positive migrants to countries where HIV treatment is difficult or impossible to access is a violation of their human rights. There is need for a better interpretation of human rights in relation to people living with HIV. The Home Office must be more humane in its approach in order to ensure that the fundamental human rights of HIV positive people are upheld.
Rhon Reynolds, Head of Policy and Acting CEO of the African HIV Policy Network, stated:
By Christabell at 28/05/2008 - 16:26 | read more

Do it Right- Africans Making healthy Choices

The new NAHIP gender focused health promotion campaign 'Do it Right ' and 'The Knowledge, the Will and the Power' were launched at the National African HIV conference on 27th March 2008. please visit http://www.nahip.org.uk/campaigns/index.php?page_id=187 and http://www.nahip.org.uk/downloads/319.pdf 

By Christabell at 07/05/2008 - 15:18

The National African HIV Conference 2008

The National African HIV Conference 2008, "Under the baobab tree", presentations and papers are now available at:
http://www.nahip.org.uk/conferences/index.php?page_id=170
By Christabell at 07/05/2008 - 15:12 |

Chief Executive Officer – African HIV Policy Network (AHPN)

The African HIV Policy Network (AHPN) welcomes Ms Titise Yoliwe Kode as its new Chief Executive Officer. Ms Kode takes over from Dr. Max Sesay who left the organisation (after ten years of service) at the end of April 2008 for newer challenges in Africa. Ms Kode brings both international and local strategic experience.

 

Ms Kode comes to AHPN from South Africa where she was working as a special advisor to Graca Machel, the Chair of the Global AIDS Vaccine Initiative (GAVI) Fund Board over the last two years. Prior to working on the GAVI, she worked for a year as Head of Grants for the Southern Africa Trust and for 7 years with Comic Relief as the International Grants Manager.

By Christabell at 07/05/2008 - 14:14 | read more

Scientists Find New Receptor for H.I.V.

 February 11, 2008
By LAWRENCE K. ALTMAN

SAN FRANCISCO — Government scientists have discovered a new way that H.I.V. attacks human cells, an advance that could provide fresh avenues for the development of additional therapies to stop AIDS, they reported on Sunday.

By Christabell at 11/02/2008 - 18:28 | | read more

Request for collaboration and partnership

Kitgum Forum of People Living with HIV/AIDS (KIDFOPHAN) is an association of individuals,networks and groups of people infected and affected with HIV/AIDS in Kitgum district,Northern Uganda.The Association is currently involved in prevention with positives strategy to reduce new HIV infection in Kitgum especially with adolescents,youths and within marriage.

By kitgumforum at 09/02/2008 - 11:37 | | | | read more

Swiss experts say individuals with undetectable viral load and no STI cannot transmit HIV during sex

Edwin J . Bernard, Wednesday, January 30, 2008  

Swiss HIV experts have produced the first-ever consensus statement to say that HIV-positive individuals on effective antiretroviral therapy and without sexually transmitted infections (STIs) are sexually non-infectious. The statement is published in this week’s Bulletin of Swiss Medicine (Bulletin des médecins suisses). The statement also discusses the implications for doctors; for HIV-positive people; for HIV prevention; and the legal system. Read more :

By Christabell at 04/02/2008 - 17:31 | | | read more

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By ahrforg at 29/11/2007 - 17:39 | | read more

UNAIDS Press Release

 

Global HIV prevalence has levelled off; AIDS is among the

leading causes of death globally and remains the primary

By ahrforg at 20/11/2007 - 14:15 | | | read more