The theme for the 2010 International AIDS Memorial Day is “Many Lights for Human Rights” which is meant to promote both global solidarity and the need for collective action around HIV and human rights. In addition to commemorating the lives of those lost by AIDS, International AIDS Memorial Day is an opportunity to promote local [...]
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Preventing transmissions is the key to ending the epidemic. One percent of the adult world population is HIV infected, it means 30 to 40 million people and all people are not reached by treatment.
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Peer education is effective at any age and would be a good alternative to HIV education. Young people should undergo training to become peer educators, because they are more likely to get the attention and investment of other youth; far more than adult educators would. After all, teens identify with other teens more than anyone [...]
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The more people take anti-HIV treatment, and the sooner they start, the more new infections are averted Expanded use of antiretroviral therapy – accompanied by good adherence – has the potential to significantly reduce the spread of HIV, according to the results of a mathematical model developed by Canadian researchers and published in the July [...]
March 11 (Bernama) — Executive Director of the joint United Nations Program on HIV / AIDS (UNAIDS) Michel Sidib said Wednesday here that the current global AIDS epidemic is still very severe and the international community should pay sufficient attention on AIDS prevention and control. In his speech at a news conference at the United [...]
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UNAIDS believes that drug users can be protected from becoming infected with HIV if comprehensive, evidence-informed and human-rights-based interventions are made accessible to all drug users. “Effective harm reduction approaches include access to clean needles, opioid substitution therapy for opiate users, access to antiretroviral therapy and reducing sexual transmission of HIV from drug users to [...]
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People live with HIV; they live full and healthy lives. People have families, have careers, have dreams and ambitions all while living with HIV. People no longer have to view HIV as a death sentence; people live with HIV. One of the reasons people are living healthier lives with HIV is the fact that they [...]
One of the most common questions we get is regarding HIV and how long it lives outside the human body. People get concerned about touching someone or something and getting HIV-infected blood on their hands and becoming infected with HIV. Fortunately, HIV just doesn’t infect the human body in that way. Answer: Studies have proven [...]
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There are a number of important reasons to be tested for HIV. For those who think they may have been exposed to the virus, having a test and receiving a negative result (which means they are not infected with HIV), can put their mind at rest. If the HIV test is positive, there are a [...]
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A total of 315 people died of AIDS in the first six months of the year. Most of the HIV infection cases were in Kelantan (297), followed by Pahang (240), Terengganu (191), Selangor (151), Perak (108), Kedah (98), Johor (90), Sarawak (74), and Penang and the Federal Territory with 51 cases each. Malaysian AIDS Council [...]