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Say “HIV- POSITIVE ” NOT “HIV-Infected” !

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11 (Vol. 5              90th Issue        11 July 2008

In this Issue:

AIDS AND RESOURCES

G8 set deadline for health package to Africa

Africa faces ‘dramatic’ physician shortage by 2015

HIV Activists Want UN To Overhaul International Narcotics Control Board

AIDS AND MULTI-SECTORAL COOPERATION IN UKRAINE

Minister of Health in favor of compulsory HIV testing

Ministry of Justice in favor of equal rights for both parents of HIV+ children

National HIV/AIDS Program sent to parliament by government

As of July 1 every district health center to have a HIV/AIDS Room

Ukraine is one of those states, where HIV/AIDS has epidemic level

Ukraie and Germany Unite Efforts to Fight HIV/AIDS

IN THE COUNTRIES OF THE COMMONWEALTH OF INDEPENDENT STATES

Russia : Numbers of HIV-Infected Women Increasing in Russia

Russia : Assessment of the Routine, Occupation-Based Gonorrhea and Syphilis Screening Program in Moscow

IN THE COUNTRIES OF EUROPE

Estonia : Nearly 300 New HIV+ Diagnosed in First Half of 2008

Mandela Marked 90th Birthday with London Concert

Sweden : Improved Contact Tracing for Chlamydia Trachomatis

AIDS AND THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY

Stephen Lewis sees underlying racism in approach towards fighting AIDS in Africa

Kenya 's Political Woes Disrupting Treatment of HIV Patients

Canada : Ottawa Approves $100,000 Budget to Pick Up Dirty Needles

HARD FACTS AND FIGURES

Four in five Swazi men reject AIDS testing: survey

TESTING, TREATMENT AND THERAPY

Treating up by 42 percent, but homophobia aggravates AIDS

DO YOU KNOW EVERYTHING ABOUT AIDS?

Australia : New Immune Treatment May Control HIV

TUBERCULOSIS AND AIDS-ASSOCIATED TUBERCULOSIS

Canada : Winnipeg Woman Detained and Forced to Take TB Treatment

Spread of Tuberculosis Seen Slowing Progress on AIDS

New Drug-Resistance Test Gives Hope to TB Fight

ANNOUNCEMENTS, EVENTS AND INITIATIVES ON HIV/AIDS

Love Life Caravan Travels West Africa to Focus on HIV Testing and Education

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10 (Vol. 5              89th Issue        27 June 2008

In this Issue:

AIDS AND RESOURCES

Call for action instead of rhetoric at UN meeting on AIDS

Boehringer Ingelheim, Gilead Agree to AIDS Drug Price Freeze

AIDS AND MULTI-SECTORAL COOPERATION IN UKRAINE

President took part in the opening of a clinic for children with HIV/AIDS

Switzerland allocates 1 million UAH for project preventing juvenile delinquency

Cabinet did not finance 21 targeted programs out of 182: President’s Secretariat

IN THE COUNTRIES OF THE COMMONWEALTH OF INDEPENDENT STATES

Belarus : Strive for quick improvement of financial situation is what pushes most women to sex business

Gays with HIV in Moscow increased twice in number

IN THE COUNTRIES OF EUROPE

Pope names Italian to head family council

Britain pledges 12 billion dollars to combat AIDS

Two Spaniards held in Gambia on charges of gay behavior

AIDS AND THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY

China : Strict Olympic Guidelines for Foreign Visitors

UNICEF Project Uses Children, Youth as Peer Educators To Increase HIV/AIDS Awareness in India

Zimbabwe facing humanitarian crisis over NGO ban

Barbados Parliament to spend $90M Over 5 Years to fight HIV/AIDS

Cambodia to Investigate Alleged Police Abuse of Sex Workers

Woman arrested in Vietnam after heroin package bursts

Uganda : Gays Excluded from Anti-HIV State Programs  

Malaysian Women Urged to Carry Condoms to Prevent HIV

HARD FACTS AND FIGURES

Malawi conducts its fifth post-independence census

Peru : Ten percent of HIV+ People Receiving ARVs From Government

TESTING, TREATMENT AND THERAPY

Nearly 3 million people in developing nations receiving HIV treatment

South Africa : Indian Firm Gets Nod to Import AIDS Drug

DO YOU KNOW EVERYTHING ABOUT AIDS?

Australian researchers say 'natural condom' could stop HIV

India : Vast Distances a Barrier to Combating HIV/AIDS

TUBERCULOSIS AND AIDS-ASSOCIATED TUBERCULOSIS

Australia : Hundreds Tested for TB at Gold Coast University

Tuberculosis suspicion and knowledge among private and public general practitioners: Study in Oman

ANNOUNCEMENTS, EVENTS AND INITIATIVES ON HIV/AIDS

Japan Awards New Prize For HIV/AIDS, Malaria Work in Africa

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№09 (Vol. 5              88th Issue        31 May 2008

In this Issue: 

GLOBAL ISSUES AND THE FIGHT AGAINST AIDS

Global Warming Set to Fan the HIV Fire

AIDS AND MULTI-SECTORAL COOPERATION IN UKRAINE

HIV/AIDS organizations ask Ukraine ’s President to intervene

Ani Lorak takes fight against AIDS to Eurovision song contest

IN THE COUNTRIES OF THE COMMONWEALTH OF INDEPENDENT STATES

Kyrgyzstan to present Spain its harm reduction program experience in prisons

New website of the Russian Ministry of health and social development

Ekaterinburg Bank in Russia refused to give mortgage loan to a HIV+ client

Kyrgyzstan : hearing of the case of doctors, allegedly infecting children with HIV

IN THE COUNTRIES OF EUROPE

Sexual uses of alcohol, drugs & health risks of youth in 9 European cities

AIDS AND THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY

Kenya : Muslim clerics declare war on condoms

Kenya : Post-Election Violence Particularly Hard on HIV+ People

New York : Spike in Syphilis Linked to Internet

Vietnam Launches Methadone Clinics to Fight HIV/AIDS

HARD FACTS AND FIGURES

Canada : Safe-Sex 'Complacency' Boosts STDs

TESTING, TREATMENT AND THERAPY

Australia : Remote Service Could Halt HIV Spread from Mums

DO YOU KNOW EVERYTHING ABOUT AIDS?

South Korea : Seoul City Seeks Recognition of AIDS Patients as Disabled

ANNOUNCEMENTS, EVENTS AND INITIATIVES ON HIV/AIDS

USA : New Sell Via Cell for AIDS Message

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№08 (Vol. 5              87th Issue       12 May 2008

In this Issue: 

AIDS AND RESOURCES

Global Fund May Begin Giving Loans to Fight AIDS

African countries told to devote 15 percent of budgets to health

Obama, Clinton Call for Allocating More Resources To Fight HIV/AIDS

AIDS AND MULTI-SECTORAL COOPERATION IN UKRAINE

President Yushchenko meets World bank Director

Yushchenko wants Cabinet of Ministers take real steps in AIDS prevention 

IN THE COUNTRIES OF THE COMMONWEALTH OF INDEPENDENT STATES

AIDS cases in East Europe and Central Asia can be cut down

AIDS AND THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY

Africa: Circumcision an ' Opportunity ' To Fight Against HIV

India : Spousal Sexual Violence, Poverty Raise Risk of STI in Women

Egypt : Two Film Stars Seek to Shatter Stigma of AIDS

Canada : Airport Guard Quits over HIV Flap

Thai Red Cross ends separate screening for gay blood donors

Iran offers drug users condoms from vending machines

HARD FACTS AND FIGURES

Pakistan on the verge of HIV epidemic

Singapore : More HIV Cases in 2007

Zimbabwe : From Affected to Infected? Orphanhood and HIV Risk Among Female Adolescents in Urban Areas

TESTING, TREATMENT AND THERAPY

Clinical symptoms just as good as lab trials for AIDS patients: WHO

DO YOU KNOW EVERYTHING ABOUT AIDS?

Tanzania : Place Matters in relation to Spread of HIV

TUBERCULOSIS AND AIDS-ASSOCIATED TUBERCULOSIS

United Kingdom : Cases of Drug-Resistant TB Have Doubled

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№07 (Vol. 5              86th Issue   30 April 2008

In this Issue: 

AIDS AND RESOURCES

More Clinical Research on AIDS Vaccine Needed To Find 'Magic Formula'

USA : The State of AIDS Drug Assistance Program

Aid for Family Planning Has Plummeted: UN

AIDS AND MULTI-SECTORAL COOPERATION IN UKRAINE

MoU with Health ministry to help resolve problems of pharmaceutical industry

IN THE COUNTRIES OF THE COMMONWEALTH OF INDEPENDENT STATES

Kyrgyzstan : Breastfeeding Babies with HIV in Hospitals Pass Virus to Mothers

Moscow city council approved compulsory HIV tests for those accused of rape

IN THE COUNTRIES OF EUROPE

United Kingdom : Study Finds Mini-Epidemics of HIV

Transmission of Drug-Resistant HIV-1 Remains Limited to Single Cases

AIDS AND THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY

Afghanistan : Rudd's Opium Campaign Risks Spread of HIV

China : AIDS Activists Beaten During Protest in Front of Premier

Tanzania : Officials Agree to Address Drug Use, Needle-Sharing

Egyptian Court Sends Five Men to Prison for “Homosexual” Acts

HARD FACTS AND FIGURES

Hawaii Senators Nix Tattoo Industry Deregulation

South Korea : Court blocks plan to deport HIV patient

TESTING, TREATMENT AND THERAPY

Brazil May Reject Gilead 's AIDS Drug Patent

DO YOU KNOW EVERYTHING ABOUT AIDS?

Do Unsafe Tetanus Toxoid Injections Play a Significant Role in the Transmission of HIV/AIDS? Evidence from Seven African Countries

ANNOUNCEMENTS, EVENTS AND INITIATIVES ON HIV/AIDS

Hotels will stockpile condoms prior to the Olympic Games in Beijing

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20 (Vol. 4                    75th Issue                       5 November 2007

In this Issue:  

GREETINGS FROM READERS ON THE OCCASION OF THE 75TH RELEASE OF THE BULLETIN

The bulletin “Let’s talk about AIDS” – is caring for the health of each of us, translated into lively and informative form of communication from all over the world. I just wonder, how is it possible to collect so much important and useful information and present it in an easy-to-read, interesting and accessible way! Wishing you a lot of inspiration, strength and thanks from those, for whom you work! Dr. Larisa Zalivna, doctor and human rights activist, Luhansk , Ukraine  

“Let’s talk about AIDS” – is a wonderful thing, where all aspects of the problem are laid down clear and succinct. I am its constant reader. I am waiting for the next issue. Its usefulness is beyond doubt. Dr. Nadezhda Sibirenko, pediatrician, Kyiv , Ukraine

EEDI’s HIV/AIDS bulletin is a timely, concise and interesting source of relevant news on AIDS from around the world with great language options. Lua Pottier, Health Care Specialist, International Organization for Migration, Kyiv, Ukraine

On behalf of an informal social creative group “VTeK” ( Donetsk ), I thank the Let’s talk about AIDS team, as although indirectly, but you mentioned about us in the news about events in the southern and eastern regions of Ukraine . Wishing you further creative work, and hope for cooperation! Success, prosperity, preservation of status in case it is negative and normal attitude of the surrounding people in case it is positive!”