Updated December 2, 2007

General News

• Global leaders call for action on World AIDS Day

• China's Hu meets with AIDS patients

• HIV/AIDS discrimination widespread in China

• China AIDS rate slows, main transmission now sex

• China reports sharp drop in HIV cases

• China to stop arresting women for carrying condoms: state press

• Asia-Pacific must do more to tackle gay AIDS crisis-group

• Pope calls for new efforts to fight AIDS

• US Capital has severe HIV epidemic, report finds

• Estimates of U.S. HIV cases rise 50 percent: reports

• Clinton, AIDS and evangelicals make unusual trio

• S.Africa cites progress on AIDS

• Fighting AIDS in Iran seen tough due to taboos

• Cameroon prostitutes join battle against AIDS

• Myanmar junta shuts AIDS monastery and expels monks

• Thai drug users denied access to AIDS treatments: rights group

• Tennis star Federer joins UN anti-AIDS campaign

• More than 27,000 new HIV infections in Europe in 2006: report

• Russia has almost one million HIV-positive people

Research News

• U.S. aims to take HIV tests to high-risk people

• HIV vaccine trial volunteers may face social blow

• Routine HIV testing may benefit teenagers

Updated November 25, 2007

General News

• HIV drug resistance seen in central China: expert

• Beijing sees jump in HIV/AIDS cases

• Beijing hotels told to stock all rooms with condoms

• 77 people infected with AIDS in Shanghai this year

• Poor education an AIDS factor

• HK group rolls out campaign to fight HIV stigma

• British queen visits AIDS clinic in Uganda

• U.N. slashes AIDS estimates in latest report

• South Africa has world's highest number with AIDS: UN report

• AIDS ad breaks Italy taboo over using word "condom"

• Brazil moving closer to curbing AIDS - officials

• Former Soviet Union sees most new HIV infections: report

• New HIV numbers give better picture of epidemic

• U.N. warns AIDS could spike if countries drop guard

• Leading researcher says China's AIDS data probably accurate

Research news

• Post-exposure HIV drugs won't boost risky behavior

• Sex diseases rising among young in the UK

• Report: about 38 mln Chinese carry hepatitis C virus

Updated November 18, 2007

General News

• China to relax ban on HIV/AIDS carriers entering the country

• Gates Foundation Gives $50M to China HIV

• Unhealthy behavior, gay sex behind HIV growth in China

• Tutu blasts Anglican church for gay 'obsession'

• Global Fund approves 132 million dollars to Kenya's anti-AIDS drive

• More needed to combat TB, global conference in S Africa hears

• Many people don't think AIDS is fatal: survey

• Haggling saves Brazil $1 billion on AIDS drugs

• U.S. regulators join HIV transplant probe

• HIV programs in workplace save money: IOM

• Drug injecting triggers most Mauritius HIV cases

Research and Corporate News

• Merck tells AIDS vaccine volunteers who got jab

• Study shows how some AIDS vaccines may harm

• First sex report on Chinese farmer workers published

• Some OBs unclear on HIV testing requirements

• Adherence to HIV therapy linked to health literacy

• Vaccines cut disease deaths by 99 percent-US study

• U.S. chlamydia, gonorrhea, syphilis rates rise

• Deadly Ebola virus can mutate, French scientists warn

• FDA Approves Abbott's Pediatric HIV Drug

• ViroPharma's Camvia Gets Orphan Status

• Merck HIV Drug Gets Positive Nod From EU

Updated October 14, 2007

General News

• Infectious diseases kill 741 in China in Sep.

• Health minister outlines strategy for future

• Boost sex education

• AIDS leaves Mozambique pupils without teachers

• American AIDS activist in new bid to row the Atlantic

• Uganda: Rising Homophobia Threatens HIV Prevention

• S. Africa forgets children in AIDS fight - U.N.

• Imagine a world without gays, says gay Indian prince

• S.Africa Online dating helps fight AIDS stigma

• Married Thais account for 40 pct of new HIV infections: survey

• Majority of US　states bar HIV tests

Corporate and Research News

• More collaboration needed after HIV vaccine flop

• Merck says FDA approves new AIDS treatment

• AIDS cocktails preserve brain, study finds

• Study sees differences in how U.S. Hispanics get HIV

• U.S. Opens the Door to Chinese Pills

Updated October 7, 2007

General News

• AIDS prevalence low in China but in some parts "serious"

• China bans sexually suggestive ads on radio, TV

• Casual sex among Cambodia's MSMs an HIV time bomb

• ZIMBABWE: HIV-positive pastor shouts from the pulpit

• African Anglican bishops steer away from gay row

• Jewish "intactivists" in U.S. stop circumcising

• Canada gives more time to drug injection site

• I'd like a car loan and 20 condoms, please

• Doctors acquitted in Canada tainted blood trial

• Mandela AIDS charity announces benefit concert

• Once-puritan South Africa holds its first sex fair

• Malawi to double free AIDS drugs coverage by 2010

Research and Corporate News

• Obesity a problem in HIV population

• Theratechnologies boosted by strong test results

• Roche, Trimeris Withdraw FDA Application

Updated September 30, 2007

General News

• Chinese Official: in some parts ADIS situation 'serious'

• China still is treating AIDS cases poorly

• Berlin meeting raises 9.7 bln dollars for AIDS, TB, malaria

• UNICEF calls for AIDS prevention for youth

• Rwanda to urge male circumcision in AIDS fight

• Taylor sparkles at AIDS fundraiser

• European condoms AIDS-tainted - Mozambique bishop

• Boost in funds needed to fight AIDS: UN

• Bono urges G8 nations to open purses in fight against AIDS

• Living with AIDS: Patient deaths drop as treatment evolves

Research and Corporate News

• New test makes bird flu detection easier, cheaper

• Pfizer faces $8.5 bln suit over Nigeria drug trial

• French HIV pioneer vows to get to root of Libyan AIDS case

• China to Test New HIV Vaccine

Updated September 23, 2007

General News

• HIV/AIDS: The Looming Asia Pacific Pandemic

• Beijing sees rise in new HIV/AIDS cases

• China: Rapid recall system for dangerous drugs

• China: Treatment center offers new hope

• South Africa 'devastated' by halt of HIV vaccine trials

• Nigeria triples number on free HIV drugs 

• WFP to increase HIV/AIDS food handouts in Malawi

• A story from IRAQ:  

•          "Now I understand how hard life is for people living with HIV"

• PAKISTAN: Roadside dentists pose HIV, hepatitis threat

• China: Imports of blood drug approved

Corporate and Research News

• Merck halts study of "ineffective" HIV vaccine

• HIV prevention could save millions in Africa

• J&J says Prezista matches Kaletra in HIV trial

• New anti-AIDS drug unveiled

• Doctors report breakthrough drug treatment for TB

• Germ resistance conference to begin in Chicago

• EU Experts: Lift Ban on Roche HIV Drug

Updated September 9, 2007

General News

• Sexuality Issues in Contemporary China

• China reports leap in new HIV/AIDS cases

• HIV rate hits 5% among men who have sex with men in Beijing

• China's blood still unsafe, needs help - report

• China Bans Radio Shows That Feature Information On HIV, Sex 

• HIV infections hit record high in Hong Kong

• Asia must deal bravely with HIV/AIDS - U.N. official

• Vietnam to use HK system in HIV battle

• France's first lady defends role in Libya HIV medics case

• Bulgaria donates millions to help Libya HIV victims

• South Africa vows to punish condom scammers

• 100,000 Free Condoms Rejected in D.C.

• Britain launches global healthcare plan for poor countries

• Warning over Russian blood transfusions

Corporate News

• Gilead Shares Rise on HIV Potential

• HIV drug merits quick approval

Updated September 2, 2007

General News

• HK detects 111 new HIV cases in 2nd quarter

• Shanghai Orders Landlords Not To Rent To Gay Couples

• Tutu slams S.Africa's efforts to fight HIV/AIDS

• S.African health minister hampering AIDS fight: activists

• AIDS victims 'buried alive' in PNG

• Mandela announces giant London AIDS concert

Research and Corporate News

• New HIV cluster triggers alarm

• SAfrica HIV vaccine results promising: researchers

• Kids of HIV-infected parents need social support

• Hospitalization rates down for young kids with HIV

• HIV self-tests ineffective in high-risk individuals

• AIDS drug shows potential as weapon against cancer

• FDA: New Merck HIV-fighting drug is safe

Updated August 26, 2007

General News

• Sex now primary cause of China HIV spread 

• China cracking down on AIDS groups

• Infectious diseases spreading faster than ever

• Asia must step up HIV/AIDS fight, experts say

• Global Fund urges private sector to help fight AIDS

Research News

• Old folk are still having sex: US study

• Study challenges claim on AIDS remedies

Updated August 19, 2007

General News

• China cracks down on AIDS groups ahead of Olympics

• China's Henan bans AIDS activist meeting -group

• WHO's Chief in China Steps Down

• Sri Lanka HIV rate low, but poverty, war a threat - U..N

• S Africa AIDS activists to take government to court

• Ostracised Indian AIDS couple appeals for euthanasia

• AIDS rate in Kenya drops due to increased ARV use

Research and Corporate News

• FDA, Bristol warn doctors over hepatitis B drug

• Abbott Urges Caution When Prescribing HIV Drug in Children

• AIDS virus is a "double hit" to the brain: study

• U.S. OKs pediatric AIDS pill for global relief plan

Updated August 5, 2007

General News

• UN calls upon more commercial media to reduce HIV stigma in China

• Central China province to introduce compulsory HIV tests at recreation venues

• S.Africa HIV/AIDS rate falls on behavior change

• Strait-laced Chechens admit AIDS is a problem

• HIV survey reveals Nepal girls' plight in India

• India to step up fight against HIV in children

• HIV-positive prisoner threatens Indian jailers

• Kazakhstan appeals court upholds prison terms in AIDS case

Research News

• University of Maryland Gets $15 Million to Develop HIV Vaccine

• Abstinence-only programs do not reduce HIV risk

• Study: Sex trafficking spreading HIV

Updated July 29, 2007

General News

• China bans AIDS rights meeting, group says

• China's Hunan to HIV test "recreational workers"

• China seeks cooperation to eradicate poppy cultivation in Golden Triangle

• Medical "brain drain" hindering AIDS battle

• Man. United players raise AIDS awareness in S China

• Palestinian doctor will not forgive Libyan jailors

• HIV medics freed after Libya-EU deal

• AIDS women fight fear and stigma as well as disease

• Agency offers AIDS education to elderly

Research News

• AIDS conference calls for child-specific HIV drugs

• Early treatment sees more HIV babies survive

• Modern technology and ancient surgery battle AIDS

• Circumcision could save millions from AIDS: studies

• Human trials use genetic modification to fight HIV

Updated July 22, 2007

General News

• UNAIDS chief sees signs of progress in China

• Despite progress, world still failing HIV carriers: AIDS chief

• Asia must overcome HIV stigma, say research chiefs

• Experts call for more access to HIV care

• Ruling to free HIV nurses in Libya delayed

• Sex education creates storm in AIDS-stricken India

• Clinton visits AIDS projects in Zambia

• Bill Clinton in Africa: view of future?

• Malawi unveils mass HIV testing campaign: report

• Soldier hid his HIV status, charges say

• Public art honors HIV caregivers

Research and Corporate News

• HIV eradication now possible, says Australian conference chief

• New clue for HIV drug side effects: study

• Three gene variants could hold key for HIV vaccine: study

• Male circumcision can cut HIV infection, studies show

• HIV drug combo can boost immune marker in long-term patients: study

• Samaritan Reports Positive HIV Drug Data

• Gilead 2Q Profit Rise on HIV Drugs Sales

• European Panel Recommends Pfizer Drug OK

Updated July 8, 2007

General News

• Women's empowerment key to curbing AIDS: UN

• Freed Myanmar AIDS activist returns right back to work

• South Africa notes signs of first-ever decline in HIV infection rates

• India's HIV cases highly overestimated, survey shows

• Thailand seeks deeper drug price cuts than Brazil deal

Research and Corporate News

• HIV infection raises lung cancer risk: study

• Australian research reveals AIDS, cancer link

• New "second-line" AIDS drug shows promise in trials

• Chinese keep virginity until 22, worldwide survey says

• Bumpy road ahead for China's TCM modernization

Updated July 1, 2007

General News

• China: Stipends planned for AIDS orphans

• Chinese Survey: Discrimination in job market common

• Laura Bush pushes education, AIDS fight in Africa

• India AIDS cases due to drop, spending up

• Looking for "Mr. Condom"

• Indian doctors refuse to help HIV-positive woman deliver: report

• Parents boycott India school after HIV kids allowed back

• US calls for 'immediate' release of Myanmar AIDS activist

• Dems cuts foreign aid for AIDS education

• 21 Convicted in Kazakh AIDS Case

• World Bank loans Kenya 80 million dollars to boost war on AIDS

• US health group mulls Tanzanian plant to make anti-AIDS drug

Research and Corporate News

• Potential cure for HIV discovered

• Theory of how HIV attacks is wrong: study

• No clear link between conflict, rape and HIV: UN study

• U.S. tracks serious form of syphilis in gay men

• Needle sticks endanger surgeons-in-training

• Merck: FDA to Review HIV Drug by October

• Gilead's Viread Lowers Hep B Virus

• Schering-Plough Gets EU OK for Hep C/HIV

Updated June 24, 2007

General News

• China starts anti-AIDS education project among college students

• China moves into top gear on rural healthcare system

• Anti-drug campaign yields result

• Drug addiction slowing down: UN report

• Rays of Hope for Africa's AIDS Children

• Actors to Get HIV Tests for New Campaign

• Libyan AIDS families say deal held up over compensation

• Barred HIV-positive kids allowed back to school in India

• AIDS no longer a death sentence for South Africa's children

Research and Corporate News

• Ancient viral battle left people vulnerable to HIV

• WHO Strategy to Stop Drug-Resistant TB

• FDA clears computerized pill box

• FDA Asks for More Information on HIV Drug Candidate Maraviroc

• Panacos Sees Positive HIV Drug Results

• Pharmacist Pleads to AIDS Drug Fraud

Updated June 3, 2007

General News

• Thai 'Condom King's' NGO wins Gates award for anti-AIDS work

• Bush seeks doubling of AIDS-fighting funds

• Dutch shock over gay AIDS rape gang

• No takers for condoms in Algeria

• Discrimination against women spreading AIDS: rights group

• Stars, fashion and glamour combine to fight AIDS at 2007 Life Ball

Research and Corporate News

• UN offers new HIV testing guidance

• 'AIDS cure' in Zambia found to be pesticide

• New HIV infections among homosexuals up sharply in HK

• Developing Asia needs tough stance on dengue-expert

• Indian HIV patients unite to battle fake AIDS cures

Updated May 27, 2007

General News

• China tackling tainted blood products industry

• One million people get AIDS drugs via Global Fund

• Coca Cola give Chinese migrant workers AIDS awareness playing cards

• China: Activist Couple Accused of Endangering State Security

• Women's rights key to Africa AIDS crisis

• NEPAL: Migration takes its toll on villages hit by AIDS

• 3,000 Cambodians demand better HIV/AIDS care

• India's "Queerfest" targets anti-gay law, prejudice

• Thai AIDS patients suffer as drug squabble drags on

• Ethiopia official backs AIDS treatment

• Malaysia cannot promote condoms: report

News on Treatment

• World's first lung transplant on HIV patient performed

Updated May 20, 2007

General News

• Half of Chinese refuse to work with HIV/AIDS carriers: report

• HIV present, risks high, among men who have sex with men in Shanghai

• Drug users forgotten in HIV/AIDS battle: UN

• Thai drug patent overrides depend on price cuts

• US drug maker offers Thailand further cuts on anti-AIDS drugs

• Russia warns of AIDS epidemic, 1.3 mln with HIV

• "Get real" and save Indian youth from AIDS: official

Research News

• Experimental HIV vaccines offer only limited immunity

• AIDS: "Natural killer" clue to virus vulnerability

Updated May 13, 2007

General News

• China ‘a recipe for disaster’

• Teen abortions skyrocketing in China

• Draft bill protects AIDS patients

• Bill Clinton brokers deal for lower AIDS drug prices

• Thailand's 'Condom King' girds for new battle against AIDS

• U.N. Study Sees Subtle Discrimination

• Chastity doesn't suit Brazil's AIDS policy: minister

• Bulgarians pray for condemned HIV nurses

• South Africa recognises forced anal sex as rape

• African gays speak out on 'state-backed' homophobia

Research and Corporate News

• Analysis: Advances in HIV, TB vaccines

• Simple screening spots teens' risky behaviors

• Gilead pushes for patent for HIV drug in India

Updated May 6, 2007

China and HIV — A Window of Opportunity

General News

• Legal reform urged for more play of NGOs in China's fight against HIV

• Popular Korean TV drama eyes AIDS stigma

• Knowing HIV status for prevention seen on rise

• Syphilis rise in gay, bisexual men causes worry

• Alarming rates of unsafe sex among HIV-infected British gays: study

• South Africa launches national AIDS council

• SOUTH AFRICA: HIV prevention services miss rape survivors

• U.S. chides Thailand for overriding drug patents

• Thailand to hire U.S. firm to burnish image

• Brazil bypasses patent on U.S. AIDS drug

Research and Corporate News

• AIDS virus hides quickly inside babies' blood

• Progenics  Early Stage Clinical Trial Shows Drug Reduces Levels of HIV

• Drugmaker Gets OK for Combo Therapy

Updated April 29, 2007

General News

• Beijing home to 12,000 AIDS patients

• AIDS activists call for boycott of Abbott products

• Gambian herbal AIDS cure no such thing - scientists

• Global Fund for AIDS, TB and malaria aims to triple in size

• Pakistan's first 'outed' HIV patient turns social activist

Research and Corporate News

• Cervical abnormalities common in HIV-infected girls

• U.S. panel urges approval of Pfizer AIDS drug

• Does circumcision affect your sex life? Scientists are divided

• Abbott to offer new AIDS drug in Thailand

• Oral HIV test is accurate, say researchers

Updated April 22, 2007

General News

• Yao Ming lends name to China AIDS campaign

• AIDS ravages poor children needlessly: UN

• AIDS pandemic: Drugs scaleup still badly lagging, say UN agencies

• Only 19 pct of Asians in need get AIDS drugs - WHO

• Britain ignored warnings of contaminated blood

• Cameroon announces free healthcare for nearly 50,000 HIV patients

• Prevention better than cure, AIDS chiefs warn

Research and Corporate News

• Anti-HIV drug set for testing in China

• Gilead first quarter profit rises 55 pct

• India to provide costly 'second-line' AIDS drugs

Updated April 15, 2007

General News

• Chinese AIDS victims blocked from protesting

• China's Lack of HIV/AIDS Awareness Undermines Control Programs

• HIV Cases Rise to Record High in Shanghai

• Australia PM says no to HIV-positive immigrants

• 139,000 Mozambique babies born with HIV in six months

• AIDS groups slam Africa's funding shortfall

• Africa plans to produce own drugs, reduce reliance on West

Research and Corporate News

• New HIV drug shows 'unprecedented' results: study

• CDC says gonorrhea is drug-resistant

• AIDS drugs sales seen topping $10 billion by 2015

• Thailand to push for more AIDS drug price cuts

• Abbott to cut AIDS drug price in 40 poor countries

• Cow TB may spread between people

Updated April 8, 2007

General News

• China not investing enough to fight AIDS: experts

• China busts blood-selling gang after media expose

• Prevention a must when there's no cure for AIDS

• Education best protection against infection

• Urgent need to reach HIV-infected children: doctors

• Man with drug-resistant TB locked up

• Bill Gates to apply Vietnam health measures in Africa

Research and Corporate News

• AIDS drug Prezista performs well in new study

• India court reserves order in Novartis patent case

• New TB strain in South Africa a concern

• GlaxoSmithKline Receives FDA Approval for  Twinrix Hepatitis Vaccine

Updated March 25, 2007

General News

• Filmmaker: Beijing more open about AIDS

• Speaking truth to power in China

• HK, Guangdong to boost efforts to prevent HIV

• HIV-infected Canada woman charged with sex assault

• Thailand talking with drug firms - U.S. chamber

• AIDS groups condemn Gambian president's 'miracle cure'

Research and Corporate News

• TB fight could take centuries without new tools: UN

• Deadly TB strain seen in Africa now in rich nations

• China to launch national survey on tuberculosis drug-resistance

• Chinese Scientists to study biological and genetic aspects of HIV/AIDS

• Behavioral intervention reduces risk of HIV spread

• Gilead CEO Martin Receives $13.7 Million

• TCM expected to play important role in rural China

Updated March 18, 2007

General News

• Survival is cold comfort in AIDS-stricken rural China

• China AIDS activist feels failure despite award

• South Africa launches AIDS plan

• Gay male parents get dedicated fertility program

Research and Corporate New