Updated October 26, 2008

General News

• Survey finds Chinese youth conflicted about sex

• Over $50 mln rural health project launched in China

• Chinese Officials Announce Stricter Punishment for Contaminated Blood Sales

• Female HIV infectors see sharp increase to 35%

• Uganda: Will credit crunch affect HIV/AIDS funding? 

• KENYA : Fear of HIV testing keeps pregnant women at home 

• China's Hu wins EU rights prize

• Swedish health agency blasted for HIV stance

• African leader in AIDS fight wins $5 million prize

Research and Corporate News

• 'Flying syringe' mosquitos, other ideas get Gates funding

• Earlier HIV treatment may be better, study finds

• New Merck HIV drug works in untreated patients

• "E-cards" may aid in STD notification

• Bristol and Lilly top analyst targets, shares rise

• US FDA expands approval for J&J HIV drug 

• HIV may cause dangerous blood clots

• Merck 3Q net drops 28 percent; to cut 7,200 jobs

Updated October 19, 2008

General News

• Infectious diseases claim 949 lives in China in Sept.

• Gay Chinese Documentary In Oscar Race

• HIV infections up sharply among Hong Kong gay men

• SAfrica's new health minister signals fresh approach in AIDS battle

• Iran reports 30% rise in HIV infection on 2007

• Ugandan community outlaws female circumcision

• Women need empowerment in fight against AIDS - UN  

Research and Corporate News

• Gilead 3Q profit surges as HIV drug sales soar

• Scientists bleak about AIDS vaccine prospects

• After setbacks, hunt for AIDS vaccine pushes on

• TB vaccine trials kick off amid funding woes  

• Brazil's President in Mozambique to launch AIDS drug factory

Updated October 12, 2008

General News

• Nobels awarded for AIDS, cancer virus research

• FACTBOX - Nobel medicine prize - Who are the winners?

• China Has Made 'Substantial Progress' in Fight Against HIV/AIDS, 

• HIV Cases Rising Quickly in New Groups in China

• Nobel is postscript to bitter 1980s HIV dispute

• Financial crisis threatens medical research: Nobel winner

• German Nobel Prize Winner Slams Pharmaceutical Firms 

• Magic Johnson critical of hosts after AIDS remarks

• Cutting HIV: male circumcision booms in Uganda

Research and Corporate News

• Drug-resistant HIV strains turning up in China

• Little HIV protection from circumcision for gay sex: study

• First human case of HIV '100 years ago'

• Pfizer continues realigning with 3 new units

Updated September 28, 2008

General News

• AIDS awareness still low in China: survey

• China warns of tougher punishment for bad blood

• South Africa's removal of health minister praised

• Leadership determines AIDS performance 

• Nearly one in five intravenous drug users may have HIV: estimate

• HIV on rise among self-injecting drug users

Research and Corporate News

• Pfizer, Nobel winner team up on health program

• Viral manoeuvres revealed by surveillance system

Updated September 28, 2008

General News

• AIDS awareness still low in China: survey

• China warns of tougher punishment for bad blood

• South Africa's removal of health minister praised

• Leadership determines AIDS performance 

• Nearly one in five intravenous drug users may have HIV: estimate

• HIV on rise among self-injecting drug users

Research and Corporate News

• Pfizer, Nobel winner team up on health program

• Viral manoeuvres revealed by surveillance system

Updated September 7, 2008

General News

• Asian health officials vow to intensify HIV-prevention campaign

• AIDS haunts low-prevalence countries in Asia-Pacific 

• Americans adopting HIV-positive kids from Ethiopia

• HIV-AIDS orphans face life alone in Swaziland

• UGANDA : Using mobile phones to fight HIV 

Research and Corporate News

• Gene may hold key to neutralizing HIV: U.S. study

• All types of sexual activity carry some STD risk

• Brazil rejects Gilead 's AIDS drug patent 

• Circumcision problems impair HIV prevention -study 

Updated August 31, 2008

General News

• China steps up random blood tests of travellers to check HIV

• In NYC, new HIV infections 3 times national rate

• New HIV infections up 45% in Philippines: official

• HIV-positive Ivorians to receive free anti-retroviral treatment

• UN study says polygamy main AIDS driver in Swaziland

Research News

• Rare case of child-to-mother HIV transmission

• HIV treatment may provoke asthma in kids

Updated August 25, 2008

General News

• Prostitution in Beijing booms during Olympics 

• Chinese gay bars open, activism slowed during Olympics

• Victims of Britain's tainted blood scandal speak

• Safe sex ring tone sings "Condom, condom!"

• It's always wise to condomise

• KENYA : High levels of stigma persist in the north 

• ETHIOPIA : Cappuccino with condom

• KENYA : The lure of dodgy herbal "cures" for HIV 

• AFRICA : Many children still miss out on treatment 

Research News

• Poor treatment may cause "untreatable" TB: study

Updated August 17, 2008

General News

• Beijing provides 100,000 condoms for athletes

• GLOBAL: High food prices put pressure on HIV programmes 

• AFRICA : Donor AIDS money weakening health systems 

• Uganda turns to mass circumcision in AIDS fight

• Blood transfusions give Argentine patients HIV

• Mom, daughter lead Kenyan village in AIDS recovery

• NIGERIA : Gays hesitate at the closet door 

• NIGERIA : Sex, trucks and HIV 

• Kerala reserves govt job for HIV-positive - report

Research and Corporate News

• "Elite" HIV wife may hold secret to AIDS vaccine

• Genital herpes treatment does not prevent HIV

• FDA approves Gilead AIDS drug for hepatitis B

• MS drug may work against viral infection: study

Updated August 3, 2008

General News

• China maintains HIV-AIDS entry ban despite Olympic scrutiny

• UN: AIDS epidemic stable; fewer deaths, infections

• Mexican sex workers want place at AIDS conference 

• AIDS conference to bring together top scientists

• US underestimated country's HIV epidemic

• AIDS hitting Asian gays at high rates: UN

• UN AIDS chief concerned about Russia, eastern Europe

• Eighty percent of HIV-positive Kenyans unaware of status: survey

• Conservative Malaysia faces uphill battle in HIV fight

Research and Corporate News

• Italy launches clinical trial for HIV vaccine

• Chinese Pharmaceutical Enterprise Signs Agreement With Clinton Foundation

• Gilead to sell HIV drug in 12 additional countries

• WHO approves 18th Ranbaxy HIV drug

• HIV carriers carried away over rumour

• AIDS patients, Abbott agree to settle lawsuit

Updated July 27, 2008

General News

• Asian Nations Urged to Control TB Threat

• Congress OKs $48B for global AIDS fight

• US lifts travel ban on HIV-positive people 

• Red Cross launches massive Africa AIDS appeal

• MOZAMBIQUE : Tourism, beaches and sex - a recipe for HIV 

• KENYA : More education equals less teen pregnancy and HIV 

Research and Corporate News

• Search for HIV vaccine needs overhaul

• US government to release revised US HIV estimates 

• Both drugs and condoms needed to stop HIV

• Doctors 'miss early HIV symptoms'

• Gilead shares rise as new HIV study begins

• Parasitic worms may help fuel AIDS epidemic -study

• Staying alive: Drug cocktail boosts HIV survival by 13 years

• S.Africa experts hope drugs can curb HIV infection 

• Meditation seen to slow AIDS progression

Updated July 20, 2008

General News

• US Senate triples funding for global AIDS fight 

• US ban on visitors with HIV could end soon

• Clinton unveils deal to cut malaria drug prices

• Is AIDS still an emergency? 

• Rice gets medal for helping to free HIV medics

• ISRAEL: Low infection rates but condoms still needed  

• Congo kids to get free AIDS checks and malaria drugs

• MOZAMBIQUE : Attitudes to HIV are changing in jail  

• ZAMBIA : Wanted - more people for HIV testing  

• Cameroon refugee on trial in Poland for infecting women with HIV 

Research and Corporate News

• US scientists scrap major AIDS vaccine test

• Anti-malaria gene in Africans raises HIV risk

• Two genes may prevent HIV infection: Canadian research centre

• Roche to suspend HIV research, seeing no advances

• China practices data protection system for drugs

Updated July 6, 2008

General News

• AIDS Orphans in China

• Unsafe Sex Hurting Asia

• Bill Gates is unforgettable for many Chinese

• Bush urges Congress to pass AIDS funds

• Activists march in India's biggest gay pride parade

• S.African addicts turn to AIDS medication to get high

• MOZAMBIQUE : Crossing borders for ARVs  

• Political will helping India 's AIDS battle - U.N.  

Research and Corporate News

• Sangamo technology shows promise in treating HIV

• Anti-retroviral drug cocktails slash AIDS deaths: study 

• Drug-resistant TB demands new approaches  

• People with HIV living longer, study shows

• New drug-resistance test gives hope to TB fight

Updated June 29, 2008

General News

• From China, stories of crisis and hope

• China one of first stops for Gates in new philanthropy job

• Mandela in London for 90th birthday, HIV/AIDS benefit concert

• Gay activists to march in India's biggest ever gay pride parades

• Senate agrees on $50 billion global AIDS bill

• Red Cross calls AIDS epidemic a disaster for Africa

• New York launches HIV testing for all adults in Bronx

• AIDS rates growing among drug users, gays: report

• Couples' counseling in Africa could cut HIV spread

Research and Corporate News

• Many may "trust" their partner is a low STD risk

• New study pinpoints HIV risk within existing African couples

• GlaxoSmithKline, Canada issue warning on HIV drug

• Push for more HIV screens to drive Gilead's growth

• Ardea Biosciences shares rise on HIV study data

Updated June 22, 2008

General News

• UN organs train Beijing Olympic volunteers in AIDS awareness

• China approves implementation plans of two major technology projects

• Men with HIV 'having unsafe sex'

• Syringe toddler tested for HIV

• New AIDS threat emerging in India among 'call center Romeos'

• Senate still deadlocked over $50B global AIDS bill

• THAILAND : Condom use not catching on among youth 

Research and Corporate News

• Study: Treating herpes doesn't prevent HIV

• Gilead Sciences HIV drug sector growth

• NYC suspends oral fluid sample use in HIV tests

Updated June 15, 2008

General News

• China to award blood donors 'medals for life' - WHO

• Sex and the Single Chinese

• Statement by  Vice Minister of Health of China

• UN calls for lifting travel restrictions on HIV carriers

• Better counting raises HIV rate in U.S. by 25 percent

• Head of UN's AIDS program Piot to step down 

• Funding gap for AIDS help persists: Global Fund

• Photo project lets Africa AIDS victims show their own story

• UN: New HIV infections outpaces drug treatment

• SAfrican minister under fire after ruling on HIV treatment

• High HIV rate heightens Mozambique poverty: UN envoy

• HIV/AIDS cases 'soar in Indonesian province'

• Condoms, spousal sex urged to prevent HIV in Caribbean jails

Research News

• Valeant says hepatitis C drug causes less anemia

• One in four New Yorkers has genital herpes

Updated June 8, 2008

General News

• AIDS drugs reach 3 mln in developing world-WHO 

• Bush to rich countries: Make good on AIDS pledge

• Anti-HIV regime cuts infection in breastfed babies

• Vast distances a barrier to combating HIV/AIDS in India

• SRI LANKA : Low HIV prevalence but high risk 

• S. African health minister: HIV rates declining

• SOUTH AFRICA : Current HIV treatment models not good enough 

• Aid orgs: Zimbabwe order put AIDS patients at risk

• AFRICA : Armies grapple with HIV among troops 

Research and Corporate News

• HIV treatment access improves, but coverage low

• Australian researchers say 'natural condom' could stop HIV

• Longer drug therapy helps babies ward off AIDS 

• SOUTH AFRICA : HIV a factor behind obesity? 

• PHILIPPINES : Tuberculosis remains a major killer 

• Vertex sells royalty stream from GlaxoSmithKline HIV drugs for $160 million

Updated June 1, 2008

General News

• The 25^th International AIDS Candlelight Memorial

• Malaysian women urged to carry condoms

• Four in five Swazi men reject AIDS testing: survey

• HIV risk in war-torn Afghanistan high - ministry 

• MYANMAR : Remembering HIV in cyclone response 

• KENYA : Boy's suicide reveals gaps in HIV education 

• MALAWI : Success in reducing HIV rate 

Research and Corporate News

• U Penn researcher to launch drug trial in Chinese province among IDUs

• Gilead drugs ready for new markets

• Swiss company says malaria vaccine tests 'successful'

• FDA clears new Johnson & Johnson HIV drug

Updated May 25, 2008

General News

• Beijing hotels to offer condoms to combat AIDS

• From 'gay plague' to global tragedy: An AIDS anniversary

• South Africa wages intensified war on AIDS

• Indian sex workers get life insurance

• AIDS cases on the rise in Burundi: officials

• Chronic diseases top causes of deaths globally: WHO

Research and Corporate News

• Cancer risk soars in HIV-infected people -US study

• Gilead sees positive patent decision on Viread

• Call for fresh thinking as AIDS pandemic marks quarter century

• Experts call for increased focus on hepatitis

Updated May 11, 2008

General News

• Global Fund considers loans to fight AIDS

• Queen, Razorlight to headline Mandela AIDS concert

• BURUNDI: HIV policy ignores the disabled

• Diaries show Saddam feared getting AIDS in prison

Research News

• AFRICA: Getting old on ARVs

• Free AIDS drugs slash death rate in Malawi study

Updated May 4, 2008

General News

• Singapore sees more HIV infections in 07

• Vietnam launches methadone clinics to fight HIV/AIDS

• Russia must grab chance to beat AIDS epidemic: U.N.

• Beating beetroot: S.African AIDS plan boosts treatment

• Web site challenges stereotypes on HIV/AIDS

Research News

• Aids help groups announce price cuts for anti-retroviral drugs

• More children to receive cheap drugs this year

• Adverse effects of HIV therapy differ by race, sex

• Scientists find a quicker way to make antibodies

• New immune treatment may control AIDS virus