01/08/2009
Getting HIV from your surgeon highly unlikely (Reuters via Yahoo! News)
The case of an HIV-infected heart surgeon in Israel reinforces the message that the risk of transmitting HIV -- the virus that causes AIDS -- from surgeon to patient is very low, according to an article in the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, a publication of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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01/09/2009
Uganda: New HIV Cases Alarm Doctors (AllAfrica.com)
Kampala — DOCTORS have raised a fresh alarm over the rate at which Ugandans are becoming infected with HIV, especially married people.
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01/09/2009
Albay leads in Bicol in HIV cases By Mike dela Rama (Philippine News Agency)
LEGAZPI CITY, Jan. 9 (PNA)–- The province of Albay has chalked up the highest number of Human Immune Deficiency Virus (HIV) reported cases in the Bicol region as of December 2008.
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01/09/2009
Delhi boy gets HIV during cancer treatment (The Times of India)
NEW DELHI: A 12-year-old blood cancer patient being treated at Guru Teg Bahadur Hospital has been diagnosed as HIV-positive. His family has alleged that he contracted the infection during his treatment when he received several blood transfusions and chemotherapy at the hospital.
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01/09/2009
Nepal forms global alliance to combat HIV/AIDS (Philippine News Agency)
KATHMANDU, Jan. 9 (PNA/Xinhua) -- Nepal Red Cross Society (NRCS), along with Red Crescent Societies, has formed a global alliance to combat HIV/AIDS rampant in poor countries like Nepal, The Himalayan Times daily reported on Friday.
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01/09/2009
Delhi boy gets HIV during cancer cure (The Times of India)
A 12-year-old blood cancer patient being treated at Guru Teg Bahadur Hospital has been diagnosed as HIV-positive.
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01/09/2009
HIV/AIDS introductory meeting set for Jan. 17 (Gonzales Weekly Citizen)
HIV and AIDS affect people in all communities, and Ascension Parish has its share of residents fighting the viruses.
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01/08/2009
INDONESIA: Juliana Yarisetou, "I would say 75 percent of Papuans don't believe there is HIV" (AlertNet)
Source: IRIN Juliana Yarisetou works as an AIDS advocacy officer for the international NGO Family Health International in Jayapura, the capital of Indonesia's Papua Province. Papua has the country's highest HIV prevalence rate at 2.4 percent, and the ingredients for a far worse epidemic. IRIN/PlusNews spoke to Yarisetou after she had participated in a local radio call-in programme.
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01/08/2009
Toronto man with HIV charged with sexual assault (CBC Toronto)
Toronto police have charged an HIV-infected man with sexual assault for allegedly infecting his partner. Police believe the man may have infected other women.
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01/08/2009
HIV/AIDS Affecting Formerly Low-Risk Populations In Indonesian Province (Medical News Today)
Formerly low-risk groups such as married women and young children are contracting HIV/AIDS at higher rates in Indonesia's West Nusa Tenggara province during the past year, the Jakarta Post reports. According to the province's AIDS Eradication Commission, or KPAD, 25 married women and six young children contracted HIV last year.
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