Liberty Voice, 26 July 2014

While Bill Clinton's recent call to end global AIDS at the 2014 International AIDS Conference is a big task, it can be possible. There are roughly 33.4 million people who are living with HIV or AIDS around the world and since 1981, there have been 25 million people who have died from AIDS. Despite the AIDS epidemic, Botswana is an example of how proper treatment and care is essential in fighting and eventually eradicating the disease.

HIV (Human Immunodeficiency Virus) is contracted when this virus gets into a person's system through the transference of certain bodily fluids from a person who is HIV-infected. A person can come into contact with this virus through sexual contact, needle or drug injections, pregnancy, childbirth, breast-feeding, and through blood infusions. Once it is in a person's system, HIV attacks T-cells, which play a vital role in maintaining the immune system. As this virus destroys the T-cells, it also replicates itself and attaches itself to more cells in the body, thus rendering the body helpless from against any disease. At its final stages, HIV becomes AIDS and eventually leads to death.

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Pakistan Tribune, 26 July 2014

PARIS: Anti-AIDS drugs have helped save 19 million years of human life since 1996, said an analysis Tuesday which also slashed UN estimates for HIV deaths and disease by a quarter.

"The HIV epidemic is smaller than estimated by UNAIDS", wrote the team which had reviewed data contained in the Global Burden of Disease Study 2013.

"The overall amount of ill-health and premature death resulting from HIV (is) roughly 25 percent lower than the latest estimate provided by UNAIDS in 2012," added a statement carried by The Lancet medical journal, which published the results of the probe.

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Nigerian Bulletin, 26 July 2014

The Federal Government of Nigeria have been urged to procure an indegenous solution to the issue of Human Immune Virus and Acquired Immune Defficiency Syndrome HIV/AIDS in the country.

This report was released by U-Report, a free UNICEF SMS-based platform that allows individual give an account of what's happening in thier community on issues that regards the welfare of the people.

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New Vision, 26 July 2014

The US Government has contracted an American firm to implement HIV/AIDS programs in Uganda after terminating its partnership with the Inter Religious Council of Uganda (IRCU) for backing the anti-gay law.

The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) mission director in Uganda, Leslie Reed, revealed that Cardno Emerging Markets, a US infrastructure and environment services company, will deliver HIV/AIDS services under the new USAID/Uganda private sector support program.

She also said US would continue funding HIV/AIDS activities in Uganda and that USAID funded services would be available to all people regardless of their sexual orientation.

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Tribun News, 26 Juli 2014

Agama menjadi salah satu topik yang banyak dibicarakan dalam konferensi AIDS internasional 2014 di kota Melbourne, Australia. Banyak yang bertanya-tanya, bagaimana agama bisa dijadikan cara memerangi HIV, tanpa menjadi sesuatu yang menghakimi atau mengancam.

Perihal HIV dan kesehatan seksual bisa memasuki begitu banyak ranah, tak terkecuali agama. Agama bisa dijadikan senjata untuk memberi bimbingan tentang kesehatan seksual, bahkan kenikmatan seksual.

Untuk menanggulangi penyebaran HIV dan kesehatan seksual buruk di komunitas-komunitas tertentu, lebih baik merangkul agama dan tokoh-tokoh agama daripada menjauhi mereka.

Begitu pendapat sejumlah aktivis bidang HIV dan kesehatan seksual yang ditemui ABC International dalam konferensi AIDS Internasional 2014, atau yang disingkat menjadi AIDS 2014.

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