Sindo News, 11 Agustus 2014

Sejumlah remaja berkampanye bahaya HIV/AIDS (ilustrasi Sindonews.com)SUKABUMI - Empat orang ibu rumah tangga asal Kota Sukabumi dinyatakan positif terinfeksi HIV/AIDS.Tragisnya, satu orang di antara ibu rumah tangga tersebut tengah dalam kondisi mengandung.

Sekretaris Komisi Penanggulangan AIDS Kota Sukabumi Fifi Kusumajaya mengungkapkan, ke empat ibu rumah tangga ini diketahui terjangkit HIV/AIDS berdasarkan hasil temuan kasus tahun 2014 ini. Umumnya mereka merupakan ibu rumah tangga berusia produktif.

"Para wanita ini terinfeksi virus yang ditularkan suaminya. Selain empat wanita ini, kami juga menemukan 54 orang penderita lainnya. Dengan demikian jumlah keseluruhan kasus terbaru HIV/AIDS pada tahun ini mencapai 58 orang atau masih berada dibawah dari jumlah kasus tahun 2013 sebanyak 135 kasus," beber Fifi Senin (11/8).

 

MSN BC, 10 August 2014

Inkera Jordan, who is HIV positive since 1995 and a peer educator with the AIDS Service Center of New York City socializes with members of the group Sexy with A Goal (SWAG) at ASC/NYC's Lower East Side Peer Outreach Center, July 7, 2012 in New York. Photo by Mike Segar/ReutersAs President Obama hosted African heads of state in Washington this past week, the global HIV/AIDS epidemic has been back in the news. But we shouldn't need an international summit to remind us about HIV/AIDS. The epidemic is quietly raging here at home.

There are more than one million Americans living with HIV, and each year some 50,000 are newly diagnosed according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). In 2010, more than 15,000 people in the United States died of AIDS-related causes.

"The stigma that certain populations encounter on a daily basis is the single biggest barrier to reaching them with preventative education and treatment."
Scott Campbell, Elton John AIDS Foundation

CTV News, 9 August 2014

Activists of a non-governmental organization display red ribbons, symbol of HIV-AIDS awareness, as they pose for photographers during an awareness campaign on World AIDS Day, in a business district of Bangalore, India, Sunday, Dec. 1, 2013. (AP / Aijaz Rahi)SAO PAULO, Brazil -- The devastating news didn't make sense to Brazilian Pierre Freitaz. How was it possible that, at age 17, he was infected with HIV if his only boyfriend seemed fit and healthy?

Freitaz confesses he knew little about the virus when he was diagnosed in 2004. He didn't understand the difference between the infection and the disease it caused: AIDS. He was confused by the lack of obvious symptoms.

"It's like I was living in a different part of the world, and I felt immune."

While Brazil has long been seen as a global model in the fight against AIDS, activists and officials say more and more youths share Freitaz's unawareness of HIV risks, or are unconcerned about them. Even as HIV infection rates have begun declining in many other places, cases have been slowly rising in Brazil -- with the sharpest jump among youths 15 to 24.

Prague Post, 10 August 2014

HIV Virus (Illustration)New statistics about HIV and AIDS in the Czech Republic reveal that, although still relatively rare, infections have spiked again in recent years

Prague, Aug. 10 (ČTK) — Doctors registered 129 new patients with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) in the Czech Republic in the first six months of the year, which was the highest number since 1985, when tracking of the infection started, the national reference laboratory for HIV/AIDS has told the Czech News Agency.

The number of patients with AIDS increased tenfold in the same period, the lab said.

Four children were born to HIV-positive mothers, and seven patients died.

Supported by

AusAID