K-Earth101, 30 October 2014

Elton John has been an advocate for HIV/AIDS awareness for decades now, and urged the LGBT communities to "wise up" in terms of attitudes about the pandemic at a recent gala his foundation hosted. (via CBS)
At "An Enduring Vision" gala, hosted by the Elton John AIDS Foundation, John urged LGBT identifying individuals that the AIDS crisis is not a thing of the past, noting that "HIV infection have remained at steady or increasing levels in many parts of the world, including the U.S., and that AIDS still remains the leading cause of death for male African-Americans."

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Blog AIDS Gov, 30 October 2014

Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia M. Burwell announced today that more than $2.2 billion in grants was awarded in fiscal year (FY) 2014 to cities, states and local community-based organizations, funded through the Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program. This funding will ensure that more than half a million people living with and affected by HIV infection continue to have access to critical HIV health care, support services, and medications that are insufficiently covered by other forms of health care insurance.

"As we strive to achieve an AIDS-free generation by pursuing and accomplishing the goals of the National HIV/AIDS Strategy, the Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program serves an increasingly important role," said Secretary Burwell. "These grants will make a difference in the lives of the most vulnerable Americans living with HIV disease."

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NAM AIDS, 29 October 2014

"There's only one Berlin patient still. But by this time next year he will at least be joined by 40-50 Portland monkeys." This was vaccine researcher Louis Picker, summarising in quotable form why the outlook for the development of an effective HIV vaccine is brighter than it has been for years, in a satellite session in advance of the HIV Research for Prevention conference (R4P) in Cape Town, South Africa, which opens fully today.

Picker was speaking about his research into a vaccine which created a lot of interest before and at last year's AIDS Vaccine conference in Barcelona, Spain, (the R4P conference results from a merger between the annual AIDS Vaccine conferences and the biennial Microbicides conferences). Picker said that, by next year, this number of monkeys infected with SIV, the monkey equivalent of HIV, who were also previously given a 'replicating vector' vaccine, will have had no detectable HIV anywhere in their bodies for more than 70 weeks – and that probably means not one single infected cell.

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Tribun Nigerian, 20 Ocotober 2014

The Association of Women Living with HIV/AIDS in Nigeria (ASWHAN) has appealed to the National Assembly to urgently pass the Anti-discrimination and Stigmatisation Bill.

Mrs Esther James, ASWHAN Advocacy Officer, made the call in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Abuja.

James, who described the bill as anti-discrimination, denial and stigma against people living with HIV/AIDs, said the passage of the bill would protect the victims from being stigmatised in their neighbourhoods and work places, among others.

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the Jakarta Post, 29 October 2014

The West Nusa Tenggara-chapter National AIDS Commission (KPAP NTB) says the number of HIV/AIDS infections reported in the province has continued to increase with a wider reach, now also affecting previously low-risk groups such as housewives and children.

The KPAP NTB data shows that cumulatively, from 2001 through July this year, as many as 152 housewives had been reportedly infected with HIV, 88 of whom had developed AIDS. In the same period, 31 children aged between 2 and 9 years old in the province had tested positive for HIV.

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