Berita Satu, 31 Juli 2014

Kediri - Temuan kasus "Human Immunodeficiency Virus / Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome" (HIV/AIDS) di Kabupaten Kediri, Jawa Timur, pada 2014 mencapai 615 kasus dengan berbagai macam profesi.

Kepala Dinas Kesehatan Kabupaten Kediri Adi Laksono, Rabu mengatakan temuan kasus itu merupakan akumulasi sejak pemantauan pada 1996 sampai sekarang. Dari temuan kasus itu, diketahui 392 di antaranya adalah perempuan, sementara sisanya laki-laki.

"Dari 615 kasus, jumlah temuan yang meninggal ada 183 orang dengan berbagai macam latar belakang dan profesi," katanya.

Ia mengatakan, dari pemetaan profesi, diketahui ada yang bekerja sebagai karyawan, petani, buruh kasar, supir, siswa ataupun mahasiswa, pelaut, bahkan sampai ibu rumah tangga.

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Philippine Daily Inquirer, 30 July 2014

MANILA, Philippines—Sixteen new cases of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), which could lead to the fatal Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS), are reported everyday, according to the Department of Health (DOH).

Dr. Eric Tayag, chief of the DOH National Epidemiology Center, said the number of cases reported daily increased from only 12 cases a day in 2013.

Data from the Philippine HIV and AIDS Registry showed that for the month of June, 494 new HIV cases were reported, a 15-percent increase from figures seen in the same period last year.

Out of the 494 new cases, 42 were already full-blown AIDS, the DOH said.

The number of new cases brought to 2,814 the total reported HIV cases from January to June 2014, and to 19,330 from 1984 to 2014.

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All Africa, 30 July 2014

Three teenagers Simbarashe Moyana, Josh Chikosha and Frankson Chikosha have embarked on an HIV and AIDS awareness campaign through a film titled "The Seed of Life" that is set to premiere next month. In an interview Moyana who is one of the producers of the film said different issues affecting the society inspired them to have the production.

"We completed our O' Levels last year but we failed to proceed with our education due different circumstances so we decided to tackle some of these issues that happen in the society through a film," he said.

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Mission Local, 29 July 2014

Before its closure in 2010, a house called "Marty's Place" served as a private homeless shelter for those living with HIV/AIDS. Soon the longtime institution, on Treat and 25th, will open again; when it does it will become the first "permanently affordable" housing cooperative for the city's LGBTQ community living with HIV/AIDS.

A Victorian built in 1895 whose muraled garage door opens out to Balmy Alley, Marty's Place offers a particularly charming new model for affordable housing. It will be owned and managed by the tenants who inhabit it.

"You have this vision of low-income housing as not being beautiful, but when you walk into Marty's Place, the beauty strikes you," said Tommi Avicolli Mecca, a queer housing activist at the Housing Rights Committee, who is among the team to reopen the house.

That beauty, according to Mecca, is the house's long legacy as a safe haven for people living with HIV/AIDS. Its namesake, Marty Purcell, died from the disease in 1990. In his memory, his brother Richard Purcell founded Marty's Place as a space "where people could find refuge."

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Luksaka Times, 29 July 2014

The Center for Disease Control and Prevention in Zambia (CDC) says Zambia will be among the first countries to achieve the target of an HIV and AIDs free generation.

Outgoing CDC country Director Lawrence Marum notes that Zambia has made tremendous progress in treating new infections and has paid particular attention to giving treatment to positive living patients.

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