Independent, 30 January 2014

Conservative MPs have been accused of trying to change the law to ban foreigners with HIV and Hepatitis B from living and working in Britain.

Nearly 20 Tories backed an amendment to the Government's controversial Immigration Bill which would have required anyone coming to settle in Britain to prove that they were not HIV positive.

The move was described as "shameful" and "outrageous" by Aids charities. It also drew the wrath of some other Conservative MPs, with Margot James accusing her colleagues of trying to take the party "back to the 80s".

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Vaccine News Daily, 31 January 2014

Brown University researchers found specific ethnic and racial differences in discussions of HIV medicine adherence, according to a study published on Saturday in AIDS and Behavior.

In HIV care, how healthcare providers communicate with patients can determine whether patients take their medications as prescribed. The researchers found that in dialogue between doctors and minority patients there were different speech patterns, more provider directives and there was more dialogue about HIV drug adherence.

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Asia Unbound, 31 January 2014

Fifteen years ago, in light of the rapid spread of the HIV cases and the absence of effective government response, UN officials warned that China could have over 10 million HIV cases by 2010. Thankfully, that prophesy was not fulfilled. In fact, China today has an estimated 780,000 people living with HIV/AIDS. The adult prevalence rate of HIV/AIDS is only 0.1 percent, the same as Japan's and less than the United Kingdom's (0.2 percent) and the United States' (0.6 percent). Comparatively, in 2010, China had 36,200 AIDS-related deaths—the same number of people die annually as a result of seasonal flu in the United States—compared to 1.7 million who died of stroke and nearly 1 million who died of heart disease.

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the Herald, 31 January 2014

HIGH levels of migration by Zimbabweans from the Matabeleland provinces to neighbouring South Africa and Botswana have resulted in greater HIV prevalence rates there, the National Aids Council has said. Appearing before the Parliamentary Thematic Committee on HIV/Aids on Monday, National Aids Council officials said while prevalence was decreasing in other provinces, Matabeleland South, Bulawayo and Matabeleland North's prevalence stood at 21 percent, 19 percent and 18 percent, respectively.

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eNewsParkForest, 28 January 2014

BERKELEY--(ENEWSPF)--January 28, 2014. People infected with the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) can stave off the symptoms of AIDS thanks to drug cocktails that mainly target three enzymes produced by the virus, but resistant strains pop up periodically that threaten to thwart these drug combos.

Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, and the National Institutes of Health have instead focused on a fourth protein, Nef, that hijacks host proteins and is essential to HIV's lethality. The researchers have captured a high-resolution snapshot of Nef bound with a main host protein, and discovered a portion of the host protein that will make a promising target for the next-generation of anti-HIV drugs. By blocking the part of a key host protein to which Nef binds, it may be possible to slow or stop HIV.

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