All Africa, 17 July 2014

In a new report by the United Nations AIDS (UNAIDS) Thursday in Geneva, Switzerland, Nigeria and two other African countries have been indicted over increasing cases of HIV/AIDS pandemic in their countries amid overall global decline of the disease.

The report indicated that about 80 percent of people living with the virus in Nigeria have no access to Anti-Retroviral Drugs. According to the report which took stock of cases in each continent stated that just "15 account for more than 75% of the 2.1 million new HIV infections that occurred in 2013."

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US Today, 17 July 2014

Young people account for the largest portion of new HIV infections, but only 22% of sexually active high schools students have ever been tested for HIV, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports.

Those between 13 and 24 accounted for about 26% of all new HIV infections in 2010, and almost 60% of youths with HIV in the U.S. don't know they are infected. The new analysis, in the biennial National Youth Risk Behavior Survey, looks at high school students from 1991 to 2013, but found that the number of students getting tested has remained stagnant since 2005. In this age group, female and black students were more likely to be tested for HIV.

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UK News Yahoo, 17 July 2014

For more than three decades, AIDS and those fighting it have been locked in a tango, moving sideways, backwards or forwards, but still a cure remains elusive.

The 20th International AIDS Conference, opening in Melbourne, Australia, on Sunday will have plenty of opportunity to mull the strange dance with this complex, deadly disease.

For several years now, the news has been sunny, a tale of declining mortality and fewer infections -- the outcome of gruelling lab work and billions of dollars in health investment.

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the guardian, 16 July 2014

Last week, a four-year-old girl thought to have been cleared of HIV was found to be still infected. But scientists are not giving up, and trials of a promising new technique are about to begin

In 33 years of the Aids pandemic, which has perhaps caused more shock and anguish than any other infectious disease since the black death, only one person has ever been cured. That man was "the Berlin patient", now identified as Timothy Ray Brown, an American treated in Germany, whose case was publicised in 2009. Until last week, the world hoped that a small child had joined him, but the Mississippi baby, now nearly four years old, is back on antiretroviral drugs after two tantalising years when regular tests failed to find any trace of the HIV virus in her body.

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