JOHANNESBURG, 29 July 2008 (PlusNews) - The rate of new HIV infections is slowing in a number of countries, but the AIDS epidemic is not over in any part of the world, and is gaining pace in some.

This was the message UNAIDS officials drove home as the agency released new data, giving the most up-to-date snapshot of the global epidemic and the world's response.

The ...

YANGI-NOOKAT, 28 August 2008 (PlusNews) - The story of how Nasiba, 32, and her 2-year-old son, Akram, both became infected with HIV is not the familiar one of an unfaithful husband and a mother unwittingly infecting her child.

Nasiba and Akram live in Yangi-Nookat village, in southwestern Kyrgyzstan's Nookat District, where most people support themselves by small-scale farming and unemployment is so high that many have left for Russia and other countries in search of jobs.

Akram was seven ...

2:19PM Wednesday August 13, 2008

A man diagnosed with HIV has been awarded $6000 after it was found he was constructively dismissed by his employer.

The man, whose name has been suppressed, left his job as a showroom manager after only seven months employment.

During that time his employer issued two warning notices.

The first was due to misuse of the internet, poor showroom management and because the man made a pricing mistake.

After the first warning the man was diagnosed as HIV...

The theme for World AIDS Day 2007 and 2008 is “leadership”. This theme will continue to be promoted with the campaigning slogan, “Stop AIDS. Keep the Promise.”

Leadership was selected as the theme for World AIDS Day to encourage leaders at all levels to stop AIDS. Building on the 2006 theme of accountability, leadership highlights the discrepancy between the commitments that have been made to halt the spread of AIDS, and actions taken to follow them through. The theme empowers everyone from i...