HIV/AIDS in Australia

Established in January 1992, the AIDS Consortium is a network of over 300 organisations, any community-based, and over 200 individuals. The Consortium provides access to information on any aspect of HIV/AIDS and lobbies for a human rights-based response to the epidemic. The AIDS Consortium Resource Centre has expanded and developed, and continues to be recognised as one of the most comprehensive sources of HIV/AIDS materials and resources in Southern Africa.

UK based site with information relating to Worlds AIDS Day and the campaign against AIDS - World AIDS Day is about keeping up the fight against HIV and AIDS. It's about supporting an estimated 36.1 million people across the world living with HIV. It's about the fact that over 8,000 people worldwide die from AIDS every single day. It's about fighting the prejudice faced by people living with HIV. It's about making people in power take action.

Laws criminalising behaviour that may transmit HIV are the product, not of rational public health choices, but of irrational fears, which provide an inveterately poor basis for rational law-making, according to South Africas Justice Edwin Cameron. Speaking last night at Birkbeck College in central London, at an event co-hosted by NAM and the National AIDS Trust, Mr Justice Cameron argued that the laws current place in the AIDS epidemic is primarily to create legislation specially protecting the rights of those with HIV.

Wealthy and educated, they believe they are not at risk of HIV infection. But a new study has shown that an increasing number of affluent, well-educated South Africans with money to spend and invest are infected with the virus that causes AIDS. Now researchers are warning that the country could be facing a third epidemic as HIV takes a foothold in the more affluent sectors of society. The third epidemic follows on from the initial epidemic among gay men and the second which mainly affected poorer heterosexuals.

HIV-positive teachers were not getting the antiretroviral drugs they desperately needed because the departments of education and health each believed the treatment was the other's responsibility, a Commonwealth Secretariat workshop heard yesterday.

HIV and AIDS in Southern Africa is under-reported, the voices of those most affected are least heard, and the gender dimensions of the pandemic are not well reflected, according to a study released here on World Press Freedom Day, according to a statement.

A new project by South African NGO, the Centre for HIV/AIDS Networking (HIVAN), will enable rural communities across the country to develop their own programmes to deal with the impact of HIV/AIDS.

A new project by South African NGO, the Centre for HIV/AIDS Networking (HIVAN), will enable rural communities across the country to develop their own programmes to deal with the impact of HIV/AIDS.

In South Africa, the country with the largest number of persons infected with HIV, statistics suggest that 50% of youth under the age of 15 are expected to die of Aids before they are 40, that 14 000 contract the virus each day and that five to 9 million people have HIV/AIDS..

As the HIV/AIDS epidemic spreads and matures, affecting large swathes of people across the southern African region, it is eating into the social, economic and political fabric of many communities. This became startlingly apparent with the recent humanitarian crisis in the region, when over 14 million people were threatened with starvation. The causes included the usual factors of bad weather, and economic mismanagement, but the added impact of HIV/AIDS seems to have tipped many people into destitution. The immediate response has been an emergency one with thousands of tonnes of food aid and emergency health care. At the same time, it is quite clear that the traditional health and agricultural services have not significantly reduced the vulnerability or susceptibility of millions of people to HIV/AIDS or malnutrition or food insecurity.