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HIV-positive Edmonton teen avoids jail for unprotected sex A 17-year-old girl has been given a conditional discharge for having unprotected sex with two... 22 February
Malawi Cash payments help cut HIV infection rate in young women Regular small cash payments to girls and young women can enable them to resist the attentions of... 21 February
Sexual rights of HIV-positive transwomen I'm puzzled by the question of what the sexual rights of HIV+ transgender women are. To me, as an... 21 February
A woman pins a red ribbon on her shawl Funding squeeze, apathy risk another half century of AIDS With enough money spent in the right way, the world could soon reduce new HIV infections to zero,... 21 February
Zuhura Hussein in Nairobi’s Kibera slum Kenya's startup boom Local programmers and homegrown business models are helping to realize the vast promise of using... 21 February
Sir Elton John: We must end the greed of these corporations Remember Stella? No? Well, let me remind you. On World Aids Day in 2010 when I was guest editor of... 21 February
An Afghan boy stands in his family's opium poppy field on March 19, 2009 Afghanistan's toxic cocktail of drugs, graft, mafia It's below freezing, but the Afghan lies rigid in the snow of Kabul. He doesn't move. His arms and... 21 February
Winnipeg immigrant deported for failing to disclose HIV-positive status to partners A Winnipeg immigrant convicted for failing to tell his sex partners he was HIV-positive has been... 20 February
Going public the next frontier for scientists American Association for the Advancement of Science's leading thinkers in Vancouver to consider how... 16 February
Hundreds of activists gathered in New Delhi to protest Novartis's attack on Indi Patents in India and the Novartis Case For the past 6 years drug giant Novartis has been pursuing a legal case in India that threatens... 16 February
The Supreme Court Justices Gay sex and the right to privacy Do individuals infected with the HIV virus have the right to privacy? May they engage in consensual... 16 February
Russia's free speech and public health crackdown In the world of HIV/AIDS there is an old adage: silence = death. The rallying cry of Act Up Paris... 16 February
Red Roads AGM and diabetes awareness workshop Red Road HIV/AIDS Network, the BC Aboriginal organization, is holding its Annual General Meeting on... 16 February
Supreme Court questions defence in landmark HIV case Top judges grill government lawyers as court reviews rules in criminalization cases Two government... 14 February
For more information and to become involved, please contact The AIDS Institute a President Obama's budget maintains strong commitment to domestic HIV/AIDS programs "The budget President Obama outlined today yet again demonstrates his strong commitment to ending... 14 February
A nurse holds the hand of a Zimbabwean AIDS victim Montreal researchers discover why some prostitutes evade HIV Thanks to a Canadian research team, more evidence is emerging about why some African prostitutes... 14 February
Looking for 'gay sex' at the National Post? Some days I wonder if queer culture will ever become so mainstream that there won't be anything... 14 February
HIV virus Immune cells use 'starvation tactics' on HIV Scientists have shown how some cells in the body can repel attacks from HIV by starving the virus... 14 February
A stop sign in Iqaluit shows both English and Inuktitut. A group of Inuit women Group to develop Inuktitut health terms Inuit women are meeting in Happy Valley-Goose Bay, N.L., this week to develop Inuktitut words for... 9 February
Toronto Day of Action Against the Criminalization of HIV Canadian activists: Those living with HIV are not criminals HIV has changed over the course of the past two and a half decades with medical advancements. It is... 9 February
Global health hits crisis point Last week, Michel Kazatchkine tendered his resignation as executive director of the Global Fund to... 9 February
Supreme Court of Canada Supreme Court ponders law on disclosure of HIV/AIDS to sex partners Canada's highest court will hear two landmark cases Wednesday on whether someone living with HIV... 9 February
HIV disclosure to sex partners mulled by top court Winnipeg man, Quebec woman did not tell sexual partners they have HIV The country's top court is... 9 February
Singapore: Two men with HIV jailed for non-disclosure to same man at different times A 27 year-old former civil engineer and a 48 year-old married man who had casual sex at different... 9 February
Gathering evidence of HIV nondisclosure In a room full of sexual assault investigators from across the province, just one raises a hand... 9 February