Men and Microbicides

Much discussion at the Barcelona AIDS2002 Conference has revolved around involving men in microbicides advocacy initiatives. In a cross-section of short random interviews with 26 male delegates, 14 responded ¨Yes¨ to the question ¨Have you heard of microbicides?

HIV tools available online

The HIVTools Research Group at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine is pleased to announce the launch of our new HIVToolsweb-site: www.hivtools.lshtm.ac.uk/

HIV/AIDS policy - where are the grandparents?

As the Barcelona Conference discussed future HIV/AIDS policy, new statistics from the UN indicate that the rate of HIV infection shows little sign of slowing. So far, major conferences on HIV/AIDS have scarcely considered older people, either as infected persons or as carers for infected family members. HIV/AIDS is considered a disease of the young, but in fact it affects the whole family and all ages.

Orphans - a challenge created by HIV/AIDS

South Africa faces the challenge of having to look after 1.85 million children orphaned as a result of the HIV/AIDS pandemic in 2015. This translates to 15% of children under 15 whose mothers will have died from AIDS.

The many faces of AIDS research in South Africa

While activists fight for free or affordable anti-retroviral drugs for all who need them, it is the job of researchers to identify exactly who those patients are, and precisely how the treatment would best be administered.

A funding bonanza that will save lives

Professor Salim Abdool Karim, one of the world's most respected AIDS scientists, is understandably a very happy man. After years of underfunding and a lack of resources, he can now confidently state that scientists in South Africa are now not only willing, but also able, to undertake cutting edge research on HIV/AIDS.

Women at Barcelona: Some abstracts on Treatment

Marge Berer, UK Editor of Reproductive Health Matters, has compiled the following list of useful research abstracts pertaining to HIV-positive women as presented at the Barcelona Conference. This list will be augmented in due course, and will be published on the RHM website and in the November 2002 RHM journal.

Useful HIV/AIDS Resources

Information on new resources for researchers, trainers and activists working in the field of HIV/AIDS - on Intervention Studies, Health and Human Rights and health-related CD-ROMS.

Cause of Hepatitis A virulence pinpointed

Researchers at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) have located two genes that give hepatitis A virus (HAV) its virulent properties.

Booklet for work on Gender and HIV/AIDS

UNIFEM's publication "Turning the Tide: CEDAW and the Gender Dimensions of the HIV/AIDS Pandemic," contributes to understanding how the world's foremost blueprint for women's human rights can be put to work to address the HIV/AIDS epidemic from a gender perspective.