Avahan Aids initiative may have prevented 600,000 HIV infections in India over 10 years

... for determining which interventions should be prioritized." Transgender sex workers counsel other sex workers about HIV/AIDS. (Credit: Sanjit Das for Avahan, The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.)

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/09/130929195712.htm?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+sciencedaily%2Fscience_society%2Fpublic_health+%28ScienceDaily%3A+Science+%26+Society+News+--+Public+Health%29

District Sees HIV Drop-off

The District of Columbia, which has historically had the highest rate of HIV/AIDS in the United States, has seen a 46 percent drop in the rate of infection between 2007 and 2011 from 3.2 percent to 2.4 percent, the Department of Health announced last week.

http://www.thehoya.com/news/district-sees-hiv-drop-off-1.3070394

How will new HIV treatment guidelines affect children in Kenya?

... University School of Medicine and Moi University School of Medicine that was formed to help control and prevent HIV/AIDS in Kenya. Rachel Vreeman, M.D., discusses the new World Health Organization guidelines for treating HIV in children, how ...

http://soundmedicine.iu.edu/segment/3823/How-will-new-HIV-treatment-guidelines-affect-children-in-Kenya-

Potentially Tragic Breast-Milk Mix-Up

Schneider: Minuscule risk to infant mistakenly fed with breast milk from another baby's HIV-positive mother As soon as I read this frightening headline all I could think of was the decades' old story about the wife and daughter of Paul Michael Glaser , the actor from Starsky and Hutch .

http://me-ander.blogspot.com/2013/10/potentially-tragic-breast-milk-mix-up.html

'I'm Still Josh' Blogger Publishes Review for getSTDtested, an Online STD Testing Service

... I'm Still Josh imstilljosh.com , written by Josh Robbins, has become a niche, but widely accepted, voice in the HIV/AIDS community since 2011 when he first released a shocking YouTube video he recorded live while learning he would be living with ...

http://www.24-7pressrelease.com/press-release-rss/quotim-still-joshquot-blogger-publishes-review-for-getstdtested-an-online-std-testing-service-363465.php

Mother on a mission

... Service) SEATTLE – When her daughter was going into the fifth grade 2 years ago, Jodie Howerton reviewed the HIV/AIDS educational materials that would be used in her child's class – and was appalled by what she saw. In it, the human ...

http://www.saukvalley.com/2013/09/30/mother-on-a-mission/asckc32/

New funding for novel AIDS research

Researchers at San Francisco's Gladstone Institutes are being awarded more than $12 million in grants from divisions of the National Institutes of Health to help develop an elusive knock-out punch against AIDS.

http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/story?section=news/health&id=9268444&rss=rss-kgo-article-9268444