[The Body] There’s a new drug trade in town: selling HIV medications. In Washington Heights, a Manhattan neighborhood, officials are seeing a growing number of HIV-positive individuals selling their meds. This growing trend of trading health for much-needed cash isn’t new, but it illuminates how a crippling economy and disproportionate poverty impacts people living with HIV.
Trading [...]

[NYTimes]- David Aldridge of Los Angeles had a kidney transplant in 2006, but he will soon need another. Like many people living with H.I.V., he suffers from kidney damage, either from the virus or from the life-saving medications that keep it at bay.
Until recently, such patients did not receive transplants at all because doctors worried [...]

[Yahoo News] – The Vatican will host an international conference in May on preventing AIDS and caring for those afflicted with it amid continued confusion over its position concerning condoms as a way to prevent HIV transmission.
The Vatican’s Pontifical Council for Health Care Workers also said Thursday it was working on a set of guidelines for [...]

[Advocate] During a signing ceremony for the Ryan White HIV/AIDS Treatment Extension Act, President Barack Obama announced Friday that the federal government would end its ban on travel and immigration to the U.S. by people who are HIV-positive, as first reported by The Advocate. Obama made the announcement in the Diplomatic Room of the White [...]

In countries without comprehensive national health care systems and in resource-limited set-tings, clinical trial participants may lack access to medications and medical care after trials conclude. [1] Since approximately 2000, investigators, research participants, and ethicists have engaged in a vigorous debate regarding whether participants in clinical trials are entitled to receive post-trial medications and medical [...]

“Ob-gyns should routinely screen all women between the ages of 19 and 64 for HIV, regardless of their risk factors”, according to a Committee Opinion, paper issued August 1, 2008 by The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG).
“Women represent the fastest growing population of persons infected with HIV in this country, and heterosexual [...]

Dr. George Amofa, Deputy Director-General of the Ghana Health Service (GHS)has urged medical practitioners to strictly adhere to the core values of the profession to help improve health care delivery.
He mentioned the six core values as people sensitivity, professionalism, teamwork, discipline, innovation and integrity.
Dr. Amofa gave the advice when he launched a magazine by the [...]

Despite dire predictions, “vulnerable” populations including the elderly, the poor, disabled and minorities do not make up a disproportionate number of the deaths in areas where physician-assisted death is legal, according to international research led by a bioethics expert from the University of Utah.Margaret Battin, distinguished professor of philosophy and adjunct professor of internal medicine, [...]

Prime Minister John Howard said Friday that people with HIV should not be allowed to migrate to Australia, and that the government was investigating whether it could tighten existing restrictions.
The comments triggered anger among HIV-AIDS workers, who accused Howard of xenophobia and of blaming sufferers for their illness.
Asked in a radio interview whether people with [...]

South Africa is considering forcibly detaining people who carry a deadly strain of tuberculosis that threatens to cause a global pandemic.
Read more: The dilemma of a deadly disease: patients may be forcibly detained