The HIV Support Centre is pleased to support Sexual Health Week in partnership with Northern Regional College, the Nortehrn Health and Social Care Trust (NHSCT) and the Public Health Agency (PHA) in the run-up to Valentine’s Week. The HIV Support Centre will provide sexually transmitted infections (STI) and HIV awareness stands at all of the Northern Regional College campuses. The dates are as follows:
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Sexual Health Week
Friday, February 3rd, 2012Hepatitis C transmission among HIV positive gay men
Monday, January 30th, 2012National AIDS Trust (NAT) has launched a report, HIV and Hepatitis C Co-infection, that looks at hepatitis C infection among gay men who are living with HIV. They are calling for more to be done to reduce this type of co-infection as their are serious health implications such as liver disease.
For further information and to read the report click on the link below.
Bill Gates donates $750 million to fight AIDS
Monday, January 30th, 2012Bill Gates has donated $750 million from his charitable foundation to the Global Fund which fights AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria. He also emphasised that countries should not decrease the amounts of aid they are giving because of the global economic crisis. For the full story click on the link below.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/jan/26/bill-gates-davos-aid
Stop the Stigma
Friday, January 27th, 2012Here is a link to the Does HIV look like me? website. They have produced a new Stop the Stigma video which is worth a view.
Big increase in repeat pregnancy rates amongst HIV-positive women
Friday, January 13th, 2012Below is an article about the rise in repeat pregnancies among women who are living with HIV in the UK and Ireland. This emphasises that women who are HIV-positive can have families and, with the appropriate antiretroviral treatments, mother-to-child transmissions can be prevented in most circumstances.
Click on the link below to view the full article on AIDS Map.
HIV & AIDS Thirty Years On: Challenges and Hopes
Wednesday, January 11th, 2012Below is an interesting article, written before World AIDS Day 2011, which emphasises the need to destigmatise HIV in Northern Ireland and push for greater funding for care and prevention.
HIV/AIDS Thirty Years On: Challenges and Hopes
By Ruari-Santiago McBride
23/11/2011
The AIDS virus was first discovered three decades ago in the United States. Since then, 30 million people have died from AIDS-related causes and 1.8 million people continue to die every year. According to the World Health Organisation there are currently 33.3 million people living across the world with the HIV virus, which causes AIDS. The impact that HIV/AIDS has had on our global community is internationally recognised on the 1st of December as ‘World AIDS Day’.
Belfast HSC Trust getting to zero
Tuesday, November 29th, 2011
On World AIDS Day 2011, Belfast HSC Trust will be running eight HIV awareness stands across the city. With education being key to ‘Getting to Zero New Infections’, it is great to see this happening on 1 December. The stands are being organised by the Trust’s Sexual Health Team’s HIV awareness trainers.
Keep a look out for the stands across the city and lift a red ribbon and other information about our services.
HIV in the news
For patients with HIV viral load is key in immune response to yellow fever vaccine
Contraception in HIV prevention trials: injectable hormonal methods more effective?
Men who have sex with men may now be the highest-risk group for HIV in Africa, IAVI study suggests
HIV care providers in US struggling to cope with rising patient numbers
Quarter of men resume sex before wounds from circumcision fully healed in Zambian study
Raltegravir/Truvada HIV PEP regimen well tolerated with no infections after its use
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