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April 7, 2013
Gay sex to blame for 1,700 new HIV infections among Chinese students, experts say

Senior health experts say that sex between men is the main cause HIV infections among Chinese college students rose by 25% last year

Gay sex is to blame for most of 2,000 new HIV infections in China last year, according to health experts.

Over 1,700 college students were infected with HIV in 2012, approximately 65% of which were contracted through sex with people of the same gender, according to Xinhau News Agency.

Most of the 1,700 cases were male students, said deputy director of the National Center for AIDS/STD Control and Prevention Wang Ning.

Ning said that more people getting tested for HIV is one reason for a rise in new cases.

April 5, 2013
Trans women 49 times more likely to have HIV

Using multiple studies and assessing over 11,000 women from around the world, a study has found HIV is highly prevalant among trans women

Transgender women are 49 times more likely to have HIV than the general population, a new study has found.

Suggesting nearly a fifth of all trans women worldwide have HIV, the study involved over 11,000 women in 15 different countries from around the world.

February 18, 2013
HIV infection among Israeli gay men up 55% since 2005

Israel's ministry of health found that infection rate amongst gay men is five times more common than among straights

There has been a 55% increase in HIV infections among gay men since 2005, according to the Israeli ministry of health figures.

According to the figures the rate of HIV infection among gay men is 4.5 times the rate of infection among heterosexuals, reported Haaretz daily.

December 1, 2012
Australian state launches plan to cut HIV by 60 percent

The Australian state of New South Wales believes it can slash new HIV infections by almost two thirds in just three years and hopes to do even better by 2020

Australia’s most populous state has unveiled an ambitious new HIV strategy aimed at reducing new transmissions of the virus among gay men by two thirds in three years.

The New South Wales state Health Minister Jillian Skinner made the announcement to a room full of LGBT health and community groups on World AIDS Day.

December 1, 2012
Many US states still have HIV criminalization laws on the books

On World AIDS Day, Lambda Legal points to HIV transmission laws still on the books in many states

On this World AIDS Day, Lambda Legal wonders why so many US states still have HIV criminalization laws.

Scott Schoettes, the legal organization's HIV project director, noted on a blog post that '39 states have HIV-specific criminal statutes or have brought HIV-related criminal charges resulting in more than 80 prosecutions in the United States in the past two years alone.' 

October 29, 2012
England's first national HIV testing week hopes to halt gay 'epidemic'

Sexual health charity the Terrence Higgins Trust hopes to 'put the breaks' on spread of HIV infection among gay and bisexual men

Sexual health charity the Terrence Higgins Trust (THT) will launch England's first ever national HIV testing week later this month.

The week, which will run from 23 to 30 November, is being co-ordinated through HIV Prevention England (HPE), which is a partnership of community organizations funded by the Department of Health to carry out national HIV prevention work in England among high risk groups.

The drive is part of HPE's Think HIV campaign, which aims to encourage gay and bisexual men to test more regularly for the virus.

April 30, 2012
AIDS memorial quilt gets permanent home in the Museum of New Zealand

Memorial quilt for the first victims of HIV/AIDS in New Zealand handed to museum in church ceremony

The national museum of New Zealand, Te Papa, accepted the country's AIDS memorial quilt in a church ceremony yesterday.

The quilt, a memorial to the first victims of the AIDS epidemic in New Zealand, was created with the motto: 'Remember their names, cherish their memory, celebrate their lives'.

The first panel was sewn in memory of Peter Cuthbert, the first person to die of HIV/AIDS in New Zealand in 1988.