# hiv - Thursday 13 June, 2013
Globally, one in 10 new HIV infections are thought to be caused by injecting drug use.
Share15
# hiv - Saturday 8 June, 2013
Pop star says stigma and criminalisation increases chance that users get caught in lifetime cycle of addiction and disease.
Share3
New statistics show that the number of people with HIV in Ireland rose last year for the first time in four years.
Share6
# hiv - Thursday 14 March, 2013
A new study reveals that 14 HIV patients have remained healthy for years after stopping drug treatment offers fresh evidence that early medical intervention may lead to a “functional cure” for AIDS.
Share7
# hiv - Monday 4 March, 2013
The child from Mississippi has been off medication for a year with no signs of infection in what could be on the second reported curing of the disease.
Share108
Good morning! Here’s what you need to know as you kick off your Monday.
Share69
# hiv - Tuesday 5 February, 2013
The study found that up to two thirds of all new HIV infections among men in stable partnerships are caused by one partner being unfaithful.
Share9
# hiv - Saturday 19 January, 2013
The amount was 12 per cent less than the nearly €180 million given to countries including Ethiopia, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Uganda, Tanzania, Zambia, Timor Leste and Vietnam in 2011.
Share129
# hiv - Friday 21 December, 2012
We should know by now that having unprotected sex is not safe, writes Anna Quigley – so why are we engaging in risky sexual behaviour?
Share
# hiv - Saturday 1 December, 2012
Although global rates of are dropping, complacency is a barrier to completely eliminating HIV, according to experts.
Share10
# hiv - Wednesday 28 November, 2012
Activists occupied the office of House speaker John Boehner ahead of World AIDS Day this Saturday.
Share9
# hiv - Tuesday 20 November, 2012
Around half of all reductions in new HIV infections in the past two years had been among children.
Share11
# hiv - Sunday 28 October, 2012
The new test uses nano-particles to spot markers for cancer or the AIDS virus in human blood serum using the naked eye.
Share11
# hiv - Monday 20 August, 2012
New data published in The Lancet shows much higher infection rates of TB, HIV and Hepatitis-C among homeless people.
Share1
# hiv - Friday 3 August, 2012
The US Secretary General was also focused on preserving a fragile peace between Sudan and South Sudan on her two day agenda of talks in East Africa.
Share6
# hiv - Tuesday 31 July, 2012
On his tour of Africa, Tánaiste Eamon Gilmore announces €50,000 in funding for a hospital which also offers paediatric heart surgery.
Share17
# hiv - Monday 16 July, 2012
Truvada, which is designed for use by healthy adults who are at risk of HIV, should be mixed with safe sex and regular testing.
Share9
# hiv - Friday 6 July, 2012
Adult film actors in LA city are already required to wear condoms, but campaigners want this extended county-wide.
Share1
# hiv - Wednesday 4 July, 2012
The over-the-counter test has the potential to identify people who would otherwise go untested for the infection.
Share
# hiv - Friday 15 June, 2012
On Irish AIDS Day, Pam McHugh says people should ask themselves if they know their HIV status – and if not, why not.
Share13
# hiv - Thursday 3 May, 2012
A new poll has shown that the majority of people believe Ireland should be proud of its reputation as an international donor.
Share5
# hiv - Sunday 8 April, 2012
The very best of the week’s writing from around the web.
Share
# hiv - Sunday 1 April, 2012
Every week we’ll pick a sports documentary or movie we think we’ll all enjoy as a family.
Share
# hiv - Saturday 10 March, 2012
The prevalence of osteoporosis among people living with HIV in Ireland has been a cause for concern for some time.
Share4
# hiv - Sunday 12 February, 2012
Irish attitudes to sex have come a long way since the dark old days – but we’re still not quite there, writes Beth Wallace, the organiser of Ireland’s first sex festival.
Share13
# hiv - Friday 10 February, 2012
Demonising drug users creates social outcasts, while the real criminals go free. We need to try a humane approach, writes Tim Bingham.
Share57
# hiv - Friday 3 February, 2012
Doctors are warning that older people should take just as many precautions as younger people do when having intercourse.
Share12
# hiv - Tuesday 31 January, 2012
One activist said that the condoms “leaked like sieves” when water was poured into them.
Share6
# hiv - Wednesday 25 January, 2012
The legislation was signed into law yesterday but producers have warned they may just move out of the jurisdiction.
Share4
# hiv - Thursday 1 December, 2011
Yes, AIDS-related deaths are decreasing – but there are several huge threats in the fight against HIV and AIDS, writes Breda Gahan on World Aids Day.
Share89
# hiv - Tuesday 8 November, 2011
The ex-basketball star is combating the disease with a rigorous exercise regime.
Share
# hiv - Monday 12 September, 2011
The genes of a rhesus monkey and jellyfish were injected into eggs which were then fertilised and implanted into cats – who gave birth to glow in the dark kittens.
Share14
# hiv - Thursday 8 September, 2011
Britain relaxes its ban on blood donations from men who sleep with men, but there are no plans for a similar move in Ireland.
Share6
# hiv - Monday 5 September, 2011
Queen’s Freddie Mercury would have been 65 years old today – so Google’s paid tribute to him in the way it knows best.
Share133
# hiv - Monday 29 August, 2011
A hospital in Taiwan has admitted to transplanting HIV-infected organs from one donor into five different patients.
Share1
# hiv - Sunday 21 August, 2011
The very best of the week’s writing from around the globe.
Share21
# hiv - Wednesday 13 July, 2011
The Department of Health’s report shows that there is still more to work to do in tackling the spread of HIV and AIDS.
Share
# hiv - Tuesday 5 July, 2011
Homosexuality is ‘unnatural’ and is causing the spread of HIV, says the man in charge of the health of 1.2 billion people.
Share4
# hiv - Wednesday 15 June, 2011
5 minutes, 5 stories, 5 o’clock.
Share25
However a report by the Health Protection Surveillance Centre found there continues to be a high level of gay and bisexual men testing positive.
Share1
Mostly cloudy
Max: 21 °C
Min: 11 °C
Partly sunny
Max: 19 °C
Min: 8 °C
Partly sunny with a passing shower
Max: 18 °C
Min: 9 °C
