AIDS Courier (15/09)

Cuba inaugurates center to assist HIV-AIDS patients || Pell backs Pope in saying condoms worsen AIDS spread || AIDS drugs: New study backs early approach || Industry’s role against HIV/AIDS || U.S. launches AIDS campaign aimed at most affected

Cuba inaugurates center to assist HIV-AIDS patients

A center to assist more than 2,000 HIV/AIDS patients from six eastern Cuban provinces was inaugurated Friday at the Juan Bruno Zayas hospital in Santiago de Cuba.

Pell backs Pope in saying condoms worsen AIDS spread

The Catholic Archbishop of Sydney, Cardinal George Pell, made use of one of the holiest days in the Christian calender yesterday to support the Pope’s controversial claim that condoms worsen the spread of HIV and AIDS.

AIDS drugs: New study backs early approach

Doctors on Thursday published evidence backing calls for treating HIV-infected patients before their immune system crashes below a commonly-recognised threshold of damage inflicted by the AIDS virus.

Industry’s role against HIV/AIDS

It has become clear that the medical approach is not sufficient in this battle and that HIV/AIDS and malnutrition are intersecting epidemics. The concept of ‘food as medicine’ ought to be common sense, but sadly, at the policy level, it has played second fiddle to pharmaceuticals.

U.S. launches AIDS campaign aimed at most affected

U.S. officials launched a AIDS awareness campaign on Tuesday they said would focus on the groups most likely to be infected, starting with black men and women and later targeting Latinos and others.