Tags: aids-and-hiv

China HIV infections up

10:18:46, 3 October 2008, Radio Australia News

HIV infections have jumped 8-fold over the past few years in parts of China among gay and bisexual men, according to new data from southern China.

Consumer pressures pushing PNG women into sex industry: conference

09:37:53, 22 September 2008, Radio Australia News

An AIDS conference in Papua New Guinea has been told that more than 70 per cent of young PNG women are being forced into secret, casual sex by consumer pressures.

Australian health authorities warn of PNG HIV cluster

19:27:42, 17 September 2008, Radio Australia News

Health authorities in Australia's far north are concerned about what they're calling an HIV cluster among men who work in Papua New Guinea.

NZ university rejects academic's controversial comments

15:43:39, 5 September 2008, Radio Australia News

New Zealand's Massey University has distanced itself from a call by one of its professors to quarantine HIV-positive Pacific Islanders.

UN report reveals prevalence of HIV in PNG

18:06:25, 16 July 2008, Radio Australia News

The most comprehensive report yet on HIV shows that prevalence of the virus in Papua New Guinea is at epidemic levels, but is not as high as most thought.