News: HIV/AIDS In Australia

It’s a worrying trend, and one most Australian people aren’t aware of: currently, we are experiencing our highest rates of HIV/AIDS infection in seven years.Despite the life-saving medical advances over the last 20 years, it’s still here. Over 10 thousand people in NSW are living with HIV or AIDS.

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Dr. Anthony Fauci, Bush's top adviser on HIV/AIDS, told a conference in Sydney, Australia, that the world is losing the fight against AIDS. "For every one person that you put in therapy, six new people get infected. So we're losing that game, the numbers game," Dr. Fauci said.

SYDNEY (Reuters) - The world's biggest scientific HIV/AIDS conference opened in Australia on Sunday with experts calling for more funding for research and new findings which suggest male circumcision can reduce infection by 60 percent

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Australian Prime Minister John Howard is seeking to ban all HIV positive immigrants from immigrating to Australia. The remarks sparked tension among the country's HIV-AIDS workers.

Australia should refuse to allow migrants or refugees with HIV to enter the country, Prime Minister John Howard has said. Mr Howard said there may be special cases when an exemption could be considered but as a rule HIV-positive people should be denied entry. Any ban for migrants with HIV/Aids would need a change in the federal law.