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The AIDS Education Global information System (AEGiS) is a 501c(3) not-for-profit organization that was established in response to the growing HIV/AIDS pandemic.

Our mission is aimed to:

Facilitate access to current patient/clinician information specific to HIV/AIDS via our website and its specified services, and
Preserve for future generations a global history of the pandemic with our historical news, scientific publications and treatment database.

Since AEGiS' inception, it has matured into the largest free-access virtual AIDS library on earth.

Today, AEGiS consists of more than 450,282 articles. Our Ask the Doc forum allows users to submit real-life questions to our panel of HIV specialists.

For more than 30 years AEGiS has kept pace with the social and clinical aspects of HIV/AIDS. We believe that the dissemination of potentially life saving information has made a difference to many people throughout the world. For those that have HIV management questions and needs, AEGiS has proved to be a trusted source. AEGiS serves to illuminate all developments on the HIV/AIDS front,the question is:

“What do you want to know about HIV/AIDS today?”

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1: New International Report on HIV Prevention Urges Localized Consideration of Antiretroviral Strategies
Miscellaneous News
June 19, 2013

First Report on Antiretroviral Drugs for HIV Prevention to Bring Science Together with the Wisdom of Communities June 19, 2013 – To make an impact on new HIV infections globally, antiretroviral (ARV)-based HIV prevention strategies need to be closely tailored to local contexts ...

2: UNAIDS and Lancet to bring together political and health leaders to shape the debate on the future of global health
UNAIDS
June 19, 2013

Geneva/Lilongwe, 19 June 2013 - Ahead of the first meeting of the UNAIDS and Lancet Commission: From AIDS to Sustainable Health, the esteemed Commissioners who will be working together ...

3: Board to Vote on Condoms in Boston Schools
New York Times
June 19, 2013

BOSTON - The Boston School Committee is set to vote Wednesday night on a new health policy that would make condoms available in the district’s high schools, bringing this city in line with New York and Los Angeles.

4: South Africa: Catastrophe as Eastern Cape drug stock-outs continue
Health-E
June 18, 2013

Thousands of people living with HIV in the Eastern Cape are in catastrophic danger of developing fatal drug resistance due to ongoing interruptions in their antiretroviral (ARV) drug supplies, with activists calling on the national health minster to intervene.The grave warning was released ...

5: Tanzania: Police Abuse, Torture, Impede HIV Services
Human Rights Watch
June 18, 2013

People Most at Risk Driven Underground by Discrimination, Violence(Dar es Salaam) – Tanzanians who are most at risk of HIV face widespread police abuse and often can't get help when they are victims of crime, Human Rights Watch and the Wake Up and Step Forward Coalition (WASO) ...

6: Celebrating 10 years of PEPFAR
UNAIDS
June 18, 2013

GENEVA, 18 June 2013 - Ten years ago, President George W. Bush announced the creation of The Presidents Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) in his State of the Union Address. Its aim was to provide antiretroviral treatment to 2 million people, prevent 7 million new HIV infections and provide care ...

7: Community-led programmes critical to progress on AIDS in Sri Lanka
UNAIDS
June 18, 2013

Communities at higher risk of HIV infections should be placed at the centre of the AIDS programme design and implementation in Sri Lanka. This was the central message highlighted through discussions between representatives of civil society and the UNAIDS Deputy Executive Director, Programme, Luiz Loures, ...

8: New Analysis of World's Premier AIDS Conference Finds Poor Coverage of Populations Most-at-Risk for HIV
PR Newswire
June 18, 2013

Hundreds of Organizations Worldwide Call on Conference Organizers to Increase Meaningful Coverage of Gay Men, Transgender People, People Who Inject Drugs, and Sex WorkersOAKLAND, Calif., June 18, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- A new report produced by a coalition of global advocacy ...

9: Growing HIV/AIDS awareness in Indonesia's Papua region
Integrated Regional Information Network
June 18, 2013

JAKARTA, 18 June 2013 (IRIN) - Efforts to raise awareness of HIV/AIDS in the Indonesian provinces of Papua, which has among the country's highest rates of infection, and West Papua are making steady though slow progress, say aid workers and government officials. "People there believed that ...

10: OHIO: Phila Health Department HIV Testing Well-Received
CDC HIV/AIDS/Viral Hepatitis/STD/TB Prevention News Update
June 18, 2013

City Health Commissioner Vickie Ionno declared that Ohio’s New Philadelphia City Health District’s free HIV testing program has been going extremely well. Offered since March 1, 2012, the program tested more than125 people last year, with ...

11: UNITED STATES: New Compound Excels at Killing Persistent and Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis
CDC HIV/AIDS/Viral Hepatitis/STD/TB Prevention News Update
June 18, 2013

Researchers from the Scripps Research Institute (TSRI), Howard Hughes Medical Institute, and Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University have discovered a promising new anti-TB compound that can fight TB bacteria in two ways. The researchers were ...

12: ALASKA: After Topping List for Chlamydia Rates, Alaska Seeing Some Improvement
CDC HIV/AIDS/Viral Hepatitis/STD/TB Prevention News Update
June 18, 2013

Although Alaska had the highest STD rates in the nation for years, the Alaska Section of Epidemiology reported that the incidence of chlamydia and gonorrhea has declined since 2010. Alaska’s chlamydia rate still exceeds the national rate of 448 cases per 100,000 people, but it dropped to an incidence ...

13: INDIANA: HepFest Provides Hepatitis C Awareness
CDC HIV/AIDS/Viral Hepatitis/STD/TB Prevention News Update
June 18, 2013

Auburn, Ind., held its sixth annual HepFest on June 15 in Rieke Park. Free of charge and open to the public, the event featured games, prizes, live Christian music, and a raffle. HepFest focused on raising hepatitis C awareness. Event Organizer Christie ...

14: PENNSYLVANIA: Nutrition Organization 'Manna' Celebrates Delivery of Its 10,000,000th Meal
CDC HIV/AIDS/Viral Hepatitis/STD/TB Prevention News Update
June 18, 2013

The Philadelphia nonprofit organization “Manna” celebrated a major milestone on June 17 by delivering its 10 millionth meal. Founded in 1990, Manna originally delivered nutritious meals to the area’s HIV/AIDS population, but ...

15: GREECE: Doubled HIV Cases Add to Greek Woes
CDC HIV/AIDS/Viral Hepatitis/STD/TB Prevention News Update
June 18, 2013

A report published in Lisbon by the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction demonstrated that Greece’s HIV rates have risen by 200 percent since 2011. According to the report, the dramatic rise is due in particular to ...

16: CONNECTICUT: City's Circle Care Center is a Model for HIV Prevention
CDC HIV/AIDS/Viral Hepatitis/STD/TB Prevention News Update
June 18, 2013

The Circle Care Center at 618 West Avenue, Norwalk, Conn., is a unique new healthcare center for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender youth. It combines the services of World Health Clinicians, the Triangle Community Center, and the Mid-Fairfield AIDS ...

17: INDIA: India Faces TB Drug Shortage, Warns International Medical Org
CDC HIV/AIDS/Viral Hepatitis/STD/TB Prevention News Update
June 18, 2013

Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF; Doctors Without Borders) has strongly urged the Indian government to address ongoing shortages of pediatric TB drugs and medicines used to treat drug-resistant TB (DR-TB). Under current policy, the Indian central government ...

18: World Health Organization Issues Interim Guidance on Bedaquiline
PR Newswire
June 17, 2013

RARITAN, N.J., June 17, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Janssen Research & Development, LLC (Janssen) today welcomes the World Health Organization (WHO) interim policy guidance on the use of bedaquiline (trade name SIRTURO(TM) in the U.S.) in the treatment of pulmonary multi-drug resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) ...

19: US program marks birth of one millionth HIV-free baby
Agence France-Presse
June 17, 2013

WASHINGTON, June 17, 2013 (AFP) - This month somewhere in sub-Saharan Africa the one millionth baby will be born without HIV to a mother who suffers from the disease, thanks in large part to a decade-old US aid program.It is yet another remarkable step in the long fight against HIV and ...

20: Ugandan mHealth initiative increases 'promiscuity'
Integrated Regional Information Network
June 17, 2013

KAMPALA, 17 June 2013 (IRIN) - A mobile phone-based health programme designed to improve access to sexual health information and boost safe sex in rural central Uganda had the opposite effect, according to the findings of a Yale University

21: Libya's "growing" drugs/HIV problem
Integrated Regional Information Network
June 17, 2013

TRIPOLI, 17 June 2013 (IRIN) - Doctors in Libya say they are seeing a "growing" number of patients with drug problems and a corresponding risk of HIV infection, in a post-Gaddafi era marked by limited law enforcement and government capacity."Every month more people come to us needing help," ...

22: TEXAS: Texas State Researchers Survey Students on HPV Awareness
CDC HIV/AIDS/Viral Hepatitis/STD/TB Prevention News Update
June 17, 2013

In 2008, Texas Gov. Rick Perry generated much publicity when he mandated that all girls entering sixth grade should be vaccinated for human papillomavirus (HPV). A public outcry ensued, leading to the mandate’s withdrawal. Texas State University ...

23: UNITED STATES: STD Screening Strategies: Urine Not Enough in MSM
CDC HIV/AIDS/Viral Hepatitis/STD/TB Prevention News Update
June 17, 2013

According to Dr. Katie Plax, director of the Adolescent Center at St. Louis Children’s Hospital and associate professor of pediatrics at Washington University in St. Louis, urine screening alone is not a reliable method of finding gonorrhea and ...

24: SOUTH CAROLINA: Lawsuit Filed over SC Tuberculosis Outbreak
CDC HIV/AIDS/Viral Hepatitis/STD/TB Prevention News Update
June 17, 2013

Greenwood County education officials and the South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control (DHEC) are facing lawsuits accusing them of causing a TB outbreak at the Ninety Six Primary School by needlessly exposing others to a person ...

25: UNITED STATES: CDC Launches First National HBV Testing Campaign for Asian-Americans and Pacific Islanders
CDC HIV/AIDS/Viral Hepatitis/STD/TB Prevention News Update
June 17, 2013

CDC has partnered with Hep B United to develop and launch "Know Hepatitis B," a national, multi-year communications campaign that aims to increase hepatitis B virus (HBV) testing among Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders. The campaign, developed with ...

26: TAIWAN: HIV/AIDS Spreading to Younger People in Taiwan
CDC HIV/AIDS/Viral Hepatitis/STD/TB Prevention News Update
June 17, 2013

As Taiwan HIV Testing Month kicked off on June 16 at Taipei Main Station, Chen Chang-Hsun, a health official in charge of TB and HIV/AIDS control, said that individuals ages 15–24 account for 19.5 percent of all HIV infections on the island, with most contracting ...

27: INDIA: HIV Prevention Among Female Sex Workers in India Reduces HIV and Syphilis
CDC HIV/AIDS/Viral Hepatitis/STD/TB Prevention News Update
June 17, 2013

A University of Toronto review of 868 peer-based prevention programs indicated that HIV prevention programs conducted among approximately 500,000 Indian female sex workers were effective in reducing HIV, syphilis, and other sexually transmitted infections (STIs). ...

28: FLORIDA: Groups Offering Free HIV Testing
CDC HIV/AIDS/Viral Hepatitis/STD/TB Prevention News Update
June 17, 2013

The Florida Department of Health in Palm Beach County and other organizations are offering free HIV testing prior to and after HIV Testing Day on June 27. In 2012, when the health department teamed up with community-based organizations, healthcare ...

29: INDIA: WHO Issues Guide For New TB Drug
CDC HIV/AIDS/Viral Hepatitis/STD/TB Prevention News Update
June 17, 2013

For the first time in 40 years, the World Health Organization (WHO) has issued interim guidance for the use of a new TB drug, bedaquiline, in the combination therapy for multi-drug resistant TB. The US Food and Drug Administration approved the drug last ...

30: Civil confinement trial for NY sex offender begins
Associated Press
June 16, 2013

BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) - New York state is set to make its case in court for keeping convicted sex offender Nushawn Williams in prison.A civil confinement trial is set to begin Monday in Chautauqua (shuh-TAW'-kwuh) County. The jury was seated last week.The 36-year-old Williams went ...

31: Ukrainian teen prostitutes find way back into society
Agence France-Presse
June 15, 2013

MYKOLAYIV, Ukraine, June 15, 2013 (AFP) - Sasha, 17, hides her face under the brim of her baseball cap as she recounts how a lack of food and clothing in her boarding school three years ago forced her to turn to prostitution. She is one of many young women from the former shipbuilding hub ...

32: Engagement of civil society critical to shaping the G20 agenda
UNAIDS
June 14, 2013

As part of its role as President of the G20 - the group of the 20 major economies - Russia has this week hosted the G20 Civil Summit. The two-day event featured a bold dialogue among global civil society and decision-makers and culminated in the development of a ‘Civil Communique’––recommendations ...

33: Investing in harm reduction––sound economic sense
UNAIDS
June 14, 2013

Spending money on harm reduction programmes for people who use drugs not only is a good investment but it also saves lives. This was the conclusion drawn at a meeting entitled Economics and financing of effective harm reduction strategies in the context of HIV which took place on the side-lines of ...

34: International consultation focuses on access to HIV medicines for middle-income countries
UNAIDS
June 13, 2013

The critical issues that middle-income countries face in ensuring they have access to affordable and high-quality HIV medicines were explored during a consultation held in Brazil’s capital Brasilia this week. Responding to a situation where global debates around access to medicines ...

35: UN Plus meets with UN Secretary-General to discuss issues affecting staff members living with HIV
UNAIDS
June 13, 2013

UN Plus - the United Nations advocacy group of employees living with HIV - met with the United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to discuss issues affecting staff members living with HIV including access to HIV treatment and travel restrictions. They also delivered messages from their key partners, ...

36: China's Guangdong province to lift HIV restrictions on teacher recruitment
UNAIDS
June 13, 2013

In Guangdong, China's most populous province, some bold HIV-related policy decisions are about to come into play. In the wake of concerted advocacy efforts - including by UNAIDS, UNESCO and ILO - the province has announced it will abolish restrictions which prevent people living with HIV from working ...

37: Spanish austerity cuts put lives at risk, study finds
Reuters New Media
June 13, 2013

* Researchers warn of spread of disease if cuts continue* Health workers say they are shocked, numbed by austerityLONDON, June 13 (Reuters) - Austerity cuts in Spain could lead to the effective dismantling of large parts of its healthcare system and significantly damage the ...

38: AIDS drugs halve HIV risk for intravenous drug users in study
Reuters New Media
June 13, 2013

CHICAGO (Reuters) - A daily dose of powerful anti-HIV medicine helped cut the risk of infection with the AIDS virus by 49 percent in intravenous drug users in a Bangkok study that showed for the first time such a preventive step can work in this high-risk population."This is a significant ...

39: Walgreens and Greater Than AIDS Team With Health Departments and Local AIDS Service Organizations to Provide Free HIV Testing in Support of National HIV Testing Day
PR Newswire
June 13, 2013

HIV Testing Events Being Held at 175 Walgreens Locations in 54 Cities June 27-29MENLO PARK, Calif., June 13, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Walgreens, the nation's largest drugstore chain (NYSE: WAG) (Nasdaq: WAG), and Greater Than AIDS, a coalition of public and private sector ...

40: HIV testing kits shortage hits hospitals
New Vision
June 12, 2013

Uganda is facing a shortage of HIV testing kits in government health facilities, a recent survey carried out by HIV/AIDS activists indicates.The study conducted in 24 districts revealed that there is scarcity of HIV test kits in both private and public health facilities for the last ...

41: UNAIDS plans to further expand its focus on youth and HIV
UNAIDS
June 12, 2013

The United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon met with UNAIDS Executive Director Michel Sidibé to discuss UNAIDS' plans to further expand its focus on youth and HIV. The meeting was held on the side-lines of the 67th United Nations General Assembly taking place in New York from 10-11 June ...

42: New PrEP Trial Results Among Injecting Drug Users Underscore That PrEP Works When Taken Consistently
PR Newswire
June 12, 2013

AVAC Calls for Accelerated Action to Get PrEP to Those Who Can Benefit From ItNEW YORK, June 12, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Results from the Bangkok Tenofovir Study published online today in The Lancet provide additional evidence that daily oral tenofovir-based pre-exposure ...

43: HIV regimen prevents infection among drug users
Agence France-Presse
June 12, 2013

PARIS, June 12, 2013 (AFP) - Giving injecting drug users a daily pill against HIV nearly halved their risk of infection by the AIDS virus, a pioneering study published on Thursday said.The four-year research strengthens convictions that antiretroviral drugs can prevent HIV infection, rather ...

44: Exploring the risks of liver cancer after successful treatment for hepatitis C virus
CATIE News
June 12, 2013

In Canada and other high-income countries, in the 1970s and ’80s hepatitis C virus (HCV), hepatitis B virus (HBV) and later HIV and other germs were sometimes transmitted via transfusion of contaminated blood and use of products derived from contaminated blood (such as clotting factors). However, ...

45: MASSACHUSETTS: State Rep. Aaron Vega Works to Raise Awareness by Getting Hepatitis C Test
CDC HIV/AIDS/Viral Hepatitis/STD/TB Prevention News Update
June 12, 2013

State Rep. Aaron M. Vega (D-Holyoke) took a hepatitis C test recently at Tapestry Health’s needle exchange facility as part of an awareness day. Vega announced that he tested negative and explained that he took the test to show how easy and painless it was. He noted that by taking 20 minutes out of the ...

46: CALIFORNIA: HIV Patients Fight Mail-Order Drug Program
CDC HIV/AIDS/Viral Hepatitis/STD/TB Prevention News Update
June 12, 2013

An anonymous Californian has filed a class action suit against United Healthcare Insurance, mail order pharmacy OptumRx, Pacificare Life and Health Insurance, and UnitedHealth Group for forcing HIV-infected patients to obtain HIV medications through the mail. “John Doe” claimed that receiving HIV drugs ...

47: ITALY: Italy Leads Europe in Hepatitis C Cases
CDC HIV/AIDS/Viral Hepatitis/STD/TB Prevention News Update
June 12, 2013

On June 11, doctors at the Premio Giornalistico Riccardo Tomassetti Conference on Virology in Milan said that Italy led Europe in reported hepatitis C cases, with 1.6 million individuals infected with the virus and 55 percent of those afflicted with genotype 1, which is a particularly infectious strain ...

48: MASSACHUSETTS: Boston Schools Considering Free Condoms for High School Students
CDC HIV/AIDS/Viral Hepatitis/STD/TB Prevention News Update
June 12, 2013

The Boston School Committee is studying a policy change that would offer condoms to Boston high school students to prevent teenage pregnancy and the spread of STDs. The policy change would stipulate that students must receive counseling about safe sex practices before receiving contraceptives. Currently, ...

49: UNITED KINGDOM: Gonorrhea Becomes More Resistant to Last-Line Antibiotics, but New Guidelines May Stop Its Spread
CDC HIV/AIDS/Viral Hepatitis/STD/TB Prevention News Update
June 12, 2013

Results of a study in the United Kingdom suggested that changes in prescriptions to treat gonorrhea may have halted the spread of the resistant strain. Researchers analyzed Neisseria gonorrhea, the bacteria that cause the disease, collected from patients through Public Health England’s Gonococcal Resistance ...

50: GEORGIA: Health Fair to Offer Free HIV Testing and Education
CDC HIV/AIDS/Viral Hepatitis/STD/TB Prevention News Update
June 12, 2013

As part of the “Healing Stigma” campaign developed by the Georgia HIV Early Intervention Specialists Program and funded through the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Disabilities, Highland Rivers will partner with Avita Community Partners and the Northwest Georgia Healthcare Partnership ...

National HIV/AIDS and Aging Awareness Day September 18^th

National HIV/AIDS and Aging Awareness Day September 18 , The AIDS Institute would like to invite you to join us for the 5th annual National HIV/AIDS and Aging Awareness Day (NHAAAD), observed on September 18, 2012. National HIV/AIDS and Aging Awareness day focuses on the challenging issues facing the aging population with regards to HIV prevention, testing, care and treatment. In addition, there is an increased need for prevention, research, and data targeting the aging population, medical understanding of the aging process and its impact on HIV/AIDS.

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National Gay Men's HIV/AIDS Awareness Day September 27^th

The National Association of People with AIDS (NAPWA) is the lead organizer for this day which was launched in 2008.

For more information about this day including resources to plan local events, visit www.napwa.org . Follow NAPWA on Twitter .

Download this CDC fact sheet on HIV among gay and bisexual men (PDF 483 KB) and other resources from CDC.

National Latino AIDS Awareness Day October 15^th

National Latino AIDS Awareness Day October 15 , The Latino Commission on AIDS (LCOA) , the Hispanic Federation and many other organizations organize this day.

Find NLAAD resources at http://www.nlaad.org/ , including posters, graphics, PSAs and themed materials.

Read CDC’s feature on HIV and Latinos.

World AIDS Day December 1^st

The World Health Organization established World AIDS Day in 1988. World AIDS Campaign is the leading international organization which plans and implements the observance.

See how individuals and communities participated in the Facing AIDS photo campaign.

Visit worldaidscampaign.org for brochures,images, and other information for the day.

See all Awareness and Announcement on AIDS.GOV

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