Category: New Zealand
Honorary life memberships are being awarded to Jane Bruning, Nigel Dickson, Bruce Kilmister, Anna Reed and Geoff Rua’ine for their services and contributions to those affected by HIV and AIDS. These are given out by the Trust Board of the New Zealand AIDS Foundation (NZAF) and is the highest form of recognition that is bestowed. […]
World AIDS Day is 1 December, and the New Zealand AIDS Foundation (NZAF) is running their annual street collection. They are doing collections on two days this year: Friday 25 November in Hamilton, Wellington and Christchurch; and Thursday 1 December in Auckland. The day will be split into two: a morning shift from 7 am […]
Long-time designer of express, Amy Jane Todd, is handing over the rhinstone-encrusted reigns to Zakk d’Larté. Zakk will take over in November, with December being his first issue. Zakk has had almost five years of experience working in both digital and print, and it’s his flair for elegance that has express excited. In addition to this, his portfolio of […]
Tamati Coffey has been in the New Zealand spotlight for a while now: first as a presenter on What Now?, winning Dancing with the Stars, weatherman for Breakfast, before leaving the land of Aucks to set up a bar with his husband in Rotorua. On Friday, Coffey was named as the Labour Party’s candidate for the Waiariki […]
Earlier this month, New Zealand AIDS Foundation (NZAF) announced they were holding a weekly support group for elderly men with HIV. The ten week programme is almost halfway through, so we went to have a chat about how it’s going. The group was initially started by existing NZAF clients who expressed an interest in having […]
He’s back again with a new music video to go along with the re-release of his single, ‘Love Me a Man’. Along with the catchy chorus (which you hear almost constantly), psychedelic sequences and scenes of Mika looking his ever-fabulous self permeate this video. If you’re feeling a little blue today at work, this will […]
Dolutegravir (Tivicay), an anti-retroviral drug for HIV, has just been approved for funding by Pharmac. In this case, it means that the drug will be fully-funded in public hospitals and the community, so long as specialist-approval is given. Tivicay is an integrase strand transfer inhibitor (INSTI), which basically means that it stops HIV from replicating (and […]
If you’re aged between 13 and 19 and feeling the creativity bug bite, then enter InsideOUT’s multimedia art competition. There are three categories for you to unleash your ideas on: film, writing and art. You can even enter all categories, and multiple times (though InsideOUT would prefer if you entered a maximum of three times […]