Category: News
The New Zealand AIDS Foundation (NZAF) has launched an online petition for the government to stop withholding HIV medication until a patient has a sufficiently damaged immune system. In an opinion piece written by the executive director of the NZAF, Jason Myers, he talks about how ending HIV transmission in New Zealand is completely within […]
The Legacy Project is a theatre development programme geared specifically towards LGBT+ writers and works. For Legacy Project 4, six brand-new rainbow works are going to be performed in a week-long season as part of Auckland Pride 2017. This is where you come in: obviously, plays need actors, so Legacy Project is holding an open […]
Source: The Verge Antibodies, proteins that are the fighters of the immune system, that can block HIV viruses from attacking cells have been found in patient Z258 by researchers at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases in the USA. Patient Z258 had been infected with HIV for over two decades, but their T-cell […]
Central Regional Commissioner Terry Buffery has responded to the recent story about a transprisoner being removed from the general prisoner population at Spring Hills Corrections Facility. The reason for her being removed is because “she has a history of making false allegations against other prisoners and staff”, so she is in “protective directed segregation”. Although […]
Corrections has done it again. No Pride in Prisons has been contacted by a transprisoner in Spring Hill Corrections Facility saying that she has been placed in solitary confinement “for her own safety”. Technically, she is in a 23-hour lockdown, where she is isolated from other prisoners and human contact in general, which does amount […]
The Australasian Sexual Health Alliance has awarded Dr Peter Saxton, New Zealand AIDS Foundation (NZAF) fellow, and Gay Men’s Sexual Health Research Group director, the ‘mid-career interdisciplinary achiever award’. This is in recognition of of his research work on HIV, specifically on the effectiveness of HIV prevention messages to those most at risk. This was […]
In an unprecedented move, it has been announced Culture Club’s Auckland show on 4 December has been cancelled, in addition to their Christchurch show. Full refunds can be obtained by contacting Ticketmaster. Australian dates are still going ahead. If you can’t make it to those shows, have a read of our cover story on Boy George. […]
Article: Star Observer Scientists in the UK have developed a test for HIV that rapidly measures levels of the virus in the blood using just a USB stick plugged into a laptop. Developed at the Imperial College London in conjunction with DNA Electronics, the test requires only a drop of blood to measure a patient’s levels of HIV-1. A mobile […]