| AFRICA: Addressing the role of religion in HIV response |
 NAIROBI, 30 July 2010 (PlusNews) - At a church compound in Nairobi's Mathare slum, women and their children line up for food rations. Among them is Zipporah Mueni, an HIV-positive mother of five.
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| AFRICA: Mapping health budgets and child deaths |
 JOHANNESBURG, 28 July 2010 (PlusNews) - As many African countries battle to bring down staggering rates of maternal and child mortality, maternal and child health made for a fitting theme at the African Union (AU) Summit this week in Kampala, Uganda.
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| GLOBAL: "Seek, test, treat and retain" to stem HIV among drug users |
 VIENNA, 28 July 2010 (PlusNews) - Activists and scientists at the International AIDS Conference in Vienna called on governments to stop criminalizing drug users and instead to provide them with addiction and HIV treatment.
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| GLOBAL: Survey reveals gaps in doctor-patient dialogue |
 JOHANNESBURG, 26 July 2010 (PlusNews) - A new, global survey has revealed the conversations healthcare providers aren’t having with their HIV-positive patients with potentially negative consequences for their treatment and health.
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| GLOBAL: Straight Talk with Eric Goosby, head of PEPFAR |
 VIENNA, 26 July 2010 (PlusNews) - The US president's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief has committed about US$32 billion to the global fight against HIV since its launch in 2003, making it the largest donor for HIV/AIDS globally. Following annual increases in contributions, however, PEPFAR has effectively flat-lined funding from 2009.
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| Blog: The female condom - you’ve got to sell it right |
 VIENNA, 23 July 2010 (PlusNews) - I’m so used to, and bored by, the bland white packaging that carries the underused female condom that at this year’s International AIDS Conference, I walked past several press releases and demonstrations of it without much interest. So it was with some surprise that I came upon a stand at the Global Village where a young woman was demonstrating the use of not one, but two versions of the female condom I had never seen before.
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| GLOBAL: Criminalization of HIV on trial |
 VIENNA, 23 July 2010 (PlusNews) - There is a tug-of-war going on with governments trying to criminalize the transmission of HIV on one side, and activists who say such laws are not only ineffective as a deterrent but are also harming the fight against AIDS, on the other.
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| AFRICA: Cash in hand keeps HIV at bay |
 JOHANNESBURG, 23 July 2010 (PlusNews) - Giving young women small, regular cash payments can reduce their dependence on sexual relationships with older men, which also lowers their HIV risk, according to a new study by the World Bank.
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| GLOBAL: Hunting for a "cure" for HIV |
 VIENNA, 23 July 2010 (PlusNews) - A successful microbicide trial and the promise of HIV treatment as prevention have dominated the scientific breakthroughs making headlines at the International AIDS Conference in Vienna, but scientists working on a cure for HIV say they are making slow but significant headway in finding a permanent solution to the epidemic.
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| GLOBAL: Seven strategies for smarter HIV programmes |
 VIENNA, 22 July 2010 (PlusNews) - Speaking at the International AIDS Conference earlier this week, former US President Bill Clinton told delegates that the credit crunch meant HIV programmes would need to work “faster, better and cheaper”.
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