Aids
Why is govt not funding "vital" HIV survey?
The Ministry of Health has stopped funding the annual GAPSS/GOSS surveys of gay and bisexual men despite a 2013 analysis it commissioned describing it as "vital" for assessing the success of HIV… Audio
HIV problem creeps up on PNG
Amid constraints facing public health services, Papua New Guinea is struggling to stem the spread of HIV AIDS, with a prevalence rate of 0.91 percent, according to the latest statistics. Audio
David Heymann: Preventing pandemics
David Heymann talks with Kim Hill about emerging infectious diseases and how global inequality affects their spread and treatment. Audio
David France - How to Survive a Plague
In the early 1980s, a diagnosis of AIDS was a death sentence, and the US government was doing nothing about it. David France tells the story of how scientists and citizens came together to halt the… Audio
NGO helping PNG HIV/AIDS victims forced to shut
A Papua New Guinea NGO that had been helping HIV/AIDS victims but is being forced to shut after losing its financial backing hopes it can get support elsewhere. Audio
Auckland DHB plans to cut sexual health specialists
At a time when the rates of HIV and Syphilis infections are rising, why is the Auckland District Health Board proposing to cut the number of sexual health specialists in the city by a third? Nine to… Audio
The unlikely existence of Angels In America
Tony Kushner’s Tony winner Angels in America is considered a classic of American theatre, a two part epic clashing together themes of religion, politics, and sexuality. Kushner went on to pen the… Audio
Scientists' AIDS claim called 'misleading'
Australian scientists' claim that the country's successfully beaten AIDS is being labelled dangerous and misleading by AIDS researchers in New Zealand.
Claim Aus has beaten AIDS 'alarming', say NZ researchers
Australia's claims that it has successfully beaten AIDS and put an end to the disease are being labelled dangerous and misleading by AIDS researchers and organisations on this side of the Tasman. Audio
Aids drug price hike unlikely to affect NZ patients
A price increase of more than 5000 percent for a drug used by Aids patients is unlikely to affect New Zealanders, Pharmac says.
US drug company defends 5000% price rise
The head of a US pharmaceutical company has defended his company's decision to raise the price of a medication used by AIDS patients by over 5000 percent.
Worlds AIDS Day
This year's theme is "Zero Discrimination". There are about two thousand people in New Zealand living with HIV.An estimated five hundred are women. Globally, 35 million people have died of AIDS .… but… Audio