• 500,000 free female condoms source

• Well, that was a bit unex­pected. Ray Gosling, the host of BBC show “Inside Out,” claimed that he killed his very sick AIDS-stricken gay part­ner on last night’s show. And now police are inves­ti­gat­ing his claims, which he laid out in great detail. Assisted sui­cide is ille­gal in the U.K., by the way. source

• 5.7
  million people tested positive for HIV in South Africa in 2007 – the world's highest rate
• all children infected with HIV in the country will get anti-AIDS drugs starting next year source

• If we want to be the global leader in combating HIV/AIDS, we need to act like it.
• Barack Obama • Describing his decision to turn over a 22-year-old ban on HIV-positive people entering the country. Just a dozen countries had the ban, which sounds like it was put in place at the height of misinformation and hysteria about the disease. While we’re glad it’s getting overturned, it’s a sad statement on our country that the ban existed in the first place. • source

• We survived the French bombings and the American bombings … I’d rather be bombed to death than die slowly of AIDS.
• Nguyen Thi Thuoc • Thuoc, a 70-year-old Vietnamese woman, kept her grandchildren out of school because of 15 new students who were HIV positive. Discrimination against the HIV-positive is widespread in the country; this is just one example. “You can have wonderful policies and wonderful legislation,” notes Vietnam UNICEF representative Jesper Morch, but without a the right education campaigns, “you’ll have trouble enforcing them.” • source

22

actors have gotten HIV from being in porn movies since 2004 source

• I expect to break the barriers between what people think this virus is, and what it really is. I hope to eliminate a lot of ignorance and change people’s minds.
• Brryan Jackson • On redefining what AIDS is to the average person. Jackson is graduating high school today, but he was not expected to live nearly this long. The 18-year-old went through a harrowing experience as a baby: His father, Brian Stewart, who initially denied paternity, did not want to pay child support and worked in a hospital where he pulled blood from patients, injected his then-11-month-old son with HIV-tainted blood. Which is why he’s currently serving life in prison. Jackson’s done well, considering what his dad did to him. • source