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NEPAL: DR BARBER’S JOURNAL EDWIN J BERNARD: HIV & CRIMINAL LAW VIENNA: ANCA, CHRIS & THANDI REPORT SEPTEMBER 2010. ISSUE 5 Read me in 2 hours flat Broken promises kill We’re reaching a critical time in the global AIDS response; and the overarching message from the World AIDS Conference in Vienna this summer was that we can ill afford for the global financial crisis to give donors the green light to put the brakes on funding. It’s not that there is no money around; $700 billion was ‘found’ overnight to bail out the Wall Street Banks, dwarfing the $11.3 billion the Global Fund needs to continue its growing treatment and prevention programmes for HIV, TB and malaria. In its first eight years of existence, between 2002 and 2010 the Global Fund to fight AIDS, TB and Malaria disbursed more than $11 billion, saved almost 5 million lives, paid for HIV treatment for more than 2.5 million people and distributed 2.3 billion condoms. The Global Fund’s next replenishment round begins in early October and right now recipient countries are busy putting plans in place to do more with less if they don’t get the money they need to continue their current programmes. Watch a film about the Global Fund funding crisis at: http://tasz.hu/en/hclu-film/broken-promises-kill-fully-fund-global-fund Thanks to all the clinics who have agreed to distribute free copies of BASELINE; if you’d like more next time send us an In this issue email to [email protected] 04. Bylines 05. drop-us-a-line Please join our facebook group (BASELINE) 06. HIV & the criminal law and follow us on twitter (Baselinetweet). TM 10. headline: UK 14. headline: global Editor: 16. I can’t get no sleep Robert Fieldhouse 18. microbicides: at last! Associate Editor: 21. the BEST start Jane Phillips 22. volunteering into journalism News Editor: 27. nepal diary 2010 Chris O’Connor 30. NLTSG 32. myline: Jim Davis Sub Editor: 34. hotline Joanne Russell 36. headline: treatment Editorial Support: 38. European treatment update Tom Matthews 40. myline: Joel Korn 42. hepatitis bloggers Design & layout: 44. Q & A i-Base Meryl Media - 0161 235 7279 Courtesy ©IAS/Steve Forrest/ 46. women, HIV & human rights Publisher: Workers’ Photos 48. myline: J.D Bailey Fieldhouse Consulting Limited 50. the HIV living archive 54. nurse of the year Email: [email protected] 58. securing the future 60. headline: healthy living Phone: 0121 449 4405 or 07886 159735 62. headline: healthy living Copyright of all articles remains with the publisher. All other rights recognised. Views expressed by individual contributors are not necessarily those of the 64. headline: hepatitis publisher. The mention, appearance or likeness of any person or organisation 66. finelines and numbers in articles or advertising in BASELINE is not to be taken as any indication of health, HIV status or lifestyle. 03 deadlines for the next issue Copy 31/10/2010 Advertising 01/11/2010 [email protected] Rob Fieldhouse is amazed to be researching Simon Collins is a leading HIV advocate. He BASELINE’s first anniversary edition already. heads up HIV i-Base. I have just picked up BASELINE issue 3 at Kingston Dear Editor Jane Phillips has been able to “tweet” to a Maurice Greenham was diagnosed with Wolverton Clinic and found it very interesting and Please can we have more Susan Cole- I loved her informative. I wonder if I can be added to your perfect zero recently. HIV in 1984; currently an Open University columns in Positive Nation! E-mail list? I am interested in any editions on dietary student, church organist, trustee of several supplements that may complement medication. Name and address withheld Chris O’Connor covers issues from the wine HIV & LGBT groups, & Secretary of the National I was very interested in the information about trade to counterfeit medicines & has reportedly Long Term Survivors Group. bananas. Wow BASELINE, I can’t believe you are at issue 5 widely on HIV. I look forward to the next edition. already... that has gone quick. I’m looking forward Joel Korn is the support and development Kind Regards, Stephen F to seeing the website next month. Tom Matthews has just quit a 15-year retirement worker at River House Trust, fund raiser at Myck – Sydney, Australia to work as Birmingham’s World AIDS Day Co- JAT (Jewish Action and Training for Sexual Dear BASELINE ordinator. Health), and a facilitator of Living Well’s Many, many thanks. Very easy to navigate and Hi Positive Self-Management Programme. excellent content. I’m researching for a radio play I picked up a copy of your magazine at 56 Dean Marcel Wiel is a journalist and has been working about crystal meth use in the gay community and Street and was delighted to read the article by Jim at The Guardian since 2000, before which he was a Dr Tristan Barber is a Specialty Reg. in Flick Thorley’s article was valuable research. Davis on responsibility. I listen regularly to Jim’s LBC radio show on a Friday evening and would regular contributor to Positive Nation. The love of sexual health & HIV; currently taking time If you or your readers have any other suggestions recommend others to do so. his life is his partner Pierre. out for HIV-related research at C&W in as to places to look and people to talk to about this issue, please don’t hesitate to advise me. Martin, London London. HIV interests include the brain, Best wishes, Andy Alty Jim Davis is a writer and broadcaster and has treatments, viral resistance, global provision [email protected] Great issue once more! Lovely to see you at presented ‘Sex in the City’, a sex a relationships of HIV care & ethical issues, conception & the NHIVNA. phone- in on London’s LBC 97.3 since 2007. He criminalisation of HIV transmission. Hi Rob Angelina Namiba, Positively UK lives between London and Cambridge. Your name in BASELINE jumped out at me….. (I Edwin J Bernard has been living with HIV for lodged with you temporarily in Poplar way back Hi Robert Anca Nitulescu is of Eastern European heritage, more than 25 years. He began writing about when and helped paint the lounge white). I attended the NAM forum you spoke at last night now living openly with HIV in the UK. She works HIV full time in 2001. He spent five years as I’m back working for a HIV and sexual health with Dr Laura Waters; just wanted to say that I was as an independent community-based journalist editor of NAM’s AIDS Treatment Update and organisation now as you can see. We’re a tiny team very impressed with the presentations: very clear & HIV activist, with particular interest in human is now a freelance writer and consultant for in East Sussex doing health coach work and health and concise. I’m the information officer for THT promotion/improvement work. so if I can help professionally or by supporting a rights & women’s issues. UK and international HIV organisations. See campaign personally, let me know. criminalhivtransmission.blogspot.com. Congratulations on BASELINE by the way, it’s very Best regards, Blake. Catherine O’Byrne is the Co-ordinator of the readable in a field where I can sometimes feel I’m drowning in new information. Heritage Lottery Funded project ‘The Birmingham Thandi Haruperi the founder of restorEgo, Marie Tomblin HIV Living Archive’. She is an oral historian who has an independent consultancy specialising in THT East Sussex Centre Manager been collecting the ‘life stories’ of people living HIV, development, empowerment and other with, and affected by HIV for the last two years. health improvement related issues. Hello BASELINE I was very touched by Tom Matthews’ article about J.D Bailey was diagnosed HIV positive at two Gareth Williams splits his time between a his relationship with his HIV meds. I too have years of age but found out when aged 11. Now graphic studio creating artwork and walking taken medication for what seems like a lifetime. I twenty years old, she is currently a student of vast and beautiful areas around the UK – remember when abacavir was called 1592 too... English at the University of Surrey. seems ideal. Peter, Hastings 04 05 However, most of the cases prosecuted around the trials were a distracting sideshow. I was vilified The criminal justice system is ill-equipped to deal HIV and the world have not actually focused on criminal HIV by some commenters who felt my point of view with the complexities of HIV. Police, prosecutors, criminal law transmission, but rather on exposure to the risk of was “despicable” and “disgusting”. How could she defence lawyers, judges, juries and, of course, transmission. These cases often hinged on whether possibly have kept her HIV positive status secret people with, and at risk of, HIV are actually very or not someone with HIV had informed their and not told her sexual partners? I don’t condone confused about when it is against the law to Edwin J Bernard sexual partner – sometimes a one-night stand, this behaviour, nor do I condemn it, but in her transmit HIV. sometimes a long-term partner or spouse – that case, she had some extremely valid reasons. She The August trial of German pop star, Nadja they were HIV positive before having sex that may was extremely young; as a woman she’s not in Terrence Higgins Trust has been keeping a record Benaissa, made headlines all around the world.