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World AIDS Day raises just over $66,000 - 7-Dec-2007

The New Zealand AIDS Foundation is extending a warm thank-you to all New Zealanders who supported its World AIDS Day street collections and events, to the tune of $66,200. Read the full story/Visit the site - NZAF

Safe Sex Poster Boy winners announced - 6-Dec-2007

A three-month search to find Safe Sex Poster Boys for Gay Men's Health has concluded today with the announcement of six winners. Read the full story/Visit the site - NZAF Related Site - Safe Sex Poster Boy

Living with HIV Survey Now Open - 3-Dec-2007

A virtual support community (i.e. an online community) is proposed for all those living with HIV in New Zealand. This initiative comes from the Absolutely Positively Positive group in Wellington. Read the full story/Visit the site - Absolutely Positively Positive

Safe sex message still not getting through - 1-Dec-2007

New Zealand AIDS campaigners are concerned the safe-sex message has lost some of its punch. It is World AIDS Day and the latest figures show 84 New Zealanders were diagnosed with HIV in the first six months of this year. Read the full story/Visit the site - NZ Herald

It's made of . . . rubber - 1-Dec-2007

A dress that redefines the word sexy has been created in Palmerston North. About 1000 condoms were used to make the fabric for the frock, created to mark World Aids Day today. Read the full story/Visit the site - Manawatu Standard

Light a candle for World AIDS Day - CDHB - 30-Nov-2007

Cantabrians can recognise this World AIDS Day by visiting the North Quadrangle of the Arts Centre from 12 noon to 1pm, Saturday 1 December. Read the full story/Visit the site - Canterbury DHB

Catching a computer virus is easy…so too is HIV - 28-Nov-2007

A new computer virus is spreading throughout New Zealand like wildfire, but it's not what you'd expect. It's actually an ingenious hoax created by the New Zealand AIDS Foundation to demonstrate just how easy it is to become infected with HIV if you don’t take precautions. Read the full story/Visit the site - NZAF Related Site - Aids Viral

Rapid HIV testing and STI screening this Saturday at Burnett Centre - 27-Nov-2007

Rapid HIV testing appointments are still available this Saturday at Auckland’s Burnett Centre, along with additional screenings for other STIs. Read the full story/Visit the site - NZAF

Final voting opens for Safe Sex Poster Boy - 26-Nov-2007

20 finalists in six categories will compete online this week to become Safe Sex Poster Boys for Gay Men's Health in 2008. Read the full story/Visit the site - NZAF Related Site - Safe Sex Poster Boy

AIDS/HIV Crisis link to Gay Porn - 29-Oct-2007

Press Release: Society For Promotion Of Community Standards Inc. A fierce debate is raging in the homosexual community over the impact of “unsafe sex” DVDs and videos on gay men’s sexual practices (sodomy), and the appropriate censorship of this ‘bareback porn’ material [featuring condomless anal sex] that some gay researchers cite as one of the factors helping to fuel the pandemic of HIV/AIDS (as well as STIs such as syphyllis) that has been ravaging the promiscuous homosexual communities. “The debate over its morality and dangers is heating up … over bareback porn both within the American porn industry and without,” says Douglas Jenkin of the NZ Aids Foundation’s Gay Men’s Health Unit [1]. Read the full story/Visit the site - Society For Promotion Of Community Standards Inc.

20-minute HIV test now in Wellington - 29-Oct-2007

A revolutionary new rapid HIV test which gives a result back in only twenty minutes is being introduced to the New Zealand AIDS Foundation’s Awhina Centre in Dixon St from Thursday, November 1st. Read the full story/Visit the site - NZAF

New NZAF Trust Deed to be adopted at AGM - 6-Sep-2007

The New Zealand AIDS Foundation's revised Trust Deed, to be presented at this year’s Annual General Meeting, will revitalise the organisation’s focus on HIV-affected communities, says Board Chair Hoani Jeremy Lambert. Read the full story/Visit the site - NZAF

Rod Ellis-Pegler to receive AIDS Foundation Life Membership - 15-Nov-2006

Auckland Hospital’s senior infectious diseases specialist will be awarded life membership of the New Zealand AIDS Foundation this week, on the eve of his retirement. Read the full story/Visit the site - NZAF

Gay Games athletes say “My Health Is My Greatest Asset” - 14-Jul-2006

Two of New Zealand’s Gay Games athletes have teamed up with Gay Men’s Health to become poster boys for safe sex. Read the full story/Visit the site - NZAF Related Site - Gay Games

Takatāpui hui seeks answers for HIV increase - 6-Jul-2006

A national hui for takatāpui tāne is to be held in Auckland next Saturday July 15 to address last year’s disturbing increase in HIV infections among men who have sex with men. Read the full story/Visit the site - NZAF

Internet to blame for increase in HIV cases - 30-Jun-2006

The internet is to blame for the rise of HIV infections in New Zealand, the NZ Aids Foundation says. The Foundation said HIV prevention work had been made particularly difficult by its inability to easily reach men hooking up over the Internet for sex. Read the full story/Visit the site - Stuff Website

New Zealand's First National Condom Week - 21-May-2006

Durex is launching New Zealand's first ever National Condom Week (22-28 May 2006) in conjunction with Family Planning, to celebrate the condom - the most reliable source of protection against STIs, HIV/AIDs and unwanted pregnancies. Read the full story/Visit the site - Family Planning New Zealand

Society Exposes NZAF Failed Policy on HIV/AIDS - 19-May-2006

The NZ AIDS Foundation (NZAF) response to the SPCS press release that dealt with NZAF’s promotion of condoms to prevent HIV/AIDS transmission, demonstrates why this homosexual-lobby fringe group is so ineffective in reducing this growing health crisis amongst the “gay” community. Nowhere in the SPCS article was “abstinence” mentioned, let alone as a solution to the health problem, and yet NZAF stated: Read the full story/Visit the site - Society for the Promotion of Community Standards Related Site - NZAF

Safe sex film targets couples - 15-May-2006

Love is always using a condom, even if you’re in a loving, committed relationship – that’s the message of a new campaign being launched next week by the New Zealand AIDS Foundation for the annual Out Takes queer film festival. Read the full story/Visit the site - NZAF Related Site - www.loveis.co.nz

Condom critics ill-informed, says NZAF - 15-May-2006

Claims from a fringe group that condoms are unsafe are ill-informed, irresponsible, and not to be taken seriously, says the New Zealand AIDS Foundation. Read the full story/Visit the site - NZAF

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