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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

Whitcoulls pulls mag - 13-May-2006

Timaru Whitcoulls store has pulled the controversial gay magazine, Jake, from its shelves. The store received the new magazine this month, but were told to take it off the shelf last week by national management. Read the full story/Visit the site - The Timaru Herald Related Site - Jack Magazine

Society Responds to NZ AIDS Foundation - 12-May-2006

The New Zealand AIDS Foundation strongly rejects claims that its new "safe sex" advertisement, featured in the latest issue of gay magazine Jack, is pornographic. This is about as true as their spurious claim that condoms will prevent the transmission of the HIV virus. Read the full story/Visit the site - Society for the Promotion of Community Standards

Gay mag pulled for condom ad - 12-May-2006

Whitcoulls has temporarily pulled a magazine from its shelves as it contains an advertisement featuring an erect penis in a condom. Read the full story/Visit the site - Stuff Website Related Site - Jack Magazine

AIDS Foundation board appoints new trustee - 2-May-2006

The board of the New Zealand AIDS Foundation is back up to full capacity, following the appointment of Massey University social researcher Dr Mark Henrickson as its seventh trustee last week. Read the full story/Visit the site - NZAF

New social work and internet service for Burnett Centre - 1-May-2006

A much-needed social work role and outreach to gay and bisexual men using the Internet is being added to the services provided by the New Zealand AIDS Foundation's Burnett Centre in Auckland. Read the full story/Visit the site - NZAF

Loss of fear factor a danger in epidemic - 20-Apr-2006

The number of New Zealanders diagnosed with HIV has doubled in the past five years, and health educators fear it will go higher because people at risk believe medication will keep them alive. More than 180 New Zealanders were diagnosed HIV positive last year – the highest number since testing began in the country 20 years ago, and 17 per cent up on 2004. Read the full story/Visit the site - Waikato Times Related Site - NZAF

Banning street workers would increase risk of Aids - foundation - 6-Apr-2006

Banning street prostitutes in Manukau City would drive the trade underground and increase the risk of HIV and aids, the Aids Foundation says. Read the full story/Visit the site - Stuff Website

Call for Internet chat rooms to carry HIV warnings - 3-Apr-2006

HIV warnings – including in Asian languages - are needed on Internet chat rooms, say researchers. Read the full story/Visit the site - Massey University

Agencies won’t recommend gay roles to actors - 13-Mar-2006

Brokeback Mountain might have got Heath Ledger topping the Oscars nomination charts and be packing theatres around the world, but New Zealand acting agencies don’t think Kiwi bloke actors want roles portraying them as “being affectionate” to other men. Read the full story/Visit the site - NZAF

A whole lot of (safe) lovin’ goin’ on! - 13-Jan-2006

Whew! The New Zealand AIDS Foundation has distributed more than 200,000 condoms to gay and bisexual men in six months! That’s a whole lot of rumpy pumpy! And the good news, says NZAF Gay Men’s Health Coordinator Douglas Jenkin, is it means a lot of men who have sex with men (MSM) are still using condoms for anal sex to protect themselves from HIV and other sexually transmitted infections Read the full story/Visit the site - NZAF

NZAF welcomes QSM for its Research Director - 31-Dec-2005

A Queens Service Medal in the New Year Honours List is a fitting recognition of a man whose dedication and work commitment has directly contributed to New Zealand having one of the lowest rates of HIV in its at-risk populations of any country in the world, the New Zealand AIDS Foundation said today. Read the full story/Visit the site - NZAF

HIV - now it's our most deadly computer virus - 9-Oct-2005

Internet dating has fuelled a surge in HIV cases, raising fears New Zealand is heading for record infection rates. This year, a different gay man has tested positive every four days according to Aids Foundation figures. Read the full story/Visit the site - Sunday Star Times

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