A cross-section of articles we've read this week about HIV/AIDS, STIs and a wide cross-section of structural and systemic factors impacting HIV/AIDS in Black communities.

At International AIDS Conference One Goal, Many Paths

MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA - Everyone at this year's AIDS conference agrees on one basic goal: eradicating the deadly virus. On the sidelines of the meeting, experts and activists have vastly different visions for how to get there.

Human Rights Award to Honor Paul Semugoma at AIDS 2014

Paul Semugoma, MD, a gay HIV/AIDS physician from Uganda, gave a passionate speech on behalf of LGBT and HIV-positive people during the XIX International AIDS Conference (AIDS 2012) in Washington, DC, in which he also came out as gay. He went to South Africa after AIDS 2012 and has not returned to Uganda since then.

Obama Gives Protection to Gay, Transgender Workers

WASHINGTON (AP) - President Barack Obama on Monday gave employment protection to gay and transgender workers in the federal government and its contracting agencies, after being convinced by advocates of what he called the "irrefutable rightness of your cause."

Search For AIDS Cure Pushes Ahead Despite Setbacks

Scientists on Saturday vowed to press ahead with their quest for a cure for AIDS, despite losing a veteran colleague and suffering a setback in research.

Why Isn't There an AIDS Vaccine Yet?

Researchers have been working on an AIDS vaccine since the 1980s. So what's taking so long?

Wives Hide HIV as Stigma Undermines Progress on AIDS

Protecting young mothers will be critical if the world is to meet a UN target of eliminating new HIV infections among children by 2015. At an international AIDS meeting that started in Melbourne yesterday, public figures from Burmese political activist Aung San Suu Kyi to Virgin Group founder Richard Branson will lead a call to fight stigma and discrimination, which has blighted progress in poorer nations.

Women Living with HIV Benefit from 'Expressive Therapy' Intervention

New research from UC San Francisco shows that an "expressive therapy" group intervention conducted by The Medea Project helps women living with HIV disclose their health status and improves their social support, self-efficacy and the safety and quality of their relationships.