Cheap AIDS drugs recalled
A manufacturer of generic AIDS drugs has recalled its products admitting it can't prove their quality. The move is a blow to millions of Africans living with the disease, who can't afford to buy brand-name drugs from the multinational corporations who invented them. Guardian

HIV drugs effective against malaria
Australian scientists believe that retroviral drugs used to treat HIV may also be effective in killing the deadly malaria parasite. The finding could prove useful in sub-Saharan Africa where infection rates for both diseases are high. The Australian

South African Insurance companies may drop HIV clauses
Dropping of HIV exclusion clauses will see HIV Aids on par with any other medical condition in relation to long-term insurance policies. Business Report

UN envoy says Israel and Palestine must advance peace
Following the death of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, the senior United Nations envoy to the region urged Israelis and Palestinians to make even greater efforts to peacefully bring about the Palestinian right to self-determination. UN

The flotsam and jetsam of AIDS
AIDS is responsible for the orphaning of almost one million children in Zimbabwe. These children face enormous challenges for survival although assistance from government and other projects offers some help. Sunday Independent

HIV and the Church
The issues have often been hijacked by political, religious or cultural agendas in turn fuelled by mutual distrust and prejudices. The Tablet (UK)

Family Story: Wyrria: Small Boy
Ricco, a seven-year-old Aboriginal boy, lives in a town camp on the fringes of Alice Springs. He tells his own story of his life there with his three older sisters and foster mother.

ABC TV Monday December 6, 8pm

Responding to Global HIV AIDS: A Prayer Service
God of the poor, AIDS does not discriminate by race or religion or economic class. But people do. Help us to respond to the cry of the poor for AIDS medication and health care, for food, for education, for communities of support... Catholic Relief