Media outlets in Ethiopia should be more sensitive when reporting on or about people living with HIV/AIDS because some of the language used has been improper, Sonya De Masi, resident adviser at Internews Network, said on Monday during a media workshop in Ethiopia.

Washington Post columnist Michael Gerson gives his opinion about the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief "pulls health professionals away from other fields or that funds might be better spent on other health priorities" make "little sense" in PEPFAR focus countries such as Zambia, where one in six people is infected with HIV.

The UK Government are currently formulating a new Strategy to tackle HIV and AIDS in the
developing world – a key opportunity for the UK to demonstrate its leadership by delivering
the measures needed to achieve the promise of Universal Access to HIV Prevention,
Treatment, Care and Support by 2010.

Although unprotected sex remains the main mode of HIV transmission in Africa, experts are also focusing on the risks associated with injecting drug use. Find out how the problem of HIV transmission from injecting drug use is being addressed through the UN's Office on Drugs and Crime Programme.