by AfA | Nov 10, 2008 | Press Room, Archive
This is the sixth consecutive year that the Outreach HIV testing project at MSM venues was carried out. The first project was first conducted in November 2007, recurring every year between that and 2013. Each project lasted two and a half months...
by AfA | Oct 17, 2008 | Press Room, Archive
IT IS as simple as ABC — literally. But young Singaporeans’ knowledge of the three-step method to prevent the contaction of HIV is still lacking. A quarter of those aged 18 to 29 are unaware of at least two of these measures: Abstaining from casual sex, being faithful...
by AfA | Aug 1, 2008 | Press Room, Archive
Get Aids from burger? What a load of junk A hoax e-mail circulating in cyberspace claims that a boy got Aids from eating food with HIV-infected blood. PRISCILLA GOY reports Seen that, debunked that. A hoax e-mail has been making the rounds in Singapore, claiming that...
by AfA | Jul 31, 2008 | Press Room, Archive
UNITED NATIONS— HIV infection rates among gay men in many parts of Asia are as severe as those which devastated homosexual communities in the United States in the late ’80s, said top officials of the United Nations Aids agency Unaids. Launching his agency’s 2008...
by AfA | Jul 28, 2008 | Press Room, Archive
A NEW programme to stop the spread of Aids and other sexually-transmitted infections (STI) among youth here is being drawn up by the authorities — but what is different this time is that the programme is specifically targetted at students in the Normal stream, who...
