AIDS

Understanding AIDS

The theme for World AIDS Day 2010 is "Take Action. No Discrimination." The aim is to encourage all Australians to be aware of the prelavence of HIV/AIDS, to take action to reduce the transmission by promoting safe-sex practices, and to accept individuals living with or affected by HIV/AIDS.

Panorama's Rob Baird, Dinushi Weerakoon and Chad Phillips with this story.

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Safe-injecting rooms

The message from advocates of safe-injecting facilities is simple - get drugs off the streets.

Are safe injecting rooms a pragmatic response to reduce needle sharing, save lives and improve users' chances of getting treatment? The issue is challenging politically, but experts have renewed their push for supervised injecting facilities.

Panorama's Phoebe Roth with the story.

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