A walk to raise funds for Action For AIDS will be happening this weekend starting from *SCAPE at 1400hours. Please check out http://www.aidswalk.sg/ for further details and to register. WHY WALK? For those who have disclosed their status to us, let us take this opportunity to thank them for their trust and give them care and [...]
Singapore AIDS Conference 2012: Zero the New Hero
Singapore AIDS Conference is back this year for its 8th appearance. It has the theme GETTING TO ZERO: ZERO NEW INFECTIONS / ZERO STIGMA / ZERO DEATHS. It is happening on 17th November 2012 at Mandarin Orchard, Level 6 Ballroom. With the theme “Getting to Zero: Zero new infections, Zero stigma, Zero deaths” the conference programme [...]
Singapore AIDS Candlelight Memorial 2012
Tan Tock Seng Hospital Theatrette 20 May 2012, Sunday 7PM
Volunteers Needed for Mobile Testing Service
Action For AIDS (Singapore) is looking for more volunteers for its Mobile Testing Service(MTS). If you are residing in Singapore and like to give back to the community and interested to be part of our pool of volunteers, please email your name and mobile to mts@afa.org or join facebook group http://www.facebook.com/groups/AfAMTSVolunteers/ alternatively visit to our [...]
AFA Singapore Volunteer Call
BE PART OF a 10 DAY OUTDOOR FILM SHOWCASE! It is a 10-day HIV/AIDS pop-up cinema (helmed by uncut 2011 23-minute documentary by Royston Tan) 2 other finalist short films by student filmmakers from recent AfA Art Against AIDS will also feature in the showcase. Volunteers who can contribute to a 4.5 hr shift on any [...]
Interview with CDC Principal Medical Social Worker
The Patient Care Centre (PCC) is located within the grounds of the Communicable Disease Centre. It is a programme under the Tan Tock Seng Hospital Community Charity Fund. The PCC is a community-based hospital project first established in 1997 to assist with looking after the needs of patients with HIV/AIDS, most of whom have little [...]
Donate $12 for ’12: Consider what $12 can do
Be a part of SIC‘s commitment to provide comprehensive HIV/AIDS services in our partner communities. This holiday season we’re asking SIC alumni and friends to donate $12 for 2012. Consider what just $12 can do: – 650 condoms – With just $12, we can provide condoms to a rural village for proper HIV prevention – [...]
Love Amplified – World AIDS Day Concert
The upcoming concert/party by the Health Promotion Board is really interesting in that they engage a lot on social media and social networking tools. They used GoThere.sg for their mapping services for instance and uses Ping tools like Digg & Delicious (i can never get the dots right for this) In any case, please click [...]
The 6th Singapore AIDS Conference 2008 – Fight the Disease, Fight the Stigma
At the 6th Singapore AIDS Conference, attendees will be given the latest information on strategies to fight the disease. The Conference’s theme is “Fight the Disease. Fight the Stigma.” By participating you will help to reduce stigma by stamping out ignorance that fuels the continued rise in newly diagnosed persons year after year and you [...]
Circumcision May Not Offer Protection Against HIV
From http://sg.news.yahoo.com/afp/20081008/tts-us-health-sex-aids-circumcision-gay-972e412.html & http://jama.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/short/300/14/1674 Excerpt, Pooled analyses of available observational studies of MSM revealed insufficient evidence that male circumcision protects against HIV infection or other STIs. However, the comparable protective effect of male circumcision in MSM studies conducted before the era of highly active antiretroviral therapy, as in the recent male circumcision trials of heterosexual [...]