Contents

LOVE PATROL: Bringing the taboo into Pacific

living rooms.....................................................................................2

Making it their business: Income generation prospects an

alternative for sex workers.........................................................5

HIV research on Malaita, Solomon Islands ...........................6

New patient monitoring system for HIV care in

the Pacific ........................................................................................8

Tuberculosis in Pacific Island countries and territories.....9

Regional push to end sodomy laws......................................12

Highlights from the Papua New Guinea national

dialogue on HIV, human rights and the law.......................13

Putting out the call for gender equality .............................16

HIV epidemic at critical juncture in Asia-Pacific region.17

The Pacific at ICAAP....................................................................18

Risky business: Selling sex in Port Vila.................................19

Secret lives, other voices...........................................................22

Experiences and perspectives of women living

with HIV in Fiji and Papua New Guinea...............................26

Register for the XIX International AIDS Conference:

AIDS 2012........................................................................................28

Policing women’s bodies in PNG ...................................................... 2
Pacific must address gender inequality to fight HIV ................. 3
Tackling the Pacific’s high rates of chlamydia  ..............................5
Implementing HIV continuum of care in PICTs ............................5
Integrated antenatal HIV and STI counselling  .............................7
‘Score’: Vanuatu and Solomon Islands launch their first
Pacific condom social marketing programme ..............................8
Love Patrol is on again! .........................................................................11
Komuniti Tok Piksa: Voicing community stories on HIV
and AIDS in PNG ....................................................................................12
Stepping Stones evaluation: Reflecting on successes and
challenges and the way ahead .........................................................13
Mainstream media and behaviour change:
Two sides of the communications coin .........................................15
Stigma, discrimination and regionalism key challenges
for Pacific AIDS work, says AIDS Alliance ......................................16
Introducing Homo-Sphère – New Caledonia’s first gay NGO………17
No time to waste in implementing second Regional
Strategy on HIV and other STIs .........................................................19
ICAAP 2009 through the eyes of the Papua New Guinea
Sexual Health Society  .........................................................................20
The Safe Festival Campaign – an essential ingredient
of the Pacific Youth Festival ...............................................................23
World AIDS Day – Human rights in the Pacific ............................26
Bored? Confused? Not any more!  ...................................................27
Is it HIV? A handbook for health care providers .........................28

Policing women’s bodies in PNG ...................................................... 2
Pacific must address gender inequality to fight HIV ................. 3

Tackling the Pacific’s high rates of chlamydia  ..............................5
Implementing HIV continuum of care in PICTs ............................5
Integrated antenatal HIV and STI counselling  .............................7
‘Score’: Vanuatu and Solomon Islands launch their first
Pacific condom social marketing programme ..............................8

Love Patrol is on again! .........................................................................11
Komuniti Tok Piksa: Voicing community stories on HIV
and AIDS in PNG ....................................................................................12
Stepping Stones evaluation: Reflecting on successes and
challenges and the way ahead .........................................................13
Mainstream media and behaviour change:
Two sides of the communications coin .........................................15
Stigma, discrimination and regionalism key challenges
for Pacific AIDS work, says AIDS Alliance ......................................16
Introducing Homo-Sphère – New Caledonia’s first gay NGO………17

No time to waste in implementing second Regional
Strategy on HIV and other STIs .........................................................19
ICAAP 2009 through the eyes of the Papua New Guinea
Sexual Health Society  .........................................................................20
The Safe Festival Campaign – an essential ingredient
of the Pacific Youth Festival ...............................................................23
World AIDS Day – Human rights in the Pacific ............................26
Bored? Confused? Not any more!  ...................................................27
Is it HIV? A handbook for health care providers .........................28

In this section we have:

What are we doing well and how can we do it better?

HIV epidemiological update for Pacific Island countries.

In this section we have:

Evaluation of STI pilots in Cook Islands, Nauru and Solomon Islands

Validation of HIV testing strategies utilising simple rapid tests

Introducing continuum of care for HIV in the Pacific

In this section we have:

Condom use among young people in Vanuatu and Tonga

The rhetoric of risk and foreign object(ion)s