Wellington, Feb 23 NZPA - HIV testing and counselling is being offered by the Aids Foundation after the naming today of a man who deliberately infected his wife with HIV.

A court lifted name suppression on Artwell Chakanyuka, 35, and police issued a photograph of him.

In the wake of the rescinding of name suppression for Artwell Chakanyuka the New Zealand AIDS Foundation (NZAF) is encouraging people to access both HIV testing and support services.

With a record high of new HIV diagnoses in New Zealand last year the New Zealand AIDS Foundation (NZAF) will be letting people know that HIV is close to home this World AIDS Day.

20 NOV 2009 - The New Zealand AIDS Foundation (NZAF) is preparing for a low cost World AIDS Day campaign which will hit the streets next Friday, 27 November 2009.

The New Zealand AIDS Foundation (NZAF) has warmly welcomed the decision of the Obama administration to lift a ban on people living with HIV from entering the USA.

A report by the University of Auckland, to be released tomorrow, says that in the past 12 months more than a third of same/both-sex attracted secondary school students had seriously thought about attempting suicide and around half had deliberately harmed themselves.

The New Zealand AIDS Foundation (NZAF) has welcomed the announcement that PHARMAC will subsidise ISENTRESS (raltegravir) from 1 October 2009.

Wellington, June 26 NZPA - There has been a significant increase in the demand for HIV tests since the lifting of name suppression of the Auckland man alleged to have knowingly exposed people to the virus, says the New Zealand AIDS Foundation (NZAF).

The New Zealand AIDS Foundation (NZAF) has seen a significant increase in the demand for HIV tests since the lifting of name suppression for Glenn Mills, an Auckland man who is alleged to have knowingly exposed people to HIV.

16 June 2009 - The New Zealand AIDS Foundation (NZAF) has increased the availability of HIV testing and counselling services following the court appearance of a man who is alleged to have knowingly transmitted HIV to six people.