Not being "out" with their homosexuality is resulting in a spike in numbers of Asians in New Zealand being infected with HIV, the NZ Aids Foundation says.

A one-year-old who'd recently returned to Victoria from West Africa was isolated after showing symptoms similar to those of Ebola.

What makes the Ebola virus so terrifying is not its kill rate or its exponential growth. It's the fact that it threatens humanity by preying on humanity.

When Aids first emerged in the early 1980s, HIV infection was a death sentence. But a global effort has ensured this is no longer the case for a growing number of people.

The field of HIV treatment and prevention has been freshly energised by the findings from several recent clinical trials.

Party-goers dressed in little more than body paint rubbed shoulders with men in tuxedoes and cross-dressers in wild costumes on Saturday, transforming Vienna’s City Hall into a fantasy land.

A new HIV pandemic is “a real possibility”, one of the world’s leading authorities on infectious disease has said.

Dame Elizabeth Taylor has reportedly left the bulk of her US$600m (NZ$796m) fortune to AIDS charities.

Read the tributes from Hollywood legends to Academy Award winning actress Elizabeth Taylor, who died overnight, aged 79.