HIV/AIDS News

Nearly half of the total AIDS cases reported in the U.S. occur among African-Americans, even though they represent just 13 percent of the U.S population, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention .

The Philippine National AIDS Council has noted a steady increase in the number of infections involving the human immunodeficiency virus that causes the deadly AIDS, with at least one case reported every three days.

Mbhazima Shilowa, the deputy president of the Congress of the People, said on Monday that the party would move for a motion of no confidence in President Jacob Zuma when Parliament resumed this week.

With 135,000 new HIV infections annually of which over 19,000 are children, the number of children that requires treatment will continue to increase.

State health officials say black Missourians have higher AIDS and HIV rates than the rest of the population.

Via the News Journal in Daytona Beach, Florida, a sad story: AIDS activist succumbs to H1N1 .

The Indian head of the UN climate change panel, already under fire over errors in a key 2007 report, is raising eyebrows again after publishing a raunchy novel and accepting help in promoting it from BP and the head of India 's biggest gas producer.

South African President Jacob Zuma apologized on Saturday for fathering an illegitimate child, in the face of national outcry.

Sunday, February 07, 2010 at 11:53 a.m. Read more: Local , Health , AIDS , HIV , African American , Black Sunday is national Black HIV/AIDS awareness day, and in the Syracuse area, African-American congregations are hearing church sermons about the dangers of the disease, and the need to get tested.A Rev.

Many Ugandan parents are still too afraid to test their children for HIV. Credit:Evelyn Matsamura Kiapi/IPS KAMPALA , Feb 4, 2010 - HIV-positive Justine Kirumira* is a mother torn between doing what is right for her daughters and her own fear of HIV/AIDS. She suspects that her eight- and 12-year-old daughters may also have the virus.

"The Obama administration is expected to propose in its fiscal 2011 budget Monday new funding to combat preventable and tropical diseases, malnutrition and other conditions afflicting the world's poor, as part of a strategy to broaden its approach to global health," the Wall Street Journal reports.

SOUTH African President Jacob Zuma has become the perfect example of "do as I say and not as I do." His 20th child was born last October to a woman who is not one of his three wives or another woman he is engaged to marry.

On the twentieth anniversary of the Medical Research Council's research unit's presence in Uganda, Director Heiner Grosskurth looks back on the changing landscape of research into HIV/AIDS at the commemorative scientific symposium in Entebbe today.

The National Black Leadership Commission on AIDS will travel to Capitol Hill on Feb.

A New York City activist is auctioning off his 14-inch ponytail to benefit a temporary HIV/AIDS clinic in Haiti.

U.S. lawmakers on Wednesday introduced a congressional resolution condemning an anti-gay bill before Uganda's parliament, "calling it an attack on human rights and an obstacle to battling HIV/AIDS," Agence France-Presse reports.

Global attention is turning away from the AIDS epidemic at just the wrong time and means a fresh wave of the disease could infect millions of people in high-risk countries, a leading expert said Friday.

A new study of children in Ukraine has found that for the growing number of HIV-infected children, the quality of care and the relationship between children and their caregivers play an important role in their development.

JUBA, 4 February 2010 - Networks of people living with HIV in southern Sudan are trying to overcome deficiencies in the limping health system and broken infrastructure by spreading information about the pandemic and reducing stigma and denial.

Rates of HIV infection in infants are significantly higher among blacks and Hispanics than whites, and preventive measures are needed to reduce the disparity, a new government report says.