HIV/AIDS News

Under the aegis of state AIDS control society, NGO Yuvsatta burnt a 20-foot effigy of the demon at Bapu Dham colony, a slum settlement.

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and top executives from over one dozen global pharmaceutical companies agreed today that greater efforts must be made to combat HIV/AIDS, despite significant strides that have been ...

New York, Oct 9 : Many poor countries are saddled with defence debts that obstruct efforts to develop their economies and end poverty, Britain's largest aid charity Oxfam International has said.

Drug-resistant HIV strains are turning up in parts of China as the virus stretches beyond high-risk groups and gains a stronger foothold in the general population, a leading Chinese AIDS researcher said.

Magic Johnson says he's outraged that a pair of Minneapolis talk radio hosts accused him of faking AIDS.

India's Tamil Nadu State AIDS Control Society is launching a campaign that will focus on providing a comprehensive package of HIV/AIDS services to private maternity hospitals in the state in an effort to match ...

Main Category: HIV / AIDS Also Included In: Men's health ; Sexual Health / STDs Article Date: 08 Oct 2008 - 12:00 PDT printer friendly view / write opinions rate article The Gaya Dewata Foundation -- a group ...

National AIDS organizations called Thursday on the next federal government to restore supports for people living with the disease, saying the incumbent Conservatives cut funding and shifted money toward ...

All this week, 'those who, during the preceding year, shall have conferred the greatest benefit on mankind' are being recognised.

AIDS Healthcare Foundation , the nation's largest non-profit HIV/AIDS healthcare provider hosted a press conference in Orlando on Tuesday, October 7th immediately prior to the Board of County Commissioners ...

China "had made substantial progress in checking the spread of HIV but there is still a long way to go," UNAIDS Executive Director Peter Piot writes in a China Daily opinion piece.

A new meta-study appearing in the Journal of the American Medical Association has found that there is a lack of evidence that circumcision reduces the risk of human HIV infection among men who have sex with ...

Recent statistics from Fiji's Health Ministry on Sexually Transmitted Infections are a cause for concern, and the high rate of STIs among people ages 20 to 29 put them at an increased risk for contracting ...

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U.S. scientist Robert Gallo yesterday congratulated his European colleagues who won the 2008 Nobel Prize for medicine for their work in discovering the virus that causes AIDS.

Buffalo will play a vital international role in the fight against the global AIDS epidemic.

Main Category: HIV / AIDS Also Included In: Pediatrics / Children's Health ; Pharma Industry / Biotech Industry Article Date: 04 Oct 2008 - 0:00 PDT The Baylor International Pediatric AIDS Initiative opened a ...

Main Category: HIV / AIDS Also Included In: Clinical Trials / Drug Trials Article Date: 06 Oct 2008 Progenics Pharmaceuticals, Inc.

A new analysis of existing research finds little evidence that circumcision protects gay men from infection with the AIDS virus, but the issue is still far from settled.

In this April 23, 1984 file photo, Dr. Robert Gallo, right, chief of the National Cancer Institute laboratory of Tumor Cell Biology, along with Health and Human Services secretary Margaret Heckler talks to ...