HIV/AIDS news

Outside auditor to manage Uganda HIV/AIDS funds
Aug 30 05

An international firm of auditors will temporarily take over management of AIDS funding in Uganda from a local firm accused of mismanaging aid money, a senior Ugandan official…


 

AIDS-hit South Africa to increase nurse training
Aug 30 05

South Africa, struggling to treat the world’s highest number of HIV/AIDS patients, plans to train more nurses and try to coax back those who have moved abroad, the…


 

Many Have Mixed Feelings on HIV Vaccine Research
Aug 18 05

Most adults in the U.S. believe that a vaccine against HIV infection offers the best chance of controlling the global AIDS epidemic and are confident…


 

Concern as Namibia cuts HIV disability grants
Aug 10 05

AIDS campaigners in Namibia said on Wednesday a government decision to withdraw disability grants from people with HIV who were still capable of working could accelerate the onset…


 

The Link Between STDs and HIV
Aug 09 05


 

Chance to reverse Asia AIDS epidemic could be lost
Aug 08 05

An international AIDS conference ended here on Tuesday with warnings that a window of opportunity to reverse the epidemic in Asia, where an explosion of the…


 

AIDS, urbanisation overcrowd S. African graveyards
Aug 03 05

AIDS and a growing urban population are forcing South African officials to find new cemeteries and encourage families to bury several members in the same grave, Johannesburg city authorities…


 

WHO will fail to meet AIDS drugs goal
Jul 27 05


 

Circumcision can prevent HIV infection
Jul 26 05

The longstanding observation that circumcision protects against HIV infection to some degree has been confirmed in a randomized trial.

Circumcision in adult heterosexual men is as effective in preventing new…


 

Methadone urged for AIDS fight in ex-Soviet states
Jul 26 05


 

Aggressive HIV strain appears to be isolated case
Jul 25 05

Suggestions that a new, highly multidrug resistant and rapidly progressing strain of HIV has evolved in New York City and could become widespread have been refuted by…


 

L.A. doctor indicted for “subdosing” AIDS patients
Jul 22 05

A well-known California AIDS doctor accused of “subdosing” his patients - giving them less than the prescribed amount of medication to boost his profits - has been indicted…


 

Two big Indian states could undermine AIDS fight
Jul 21 05

India needs to dramatically scale up the battle against AIDS in its impoverished and densely populated north if it is to avoid a disastrous spike in HIV…


 

Africa faces shortage of AIDS medics
Jul 20 05

Africans infected by HIV/AIDS are receiving cheaper life-prolonging drugs but lack the medical personnel to administer them and manage their treatment, former U.S. President Bill Clinton said on Wednesday.


 

How can We prevent infection of Newborns?
Jul 19 05


 

AIDS in Asia spread from Myanmar
Jul 19 05

Heroin users and prostitutes in Myanmar have spread HIV through large parts of Asia, according to a Council on Foreign Relations study released on Monday.

The use…


 

AIDS strikes at some countries’ ability to govern
Jul 19 05

Poor nations devastated by AIDS are coming under pressure to funnel what few drugs they can afford solely to their political and military elites, a move likely…


 

Clinton takes cheap AIDS drugs to African children
Jul 18 05


 

U.N. says must raise peacekeepers’ AIDS awareness
Jul 18 05

More soldiers and U.N. peacekeepers are being trained to try to prevent the spread of HIV/AIDS, but greater efforts are required to stem the disease in the ranks,…


 

Singapore to inform spouses of HIV patients
Jul 17 05

Singapore, facing a rise in AIDS cases, will make it mandatory for spouses of HIV patients to be informed of their partner’s illness.

The health ministry…


 

India clears human trials for second AIDS vaccine
Jul 14 05


 

India asks people to save “wickets” in AIDS fight
Jul 13 05

Cricket-mad India is mixing cricket and humour to promote safe sex and fight AIDS in a bold pilot campaign warning people to save their “wickets” from…


 

Dying, He says he is lucky
Jul 13 05


 

India says over 7,200 died of AIDS in two decades
Jul 11 05

At least 7,200 people have died of AIDS in India, the world’s second worst affected nation, since an official count began two decades ago, a…


 

Brazil to lose from AIDS patent move—drugs body
Jul 07 05


 
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