Racial gap seen in gay sex HIV rates
• HIV/AIDS news • Jun 23 05

In the US, black men who have sex with men (MSM, in the parlance of researchers) are more than twice as likely as similar men of other races…

US approves Boehringer drug for resistant HIV
• HIV/AIDS news • Jun 23 05

Boehringer Ingelheim won U.S. approval on Wednesday to sell its AIDS medicine Aptivus for treating adults with drug-resistant HIV infections in combination with Abbott Laboratories Inc.‘s Norvir.

Germany’s…

Japan’s AIDS stigma hampers treatment
• HIV/AIDS news • Jun 22 05

A strong stigma against AIDS in Japan is hampering access to treatment in the world’s second-largest economy, activists said on Wednesday, even as experts warn an explosion of the disease…

HIV positive African clergy fight AIDS stigma
• HIV/AIDS news • Jun 22 05

A group of African clergy infected with HIV is urging the faithful to test for the virus and admit their status to help fight stigma hampering efforts to stem

Generic drugs key to uphill AIDS fight
• HIV/AIDS news • Jun 21 05

Generic drugs hold the key to AIDS treatment in the developing world, although a target of getting 3 million people on therapy by the end of 2005 may…

S. Africa court mulls AIDS drugs defamation
• HIV/AIDS news • Jun 21 05

A South African court reserved judgment on Tuesday on an attempt by the country’s most influential AIDS activist group to block an AIDS “dissident” from labelling it a…

Indian, Pakistani prostitutes discuss AIDS lessons
• HIV/AIDS news • Jun 20 05

A group of Pakistani prostitutes has been picking up tips in safe sex and “brothel management” in one of India’s biggest red light districts in Calcutta, health activists said.

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Internet fuels risky sex in gay, bisexual men
• HIV/AIDS news • Jun 16 05

Gay and bisexual men who meet partners over the Internet are more likely to engage in risky sex but have a greater tendency to do so with people who…

AIDS “tsunami” threatens Africa’s children
• HIV/AIDS news • Jun 15 05

The Red Cross issued a warning of “a silent tsunami” wiping out an entire generation as it launched a campaign on Wednesday to help millions of African children orphaned or otherwise affected…

Blacks hardest hit by HIV in US
• HIV/AIDS news • Jun 14 05

Blacks account for nearly half of the more than 1 million Americans with HIV, according to federal data released on Monday that suggests the battlelines of the nation’s

Mandela urges rich world to act against AIDS
• HIV/AIDS news • Jun 13 05

Nelson Mandela joined some of the world’s top musicians Saturday in pressing the rich world to act against AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa.

“We live in a world…

Global Fund grant to Russia to boost AIDS drugs
• HIV/AIDS news • Jun 10 05

The number of Russian AIDS patients receiving life-extending drugs will increase ten-fold to 15,500 under a two-year project, the Global Fund to Fight AIDS,…

Science hopes to give women new tools against AIDS
• HIV/AIDS news • Jun 09 05

New HIV prevention treatments for women may be available as early as 2009, a sign of hope for fighting a world AIDS epidemic with an increasingly…

China’s migrant workers a high AIDS risk
• HIV/AIDS news • Jun 09 05

China faces a tragic surge in HIV/AIDS cases unless it curbs the spread of the disease among the vast country’s transient rural workforce, a Chinese health expert said…

S. Africa warns of “national wipe-out” from AIDS
• HIV/AIDS news • Jun 08 05

South Africa faces “national wipe-out” unless it steps up its war on HIV/AIDS, a business leader said on Wednesday as a study showed education - one of…

South Africa’s armed forces grapple with HIV/AIDS
• HIV/AIDS news • Jun 07 05

Nearly one in four South African soldiers is infected with HIV, putting added strain on the country’s armed forces as peacekeeping commitments grow across the continent, South African Military Health…

Zimbabwe to seek more AIDS help as politics weighs
• HIV/AIDS news • Jun 05 05

Zimbabwe and U.N. agencies will ask donors for at least $40 million for HIV/AIDS programmes between 2006-7, hoping to speed funding that officials charge is being…

UN says goal to reverse AIDS by 2015 won’t be met
• HIV/AIDS news • Jun 05 05

The world will not meet its goal of halting and reversing the spread of AIDS in 10 years if the disease continues to race…

China gets grant to stop AIDS among drug users
• HIV/AIDS news • Jun 02 05

China will receive its first grant to prevent the spread of AIDS among drug users and prostitutes from the Global Fund to Fight AIDS,

Canada Red Cross used HIV blood
• HIV/AIDS news • Jun 01 05

The Red Cross in Canada has pleaded guilty to distributing contaminated blood supplies which infected thousands of Canadians with HIV and Hepatitis C *.

More than 3,000 people…

Ranbaxy gets US FDA approval for generic AIDS drug
• HIV/AIDS news • May 31 05

India’s top drug maker, Ranbaxy Laboratories Ltd. on Tuesday became the first Indian drug maker to have regulatory approval for a generic AIDS drug to be…

Diabetes risk high in men on anti-HIV meds
• HIV/AIDS news • May 31 05

The prevalence of Diabetes in HIV-infected men taking antiretroviral drugs is more than four times higher than in HIV-negative men, study suggests.

Today’s powerful anti-HIV drugs - for those…

Libya’s improved image at risk over AIDS verdict
• HIV/AIDS news • May 30 05

Libya’s improved image after decades of isolation is at risk if its Supreme Court rules on Tuesday to put six foreign medics to death for infecting more than 400…