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Group aids students denied loans due to drugs
• AIDS/HIV • Dec 19 04
A coalition that wants change in the government’s policy on drugs is raising money to give scholarships to students who have lost their federal…
HIV-AIDS newest stalker of children, Unicef says
• AIDS/HIV • Dec 09 04
When the United Nations Children’s Fund started its campaign to eradicate polio in 1988, the crippling disease was endemic in 125 countries.
There are…
Scientists find gene clue in hunt for AIDS vaccine
• AIDS/HIV • Dec 08 04
Scientists said on Wednesday they have identified key genes involved in the body’s response to HIV, which causes AIDS - a finding that could…
Arab media should help knock AIDS taboos
• AIDS/HIV • Dec 07 04
Media in the Middle East and North Africa, with one of the fastest AIDS growth rates, needs to help combat the epidemic by…
HIV - A Worldwide Problem
• AIDS/HIV • Dec 05 04
Delegates at a conference in London will debate today how to tackle HIV, after the United Nations called for more work to combat complacency…
AIDS/HIV : Will America reflect world rates?
• AIDS/HIV • Dec 03 04
America can no longer consider itself immune from the growing worldwide threat of AIDS.
As shown by The Clarion-Ledger article Wednesday, “HIV: ‘Nobody’s exempt’,”…
Tanzania elderly increasingly at HIV risk - report
• AIDS/HIV • Dec 02 04
Ignorance, cultural practises and poverty are increasingly exposing the elderly in Tanzania to HIV infection, a report by HelpAge International said on Thursday.
The…
Rates of HIV testing, diagnosis hold steady in US
• AIDS/HIV • Dec 01 04
The rates of HIV testing and HIV/AIDS diagnosis in the US have not changed much in recent years - about 1 in 10 people…
Parades mark AIDS day, Africans told ‘abstain’
• AIDS/HIV • Dec 01 04
Across the world, activists and governments marked World AIDS Day on Wednesday with events drawing attention to the disease and promoting prevention.
The…
India to begin trials of HIV vaccine on humans
• AIDS/HIV • Nov 30 04
India, home to the world’s largest number of HIV infections after South Africa, is set to begin human trials of a new vaccine in…
Study urges help for staff with HIV
• AIDS/HIV • Nov 29 04
Employers have been urged to do more to help workers with HIV after new research showed huge evidence of prejudice against people with the…
Singapore intensifies battle against AIDS
• AIDS/HIV • Nov 29 04
Singapore, facing a rise in AIDS cases, is considering making it compulsory for pregnant women to be screened for HIV/AIDS, an official said on…
HIV vaccine shows promise in Brazil study
• AIDS/HIV • Nov 29 04
An experimental vaccine reduced the level of HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, by at least 80 percent in a Brazilian study of…
China approves testing for potential AIDS vaccine
• AIDS/HIV • Nov 26 04
China has approved human testing of a locally developed potential AIDS vaccine, the official Xinhua news agency said Friday, just days before World AIDS…
China Approves Testing for Potential AIDS Vaccine
• AIDS/HIV • Nov 25 04
China has approved human testing of a locally developed potential AIDS vaccine, the official Xinhua news agency said Friday, just days before World AIDS…
Nearly half of adults with HIV are women
• AIDS/HIV • Nov 23 04
Women make up nearly half of the 37.2 million adults living with HIV, and in sub-Saharan Africa the proportion rises to almost 60 percent,…
Babies exposed to HIV should get antibiotic—U.N.
• AIDS/HIV • Nov 23 04
Babies of HIV-infected mothers should be given an inexpensive antibiotic to prevent infections and prolong their lives, United Nations aid agencies said on Tuesday.
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Mandela unveils new project to mark World AIDS Day
• AIDS/HIV • Nov 22 04
Nelson Mandela has launched a new project to get people actively involved in fighting AIDS in South Africa, one of the countries hardest hit…
Cheap antibiotic works well for children with HIV
• AIDS/HIV • Nov 19 04
A low-cost antibiotic which has performed well in tests should be given to all HIV children in developing countries to prevent infections such as…
India’s Hetero takes AIDS drugs off WHO list
• AIDS/HIV • Nov 19 04
Hetero Drugs has withdrawn all six of its antiretroviral drugs from the WHO’s list of approved drugs following concerns about their laboratory tests, the…
HIV rate higher than expected in London drug users
• AIDS/HIV • Nov 12 04
Due possibly to public health strategies implemented in the late 1980s, England had some of the lowest rates of HIV and hepatitis C virus…
Black-white differences in HIV care seen in US
• AIDS/HIV • Nov 11 04
The level of care given to black patients with HIV in the US seems to depend on the whether the doctor is black or…
Singapore facing AIDS epidemic
• AIDS/HIV • Nov 11 04
Singapore faces an AIDS epidemic, with the number of new infections diagnosed expected to hit a rate of 1,000 a year by 2010, a…
World Health Organization Turns to Internet to Help Prostitutes Fight HIV/AIDS
• AIDS/HIV • Nov 11 04
The U.N. health agency Thursday said it plans to use the Internet to help prostitutes in the global fight against HIV/AIDS.
Launching its…
Does Arafat have AIDS?
• AIDS/HIV • Nov 05 04
With still no public diagnosis, some suggesting HIV may be cause
With doctors claiming they have still not diagnosed Yasser Arafat despite a…