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Outside auditor to manage Uganda HIV/AIDS funds
• HIV/AIDS news • 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
• HIV/AIDS news • 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
• HIV/AIDS news • 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
• HIV/AIDS news • 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
• HIV/AIDS news • Aug 09 05
According to information presented by D.T. Fleming and J.N. Wasserheit in 1999, significant biological evidence exists that links STDs and HIV. According to their research, the presence of STDs…
Chance to reverse Asia AIDS epidemic could be lost
• HIV/AIDS news • 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
• HIV/AIDS news • 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
• HIV/AIDS news • Jul 27 05
The World Health Organization will fail to meet its target of having three million people on free HIV/AIDS treatment by the end of this year but will…
Circumcision can prevent HIV infection
• HIV/AIDS news • 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
• HIV/AIDS news • Jul 26 05
Russia and its neighbors should lift their ban on using opiates such as methadone to treat addicts who inject drugs, scientists at an international AIDS conference said…
Aggressive HIV strain appears to be isolated case
• HIV/AIDS news • 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
• HIV/AIDS news • 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
• HIV/AIDS news • 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
• HIV/AIDS news • 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?
• HIV/AIDS news • Jul 19 05
AIDS in Asia spread from Myanmar
• HIV/AIDS news • 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
• HIV/AIDS news • 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
• HIV/AIDS news • Jul 18 05
Former U.S. President Bill Clinton hopes his foundation will help treat more than 60,000 children suffering from HIV/AIDS as part of a plan to fight the disease…
U.N. says must raise peacekeepers’ AIDS awareness
• HIV/AIDS news • 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
• HIV/AIDS news • 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
• HIV/AIDS news • Jul 14 05
India has approved human volunteer trials for the country’s second preventive vaccine against HIV, the virus that leads to AIDS, health officials said on Thursday.
Home to…
India asks people to save “wickets” in AIDS fight
• HIV/AIDS news • 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
• HIV/AIDS news • Jul 13 05
Niram Sharma is 28, jobless and dying. He says he is lucky.
For, unlike Niram, most of the new friends he has made at HIV/AIDS support groups in this…
India says over 7,200 died of AIDS in two decades
• HIV/AIDS news • 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
• HIV/AIDS news • Jul 07 05
The global pharmaceutical industry body IFPMA warned on Wednesday that Brazil’s decision to break a U.S.-held AIDS drug patent would turn foreign firms against cooperating with the…