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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…

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…

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…

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…

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.

The Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) is not spread easily. You can only get HIV if you get infected blood or sexual fluids into your system. You can’t get…

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…

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…

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…

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, 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 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…

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…

For, unlike Niram, most of the new friends he has made at HIV/AIDS support groups in this…

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…

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…

Africa’s businesses are a key weapon in the war against HIV/AIDS but thus far have not done enough to combat the epidemic, Richard Holbrooke said on Thursday.

Actress Angelina Jolie is adopting a newborn Ethiopian girl orphaned by AIDS, People magazine reported on Tuesday.

Jolie, who has toured the world as goodwill ambassador for the…

The risk of AIDS spreading in Asia is higher than ever and there is a danger of an “explosion” of the deadly disease if prevention efforts are not intensified…

The US Preventive Services Task Force has updated its 1996 guidelines for HIV screening, and now recommends that all pregnant women be tested.

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• HIV/AIDS news • Jul 03 05

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• HIV/AIDS news • Jun 24 05

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