HIV - A Worldwide Problem
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Delegates at a conference in London will debate today how to tackle HIV, after the United Nations called for more work to combat complacency over deaths from Aids-related illnesses.
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The epidemic of human immunodeficiency virus infection is growing more rapidly in women than in men in almost every part of the world, according to a new report.
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Authors of a public-health article in this week&#39;s issue of THE LANCET (p 1984) are calling for urgent international action to address the chronic lack of investment in human resources which is limiting the chance of tackling diseases such as HIV/AIDS
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World Aids Day was marked around the globe by somber religious services, boisterous demonstrations and warnings that far more needs to be done to treat and prevent the disease in order to avert millions of ...Comment
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TONY EASTLEY: On World AIDS Day one international charity says people in the poorest countries are being left to die from HIV because governments and corporations simply aren&#39;t providing basic treatment options readily available in western countries.
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The UN warned on Tuesday that the world is facing a &quot;unique development challenge&quot; as new data showed nearly 40-million people now have HIV and over 3-million will die of Aids this year, the highest tolls in the 23-year history of the killer disease.
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The international focus for World AIDS Day 2004 was on women and HIV, since women and girls comprise the largest part of new infections worldwide.
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ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia  - Africa must brace itself for an AIDS time bomb as 8,000 people are infected with HIV a day in the region worst hit by the pandemic, the United Nations warned Thursday.
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Nearly half of the 37 million HIV-positive adults ages 15 to 49 worldwide are women, and the number of HIV-positive women in all regions of the world has been increasing over the past two years, according to a report released on Tuesday by UNAIDS and the
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AIDS has taught the world a deadly but valuable lesson. The worldwide plague can be managed, but it can&#39;t be ignored. Tomorrow is World AIDS Day, a benchmark in progress against the incurable disease.
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Indonesia faces a growing AIDS problem -- particularly among drug users and prostitutes -- while a recent survey shows two percent of the Papua population infected with HIV, the World Health Organization said on Saturday.
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Tuberculosis, one of the oldest known infectious diseases, is now the leading cause of death for people with AIDS, causing concern that the deadly combination could become a health crisis in both the United States and abroad.
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Statistics for AIDS in Africa are so overwhelmingly depressing they make your eye sockets throb. The United Nations is constantly reporting things like: â¢ Seventy percent of all people on Earth who are HIV-positive live in the region.
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Surveillance for the HIV virus is weak in most of the world and prevention and treatment programs often fail to reach high-risk drug users, homosexuals and sex workers, the World Health Organization said on Friday.
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A new United Nations report says the AIDS epidemic will claim more than three-million lives this year. The UN report says an estimated thirty-nine million people worldwide are infected with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS.
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Despite a spurt in international spending against AIDS, the epidemic will claim more than 3 million lives this year and is threatening the world&#39;s most populous nations, global health authorities warned Tuesday.
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The Aids pandemic rampaging around the globe will not be stopped without radical social change to improve the lot of women and girls, who now look likely to die in greater numbers than men, United Nations agencies said yesterday.