Love, hope for shunned kids in India AIDS school
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BHOOGAON, India  - In a smart blue tunic and red ribbons in her hair, 12-year-old Komal's laughing eyes hide a fear of death that stalks every student in her village school.
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Pakistan is a good example of a country that is learning fast but late about the threat of HIV/Aids. Unlike India, recorded prevalence in Pakistan is small and the authorities are working to keep it that way.
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December 1 is World Aids Day. Global attention is focused on women and girls with the day&#39;s theme: &quot;Women, Girls, HIV (human immunodeficiency virus) and Aids (Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome)&quot;.
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The new epicenter of the global AIDS pandemic is Asia, and its new faces are Asia&#39;s young girls and women. This was highlighted by a recent United Nations report on HIV/AIDS and the theme
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IN six years, Singapore could see more than a thousand new cases of Aids each year. &quot;We are facing an alarming Aids epidemic in Singapore,&quot; said Dr Balaji Sadasivan, Senior Minister of State for the Ministry
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SURAT, India  - Dozens of Indian men and women infected with HIV/AIDS have agreed to marry each other after meeting at a special matchmaking event, hoping to end the isolation the deadly infection often brings.
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BUCHAREST, Romania - The United Nations (news - web sites) called on Romanian authorities to help the thousands of HIV (news - web sites) infected children here attend school with other children, in a statement released Tuesday.
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GENEVA  - Children with HIV (news - web sites)/AIDS (news - web sites) are dying needlessly because of a lack of suitable drugs and the high cost of medicines adapted to their needs, the humanitarian organization Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) said.
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As many as 5.5 million people could be infected with HIV each year in India by 2033 if urgent steps aren&#39;t taken immediately to prevent the disease&#39;s spread, according to a World Bank report released Friday. Currently, there are about 5 million HIV ...
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Hundreds of Indians demonstrated on  Friday to demand new anti-retroviral (ARV) drugs, while health  workers in Muslim-majority Indonesia marked World AIDS Day by  handing out condoms to prostitutes for safe sex.
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The trafficking of young girls who are forced to work as prostitutes has been identified as a key factor in the steep rise in Aids in India.
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BEIJING: The world marked Aids Day yesterday, promising to eradicate ignorance and prejudice about a disease that was at first dismissed by many as a Western evil confined to drug users, homosexuals and prostitutes.
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The United Nations Programme on AIDS (UNAIDS) report released in November 2004 indicated that there were 5.1 million people suffering from HIV/AIDS in India.
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by 365Gay.com Newscenter Staff. (Kampala) The government of Uganda has has issued a warning to the UN joint program on HIV/AIDS that it risks being thrown out of the country if it offers AIDS education to gays.
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NEW DELHI, July 6 -- India's HIV population, thought to be the largest in the world, is actually half what experts had previously estimated, according to new figures released Friday by the country's Health Ministry.
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NEW YORK  - Adolescents whose parents are infected or have died from HIV/AIDS cope significantly better emotionally if they have a strong social support system in place, according to research published today in the American Journal of Public Health.
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At least 278 blood donors in India&#39;s north-eastern state of Tripura were found to be HIV-positive, fuelling fears that blood supplied from blood banks in the region could be infected with the killer virus that causes AIDS.