World Kicks Off AIDS Day, China Gets Tough
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The world marked AIDS Day on Wednesday,  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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Southwest China&#39;s Yunnan Province has registered marked progress in HIV/AIDS prevention since it carried out six programs earlier this year to fight the deadly disease.
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A day after the rest of the world marked World Aids Day on December 1, the Love Life Caravan blasted its way into the remote border outpost of Noe between Ivory Coast and Ghana.
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On the eve of World AIDS Day, construction workers at the building site of Beijing's CCTV tower put down tools and picked up condoms and brochures touting safe sex and HIV/AIDS prevention.
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Having a day proclaimed is an old publicity gimmick but most such days do not have lethal overtones. World AIDS Day - today â-ruthfully is a publicity device, but one that is badly needed.
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China has taken significant steps to fight HIV and AIDS, but still must reach out to more patients in the vast country and overcome a lack of cooperation from some government officials, a U.N. AIDS official said Tuesday.
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WASHINGTON  - The international community turned the spotlight on the devastating and increasing impact of AIDS on women and girls to mark World AIDS Day.
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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 additional deaths.
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BEIJING  - The head of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria praised China Tuesday for its efforts in addressing HIV/AIDS, but warned that any let up could prove catastrophic.
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It was activities galore as the world celebrated the World HIV/AIDS Day. The celebration explores how gender inequality fuels the AIDS epidemic and is conceived to accelerate the global response
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Special Health Resources in Texarkana, Texas, will take part in World AIDS Day, a global event that focuses on educating people on what HIV and AIDS are and how they affect communities.
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Two ethical controversies have flared into life on World AIDS Day as the United States and South Africa backed sexual abstinence in their mix of programmes to fight AIDS and British leader Tony Blair lashed at religious bans on condoms.
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Thousands of activists, students and sex workers take to streets across South Asia to mark World Aids Day.
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In a public display of commitment to fighting the disease a day before World AIDS Day, state media reported on Tuesday that China&#39;s President Hu Jintao shook hands with patients during a visit to a hospital in the capital.
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GENEVA -- From Armenia to Zambia, thousands of activists turned out to sing in mighty cathedrals, light candles in city squares and march and hold dance-athons on World AIDS Day as the United Nations focused on protecting women and girls, often sidelined
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Today is World AIDS day, and across the globe, events are being held to draw attention to the disease and promote its eradication.
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NOE, Ivory Coast  - A day after the rest of the  world marked World Aids Day on December 1, the Love Life  Caravan blasted its way into the remote border outpost of Noe  between Ivory Coast and Ghana.