Seminar urges HIV/AIDS control efforts
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ISLAMABAD: Health Minister Muhammad Nasir Khan said risky behaviours, socio-economic vulnerabilities like poverty and illiteracy and lack of effective use of resources highlights the need to act aggressively to limit the spread of AIDS/HIV in Pakistan.
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South Africa should promote condoms more widely to try and curb its AIDS epidemic, the head of the United Nations AIDS program said on Thursday.
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The World Health Organization (WHO) has called for more efforts and measures to protect people from blood contamination and shortage in response to the spread of HIV/AIDS and other blood-born diseases.
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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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Apam (C/R), Nov. 24, GNA - Mr Isaac Edumadze, Central Regional Minister, on Tuesday urged the people in the region to use the celebration of the World AIDS Day to re-launch the campaign against the spread of HIV/AIDS.
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AIDS-stricken Southern African  nations should develop a policy of mass male circumcision to  fight the disease, the head of the United Nations anti-AIDS  agency said on Tuesday.
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Presentation by Mary M. Kanya, Ambassador of the Kingdom of Swaziland to the United States of America, at the Fifth Annual African Women&#39;s and Children&#39;s Health Symposium: The Feminization of HIV/Aids on Thursday, November 11, 2004, at the University of
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African Union (AU) Commission has called on its member states to mainstream traditional medicine research into HIV/AIDS control programs and all aspects of development planning and implementation.
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India needs to tighten control on the  sale of prescription drugs from chemist shops to stem the  spread of HIV, the United Nations anti-AIDS agency said on  Monday.
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Scientists at an HIV/AIDS vaccine conference in Lausanne, Switzerland, this week called for more collaboration in developing an HIV/AIDS vaccine and said that such a vaccine is at least a decade away, the Financial Times reports (Williams, Financial Times
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United Nations officials last week led the world marking the 17th annual World AIDS Day by calling for societies to enable women to protect themselves at a time when nearly half of the 37.2 million people infected are female.
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With AIDS becoming the leading cause of death for women aged 25-44, local organizers will focus on women during this week&#39;s World AIDS Day events.
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It&#39;s encouraging that a conference on AIDS was held in Indianapolis last week. The pandemic has infected 38 million people. The Indiana University School of Medicine has partnered with a Kenyan university
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Ahead of World AIDS Day on December 1, a series of commentaries in this weekâs issue of THE LANCET outline the current and future priorities in the global effort to curb the HIV/AIDS pandemic.
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Pakistani health workers are to travel to India to receive training in treating people infected with HIV/Aids.
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South Africa and other African nations hard hit by AIDS should consider a mass campaign to circumcise males to help stem the spread of the epidemic, researchers at a major AIDS conference in South Africa said.
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U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan challenged world leaders Wednesday to face reality and understand that to stop the spread of AIDS, they must protect the people most vulnerable to virus.