Low Rate of HIV Seen in US Blood Donors
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NEW YORK  - Less that 0.1 percent of blood and tissue donors in the United States had positive screening tests for HIV between 2000 and 2002, according to a new study. And the rate of hepatitis C virus was just over 1 percent.
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Don't expect your doctor to nudge you toward an HIV test anytime soon, despite bold new government advice that most Americans be tested for the AIDS virus.
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The Center for Disease Control now recommends that HIV tests be routine for adults and teenagers, because too many Americans have the disease and don't know it -- and are passing it around. In Sex Drive Daily.
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MONDAY, Feb. 14 (HealthDay News) -- A harmless version of HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, is being used to hunt down malignant melanoma cancer cells in mice, researchers say.
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Sub-Saharan Africa has just over 10% of the world&#39;s population, but is home to more than 60% of all people living with HIV-- some 25.4 million.
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The number of newly diagnosed HIV infections in gay and bisexual men has risen in many U.S. states, according to a federal study on Wednesday which stoked concerns AIDS may be poised for a resurgence in the country.
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The number of Russians with HIV-AIDS is probably at least three times the official figure of 300,000, according to a study by two American scholars. The study says authorities need to act aggressively with drug therapy, prevention and education to stem the spread of a disease that for now is concentrated among young people.
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Nearly a million Americans now have the AIDS virus and the nation&#39;s ability to keep others from becoming infected still lags despite a government pledge four years ago to &quot;break the back&quot; of the AIDS epidemic by 2005.
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Gay men remain banned for life from donating blood, the government said Wednesday, leaving in place &#151; for now &#151; a 1983 prohibition meant to prevent the spread of HIV through transfusions.
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Cases of hepatitis C among young drug users in London are reaching epidemic levels, researchers have warned. The number of people who inject drugs who now have HIV is also worryingly high, according to a study published in the British Medical Journal.
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Blood donations may help keep the body's circulatory system healthy by reducing stores of iron, but the effect may not work for older people, a U.S. study suggested on Tuesday.
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New federal numbers put the number of Americans infected with the AIDS virus each year close to 50 percent higher than previous estimates, activist groups and some media reported, but federal officials denied on Sunday that the data was finished yet.
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A cheap antibiotic drug has almost halved the rate of AIDS-related deaths in African children, reveals a new study. The antibiotic - co-trimoxazole - does not combat HIV but it prevents secondary infections
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NEW YORK  - Illicit injection drug users  who take part in needle exchange programs are less likely than  other injection drug users to engage in drug-related behaviors  that increase the risk of HIV transmission, researchers report  in the Journal of Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndromes.
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AIDS. It killed roughly 3 million people last year, most of them poor, and most of them in Africa. Between 34 and 42 million people are living with HIV.
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No-one is immune to HIV. But this is not to say the peril is equal, for some people are at greater risk of getting infected by the Aids virus than others.
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Although the number of diabetes-related deaths increased in 2003 in New York City, the number of HIV/AIDS-related deaths in the city decreased and fewer teenage girls gave birth last year, according to an annual vital statistics summary released Wednesday