Universal AIDS tests will pay off, experts say
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Routine, universal testing for the AIDS virus as recommended by a federal agency will likely cost the United States $900 million, but will pay off in terms of lives and money, experts said on Wednesday.
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A theory that an antiviral drug used to treat AIDS may also be used to prevent it will be put to the test in San Francisco and Atlanta this month, when enrollment of 400 gay men will begin for the US arm of an international HIV prevention study.
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The world will not be able to celebrate advances in HIV diagnosis and treatment until the United Nations' goal of universal access to drugs is reached, leading international AIDS researchers said at a conference Sunday.
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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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The rate of HIV/AIDS cases in Uganda, a  country widely praised for its fight against the disease, may  be nearly three times as high as official figures suggest,  according to an NGO that works with HIV/AIDS sufferers.
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The Bush administration&#39;s global AIDS plan has helped put at least 25,000 people on antiretroviral therapy since it began disbursing money in February to organizations and governments in 15 targeted countries.
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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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Aids activist Zackie Achmat has joined the chorus of calls for TB treatment to be combined with HIV testing and anti-retroviral (ARV) treatment, echoing claims that it could save the lives of up to 500 000 HIV-infected Africans a year.
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Aids medicines must be free for everyone who needs them in the developing world, or there will be no hope of reaching the UN target of three million being treated by 2005, doctors, economists and institutions say today.
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[Health India]: Washington, Dec 10 : HIV infection might soon be curtailed as scientists have reportedly suceeded in identifying key genes that help the body to fend off deadly viruses.
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The world's two most populous nations  promised on Wednesday to eradicate ignorance about AIDS, 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 world's biggest scientific HIV/AIDS conference opened in Australia on Sunday with experts calling for more funding for research and new findings which suggest male circumcision can reduce infection by 60 percent.
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AIDS drugs that work through novel mechanisms and next-generation versions of existing drugs will soon offer new options for the growing number of patients whose disease no longer responds to current drugs.
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Health experts say combining TB and HIV testing and treatment could save the lives of 500,000 HIV positive Africans a year.
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JOHANNESBURG, May 30 -- U.N. health officials on Wednesday called on nations with severe AIDS epidemics to offer routine, confidential HIV tests to all patients at health-care facilities in hopes of dramatically expanding the number of those who know they have the virus.
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The workplace may be the best setting for millions of people with HIV and AIDS to be administered drugs that could extend their lives, the International Labour Organization (ILO) said on Friday.
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Anti-retroviral drugs have been so effective at treating HIV that researchers are now exploring whether they can perform double duty