AIDS activists in Africa worry reports may cause governments to ...
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KAMPALA, Uganda Doctors and AIDS activists in Africa are worried that news reports about an aids drug may prompt some governments to ban the medication.
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China, India and Russia are on the brink of an Africa-style Aids epidemic that could devastate the global economy and international security, the head of the UN Aids project has warned.
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African, especially southern African, nations must link tuberculosis testing and treatment with HIV prevention programs if they are to win the AIDS battle, a top World Health Organisation official said on Thursday.
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More women and children are taking the impact of HIV/AIDS in the world as the disease affects millions in the work force yearly, a report by the International Labor Organization (ILO) indicated.
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The World Health Organization is warning that AIDS and HIV in Asia could spread to the general public unless immediate measures are taken.
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Asia-Pacific risks an AIDS crisis similar in scale to Africa's unless governments across the region step up efforts to combat the spread of the disease, the United Nations is warning.
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Doctors and AIDS activists in Africa are worried governments may halt use of an AIDS drug that has protected thousands of babies from HIV infection in reaction to new concerns about the drug's testing and effect on pregnant women.
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Asia marked World Aids Day Wednesday with parades, stark warnings and alarming new data about the spread of the HIV virus which the United Nations warns threatens millions worldwide.
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A top U.N. official urged countries in Asia on Thursday to deal squarely and bravely with HIV/AIDS, which he said was being driven dangerously underground because of stigma and conservative attitudes.
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JOHANNESBURG -- Hundreds of senior public officials in Africa have recently started vigorous public campaigns to fight AIDS, representing a significant break from more than two decades of relative silence among those in the highest positions.
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ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia  - Africa must brace itself for an AIDS time bomb as 8,000 people are infected with HIV a day in the region worst hit by the pandemic, the United Nations warned Thursday.
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A lack of information and public funding is helping fuel the spread of HIV/AIDS in several recent European Union entrants and threatens to become pandemic across the bloc, a panel of experts said on Friday.
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Five-million South Africans, or 11% of the population, are infected with HIV, says a report published today by the Actuarial Society of SA to coincide with World Aids Day.
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DURBAN, 25 November (IRIN) - Although data on the extent of HIV/AIDS and its impact on the South African economy vary, analysts agree that government and businesses need to take urgent action to combat the virus.
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HIV/Aids is fast acquiring a feminine face in African countries like Kenya, as biological vulnerability, poverty and sexual violence join to raise infection rates for young women and girls, a report from UNAids has warned.
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JOHANNESBURG, 9 December (IRIN) - The HIV/AIDS pandemic has already created millions of orphans throughout sub-Saharan Africa, but the worst is yet to come, warned Per Engebak, UN Children&#39;s Fund (UNICEF) regional director for Eastern and Southern Africa.
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OTTAWA - Stockwell Day is pointing to a report that Yasser Arafat may have had AIDS in explaining why he didn&#39;t send condolences on the death of the PLO leader.