Condom Shortage Alarm for Uganda's Festive Season
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AIDS-aware Ugandans, who use about  250,000 condoms a day, face a shortage of the product after the  government introduced new condom tests likely to cut supply  over the festive season, the Health Ministry on Friday.
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The official New York City condom has a different look and a sexy new slogan: New Yorkers are being encouraged to "get some" on Valentine's Day. Street teams will be handing out the free condoms at busy hubs around the city on Thursday, including Times Square, Wall Street and near City Hall. And an ad campaign on television, radio and subways and buses will soon begin, featuring the "Get some" catchphrase.
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SINGAPORE  - Singapore will carry out HIV tests on pregnant women from December onwards as part of intensified measures against the rising number of new infections in the city-state, the Sunday Times reported.
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The number of AIDS cases in Singapore has risen to record highs this year. The country wants to make it compulsory for pregnant women to have HIV/AIDS screening.
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JOHANNESBURG, Oct. 24 -- South African AIDS researchers have begun warning hundreds of volunteers that a highly touted experimental vaccine they received in recent months might make them more, not less, likely to contract HIV in the midst of one of the world's most rampant epidemics.
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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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Many World AIDS Day observances around the world today have focused on the need to protect women and girls from HIV who are contracting the virus at an alarming rate.
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Hundreds of Indians demonstrated on  Friday to demand new anti-retroviral (ARV) drugs, while health  workers in Muslim-majority Indonesia marked World AIDS Day by  handing out condoms to prostitutes for safe sex.
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IN six years, Singapore could see more than a thousand new cases of Aids each year. &quot;We are facing an alarming Aids epidemic in Singapore,&quot; said Dr Balaji Sadasivan, Senior Minister of State for the Ministry
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Some HIV/AIDS treatment groups have expressed &quot;alarm&quot; about a possible backlash against the use of the antiretroviral drug nevirapine among pregnant women to reduce the risk of mother-to-child HIV transmission because of a recent series of Associated
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Not enough is being done to prevent the spread of HIV among Asian drug users, researchers say.
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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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WINDHOEK, 24 November (IRIN) - A giant bright yellow condom was the centre of attraction in Namibia&#39;s capital, Windhoek, last Friday.
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The first anti-AIDS vaginal gel to make it through late-stage testing failed to stop HIV infection in a study of 6,000 South African women
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KAMPALA, Uganda  - The biggest HIV/AIDS training  center in sub-Saharan Africa opened in Uganda Wednesday with  officials hopeful it will significantly boost the continent's  ability to fight the deadly pandemic.
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by 365Gay.com Newscenter Staff. (Kampala) The government of Uganda has has issued a warning to the UN joint program on HIV/AIDS that it risks being thrown out of the country if it offers AIDS education to gays.
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Impoverished Madagascar is to  distribute 15 million free condoms next year to promote safe  sex and halt the spread of HIV/AIDS, officials said Tuesday.