Key Aids strain 'came from Haiti'
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Scientists say a strain of the HIV virus which predominates in the US and Europe came from Haiti in about 1969.
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Britain&#39;s Health Protection Agency reports the number of HIV infections has skyrocketed, largely due to immigrants, Sky News said Thursday.
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TRENTON-- A disease once associated with gay white men now has expandedinto a worldwide epidemic of HIV and AIDS that knows no boundaries.
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Survivors of the storm that ravaged Haiti face a new menace as contaminated water, putrefying bodies and devastated sanitary systems threaten an outbreak of waterborne diseases such as malaria and tetanus, aid workers warned yesterday.
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For each sub-Saharan African who was placed on anti-AIDS drugs last year, experts say, five more were newly infected.
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Within the next 25 years, AIDS is set to join heart disease and stroke as the top three causes of death worldwide, according to a study published online Monday.
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A host of traditional ceremonies and practices are creating AIDS transmission routes unique to Africa, researchers now agree.
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HIV infection is rising in every region of the world and most worryingly in countries like Uganda and Thailand, which had been heralded as success stories in the fight against AIDS, the United Nations said on Tuesday.
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Although AIDS is thought of as a disease of the young, in the United States it is rapidly becoming one of the middle-aged and even the old.
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The spread of HIV and AIDS across Africa is fueling the rise of another deadly disease that many thought was on the decline: tuberculosis.
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PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti, Oct. 7 -- At first it looked like an old glove, black and rubbery and flattened in traffic. But a closer look revealed toenails.
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With revised numbers downsizing the pandemic -- along with an admission that AIDS peaked in the late 1990s -- some AIDS experts wonder if it might be wise to shift some of the billions of dollars of AIDS money to basic health problems like clean water, family planning or diarrhea.
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Since the mid-1970s, acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) has been spreading throughout the world, causing an epidemic that many people consider difficult if not impossible to curtail.
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HIV infections are rising in  black men and women living in developed nations that have  otherwise made strides against the disease, said participants  at the 16th International AIDS Conference in Toronto.
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Haiti&#39;s prime minister has warned of the threat of a serious outbreak of disease after devastating flooding caused by Tropical Storm Jeanne.
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Extremely drug-resistant strains of tuberculosis could spark a "practically uncontrollable" epidemic among HIV/AIDS sufferers in areas like Africa, a World Health Organization (WHO) official said on Tuesday.
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ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia -- The spread of HIV and AIDS is fuelling a massive tuberculosis crisis that could see one billion people infected in the next two decades, the UN warned yesterday.