Abandoned Africa HIV Orphans Struggle with Stigma
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Monica is 12, likes ice cream, thinks boys are rough and dirty, and wants to grow up to be a flight attendant "because they work hard and play hard."
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The search for new treatments can be tricky when the disease is fearsome but nearly forgotten because its victims are poor and obscure.
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When Sharon Hollis was 27 she had heard of HIV and AIDS, but like most people, she thought it wouldn&#39;t happen to her. After her brother died in 1986 from HIV complications, she noticed that
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A report by a kids&#39; group says more than half of the children in the world are suffering because of the effects of war, poverty and the HIV virus.
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At one time in his life, Alvin Carpenter was spiritually bankrupt and addicted to drugs. Using dirty needles, he became infected with the AIDS virus. Seemingly helpless and hopeless, he was all but disowned by his family.
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Southern African countries, the world's region worst affected by AIDS, have been urged to embrace male circumcision to partially prevent the spread of HIV.
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It is rare for a foreign doctor to get to China&#39;s rural areas, where its AIDS epidemic was born and takes a horrible toll. But recently, two nurses and I ventured into a poor farming area, Nizui
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The sight of a sobbing orphan stranded in a landscape of death and disaster moves people deeply.
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An industrial city northwest of Moscow struggles as AIDS hits a broader population.
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In a country plagued by AIDS, a doctor in this remote industrial area of Taung, South Africa, is quietly providing life-prolonging drugs and hope for people who are HIV-positive.
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The rise and fall of AIDS activist Li Dan and the Dongzhen School for AIDS Orphans illustrates a broader struggle: a battle by a wide assortment of citizen groups to establish civil society and influence China's government.
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over half the children in the world - suffer extreme deprivation because of war, HIV/AIDS or poverty, according to a report released yesterday by the United Nations Children&#39;s Fund.
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MAYO, Sudan  - Hashim Khalil Osman peeks out from  the remains of his hut, partly bulldozed and then patched up  with plastic sacking, to see if help has arrived to alleviate  the misery of life in the slum suburbs of Khartoum.
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A Minnesota mom finds a way to send surplus milk to HIV/AIDS orphans in Africa
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The stigma and discrimination that shadow AIDS victims are major obstacles to effective prevention and care, according to the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS.
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The tale of seven Houston children abandoned in squalor in Nigeria has touched the hearts of many who are reaching out with offers of assistance.
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There is an urgent need to erase the stigma surrounding HIV and AIDS, South African Deputy President Jacob Zuma has said, as secrecy and shame often prevented people from acknowledging their HIV status.