HIV scare in Tripura blood banks
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At least 278 blood donors in India&#39;s north-eastern state of Tripura were found to be HIV-positive, fuelling fears that blood supplied from blood banks in the region could be infected with the killer virus that causes AIDS.
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The Chinese Ministry of Health announced here Wednesday that China will conduct nationwide HIV testing among people with blood selling history in the 1990s in aneffort to detect AIDS patients on early stage.
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Blood transfusion chiefs worry people could be put off donating by reports of blood being destroyed.
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India has the world's largest number of HIV-infected people, the head of a top international AIDS-fighting fund said Wednesday, dismissing official figures.    "I don't believe in the official statistics...
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Â· Iraq and Afghanistan casualties to get HIV tests  Â· Poor record keeping at US field hospitals blamed
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The number of people living with HIV/AIDS in India is 2.47 million, less than half of previous official estimates, according to new U.N.-backed government estimates released on Friday.
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Measuring the amount of AIDS virus   circulating in the blood of HIV-positive patients is not a good   indicator of the health of their immune systems, researchers   said on Tuesday.
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There are 14,300 adults living in the UK who are unaware that they are carrying the HIV/Aids virus, according to the shock findings of a Health Protection Agency (HPA) report.
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As many as 5.5 million people could be infected with HIV each year in India by 2033 if urgent steps aren&#39;t taken immediately to prevent the disease&#39;s spread, according to a World Bank report released Friday. Currently, there are about 5 million HIV ...
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China&#39;s worst-hit AIDS province, Henan, has initiated a survey of blood buying medical stations in an effort to discover the true extent of its AIDS epidemic, local officials said.
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Three months into the District's HIV campaign, almost 3 percent of more than 7,000 people tested at community health sites have been found to be positive for the virus -- more than double the national rate.
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Officials in India's Andhra Pradesh state say an HIV test will soon be compulsory before marriage.
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EKA, India  - Sitting on a wooden bench under a   slowly whirring fan, 43-year-old Prempal says he urgently needs   anti-retroviral drugs to fight the HIV illness in his body.
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NEW YORK  - In a study conducted at two major HIV centers in Singapore, rapid HIV self-tests were used improperly, or the results were interpreted incorrectly, by individuals at risk for HIV infection or those who were already infected.
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The Indian government is investigating reports that blood samples that could be contaminated with the human form of mad cow disease had entered the country from Britain, a top official said on Tuesday.
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Several Kazakh doctors and officials are charged over a blood bank scandal that has seen 61 children infected with HIV.
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TUGELA FERRY, South Africa  - In a country where AIDS kills 900 people each day, full hospitals and beleaguered doctors are nothing new.