HIV-pregnancy rate &#39;rising&#39;
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More than 37% of 24-year-old pregnant women were HIV-positive last year, which constituted an increase of almost 5 percentage points since 2002&#39;s 32.
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Women are being infected with HIV at increasing rates in all regions of the world, and their numbers are now nearly equal to men, according to the United Nations and World Health Organization&#39;s annual report on AIDS released Tuesday.
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The Aids pandemic in South Africa is &quot;slowly stabilising&quot;, the health ministry said as it released figures showing that close to 28 percent of pregnant women tested positive for HIV in 2003.
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At least 15 percent of babies born in Lesotho each year are HIV-positive, the government and the UN Children&#39;s Fund (UNICEF) have said.
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The number of newly diagnosed HIV  infections in gay and bisexual men has risen in many U.S.  states, according to a federal study on Wednesday which stoked  concerns AIDS may be poised for a resurgence in the country.
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New HIV infections among homosexual men are on the rise in Hong Kong and a government consultant warned on Wednesday that prevalence of the disease in this group could hit 30 percent by 2020 if nothing is done.
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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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A rise in new cases of AIDS and HIV infection among gay and bisexual men in many US states, reported in a federal study on Wednesday, has given support for concerns the disease is resurgent in the country.
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A new UN report, marking Wednesday's World AIDS day, estimates that 5 million people this year got HIV.
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Women make up nearly half of the 37.2  million adults living with HIV and in sub-Saharan Africa the  proportion rises to almost 60 percent, according to a UN report  released on Tuesday.
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Officials figures on HIV/Aids in China reveal a 30% increase in reported cases since last year.
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HIV-infected babies given antiretroviral drugs in the first weeks of life were four times more likely to survive than those left untreated, raising hopes that more young lives can be saved, new research suggests.
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NEW YORK  - Pregnant women infected with HIV are more likely to spread the virus to their children if they are carrying twins, according to a report in the journal
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The number of reported HIV/AIDS cases in China has grown by nearly 30 per cent so far this year, the Health Ministry said on Wednesday, warning the virus seemed to be spreading from high-risk groups to the general public.
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The number of newly diagnosed HIV infections in gay and bisexual men has risen in many US states, according to a federal study on Wednesday which stoked concerns AIDS may be poised for a resurgence in the country.
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Mumbai, Nov. 24: The number of women infected with HIV has gone up alarmingly in all parts of the world over the past two years, with the steepest increase in east Asia, followed by eastern Europe and central
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In 2003, the rate of new AIDS cases for black women was 20 times that of white women and five times greater than the infection rate for Latinas, according to a CDC report.