More youngsters getting HIV/AIDS
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MOST of the new HIV/AIDS cases reported locally occur among persons between ages 15 and 24, according to Dr Yitades Gebre, a senior medical officer at the Ministry of Health.
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The epidemic of human immunodeficiency virus  infection is growing more rapidly in women  than in men in almost every part of the world, according to a new report.
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Fifty-five children have been infected with the HIV virus in a paediatric hospital in Kazakhstan, likely through unsanitary use of needles, the health ministry said.
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Young people face an unprecedented risk of catching AIDS, in particular because they missed the first wave of safe sex campaigning about the disease a decade or more ago, the European Commission warned.
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Three more children infected with the AIDS virus due to medical negligence have been discovered in a growing scandal which has now led to 58 cases in southern Kazakhstan, health officials said.
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The number of AIDS patients receiving life-extending drugs in poor countries has jumped to 700,000 from 440,000 six months ago, U.N. agencies said on Wednesday, but warned much more needed to be done.
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The Bush administration is funding sexual health projects that teach children that HIV can be contracted through sweat and tears, touching genitals can result in pregnancy, and that a 43-day-old foetus is a thinking person.
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The usual war of words followed hard on the heels of the latest statistics on HIV/Aids in South Africa this week - but the tragic bottom line remained that more than 5 million people are infected with HIV.
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As dozens of teenagers swayed and shimmied to the throb of a go-go band on a District dance floor yesterday, a handful crammed onto benches nearby, silent and fidgeting as they waited to be tested for HIV, the virus that causes AIDS.
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The number of people living with HIV has reached 39.4 million people worldwide - with high increases reported from EU&#39;s neighbouring Russia and Ukraine, according to an annual AIDS report.
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Small victories are being won against  the AIDS virus, experts said on Wednesday as a report showed  that 10 times more people in Africa are getting life-saving HIV  drugs than did three years ago, but overall most people who  need treatment are still not getting it.
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SYDNEY, Australia -- Access to life-extending HIV/AIDS drugs in developing countries has improved during the past three years, but new infections still dramatically outpace efforts to bring treatment to patients, health officials said Monday.
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As many as 7,000 babies are born HIV-positive in Lesotho every year -- more than double the number two years ago, according to a joint report by the government and the UN Children's Fund (UNICEF).
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Hepatitis C among young drug users in London is reaching epidemic levels while HIV cases are &quot;worryingly high&quot;, researchers have warned.
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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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About a quarter of the people diagnosed HIV positive so far this year are women and children. The Aids Epidemiology Group at Otago University says of the 108 HIV positive cases to the end of September, 23 were women and four were children.
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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 ...