HRMC hosts expert on HIV/AIDS battle
341349
ROANOKE RAPIDS - People around the world marked World AIDS Day on Wednesday, an annual event observed every Dec. 1. The campaign draws public and health agency representatives together to learn more about
314112
On Thursday, attendees at Countdown 2015, a conference in London focused on sexual and reproductive health and rights, say the Bush administration&#39;s international policies are leading to the spread of HIV among women around the world and also are causing
175992
Zimbabwe faces the challenge of ensuring that people infected with HIV/AIDS get access to anti-retroviral drugs, Health and Child Welfare Minister David Parirenyatwa has said.
364656
When journalist Gwen Ifill asked the vice-presidential candidates what government should do about the disproportionate HIV death rates of young black women, she focused attention on a US health crisis.
501185
The world's biggest scientific HIV/AIDS conference opened in Australia on Sunday with experts calling for more funding for research and new findings which suggest male circumcision can reduce infection by 60 percent.
282516
Ahead of World AIDS Day on December 1, a series of commentaries in this weekâs issue of THE LANCET outline the current and future priorities in the global effort to curb the HIV/AIDS pandemic.
634697
Authors of a public-health article in this week&#39;s issue of THE LANCET (p 1984) are calling for urgent international action to address the chronic lack of investment in human resources which is limiting the chance of tackling diseases such as HIV/AIDS
648876
Leaders of the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative (IAVI) have stressed that as the world commits more resources to treat people infected with HIV, it must also intensify efforts to develop a vaccine to prevent new infections and stop the continuing
411465
Mayor Adrian M. Fenty (D) is expected to announce today that he is appointing a public health physician who has worked with HIV-infected people in several countries to lead the District's HIV/AIDS Administration.
656284
Health experts meeting in Ethiopia say combined efforts to fight the HIV virus and tuberculosis could save the lives of up to a half-million Africans every year.
751017
The emergence of new and improved drugs, genetic engineering and the ancient surgical practice of circumcision are the latest weapons in the fight against AIDS, the International AIDS Society conference was told on Tuesday.
221543
US President George Bush's top adviser on HIV/Aids warns that the world is losing the battle against the virus.
369663
A claim by Gambian President Yahya Jammeh that he can cure Aids is lambasted by a leading HIV specialist.
561345
The Ministry of Health is looking at the possibility of opening a unit at the Colonial War Memorial Hospital where HIV/AIDS patients will be treated.
376992
A U.S. health expert urged governments worldwide Tuesday to endorse circumcision to slow the spread of HIV, saying men without the procedure have a greater risk of contracting the virus from infected female partners.
74267
The AIDS case that alarmed health officials in New York last week illustrates the enormous difficulty of promoting and sustaining changes in sexual behavior.
417984
SHANGHAI, China Sept. 15, 2004 - With AIDS making disastrous new inroads in the Asian-Pacific region, World Health Organization experts are evaluating progress toward providing anti-AIDS drugs to 3 million