UN report: number of HIV sufferers reaches new high
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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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A total of 338,911 people in Myanmar were estimated to have been infected with HIV as of this year, according to a latest figures disclosed by the Ministry of Health.
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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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ALMOST 5million people have been infected with HIV this year, the highest incidence in a single year, according to a report published yesterday.
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AIDS is spreading faster among women than men in most parts of the world, the United Nations said Wednesday in its annual report marking World AIDS Day.
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February edition of The British Medical Journal. According to current estimates, 38 million people are now living with HIV worldwide, including 2 million children.
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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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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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A record 7,000 people were diagnosed with HIV last year, according to figures released yesterday. The number of new cases of the virus that causes Aids has grown by around
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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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Women make up nearly half of infected adults worldwide, the United Nations said in issuing its annual report on AIDS.
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The HIV/AIDS epidemic is contributing to a tuberculosis crisis that could see 1 billion people infected with TB within two decades, the United Nations warned on Monday.
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THE number of women living with HIV has risen in each region of the world over the past two years, with the steepest increases in East Africa, followed by Eastern Europe and Central Asia, according to latest findings published in a report entitled: Aids
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HIV infections are on the rise in all regions and in China the deadly virus is gradually spreading from high-risk groups to the general population, the United Nations said on Tuesday.
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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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With more than 1.8 million people living with HIV in Europe and Central Asia, the epidemic poses a serious threat to the region's social and economic stability, according to the Joint United Nations Programme ...
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Although Singapore has one of the lowest levels of HIV infection in Asia, the number of new infections hit a record high with 257 cases reported in the first 10 months of this year, more than the 242 new cases reported for all of 2003.