Asia-Pacific moving "too late and too slow" in fight against HIV/AIDS
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Asia-Pacific risks an AIDS crisis similar in scale to Africa's unless governments across the region step up efforts to combat the spread of the disease, the United Nations is warning.
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With HIV carriers increasing at an annual speed of 40 percent, China now ranks world 14th and Asia 2nd in its AIDS outbreak degree, an expert from the Ministry of Public Health revealed Sunday at the opening ceremony of &quot;Beijing 2004 AIDS awareness
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Aids is spreading in quite different ways in different parts of the world - making it harder to treat and prevent infection - according to the annual UN report on the disease published yesterday.
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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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HIV infection is rising in every region of the world and most worryingly in countries like Uganda and Thailand, which had been heralded as success stories in the fight against AIDS, the United Nations said on Tuesday.
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Denial, food shortages and squandered resources were among the problems preventing thousands of AIDS patients from getting treatment in countries hardest hit by the disease, according to a report by treatment activists.
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China has taken significant steps to fight HIV and AIDS, but still must reach out to more patients in the vast country and overcome a lack of cooperation from some government officials, a U.N. AIDS official said Tuesday.
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HEILIGENDAMM, Germany -- The world's leading industrialized nations yesterday pledged $60 billion to fight AIDS, malaria, and tuberculosis, mainly in Africa, but human rights groups termed it an insufficient commitment and part of a pattern of unfulfilled promises.
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Asia marked World Aids Day Wednesday with parades, stark warnings and alarming new data about the spread of the HIV virus which the United Nations warns threatens millions worldwide.
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Global anti-tobacco efforts aimed at avoiding tens of millions of preventable deaths have been slow to take hold, and no country has fully adopted the World Health Organization's recommendations, WHO said on Thursday.
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The rest of the world has contributed so little to the fight against AIDS that the United States cannot make its full contribution this year, according to President George W. Bush&#39;s global AIDS coordinator, Randall Tobias.
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LOS ANGELES/NEW YORK  - More than 25 years into the AIDS epidemic, many drugs are used to treat HIV, but an alarming number of patients are becoming resistant to therapy, driving research into new ways to combat the virus.
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The Asia-Pacific region risks an &quot;AIDS crisis similar in scale to Africa&#39;s&quot; unless national governments and regional institutions &quot;step up&quot; efforts to fight HIV/AIDS, UNAIDS Deputy Executive Director Kathleen Cravero said on Wednesday in Manila
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Pakistan is a good example of a country that is learning fast but late about the threat of HIV/Aids. Unlike India, recorded prevalence in Pakistan is small and the authorities are working to keep it that way.
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The numbers of HIV/AIDS cases in China and India are reaching crisis proportions and could threaten the world economy, a UN expert says.
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Global AIDS treatment will fall far short of a universal target to have five million people being treated by 2010, due to a continued lack of access to drugs by many of the world's impoverished people, said a new report.
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China has done a remarkable about-face   in dealing with HIV/AIDS, but good intentions need wider   implementation in a country where eight people become infected   each hour, a top U.N. official said on Monday.